Irreverence 23 March 2006, 17:51

How about a little Edmonton Splendour?

Spotted at: Safeway gas station, Bonnie Doon Mall, March 21, 2006

An honest-to-God hearse. The bumper sticker?

I Brake For Goth Chicks

(The bar that makes these bumper stickers is the New City Likwid Lounge.)

Remember history?

1. Strike one, Joy of Cooking. The lesson: Don’t add too much starter when you’re making yogurt. But is using the capital-L word Lebensraum in a recipe really uber-PC?

The bacillus, if crowded, gives a sour, watery product. But if the culture has sufficient Lebensraum, it will be rich, mild and creamy.

Her emphasis! wtf!?

UPDATE: German capitalization aside, this may be a legitimate usage (cf. Wikipedia), but the connotation is playfully unfortunate. Could we please just wait another 50 years before re-adopting terms that were appropriated by the Nazis?

I offer in compensation this quotation from Andy Warhol:

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can’t believe that people are still pregnant.

2. Jerome photographs Lyon and his beloved Dombes, but he also travels. Nobody who posted comments to his Omaha Beach photo (captioned Souvenir) seemed to know the significance of the place (WW2, Normandy landing), so he added an explanation that the photo depicts the remains of the German defenses. No, they aren’t rocks.

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