beetle candy // 11.07.09
I still regret not buying this and finding out what was inside the box. Beetle-shaped candy? Candy inspired by fighting beetles? Licorice? Fightin' licorice?!
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the freshest candidate // 11.06.09
Hey. It's been just over a year since President Obama got elected.
Timing for uploading the picture I took of an Obama air freshener that I found on my hard drive this afternoon: Not Bad!
where is your authentic body? // 11.05.09
This picture of a young-ish Roland Barthes is unique for several reasons:
1. the robe
2. the MUSTACHE (nascent, faint, strange)
3. the grin
…all of which are absent from most other photos I've seen of him.
It's almost startling how different he looks here. The robe and the mustache add a sort of debonair douchiness that made me laugh at first sight. It's like looking at a friend's childhood photograph – the person you know is there, somewhere, hidden underneath youth and now-awkward fashion choices. Luckily for this photo, there's also the grin. It's a pretty great grin: easygoing, verging on cheek. He seems to have outgrown it, like the robe and mustache, in later photographs. Look at his dust jackets now and looking back are portraits of a serious elder whose thin-lipped smiles never show any teeth.
S'all right, though. We can't all be Foucault. (And that's a good thing!)