I arrived home last night to two pieces of fantastic news and one piece of fantastic mail. The fantastic mail was a 45 of the Shangri-La’s Leader of the Pack b/w Never Go Home Anymore (!!!), so thank you Tanya for being the kind of friend who knows exactly what my heart desires.
The fantastic newses were:
1. The Bob Baker Marionette Theatre has been saved!
2. The Snuggie, the blanket-with-sleeves, not to be confused with the Slanket, has been declared the raiment of the zeitgeist!*
*Note that this is particularly hilarious to those of us who frequent the bus home to West Hollywood at rush hour on weeknights and thus spend a more than healthy amount of time watching infomercials on Bus TV. While some people think it is fun to make fun of certain (WONDERFUL, AMAZING, USEFUL) products** that are advertised thereon, I think the Snuggie example illustrates that it is best not to mock the wares of Bus TV, lest one miss the zeitgeist.
**What I am doing here is advancing the argument that the PedEgg is the Personal Grooming Tool of the Zeitgeist.
Yay! You got it! I found it at a record shop in Greenwich Village. Just saying: I am supercool.
I feel the need to defend my anti-pedegg position. The commercial advocates shaving dead skin from your feet and removing the zest from an orange with the same tool! The sound of dry skin being slowly scraped from its fleshly foundation turns my stomach.