In case you need any extra incentive to support your local indie book stores, our very own Diesel Books in Malibu (want a map?) is having its annual "we love you, now please have some pie" party on Sunday. And during the event, all books in the store are 20 percent off.

Let the rest of the nation go nuts at the big box stores on Black Friday. You can fulfill holiday wishes on the much more civilized (and delicious) Pie Sunday.

I can't help think that someday, in the digital future, the printed-on-paper word will be subversive.