Remember Jack Benny? Cheapness was his shtick; on his radio and television shows he occasionally made hilarious subterranean visits to his money, which was protected by locks, alligators, and an ancient security guard who, from the look of him, had last seen action at the Second Battle of Bull Run. “Your money or your life,” to the rest of us, is Hobson’s choice; to Benny, it was an existential crisis.
Ah, those were the days—a halcyon time when, the Depression still a fresh memory, Americans enjoyed both affluence and restraint. Willy Loman’s refrigerator payments notwithstanding, consumer indebtedness at midcentury now looks like a mere flyspeck, at least from the towering mountain of debt atop which we sit.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
America: Fail
I couldn't agree more on how this article tries to explain how the lack of frugality skewed our perceptions on materialism. Maybe there's too many words being invented by our tech driven society that they forgot such a word as "frugal" existed.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
washroom graffiti/toilet reading
So I guess this is what you do when you're crappin'. It just so happens I had a pen tucked between my ear, so I added to the vandalism.
"Poop Club '09"
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I just pooped & I'm HIGH
Dude High Poops are best!
Dunkaroos
A FAILURE is YOU--->WTF
Koala Yummies<---- are delicous
I CONCUR
I third that
poop e
Health care . . . POOP!
I <3Alyssa POT-TERY (ya fuck Alyssa)
da' bearrrssss!!!!
"Poop Club '09"
_______________
Need BJ's? ---> (773)202-5862
I just pooped & I'm HIGH
Dude High Poops are best!
Dunkaroos
A FAILURE is YOU--->WTF
Koala Yummies<---- are delicous
I CONCUR
I third that
poop e
Health care . . . POOP!
I <3
da' bearrrssss!!!!
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