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Commercialized Sentiment Mints
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I could understand notebook covers and lunchboxes depicting popular trends like Hannah Montana and High School Musical. Why not show off something you like to your classmates?
I could understand buying posters on those popular hits to post them on the wall and look at from time to time, but trading cards, “sing-along microphone,” board games, and even a 29-piece cheerleader dress-up set?
To take it a bit more extreme, consider the Wii Fit. It is a training board you connect to the Wii and I admire how its goal is to help one to lose weight and stay fit. While browsing through Best Buy a few weeks ago, I saw something and wonder if someone in the right mind would ever buy…
…a towel and water bottle with “Wii Fit” imprinted on it and advertised as a “Best Buy exclusive.” And there is even a Wii Fit journal that has some fill-in-the-blanks asking what you ate and such. Clever, yes, that maybe someone is too lazy to go out and buy the towel and water bottle.
And I realized we’re a brand-name driven nation. We want to belong to something with a good reputation. This is who we are. We are the Mercedes, the Samsungs, and the Wolfgangs. And most likely, some of our parts come from China.
If you are quite wary of corporations and commercialization, I think Tom Hart’s graphic novel Hutch Owen expresses frustration with them. You can check out the webcomic edition (different content from the graphic novel, but same themes).
Gone driving this weekend
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I won’t be here on Saturday to update since I’ll be helping my cousin to move into her dorm this weekend. And it’s around a six-hour drive.
School begins in a week (on Thursday) for me. Since my school is a quarter system, we don’t start in late August like semester-system schools.
Also, A Table for One webcomic will be up and running (mostly at drunkduck.com) next Thursday.
Political Circus
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A comic I created two days ago and it’s up at Deadend right now.
It all began with someone titled a post called “Political Circus” and wrote that he hopes it ends. So I decided to take it literally and, it came out more clever than I expected.
Like most people out there, I am also jaded by the thoughts of politics. It actually becomes a circus when candidates run into controversies, accusations (from each other, the media, and pundits), and such.
It has this weird irony. To campaign for the primaries and if lucky, for president, one would have to spend millions of dollars. Wouldn’t it be cheaper (and more entertaining) to have the presidents and vice presidents run into these competition of playing Super Smash Bros. against each other, eat the most hot dogs, and give a 20 minute speech on why they should be president or VP. That would be only five million dollars at the most. And it’ll attract event he most cynical viewers to take interest, and definitely frustrate the political pundits who need some jargons to utter.
some sketches
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I hope it’s not uncommon that a typical blogger’s post updates irregularly. Then again, it would be nice to have a certain day to know when to visit. So I’ll aim to post every Saturday! (and sometimes on other days if some serious pondering occur) Even if it’s just talking about how awesome ice cream sandwiches are. Better to develop a habit updating on a weekly basis.
So to make up for the inconvinence, I baked some cookies.
Or er, inked and colored these sketches.
Professors seem like the kind of people who would sing Danny Boy over pipes (I realized this particular sketch is a bit trimmed off. (word is “time”)
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