It’s done. The Gallery Book is done and it's gone. After this, revisions and corrections and additions and subtractions, but it’s finished. It feels peculiar, and somehow backwards, to print off a website so it can be reproduced on paper, loaded on to trucks, delivered around the country and placed on shelves. Seems like a lot of work involved. Seems like a lot of hands to pay. Seems like a lot of friction going on. But it’s worth it, because this is how you make money off something: you don’t give it away for free.
I know that’s oldthink, but I’m a traditionalist.
Monday night - column night, so this is short. I’m having fun with this column; it’s on the Green party platform. A neighbor has a Nader sticker on his car, and I wonder if he knows that the Green platform wants to take away his car, his house, and his job. But in return, he’d get - industrial hemp!
“Hi there. I’m Bob Johnson. I used to be a manager at a small machine tool company. Had a nice house, a couple of cars, a family, and a dog. We recycled, tried to live light on the land, and did our part for a sustainable future and a fair progressive society. That’s why I voted Green. And now that we’re living in this small communal flat with 40 other couples, I can honestly say that I don’t miss the freedom, the mobility, the privacy, or the range of choices and opportunities I once had, because I have three T-shirts made of hemp fiber.”
What a joke. Fer chrissakes, the platform doesn’t just advocate breaking up big businesses, but it wants to break up small businesses as well. And they want to replace prime-time TV with cable access: “Re-appropriate 6 prime-time hours a day of commercial broadcast time on each station for real public service broadcasting: ad-free children's and news/public affairs programming.” Oh, can’t wait for that. Mandatory cable-access. Here’s your new schedule:
4 - 5 PM: Cartoon hour. Today: Tom and Jerry mend their differences through mediation and visualized peace-based scenarios.
5 - 6: PETA presents the Dinnertime Parade of Slaughterhouse Horrors
7 - 10: Blurry, underlit video of people with tremendous BO talking about atheism in Ethiopia.
Communists.
Since this is a short Bleat, a little visual treat. A screendump from buyroad.com, an e-commerce site I visited. This is why most of these sites fail. Note the broad range of merchandise.
Yes, it’s your one-stop shop for pillows, graperoot and eagles.
Back to work. |
