The last month has been nutso for both Micaela and myself. New Years happen, winter set in, and a constant rotating cast of friends have come to stay with us. The usual antics have been in full force, and I have made it my mission to make Micaela go out everytime I do, which lately has been once or twice a week, compared to the 4-5 range when I was in the check box of almost unemployed. I applied to gradschool for an MFA in Photo, which is killing me slowly inside to not here back. I want instant knowledge none of this malarky. Been busy, capturing that crisp light around brooklyn and making coffee at Second Stop, Sasha's new amazing cafe that she organized. Since day one the reviews from bloggers, aka unemployed freelancers coming in to use the free wireless, (no hate just envious of what life was on my part) have been nothing but love letters. I am constantly amazed by sasha's ability to stay awake for 18 hours each day, for 3 weeks straight!
These are a tribute to nothing but good times with you tube.
wonky's whoppers.
Scott says...
Burger King released an Internet based documentary titled "Whopper Virgins." It is about their team traveling the world to get an opinion about their Whopper. Their task seems to be to have people decide if they have a good product. However, the majority of verbal critiques, within the footage, from the research team is dripping with social paradigms pointing out the savagery of peoples from the far flung areas of the world. One moment they show a montage of Asian people eating a burger in slow motion, where the voice over analyzes the consumers having no idea how to 'properly' hold a burger. This video is riddled with racial assumptions, advocating the viewpoint of savages made famous by Hegel, Kant, and Conrad. May I suggest the true savages are the ones idealizing the eating of food with hands. I love eating with my hands, but in this same vein, giving native Bosnians, Inuits, and Thais an overly processed food that has been shown to have given rise to many problems in the US of A and other western societies health problems, only catalyzes and trivializes Burger King as a company. If anything, this seems like a method to culturally assimilate the world into believing a burger is the key food to bring us all together.
While in Asia, I can only assume I looked just as awkward trying to eat fermented duck eggs, and chicken's feet, yet these regional delicacies are foods these peoples have been consuming (and not wasting I might add) for centuries. The American burger was invented around 1891, and has since seen a bastardization of the food with the over processed, calorie injected food. I mean, yes, I love hamburgers, but America is the primary consumer of this delicacy, but why I want to know did Burger King have to show such a anti-diverse documentary? Outraged I am, dumbfounded, and extremely forlorn to know people have yet to realize their faults as racial moderators.
Testing. Tested. Testee
The last two weeks have been busy in both of our insignifgant lives. Micaela is ready to go back to CO for winter and Mimi time; I to Idaho to see my little beast of a Boston Terror. Micaela has been busy getting some last minute work in and I had a German translation test. Both of us felt the stress last week but were at easy since we pulled off our first holiday party. The music was pleasant, the mulled wine was a flowin', and mustache's were worn as respect to Woody Allen's "Everyone Says I Love You..." and as the ironic counter-part to Williamsburg's sudden on slot of ironic facial hair. Here are the party highlights.
Justice does happen
Now if only they would place him in real prison.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/nyregion/09lawyer.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
There goes the neighborhood
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/nyregion/08greenpoint.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=nyregion
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