Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18
- Sitting in a pool, well, next to one really, sans margarita, sans beer, sans optional clothing. Sans everything really. Is it awesome? Nay. #
You want to know what is fun?
Grabbing your desk with both hands, then hammering your head against its veneered surface as hard as you can, until your head either phases through the solid matter of the desk, or the desk explodes into a billion shards.
Because honestly, my days are 10% work, and 90% pulling splinters out of my forehead.
I don’t know what is more depressing. The political posturing, the ostracizing attitude, or the culture of bullshit… they all have the same level of pain for me.
I wish I could effect some real lasting positive change. But I think I have been handed a bag of “don’t-even-bother.”
Working in the center of a large US city, I see all types. Downtown is full of every type, stereotype or otherwise, that one can imagine. In fact, with a large University campus right in the smack of the city, it pretty much guarantees it.
So I have seen them. The dreaded Urban Hipster. They have their ironic look, their off brand cigs, and the look on their faces tells me that “of course you won’t understand”. Because they are just, you know, deep. But not. AT THE SAME TIME.
Then I saw this shit:
And I lol’d.
Then I walked to the bus stop, and on the side of a building, painted as a huge five story mural, I see this:

Do you see it? DO YOU SEE IT? Let me help…

Yes that is right, YOU HAVE JUST BEEN SLAPPED WITH HISTORICAL IRONY!!!
Roll that in a ZigZag… and you know, be ironic with it.