A big up to independent business. I just got a package in the mail and my address was handwritten and inside were the little buttons I ordered online as well as the totally one-of-a-kind (meaning literally the only one made) glass necklace. Not expected was the personalized thank-you note or the bonus magnet. How special do I feel? I think that’s so cool. I don’t come home from H&M or Walmart or Target or even a street arts festival with that kind of feeling. That’s awesome to create nice little products for people way out there across the country, reaching out across the shifty void of the interweb. I wish I was more crafty or I would be doing something like that too.
This mango juice has been sitting in my fridge for I don't know how
long. A good long time. But this thing had a ridiculously future-date
expiration so I just let it sit there in case I happened to want to
finish it. I believe the expiration was 5/07. I have to mention that
there has been a little bit of a stank smell in my fridge for some
time. So I finally ventured to pull it out and when I shook it I was
surprised at the volume. It shook like it was full but I drank about
3/4 of it already, I'm pretty sure. I opened the tab and there was a
moldy film over the opening. I don't even want to know what was inside.
A colony of liquid mold? Bloated mold pustules expanding and filling
the carton? A wild party of organic decomposition ready to spill forth
and taint the younger, fresher food mass populating my fridge? That
mess went straight to the dumpster. I will not be having mango juice
for awhile, I suspect.
Can ingenuity, a startling case of inefficient efficiency, and staunch discipline manufacture our own destruction? The hallmarks of our culture, of what makes us American, are these traits so dangerous? Sure, there are jabs at other cultures in Dr. Strangelove but ultimately it's the cowboy that goes down with the bomb.
I think I could write an essay dissecting this movie but I'll spare the blog-space. Man, Stanley Kubrick. I feel another director-themed movie marathon coming on. I signed up with a cheap-o two-a-month plan with netflix so it might be a slow-moving marathon.
