23.03.06

i guess i just wasn't made for these times

Sometimes I feel like I get everything wrong. Like when I see that cell phone commercial in which this guy's cubicle neighbor is doing this puppet show with his cell phone, and the neighbor makes his cell phone say "Where's your phone? Where's your phone?", and the guy is really annoyed and says "um, my phone is at home"? When I see that commercial, what I think is happening is this: this guy who doesn't have a cell phone and is fine with it encounters his asshole coworker who has a cell phone, and is reminded of the old aphorism "assholes love them some cell phones". But then it turns out that somehow the commercial is supposed to make me want to get a cell phone. Wait- I was supposed to identify with the cell phone puppet guy? I want to punch the cell phone puppet guy!
So, case in point number two: I hear on the radio that Elliot Spitzer has caused a bugaboo by comparing Upstate NY (which is where I live don't tell) to Appalachia.
My thought? "Uh oh. Appalachia is gonna be pissed".

'Course, turns out Spitzer's comparison of our economy with that of Appalachia was inaccurate; Appalachia's is better.

So wait- does that mean I got one right?

Posted by monk at 23.03.06 13:24
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As someone who has lived both in Appalachia proper and the gentle upstate NY Appalachia foothills, I can say that the two regions have two entirely different kinds of economic suck.

Next time you make fun of WV remember: their number one cash crop is the mary jane. Whereas the number one cash crop of the greater Rochester area is self-loathing.

Posted by: hello dere at 24.03.06 12:11

Who made fun of West Virginia? You could just as well accuse me of making fun of Brian Wilson. Which I only do when he comes over.

Posted by: monk at 24.03.06 12:33

You're right, you were not making fun of WV. I think maybe I only typed that because of the muscle memory in my fingers from having to type that soooo many times.

Posted by: ho now at 24.03.06 15:02

I'm just happy to learn I'm not the only person who hates that cell phone puppet guy.

And quit making fun of Brian Wilson. Or something.

Posted by: czeltic girl at 24.03.06 18:34