Ghetto traffic

As Professor I-can't-remember-his-name said

    "The best editing is done with an eraser."

I'd quote him, but I can't remember his name, nor does he seem to appear on the current U of T faculty list--I checked. I know--sad, isn't it?

I'm sitting here, faced with a document that just keeps growing in length every time it comes back to me, sprouting repetition and redundancy from every orifice. Ugh. I feel embarrassed to have to be the one who inserts the edits, and then has to redistribute said document...
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Update: 2:47pm
I'm still ADDING to the damned thing...it's sprawling over page breaks now.

That's why

It's hot when a guy has a passion for something because it leaves room for you to believe he could love you that much.

Life-ly calculated

Some people seriously need to get a life.
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I have an incredibly long, skinny, slightly freakish looking middle finger and I got to use it the other day to flip some guy the bird. It felt good.
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    "That wasn't an 'I'm bailing' look, that was a 'calculating how much time I have to spend with you' look."
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Clingy people repel me.

Judging a store by its display

Walking the streets of New York last weekend--one of my favourite things to do--I hit upon something. As a rule of thumb, I can tell whether or not I will be able to afford to shop in any given clothing store depending on what its window display contains.

• the fewer articles of clothing there are in the window display, the less likely I will be able to afford it
• the more props that were specifically made for a window display, the less likely I will be able to afford it.
• the less the decorative/background pieces have to do with clothing, the less likely I will be able to afford it.

Examples?

GAP - rows of headless mannequins against a simple backdrop, wearing full outfits--everything you see is available in store.

JUICY COUTURE - two or three mannequins dressed sparsely in Juicy Couture clothing, being tied and strung up by an army of miniature wooden Beefeater soldiers, complete with fuzzy hats...on everyone.

ANTHROPOLOGIE - (this is not the display I saw nor am describing, but it's the same store) 2 mannequins, sparsely dressed, surrounded by swirls of long, narrow, yellow and orange plastic strips (or in this case, no mannequins, surrounded by an igloo or jugs)

Of the three, I could probably afford to show at the first, MAYBE the second. Most likely NOT the third.

So, using this rule of thumb, we perused the windows of New York, judging which stores we could or couldn't afford to even consider. We got a good number of giggles out of a lot of our judgments. At some point, we passed a window display showcasing a full set of flatware and cutlery; black plates and silver settings. Of course I couldn't resist the wiseass comment:

    "Man, if this store sold clothes, I DEFINITELY wouldn't be able to afford them!


We laughed our way past a second window display of the exact same black plates and silver cutlery, all the way around the corner to the front of the store where we glanced in again.

    "Oh fuck they DO sell clothes in here."

There was maybe one item of clothing on each rack in the huge store. The picture I scavenged below from the internet in an attempt to illustrate has too much clothing to do it justice.



I could NOT afford to walk into that store.

Actually, it's still IN the bag