When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

And when life gives you pill bottles, make a tower.

John poses by his tower of pill bottles, a flashlight, a nasal rinse bottle. One day after his oral surgery . . . baby tooth extraction, his canines.

Making the best of it, John's way. Actually, he did really well with the oral surgery. And he had no trouble falling asleep last night with the Tylenol with Codeine that they had prescribed for his pain.

Creepy XBOX Advertisement

I did some google searches and confirmed -- I'm not the only one who thinks the Microsoft XBOX 360 advertisements, which show a hollow headed person staring at digital entertainment, is freaky.

"Disgusting, nightmarish, perverted" are a few of the adjectives people are using.

All that and more! The woman's face is frozen in a ghastly grin, the back of her head is open, revealing an empty theatre.

It's freakishly fascinating, like watching an autopsy. But is it good advertising?

There are those who would say, since people are talking about it, it's good advertising.

I would say if it dehumanizes us, if it portrays the human brain succumbing to the machine, it is bad.

Perhaps what's most disturbing about the ad is that it is probably accurate. Turn on the electronic game system, and the brain hollows out.

Princess Bride Shirts

We watched Princess Bride with our kids last week, and they really enjoyed it. It was fun seeing it again -- it'd been too long.




And I got a T-Shirt from Larry for Christmas. (Not the one pictured above.)