Damn you Gilbert Hernandez. (and Daniel Clowes)

Roughly 7 years ago I read the graphic novel Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. It was a great book but it was also Deeply disturbing. The downright oddness of the work was fun and visually stunning. However, it was so disturbing at the end has continued to, for lack of a better word, haunt me. Seriously, haunt. It's just so wrong and I won't spoil it for you. I implore you to find out yourself. I've recently rented the book from the library and I have yet to reopen it. I'll probably save it until I read the other stuff. It was real creepy.
The author Daniel Clowes is responsible for this unsettling work and others that were less messed up.

left to right: Daniel Clowes. Art Spieglemen and Alan Moore

Then I found Gilbert Hernandez. He is really, really into drawing women with large breasts. Paraphrasing from his book A High Soft Lisp , who would make art of beautiful women in distress? I'll tell you, he does. This stuff is sad and upsetting. I mean I get it, it's good books and art, but the characters all just have such a hard time. Chance in Hell was just so thoroughly crazy as are Luba, High Soft Lisp, Sloth....... Heck, they're all just so damn messed up.

This guy, this guy right here.

From Chance in Hell

I suppose that the stuff is more disturbing because it has real and believable characters. So you know, these guys are talented but they have some very nutty, crazy comics,

Oh lordy

In an episode of the Simpsons a while ago, and Principal Skinner says that he can't keep the children's attention without saying a technological word. Than he goes on saying, "Twitter, website, iPad."
And then....
There is this commercial that came out for something or other and it's a little R&B jingle about a girl in a dress. Well, it kind of becomes cringe-inducing at the lines:
"You're kind of like the ATM line. You make me want to Twitter that you're so fiiiine!"
Oh lordy.
First off, like an ATM line? What exactly does that mean? Men are lining up for their turn? Jeez. That's not a very nice thing to say about a girl. Then he's going Twitter how fine she is.
"Girrl, you look so fine, rock that dress in the day time."
Guh. It does not feel good to know that they are probably aiming square at my demographic. Could you see a group of ad men sitting around in a room putting together these lyrics?
"Yeah, Twitter that she's good looking, that works."
"But what should we compare her to?"
"How about a prostitute?"
"No, bad... An espresso machine?"
"I don't know, think, what do the kids like to use. I mean something that they line up for."
"Oh, oh iPod, the DMV, Facebook! Fuck, I just don't know."
"I got it, an ATM, a line for an ATM. An ATM line."
"Brilliant, send it to the in-house jingle guy and we'll have some bargain brand R&B guy sing it."
"Let's get some Korean grill."
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and then they made it and aired it.

The golden age of cigarette marketing

The government (always busy doing seriously important shit) decided that consumers of cigarettes are not savvy enough to understand the bold, plain font warning that: " 'Light' does not mean a safer cigarette." Now, this makes sense and all, there are some dumb people in the world, but it's 2011, and every single living creature knows that cigarettes are bad for you. Really. And if the education, and prevention and other stuff is not enough, we have pictures on the boxes of what will happen.

Well, the terms "light", "mild" and other phrases that apparently caused smokers to think, "oh, well these have gotta be healthy, see? Light." So legislation was passed for cigarettes to no longer be marketed using such words. But how would the various types of tobaccos within a single brand be able to stand apart? Colors and cool names are now the non-misleading types. And do I love the names. Marlboro alone has blues, reds, greens, (formely milds, regular, and menthol). But they didn't stop there, now they have Blend No. 27, 72's, and two types of special blends whose only difference is the graphic on the box. Not to mention the menthol versions of these types. Why did they do this? To confuse the average consumer? How many different types will smokers have to try until they find their brand. Camels blue or red? Non-menthol Newports? Turkish Gold, Turkish Silver, Red,  mediums, smooth, ultra (formally ultra lights), gold and a thousand other variations. Why? Because, this is the golden age of cigarette marketing.

wanting acceptance (UIC)

I wish I wish that I could be, At a serious University

I've got my credits ready for transfer, and filled out the application answers

payed the 50 dollar processing fee

I really want to go to UIC