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Alas, A Clothes Horse

The Peugeot team are perhaps overlooking a lucrative market. Their new 407 ad with all the toy cars makes me think of how much I’d be willing to pay for a car designed to look like a toy car. A wooden block car would be the best, or a Lego car. But how cool would that be! I don’t really care one way or another for the 407 but the other cars in the ad arouse instant desire.

You know what would be a good invention for indoor carparking buildings? Sensors on the floor that can tell if a space is occupied. If the space is empty, a signal is sent to a light on the roof above to switch on, so that drivers coming along the ramps can see easily where the available spaces are and won’t need to drive so slowly and erratically! If anyone from Wilson’s Parking is reading this, *please* steal this idea and implement it in Christchurch. It wouldn’t be that difficult or expensive to do. And the improvement in traffic flow efficiency would probably pay for it and then some.

I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 today and really enjoyed it, although some of it was a bit reactionary for me. The whole focus on how much the Saudis invest in America seemed a little spurious. Isn’t that the whole point of globalisation and wealth creation? I mean, we criticise countries that are closed to foreign investment, and then we criticise countries that diversify. Also, there was no context given – how much money do most countries in the world invest in each other? I bet America, Britain, Germany and France “own” significant proportions of the wealth of many countries in the world on the same logic used in the film. I don’t know if that automatically becomes ominous. The focus on Saudi investments kind of smacked of the Elders of Zion and the international Jewish conspiracy to me.

I do recommend that people see it, it was a very good film, but I wouldn’t call it an unbiased documentary by any means. And I wouldn’t necessarily make a point of seeing it on the big screen. The quality of the film isn’t that high, I think because a lot of the footage is taken from TV, and it comes across quite grainy on the big screen.

Hair is really disturbing when you stop to think about it, so I try not to. But just the thought of those lifeless filaments extruding constantly from my skin, and then hanging there, waving blindly, growing and groping silently… eww. Mind you, just about anything is strange and disturbing if you stop to think about it. There is no such thing as an innocuous object. It will offend or traumatise someone. And if it doesn’t, they’ll pretend it does, to make you feel guilty for mentioning cornflakes in mixed company.

I spent my Saturday morning purchasing a clothes horse from the Warehouse. I can’t think of anything that more perfectly sums up the horrors of suburban adulthood than that this should warrant a mention on my blog.

*shiver*