Saturday, November 30, 2002

From: Dar [mailto: ]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:27 PM
To: dlarge@ Subject: stuff for you

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2) I saw a car commercial on the TV last night. The plot was basically that the couple driving some high mountain pass had just left a bad restaurant with a snooty maitre-d and they were on the way home to a catastrophic fight between their cat and their dog, which were smashing all their lovely things. (No children, apparently. The tag line was, "Right now, though, the moment is perfect" (I guess because they're driving in their fabulous luxury car that they got for $0 down on some crazy lease). What struck me about this commercial was how blatantly it eulogized process--becoming over being, movement over stillness, and the trip over the destination (home, in this case). If it's worth the going it's worth the ride, but if the dinner isn't worth eating then is it really worth the trip? (And notice that this is really a theme of a lot of car commercials--guys who run errands for their wives at the slightest provocation just so they can drive their new car.) I wonder what it means?

Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Can you have more than one best friend at a time? I think so.

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