(aka: the tabloids at the grocery store checkout).
Today I learned that there is a new Scandinavian Weight-Loss Secret. I didn’t read to find out what the secret was, but I am guessing you change your name to Sven and watch the pounds melt away like so much water off a glacier feeling the heat of global warming.
“Diets don’t work for you? New research suggests that you might have TOO MUCH will power”. I was fairly curious about that one too.
Also, apparently Hillary Duff is a home-wrecker. This surprised me, as I didn’t think she was actually old enough to drive yet…
My favorite kind of marketing is the kind that plays on your insecurities and shortcomings. Today I saw a scratch and win lottery card featuring a young and shiny-looking family skipping happily down a wharf in the sun. In order to play the game you literally scratch away their grinning faces to reveal your inevitable failure. Unattainable standard? Meet reality.
I like going to the grocery store. The tabloids always give me a good chuckle, and I like the strange atmosphere of the superstore. Today there was ethereal jazz piano wafting down from the balcony. I also like the snippets of overheard conversation: “Water chestnuts! They have to be around here SOMEWHERE!”, and watching the cashier girls flirt with each-other.
In other news:
Dave to Katie: “So this must be a very exciting time for you. You’re in love with Tom Cruise, and Tom, as far as we can tell, has gone nuts.”
- David Letterman to Katie Holmes on the Late Show
i got this one thing from the tabloids section once… foods from the bible…
i’m hoping and hoping for the day i run into “knits of the bible”. then i’d jump for joy.
here’s a thought i picked up from my brother carl’s friend john. how come billy graham is a hero to many americans, but tom cruise is nuts? he believes in space aliens? well, many people believe in angels. i don’t really see the difference.
The difference is obvious.
Space aliens (if they exist) live in space, and space is very big, so we are unlikely ever to meet them. Clearly believing in thier existence is nuts.
Angels, (if they exist), live in some place called heaven, and that’s completely different…