A decent picture for once + Post modern life

This is Matt's picture. He posted it on his blog. His Mac manipulations made us look good so of course I'm going to post it too. I think we'd have to add 'Versace couture' on the top left and we're good to be in a magazine. Well maybe not.

Culture Jamming:

So about Valentine's day.... In my year-round attempt to deconstruct stereotypes, preconceived ideas and ridiculous commercial holidays, Boris and I came up with this very post modern idea:

We are going to do a fast-food marathon on Valentine's day. Until we can't take it anymore. It's going to be savagely weird.

That's just about the least romantic thing we came up with. I tried to recruit other people today and it might just work. We are going to meet at Macdonald's tomorrow morning at 9.

Morning: Going to have the biggest Mcmorning meal with McMuffins and all that.

Noon: Off to Subway. We'll probably have two foot long sandwiches. Good times.

Dinner: Burger eating competition at Mcdonalds.

I said I'd cut heart shaped things in our BigMac boxes. I'm also thinking about bringing out a book with poems by Appolinaire or Baudelaire, reading this verse:

Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate?
With hands clenched in the shade and tears of gall,
When Vengeance beats her hellish battle-call,
And makes herself the captain of our fate,
Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate?*

as loud as I can while we are eating as many french fries as we can.

Mark came up with a way better idea than mine: he'll go to a restaurant by himself with a rose and a framed picture of one of his friend and he's going to have dinner alone. How fantastically awkward.

* From Baudelaire's Reversibility poem.

Also: My ad in Seattle's the Stranger magazine this year isn't about Seattle but almost...it is somewhere here. Feel free to browse.