These I miss! Why can’t we bring these back, instead of hippies?
My life is definitely better now that I don’t have television in it anymore: I am spared exposure to things that might melt my brain.
Most of you are probably not old enough to remember the expensive jeans fad of the mid-1970s. Same as Sears or Wrangler jeans, but at five times the price. “You’ve got the look!” The look of a sucker, they mean.
And as for hippies, well, I’m afraid they’re coming back.
Well, I’ve told you to take care when liberals and other shysters use the word “smart” to describe whatever it is they’re selling. “Smart” for them, bunky, not you. As in “Ooh, that smarts!”
(I am back from the bank–for now. Aunt Joan is dead, but the paperwork goes on forever. I wonder if I ought to take up hard liquor as a hobby.)
The latest is “smart clothes,” aka “Tommy Jeans Xplore” from Tommy Hilfiger, featuring “smart chip-embedded technology” that makes a sweatshirt sell for $90 to $99 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44965150). People who wear this stuff are walking “brand ambassadors,” and thanks to the chip, the company will acquire “an unprecedented level of information on customers.” Yup, it’ll track you wherever you go.
And those who get the most wear out of the most items will win [trumpet fanfare!] Rewards from the Tommy Hilfiger Company!
But you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, O featherless bipeds! A new company’s in town, with newer and better smart clothes that are much smarter, and cost a lot more, than anything poor old Tommy Hilfiger ever dreamed of.
Smart Sweats by Mark O’ the Beast not only track your location, but also record your conversations, keep a record of anything you read or write, report on how you vote, and sign you up for Special Hospice Care if you don’t vote Democrat. A sweatshirt costs $666, but it’s worth every penny–would Satan lie to you?
Yesterday–she was walking her dog along our sidewalk, again–and today I noticed the woman next door wearing a boot on one foot and a shoe on the other. As I deemed it unlikely she would make the same mistake two days in a row, I gather she’s doing it on purpose.
A few years ago it was a young woman with half her head shaved. I looked this up and found it referred to some pop culture gimmick that I had never heard of and which I forgot within minutes of reading about it.
Now, would you believe it, there’s a “One Shoe Lifestyle” out there. It’s all over the Internet–testimony as to how fast and how thoroughly any ridiculous idea can be transmitted, nowadays. I think “one shoe” and I think broken glass, people spitting on the sidewalk, chewing gum, animal waste, etc. But apparently this little fetish really turns some people on. I wonder when their Lifestyle will be formally acknowledged by the government, with special rights to be awarded and penalties levied on the rest of us if we fail to “celebrate” this Lifestyle.
Anyhow, there she is, shambling around with one shoe and one boot… while we’re waiting for the President’s next edict about who can go into which bathrooms.
I don’t think our country’s founders would envy us.