EGREGIOUS IMAGERY

You may have noticed a few burning illustrations here recently, yes? Because this blogger is news-reactive. Unfortunately, the images of dunces texting details of a military strike is not particulary illustratable. I suppose I could do drunken frat bros partying instead, except that one of them would have to be bare chested, tattooed, and yelling stupid crap like "warfighting, man, that's what life is all about", while another feels up a couch.

Six packs of shitty beer, cinnamon whisky, and supermarket pizza.

I am not good at illustrating red state dude behaviours.

They do that perfectly well themselves.

It's something that you can find all over the internet. The dominant aesthetic of this nation. Frequently at football games. Goes with corn dogs dipped in cheese sauce, twirly fries with bac-o-bits and ranch, and deep fried peanut butter sandwiches.

So instead, this.

Perhaps nothing is more American than a good old fashioned marshmallow and weenie party, it's positively boyscoutian. Ah, the smell of accelerant, caramelization, and questionable materials consumed by flames. Unhealth made flesh.

That also describes American junkfood, by the way.
The fragrance of a stripmall foodcourt.


Actually, I do not have good memories of the boy scouts. Baden Powel was responsible for some pretty nasty behaviours in groups under the supervision of damaged adults, and still is. He may have been totally unaware of that, even though as a public school boy he probably wasn't. But, you know, boys will be boys, and youth must out.

Per E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little:

This is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.

It's inspirational or something.
Literary, like, you know?
Feel the vibe.



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