I readily admit that I get a little too hopeful about women in train stations, on trains, and on other modes of transport. Some might label it delusional. Others might deem my actions a tad on the creepy side. But to paraphrase a favorite public-service announcement, “I learned it from watching YOU, America!”
As evidence, allow me to submit a television commercial for a wireless network which has been airing for several months. In this advertisement, we are told that if you are a fellow on a train platform and see a woman on a train other than the one you are planning to ride
you should impulsively change your ticket to that train
board the train and sit across from the woman, regardless of how disgusted she seems
because the guaranteed result of this stalker-like behavior? The two of you will get married and your child will grow up to be the 57th President of the United States.
Also, it appears that by that time (2060 at the earliest), some sort of weird airport terminal will be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
So the next time I take a lingering glance at a Tina Fey-type on the PATH train, do not judge me. For I am only striving to preserve the democratic ideals of this great nation. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
i feel your pain Jack. i’ve got a not-so-hard and fast ethic of blotting out commercials, but i chuckled the first couple of times seeing that Zoosk Online dating commercial, where the lovers are bumbling idiots. Seek out the environment you want to be a product of; it certainly hasn’t had the best effects on me.
Jack, have you ever impulsively changed your train ticket? Maybe that’s the problem.
honest to g.o.d., i’m not waiting to pounce on anyone’s comment or post here, but i was just watching Bryan Williams, and he mentioned the passing of Steven J Canell. Armed with explosive wit I bulleted to the computer to announce the news to SiW.
And now I see that it will be difficult to answer you Frank, Jack is in mourning likely. Rockford, A-Team, Adam 12, 21 Jump Street – classics mostly written before Cannell was 40 years old! Screen writing (not a job in NYC, according to A. Warhol) is the measure of success in American society, and I continue to disappoint. Thankfully, thankfully, we have:
http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/
each one of them
deserving their respective chests
adds a brand
of news more accessable
than any hyped up ad
your median
i feel traded back
handled all means one
is up by one
it’s you hunching
you’re a-parent serve
and you’re dreaming
of rocking and actually you’re
taking a stab
believe me, i’d rather not know
that i’m a product, i’ve been
so created
because *Ignorance is Bliss!*
**this is how i ended my ‘reply all’
email to the ceo of that medical
“.org” after i was given my seattle
walking papers
one more shallow opinion,
is the best song off of Automatic for the People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWuJBMHfUv4