The little bits and pieces of my internal life.
An Observation on the Mutation of Style
I feel perturbed now.
I've been watching television, because it's Monday and my husband is off learning about accounting, and I just saw a commercial for
Care Bears. The commercial was utterly devoid of irony. This means that I saw Care Bears invented, become uncool, be resurrected by indy-punk-post-ironic Gen-X types, become noticed by
Hot Topic and spread throughout every mall in America, and eventually become mainstream enough again to be marketed as a straight-ahead toy for kids without any self-parody whatsoever.
Fashion, you are a fickle thing.
Today's National Geographic Channel Understatement
As seen, just now, on TV:
"You may not want to have a brand burned into your flesh..."
And in other news, congratulations to Jonathan and Desiree on their recent wedding. Dez, I promise, if I ever become insane enough to want another tattoo, I will be your customer for life.
Two Election Eve Mildly Amusing Thoughts
1. Love Kerry or hate him, you have to admit that it's logically inconsistent for the Bush campaign to simultaneously proclaim he's both a
horrible coward and a
ravening wolf. So much for Karl Rove's focus on a single message?
2. However, on the other hand, I just saw a Democratic ad (DNC, I believe) that had a list of various things Bush has done that are varying degrees of bad, and then, in the final shot, the text "John Kerry for President" and the man himself. In a silhouette from behind against the setting sun, or something. Are they worried that if they show us his face we'll run away screaming? I suppose I ought to be grateful that they have at least gotten the message that, should we vote him in, we're only going to take the guy on a "good enough for right now" kind of basis. Three cheers for occasionally checking in with the electorate and seeing what we really think.
