Life’s Interesting Little Stories
I’ve come to realize that I hadn’t written a post now in over a month. It’s not like there hasn’t been things to write about. This crazy world seems to always present interesting things to make the best of us wonder: “huh?” Here are a few of those things, none that really need to have an entire mini essay written about them individually, but some worth “giving a shout out to” (sorry Gary).
No great tragedy to me that NYC OTB shops will be going out of business. Gambling and racing certainly aren’t “essential services” that should expect taxpayer subsidizes to exist anyway. Makes you wonder though if this might not have been one of those things that flew under the radar had different people been in place at the time.
On a lighter note, in the February 20th and 21st issues of the Dilbert cartoon (and for a few days after), it was great to see the strip being about itself by using the true story about the office firing that took place when an employee “maliciously or stupidly” posted a Dilbert cartoon at work that portrayed managers in a negative light.
Similar to the Comedy Channel’s “Colbert Report” it is truly a talent to be able to walk that fine line between being appropriate and not. Malicious, stupid, and honest sometimes blend into each other depending on each person’s unique perspectives. All I know is that only when you’ve actually worked in a Dilbert-like environment do you truly realize how unexpectedly true-to-life these apparently exaggerated comics can appear. Thanks, Scott Adams, for keeping us laughing through those pull-your-hair-out times!
What else…it was kind of cute to see the new pink monopoly sets in Toys R Us, until I realized how “girly” and stereotypical they made the innards….just what little girls need, probably as important as the equally soon-to-be-nostalgic Mr. Potato Head Parts N Pieces Theme sets.
And to round things out, I can’t close without mentioning those annoying internet ads, you know, the ones with the microscopically written “simulated imagery”. You’ve all seen those obviously Photoshopped age-reducing wrinkle-removing better-than-Botox ads. Those products seem to even be able to remove under-eye dark circles as black as those greased on by football players!
But then again, everything does have a silver lining, I did find a new Facebook friend who blogged about this. So, I guess those ads weren’t a total waste after all. I feel bad though for all those people investing in those products, I wonder what made those ads believable and trustworthy to them?
So, the writer’s strike is over, but life seems to provide enough of its own programming to keep us entertained either way.
