For the second time, I've almost deleted an e-mail from NASA because at first glance it looked like spam.
Back in November, it was a news e-mail from NASA with the subject line, EXOTIC INNARDS OF A NEUTRON STAR REVEALED IN A SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS.
The other day it was a news e-mail with the subject line, "FUN WITH URINE" STIRS STUDENTS' IMAGINATION.
It doesn't help that the subject lines are always in ALL CAPS. heh. (NASA press release on urine experiments)
My sister Joanie has been begging that I get some of my old silly stuff from my old silly web site back on-line. So I was going through the CD containing the old web site files (off-line since 2000), and I came across this little thing. I think it might actually still be funny... even though the site it was spoofing doesn't have the meditation anymore. Watermelon Punch Interactive Meditation
I updated the "design", but the original content is exactly the same as it was when I first made it in 1999.
My friend Alison was the one who first sent me a link to the site with the meditation. But oddly enough, she said that back then, she remembers me saying I was going to make a spoof of it, but she never actually saw the spoof on my old site. The old site was kind of a labyrinth, so it's not surprising. heh.
I rarely listen to commercial radio, but I was listening to it the other day and heard an awfully insulting commercial. The commercial featured a parent arguing with a small child about "going". It was quite clear that it was meant to be depicting trouble with potty training. The commercial was for a business which offers some kind of personnel training or something like that, on how to handle employees. I can't remember the dot-com they mentioned. But I found this to be quite insulting. I mean, to compare adult employees to toddlers during potty training? I think that's awful. And I don't think very much of the professionalism of this business.
I'm not sure it raises issues. But it's a sock puppet show.
This was part of the Alternative to Noise "Happy Times" performance art marathon held at the AFA Gallery in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, on January 11th 2003.
The puppeteers bickering is at least as funny as the script. heh. "Captain Nightly the Paranoid Pirate & the Barrette Booty" is on-line in the form of photos, an audio recording (mp3), and a script to follow along with.
(Note: I wrote it & made the puppets. I did not perform, performers did.)
UPDATE: Captain Nightly is now featured on the "Testimonials" page of the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie web site.
photo taken by Sherry out the back window of Chloe's car, of a billboard seen on the Cross Valley Expressway between Luzerne and Dallas, Pennsylvania
My friend Sherry told me about this billboard she sees on the Cross Valley Expressway heading from Luzerne to Dallas, Pennsylvania.
It's a billboard showing 2 children, merely saying "Ugly Kids".
Sherry feels sure there's a message here, but neither of us are able to glean what meaning this billboard might have.
I know sometimes billboards are designed to make the viewer think a moment before getting the message. (And the fact that they're usually along busy highways concerns me a bit... I mean, should people really be put in a position to be figuring out billboards while doing something as dangerous as driving?)
But this "Ugly Kids" billboard - I think it's just plain weird. I've been home several hours and I still don't get it. heh.
Update: See comments.
But this area, at least, is known for odd billboards.
For several months near the Luzerne shopping center there was a billboard that said, "Have you hugged a Luzerne County lawyer today?" I'd like to see someone ask that of a Luzerne County doctor. heh. I was never sure about the logic of that advertisement for lawyers, but at least it had some kind of message.
Scranton has its share of odd billboards...
Just ask "Billboard Doug". Watermelon Punch - 16 Nov 2002 - Doug spends 26 hours on a billboard in Scranton
He sat atop a billboard overnight. But even that had a clear message. The billboard said "Help Doug Down". But the billboard also had big United Way banners attached to it. It was pretty clear that it was a fundraiser for the United Way.
superficiality >>If the facade is what's important to you, all you wind up with is an illusion. Disillusionment is the gift of substance.
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