Cover you eyes, kiddies …

You’re about to see the world …

thru Buck’s eyes !

Rather than confront the realities that await me away from this worn and tattered keyboard I, instead, chose to alight myself away from the domicile and distract myself with the memories of this year’s additions to my ever-growing photo collection.

A quick aside: now that I have family and personal, real-life, non-cyber friends occasionally viewing these semi-fluidic mental meanderings, I should take a moment to introduce you to something I’ve enjoyed doing for almost 2 decades now. I believe the geek-speak for this form of time mismanagement is “picture blogging” or something of that sort. For the sake of time and efficiency, rather than describe what it is that I like to occasionally do, let’s just let the big ol’, bad ol’ cartoon that is my outlook on life begin and by the time we’re done you’ll have come to your own conclusions (and perhaps a question or two).

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In the beginning …

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there was MAD COW DISEASE …

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And then …

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there was the AVIAN FLU!!!!

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And then, as if THAT weren’t enough …

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the world then confronted a mass outbreak of the SWINE FLU …

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My friend, Emily, said it perfectly yesterday …

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OMFG!

it’s

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Well, *I* at least thought it was funny …

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Most of my images are collected from pictures embedded within various news stories from around the world. Mainstream media in America is so busy try to juggle the compulsion to affect politics while, at the same time, remain sensationalistic enough to garner larger viewer ratings, most of the media outside our borders don’t forget to report on things that are of interest to us garden variety citizens of Earth.

One example would be this year’s “Masculine Health Day” as celebrated in China …

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(don’t get upset with ME … I TOLD you to cover your eyes!)

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And it’s not just the Chinese who are so obsessed with the phallus! Oh, nossir … not whatsoever!

Actually, I changed my mind as the two pics I have from the Japanese Penis Festival this year in Utamaro are even more graphic.

So, moving along …

As I perused the image collection, I stumbled across an early moment of Obama infamy. Remember shortly after Barak took office, he commissioned Air Force One to do a little fly-by of New York City?

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Everybody else seemed very taken aback by how thoughtless it was of him to not even consider the nightmarish memories he brought back to the residents of that strange city. Personally, I looked at images like that on the television the night of this event and thought,

“Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is sending a not so subtle message, now isn’t he?”

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And that’s not the only way people in the modern world show off. In addition to shameless demonstrations of authority, such as the one referenced above, we also have …

the joys of BLING!

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And this is not a distinctly American phenomena either. Here’s some Italian bling for ya …

Uh … yeah …

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In previous blogs over the years, I’ve always delighted in encountering extreme branding failures. There are times when the people in branding/advertising get so caught up in their own bizarre little world that they completely lose track of reality and how anything appears to the rest of the world.

Recently, Barnes & Nobles PROUDLY announced the …

Nook e-Book reader

If you’re not shaking your head, take a moment to say that out loud:

Nook e-book …

I guess that’s the iPod of the internet porn generation.

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Ah, advertising … there’s an area of life where I really I could have had a lot of fun, especially if working with a small group of friends and a steady diet of tasty adult beverages!

All the same, even seemingly innocent mistakes can provide a certain degree of unintended entertainment.

Some examples …

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Billboards …

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Design Irony …

(hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!)

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Inbred Sign Writers …

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And, one of my favorites … evening news graphics bloopers …

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Well sports fans, that’s about all I have for today. The Spousal Unit awaits me, we still have much to do on this fine sunny day.

Oh, and in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been attempting to clean up my language a little bit. So, instead of lazily relying upon the simple-minded crudeness of curse words, I will instead endeavor to make up my own fake curse words.

And on that note … until we meet again …

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PEACE OFF, FAUX CURSE!

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