April 27, 2009
Change Vehicle
by JeremyI don't generally conjure mental images of other bloggers in the shower (particularly not male ones. Does that make any sense? How can I never do something one way and then never do it even more a different way? And am I the only one who finds that this kind of internal Normologue {I just coined that term} tends to occur in me after reading Normblog?)
Disclosure: I can't say for sure that I have never conjured mental images of other bloggers while I was in the shower. But I think that's more socially benign.
But this thing of noticing that the quotidian world (I never use the word 'quotidian' usually) is peppered with clues for us about competing epistemologies regarding human society and stuff (honestly, I dropped out of a masters program in English Lit. so I wouldn't have to use phrases like that anymore, but the brain damage is apparently irreversible) made me decide to blog about one such thing that just happened to me this evening, while I was shopping online for air conditioner parts in my pajamas (though how those air conditioner parts got in my pajamas...)
Our Saturn needs a new a/c receiver/drier/accumulator thingy. I found the one pictured below; see if you can find what's wrong with this picture, and why it reminds me, just as Norm's shower experience reminded him, that totalitarianism is like crazy wrong, even stupid wrong:
The title of this post gives it away. For some reason I now have the musical phrase "change your sausage" in my head (I can't find a link, but for those of you who may be culturally deprived, I'm referring to an old TV commercial for a frozen sausage product in which "change your sausage" was sung to the tune of the word "Hallelujah" from Handel's Messiah. And if that's not a clue as to the superiority of American capitalism to other forms of society, then...I don't even know what.)
UPDATE: I said I can't find a link! Get it?! A link!
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