Monday, April 05, 2010

Easter

Where does the Easter Bunny go once he stops putting forth his eggs?
The North Pole, into Santa's concrete basement? Left to nothing but a layer of cedar chips and heat lamps and a mere 27 inch widescreen TV?
No, nothing quite so gauche.
The bunny originated from ancient fertility goddesses, and the idea that rabbits, well, breed like rabbits: thus, be fruitful and multiply. The fact that Jesus rose from the dead on the same day contributes to the whole rebirth thing, although he must have been somewhat grungy—sort of like a rawhide bone that your dog buries in the back yard, then retrieves a day or so later, so that the bone has that tasty sample of cat poop, bug juice, and dirt.
I work for a restaurant, and three people came in dressed as zombies. Awesome. Not once did they break character, but they did manage to upset some grandmother-age ladies. I'm not sure why, mayhaps because Jesus would have been a zombie? A few people didn't get it, or were otherwise nonplussed by the theatrics of it.
I say hoorah, and that combined with an Easter Bunny siting made  the whole day rather circus like. I just hope the bunny is comfortable, wherever he doth go. She?

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The iPad

You know you want one.
It's like a book with a brain. A computer without a keyboard. The reason the decaying print industry will be revived. Naysayers say they don't need one.
They're just jealous.
While there are many pads out there, the iPad is going to stomp the competition and change the world as we manipulate it.
Text 2.0 will enable us to warp our reading habits as we read. Magazines and newspapers will never be so cool. Games, above all else, will take on a 'whole ... nuvva, level.'
The iPad is like the first cell phone brick all over again, and the first adopters are going to lug the thing around like they've got gold bullion. If I had an extra several hundred dollars I wouldn't hesitate to get the thing I definitely do not need but could find so many uses for once I had one.