Saturday, July 17, 2010

Billboard Zombies

Having moved to the big city in Colorado (after nearly a decade bouncing from small town to suburb) I've noticed there are many billboards about. I see them from the bus, on the bus, on the lightrail, and everywhere. After much consideration, I've concluded that all the people shown on billboards are actually zombies.

This is especially true of the people on the "Meth is Bad" billboard campaign. These ads are particularly disturbing with said zombies bleeding into sinks and having sex on toilets. I expect the next round with have them moaning about brains and losing fingers in inappropriate places.

Zombies would also explain the hollow stares from the people in ads by everything from Abercrombie (rhymes with zombie) to the Water Conservation guy mindlessly using the hose to water his driveway (probably in the hopes of it growing into a parking lot). And it could just be coincidence that there are a lot more zombie jokes recently, or it just could be the secret is getting out in an obscure, jokey fashion.

Hmm. I wonder about zombie modeling. How the modeling companies find new help, how they are paid (through an endless supply of interns?), and exactly how long did the billboard companies expect the general public not to notice the billboard zombies? Or it could be that I need some caffeine to clear out my cobwebby brain. Which, coincidentally, would be an absolutely un-tasty brain. I'm just saying.

An Erinku:
few things are sadder
than having a Japanese song stuck in your head
when you don't
speak Japanese.

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