Things are not what they seem

[jchrisobrien]

The au bo pain is supposed to smell yummy and delicious, like any bakery should.  When I stopped in for my morning bagel, the sugar and confections in the air were cloying and sweet, overpoweringly so.  I felt nauseous, rather than tempted.  I guess when you don't have a lot of sugar (that isn't in alcohol, heh), even the smell of it can get to you.  Imagine a whole store coated with a thin sheen of sugar.  It's not as delightful as it sounds, believe me.

There are new iPod posters all over the T on the green line, and I really think the marketing dept got these all wrong.  There are lots of guys and girls with shocking teased out hair gyrating madly while rocking out to their iPods.  Yet these silhouettes don't look like they are dancing as much as they are getting shot or stabbed through the chest by large wooden poles.  Seriously.  Look at them the next time you're on the Green line.  Tell me they don't look like 80's kids playing the parts of Persians in 300.  If these posters were on buses in Jerusalem, people would be freaking out.  It's unnerving (or darkly humerous, depending on your point of view).

Comments

[lindau-nemesis.livejournal.com]

If the posters were on buses in Jerusalem you'd have the irony of being run over by said dying 80's kids as you tried to cross the street.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

if I only had an iPod, the irony would be complete! "Look, *gasp* it's a picture of me *rattle*".

[futurenurselady.livejournal.com]

Yes, when you cut out sugar it does have that effect.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda happy with that, acutally. It makes it harder to go back on if you smell pastries and get nauseous.:)

[shnells.livejournal.com]

i know what you mean about sugar. it's true about rich food too. there's only so much you can take before you want to yak