Good Omens

The Friday Newsletter is here to make its own luck.

Hey, would you look at that? It’s Friday the 13th.

Now, I’ll confess to you. I’m a bit of a superstitious person. Maybe it’s the decades of Cleveland sports fandom, or maybe I’m just foolish, but I’m big on not tempting fate. I knock on wood, I’ll throw a little salt over my shoulder if I spill any, and I avoid saying anything that could later be construed as a jinx.

But I just can’t buy into Friday the 13th being a bad thing.

The origins are somewhat murky—triskaidekaphobia exists in both Norse mythology and Christian tradition—but the superstition around Friday the 13th seems generally tied to the story of The Last Supper. Even that’s awfully thin, though, because The Last Supper took place on a Thursday. Whatever the origins are, it doesn’t really matter.

You can’t convince me Fridays are bad. Nope.

Friday is great! It’s—at worst—the second-best day of the week, behind only Saturday. Even though it’s a workday, it’s a workday conducted with anticipatory glee, a casual dress code and a…