When I was four and in preschool, my mom let me choose a pudding mix from the Jello section at the Kroger's. The pale pastel green of one pudding looked so pretty to me, I picked it. We took it home and my mom bought a hand mixer, and we made instant pudding together. I had much fun doing that; but the best part was trying the pastel green pudding. YUMMMM...ICK oh no oh noo oh noooo. It wasn't lime pudding at all. It wasn't even fruity. It was strange and I didn't like it. At some point it settled in on my brain that this was pistachio pudding. Tricked. I was tricked.
After all these years I realize the reason I didn't know that the pudding was artificially pistachio flavored rather than fruit flavored was because I hadn't yet learned to read. I hadn't even learned my right from my left.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Big Box Stores Growing, Humans Shrinking...Judgment Day Nearing
(What should have been two or three blog posts are now smashed into one hodge-podge post about Wall-E, Terminator 2, James Cameron, the 80s, and the creepiness of Big Box Stores. Oops.)
Before robots took over the earth in the future, there was something else that took it over: trash. Trash covered Earth and swallowed up humans. Obviously, everyone who has watched Pixar's WALL-E knows this. See above graphic.
And before trash took over the earth, before robots took over the earth in the future, there was something else that took it over: the 80s!!!!!!!!
If you happened to be born in A.D. 1984 in the year of James Cameron's ascent to Hollywood success, born as a younger sister to two older boys, you were forced to watch (at a premature age) many a movie such as Aliens, Enter the Dragon, James Bond, and also, Terminator 2.
That is the movie that eventually led to my brothers and I watching Terminator 1, which was very much a very inappropriate movie for children. I didn't care to see Linda Hamilton naked. Her hair was so bad back then.
Anyway Judgment Day would come not for us with our minor R-rated film-watching transgressions, but for the human race, because robots became sentient and took over the Earth. See top photo.
And before I wanted to talk about Terminator 2, there was something else getting increasingly scary that I wanted to point out. There was something else growing way too big and way too powerful and I'm not talking about James Cameron, or Titanic, or Avatar. I'm not talking about Arnold and his movie career and his Governator history (of scandal). I'm talking about the BIG BOX STORE.
Once limited to Walmart and such, it's now also become the way of life for our grocery stores and even our Michael's Crafts supply store, once friendly locales that now loom like rectangular dead dinosaurs over our heads when we go shopping in suburbia. There was no dinosaur THAT big, yo. Walking up to stores nowadays is almost like an illusion, (except it's real,) a trick of the eye in which you think you are walking closer to the same Walmart you used to go to back in 1999, but *no*. These new stores have the strange ability to not get any closer to human scale as you approach them, but to grow seemingly bigger as you get closer...
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| Wall-E: Looks just like T2 Judgment Day minus the guns |
And before trash took over the earth, before robots took over the earth in the future, there was something else that took it over: the 80s!!!!!!!!
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| The 80s were so scary. Man celebs didn't wear makeup. |
If you happened to be born in A.D. 1984 in the year of James Cameron's ascent to Hollywood success, born as a younger sister to two older boys, you were forced to watch (at a premature age) many a movie such as Aliens, Enter the Dragon, James Bond, and also, Terminator 2.
That is the movie that eventually led to my brothers and I watching Terminator 1, which was very much a very inappropriate movie for children. I didn't care to see Linda Hamilton naked. Her hair was so bad back then.
Anyway Judgment Day would come not for us with our minor R-rated film-watching transgressions, but for the human race, because robots became sentient and took over the Earth. See top photo.
And before I wanted to talk about Terminator 2, there was something else getting increasingly scary that I wanted to point out. There was something else growing way too big and way too powerful and I'm not talking about James Cameron, or Titanic, or Avatar. I'm not talking about Arnold and his movie career and his Governator history (of scandal). I'm talking about the BIG BOX STORE.
Once limited to Walmart and such, it's now also become the way of life for our grocery stores and even our Michael's Crafts supply store, once friendly locales that now loom like rectangular dead dinosaurs over our heads when we go shopping in suburbia. There was no dinosaur THAT big, yo. Walking up to stores nowadays is almost like an illusion, (except it's real,) a trick of the eye in which you think you are walking closer to the same Walmart you used to go to back in 1999, but *no*. These new stores have the strange ability to not get any closer to human scale as you approach them, but to grow seemingly bigger as you get closer...
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| A Julie Park Original Doctored Photo |
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