More notes from in and around the liberry
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captainsblogI found a new table with an outlet. Other than the tripwire I have concocted, it seems I'm in for the duration.
It's actually a cool place as these layover spots go. No fancyass cafe selling bookbags and venti lattes, but in the center of the reading room is a perfectly cool setup fit for a good game of Wizard Chess:
When I got here, cruising the compound for an outlet, some guys were actually playing:) And just now, Serious Biker Looking Dude, complete with regulation sunglasses, beard and chain-link keyring, walked over and returned the Wall Street Journal to the periodical stick rack.
Forget the shit about giving the schools get all the money they need and the Air Force holding a bake sale to buy a bomber. Just get everybody in al-Qaeda a library card.
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I don't do nearly as much long-distance driving as I did in my ten years plus of the triweekly Rochester shlep, but on days like this when I covered a lot of new territory (downtown B-lo to West Seneca/OP and then to 20A by a very long and scenic route), I got to see a lot more of the backroad adverts than usual. One striking thing is how few of them there are these days. Lots of the old standbys for theme parks and restaurants have been turned over to public-service plugs and medical/hospital advertising. There is, however, one standout among the traditional advertisers: Pepsi, which has gone to a really ethereal campaign of one-word slogans, all with an O or two in them with the O replaced by the stylized Pepsi logo. I've seen POP, and HOWDY, even the sorta-bilingual YO, but this one made me just about drive into a bridge abutment:
I'd never been a fan of the radio show that used that word in its own, um, unique context, but in all those years of driving 30,000 miles per annum, I saw many bumper stickers and WASH ME-style finger-writings using that message, mainly on the back of scary looking semi's. If you don't recognize the reference, the second item on this list should clear things up. And for the Met fans coming over from the other blog, you can imagine how this combination now gives new meaning to the term "Pepsi Porch."
It's actually a cool place as these layover spots go. No fancyass cafe selling bookbags and venti lattes, but in the center of the reading room is a perfectly cool setup fit for a good game of Wizard Chess:
When I got here, cruising the compound for an outlet, some guys were actually playing:) And just now, Serious Biker Looking Dude, complete with regulation sunglasses, beard and chain-link keyring, walked over and returned the Wall Street Journal to the periodical stick rack.
Forget the shit about giving the schools get all the money they need and the Air Force holding a bake sale to buy a bomber. Just get everybody in al-Qaeda a library card.
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I don't do nearly as much long-distance driving as I did in my ten years plus of the triweekly Rochester shlep, but on days like this when I covered a lot of new territory (downtown B-lo to West Seneca/OP and then to 20A by a very long and scenic route), I got to see a lot more of the backroad adverts than usual. One striking thing is how few of them there are these days. Lots of the old standbys for theme parks and restaurants have been turned over to public-service plugs and medical/hospital advertising. There is, however, one standout among the traditional advertisers: Pepsi, which has gone to a really ethereal campaign of one-word slogans, all with an O or two in them with the O replaced by the stylized Pepsi logo. I've seen POP, and HOWDY, even the sorta-bilingual YO, but this one made me just about drive into a bridge abutment:
I'd never been a fan of the radio show that used that word in its own, um, unique context, but in all those years of driving 30,000 miles per annum, I saw many bumper stickers and WASH ME-style finger-writings using that message, mainly on the back of scary looking semi's. If you don't recognize the reference, the second item on this list should clear things up. And for the Met fans coming over from the other blog, you can imagine how this combination now gives new meaning to the term "Pepsi Porch."
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Date: 2009-05-12 02:20 pm (UTC)WOW! Yikes! I drink Diet Pepsi, but only Bill gets that WOW from me. :D