speaking of marketing

4 1, originally uploaded by stinky296.

so, yeah, some marketing makes it seem like they crawled into my head, and then there's this. who thought "for one" was a good idea to print on the front of anything?
"you don't have to share this" -great angle
"for you to eat alone in your studio apartment which doesn't allow pets while waiting for that semi-cute guy you gave your number to at that bar last week to call" -shitty angle

(my thanks to remora for the techical assist on getting this from my phone to the blog. she may be old, but she's handy.)

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This green tube arrived in the mail with no warning last week.

It's as if these faceless gray corporate marketing people have crawled inside my head, painted the walls a matte red, decorated solely with Pottery Barn furntiure and knick knacks, and have started spawning faceless gray children to crawl about in my synapses. Why do these fuckers know what I like? Why? And why do I love their marketing so?


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

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I nearly died.

DSCF2742, originally uploaded by stinky296.

Captions considered but discarded for this picture:

Found on my wall this weekend.

This is what mauled me . . . but now I'm better.

I nearly died.

This picture means nothing without perspective. So you see those little specks of gray next to the beast's feet? Those are people.

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Each of the above witticisms have been discarded in favor of informing you that I stood in front of this evil behemoth for about 5 minutes trying to will myself to place the bowl over it and slide the Netflix envelope under it and just get it the hell out of my house. But I just couldn't do it. I laughed ruefully and yielded the field to the hellion. When I came back an hour later it was gone. Probably to lie in wait for me in my pillow or my underwear drawer.

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Identities: Individual, Cultural, National . . .

Conference, originally uploaded by stinky296.

Thumb drive schwag for a conference my dear remora attended. Could the conference title be any more awesome? Encompassing absolutely every possible topic, and leaving room for infinity plus one with that ellipsis.

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