70 Miles Per Hour
Making the thirty-minute commute to work in under 25 minutes is what passes for accomplishment nowadays. With the nice weather, the open windows, and The Rolling Stones playing loud enough to drown out the sound of a passing semi I might just have to get my act together.
Oddly enough: While erreyone who cares is making jokes about the shabby vetting of Time magazine's photo spread hyping shrill harpy-of-the-right, Ann Coulter; I would like to object the cover photo of her sitting in a brown leather Barcelona Pavilion Chair; furniture snobs deserve better than the sight of her skeleton in that chair every time they pass the magazine rack. This is what angers me when I stop to buy a snack at the gas station.
By the way, who reads Time these days? Honestly, not even my dentist carries that magazine.
Morning commute music: The Rolling Stones, especially "Street Fighting Man".
I just don't understand how anyone could treat a poor, defenseless Barcelona chair that way. What is this world coming to?!
Posted by: jennifer | April 18, 2005 at 01:53 PM
It's a bit sad, but I actually feel more embarassed for the chair than the magazine.
Somewhat related: if you were rail thin with skeletal features would you choose the modern standard in wide seating for your front-on photo shoot. Not that the chair is for fatties but with so much spare space around her it makes her look her emotional and intellectual age (roughly 3).
Posted by: ARRON | April 18, 2005 at 02:30 PM
i like to think of it as a well-conceived plan by the photographer, as I'm sure she had no input on the photoshoot.
well played, mr. photographer man.
Posted by: jennifer | April 18, 2005 at 03:08 PM
Somebody needs to re-insert her feeding tube. And I agree, seeing her placed atop a designer chair is blasphemy. Like finding out people in fraternities and sororities like your favorite band and turn shows into a moshing fashion show.
Posted by: Joseph | April 18, 2005 at 03:26 PM
I guess she's complaining about the lens the photographer used.
Typical whiney-conservatives.
Posted by: ARRON | April 18, 2005 at 03:28 PM
I hear Skeletor made the same complaint when he graced the cover of Grayskull Monthly. To your point: I'm convinced people like Coulter will never be happy. Maybe she'd shut up if we put her on the cover of the next Bible.
Posted by: Joseph | April 18, 2005 at 03:34 PM
Maybe she'd shut up if we put her on the cover of the next Bible.
:::with a gag-chuckle, coke exits mouth, only narrowly misses keyboard of brand new PowerBook:::
Posted by: thelizabeth | April 18, 2005 at 08:39 PM
And that's Coca-Cola, bitches.
Posted by: thelizabeth | April 18, 2005 at 08:40 PM
I hope so. That other stuff doesn't belong in your mouth in the first place.
Posted by: Karl | April 18, 2005 at 08:48 PM