A few thoughts and randomness.
-3 weird and related things:
--I know a girl who works in marketing. She had a big meeting before they send out a poster for this big ad campaign. There were hands clutching a doll in the poster. Turns out, they were men's hands. Weird looking. So they assigned her the job of re-touching the hands to make them feminine. Couldn't they have just re-taken the picture? Why was it a man in the first place?
--There was an article in this Chicago magazine about jeans. They had pictures of 6 different brands of jeans, and labeled them with which gender they were for, and some good points about them. They were pictures of just about the waist down of each model. Wierd thing: all the models had the same exact feet. And they were men's feet. So the male jeans looked normal, but the female jeans had male feet attached to their obviously feminine bodies. It looked really gross.
--There's a poster outside my local Payless Shoes to advertise their new brand. It's a group of young people standing around looking attractive. Thing is, none of them are wearing shoes. Shoe-store, shoe ad, no shoes.
-Holidays are all in the market to make money, seems like, right? Most holidays are a great way to sell lots of candy. Christmas has candy-canes. Easter has Cadbury Eggs. Valentine's Day has chocolates of all sorts. St. Patrick's Day has no candy, just liquor. I've never seen so many drunk college students in the middle of the day before (not even during Spring Fling). And all dressed like morons and wandering around downtown today. Maybe Halloween in Madison is like this.
-This guy got on my crowded train today. He pulled out a wad of cash, a piece of cardboard, 3 pop bottle caps, and a tiny red ball. He kept trying to get people to guess where the ball was (you get the drift of the game, right?), and he'd give them $100 if they could produce $100 to match. So a couple of guys were playing with him, exchanging $100 bills when they got it right. These young women kept trying to play, but didn't have the money to actually win anythying. The whole train was engaged in the event, most of us looking very skeptical about the whole thing. Suddenly, the guys is like "k, you guys aren't good at this, I'm packing up," and his whole set-up disappears into his coat. Next stop, on steps a CTA security officer, and off hop the guy and 3 of the guys who were "playing" with him. Wierd. The girls who had been trying to play looked abashed and got off at the next stop.
-I have cooked 2 amazing meals for my friends in the last 3 weeks. Baked salmon once, and then chicken cacciatore this week. When did I get to be a good cook? Guess I just need someone to cook for. And more than 5 minutes.
Coming soon: the random pictures I pulled off my camera. Peace out.
