Wednesday, February 14, 2007

True blog is hardest to find...

A Valentine's Day consolation to you from despair.com:
Well, it's that time of year again, when thousands of dateless losers will watch movies alone in the dark and pig out on candy they bought for themselves. I can't remember exactly, this is either the second or third Valentines day in my life that I have actually had a girlfriend. And to be quite honest, today sucks just as much when you are in a couple as when you are single.

Sure, I'm not lonely, so I am not hit by the same side of it as usual. This year I have decided to sound off against the blatantly capatalistic nature of this faux holiday. At least for christmas they commericalized a holiday that already existed. For Valentine's day it would appear that M&M Mars, the Rose-Growers Association of America and Hallmark all got together and were like, "Ok we need people to spend money sometime between Christmas and Easter... How about a bullshit holiday where we guilt people into spending money to prove that they love their significant other?" And so it was...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This reminds me...did you find your damn pessimist's mug??? Truly a tragic loss...