Cabin Fever

An Adventuring Hat, Foreign Correspondence and Bi-Partisan Pop

Well McKelvie... I'm ready for adventuring. Picked up a crushable wool Stetson across the river last week. Made in the USA. For the last week I have also been drinking cans of American re branded pepsi. The cans have a really sleek no BS design that reminds me of the pre-blue cans Pepsi used. Before the design got muddled with advertisements and Superbowl tie-in packaging. Coke has also revamped their labels, by increasing the size of the fonts and offsetting them to float into nothingness. Honestly it looks like a grade 10 kid's Media Arts project.

Finally in the realm of soft drinks, I tried the new flavour of Mountain Dew "Voltage" and to be honest it really reminded me... You know when you make blue Kool Aid and you forget the last cupful in the back of the fridge, a month goes by and you end up mixing the rest of the Kool Aid with the rest of the Sprite, and it tastes like stale sugary carbonated sludge... (with blue raspberries) That's basically what it was. HEY POP PEOPLE! Ginseng isn't for everything!

Today I got the paddle for my new Surfboard. Not only is the 10 foot monster board really cool but the carbon fiber paddle is pretty impressive. As soon as the ice starts breaking up for some shorebreak I'm going to be out there. I've got a bad case of cabin fever. I've got a new pair of 6.0 Nikes, A new Board, clips for by bike.

Hey McK you had better get an adventuring hat for snowshoeing.

We Are Still Ugly on the Inside

Beauty... not beauty of character but visual beauty isn't just skin deep. The mutations that cause full lips, larger breasts on a thin frame, big doe eyes and strong masculine jaws come from the genes. And these genetic beauty mutations can pop up in some of the strangest places on earth.

For instance, when a young beautiful girl meets a young handsome man, have a kid, and never make it out of their small isolated community and their beautiful child meets another beautiful child, the concentration of attractive people can thrive in a backwater community simply because that full lip gene never makes it past the county line. When they do they become models, possessing traits that the rest of us do not have.

In the pursuit of emulation things are cut out, skin tightened, stuff packed in and ground away we have copied the beautiful... but! these beautiful people are breeding with fake beautiful people because they believe they are equal. It is thinning the beautiful blood stream. On the family tree branches are turning to twigs and twigs into leaves. Eventually there will be no genetic super enhancements but mediocrity.

My own jaw and teeth are surgically altered by an orthodontist and orthographic surgeon to emulate the genetic perfection. but I'm not going to pass straight teeth and a symmetrical jaw onto my children. Their teeth are going to be just as misaligned as mine were.

It seems the only answer is to subject myself to heavy doses of radiation. Thus altering my genes for the better... but if not... and I die, at least I will come back as a nuclear powered zombie.

Non-Toxico

I'm sure by now you have seen these actual hacked road signs that serve no purpose beyond costing money to purchase and maintain. But this post has nothing to do with that. It deals mostly with that crazy idea I had way back when I wrote And Here Come the Pretzels which I have now linked back to twice.

In the dead of winter... on the last day of college applications I got my first official "big envelope" acceptance letter from a Post Secondary institution (post-post in my case (and the case of every contributer to this site)) You see my acceptance to Lake State came in a phone call and my "acceptance" to Algoma was really just "give us money, you learn stuff" one summer day. Cambrian College has granted me a final application to their Print Journalism program. Of course I am still waiting to hear back from Humber, Mowhawk, Sheridan, Algonquin, Ryerson, UofO and somewheres else. But it is looking good.

I wouldn't mind the Sudbury experience. I have family there, could easily be set up with a job and hell, C Nev might still be there. And since its college and not university the tuition is half, and not in toronto. so if I got bored of studying I wouldn't be out $10,000. The odds are in my favour. Deluxe Fries anyone?