Every Phone is Illuminated

This is a picture of the corner of the Delta baggage claim area at JFK:

What a waste of space. Good thing there's five pay phones, just in case everyone loses their cell phones at once, and China suddenly disappears so we can't get any more. Also, kudos on making one phone all of six inches shorter than the others. For Asian travelers, I assume.

For Christ's sake, do something with this room. A space this size rents for like $1800 in Manhattan. Put in a snack machine, or an arcade game, or a fucking pool table as long as I'm gonna be down here waiting for my bag for a half hour, at the infuriating rate of three bags dropping out of the shoot every five minutes. This is worse than Chinese water torture.

I love air travel. It always puts me in my natural state of hating everything.

PS - apologies for the two China references

5SMR: Game Change

Does Sarah Palin really own that many hockey jerseys?

Puppy Love

Sometimes I feel like I waste time. A lot of times, actually. I fear that I'm not making the most of every day, or year, or 22 minute block. In today's day and age, there are just too many distractions that keep me from realizing my most supreme possible self. This thought sometimes gets me down.

Then I see things like this...

...and I feel a little bit better. Because no matter what I was doing while whoever made this flyer was making this flyer - watching Jersey Shore, kicking pebbles down the sidewalk, sitting in the shower and crying - it was time better spent on my part.

What is the message of this poster? Don't lock up adorable puppies? If the flyer just said "Have respect and compassion for all," well, okay. I get that. Kind of vague, but not a bad message - kind of like a fortune cookie. But the addition of the puppy prisoner pic makes the sentiment so bizarrely specific, to the extent that I don't even really understand it.

And man, what a number this person did with the Scotch tape. I'm not sure if you can tell, but that sucker is really taped onto that pole. This flyer's not coming down anytime soon.

Just thinking about the time and effort that went into this project - designing it on the computer, printing it out, going and taping it to streetlights around New York City...well, it goes a long way towards making the lazy man feel productive. And for that, my compassionate droog, I thank you.

5SMR: Wanderlust

Actually not too bad, despite what a horrible bomb this movie is. Definitely watchable, especially if you enjoy full-frontal male nudity.

5SMR: The Tillman Story (2010)

Shining the spotlight on just one more reason the W. administration was one of the worst in this country's history.