The red-splattered tiles spoke for themselves — this was definitely a crime scene — one worthy of the best CSI investigators. In fact, I am sure that at first glance that anyone would have concluded that Dexter had recently paid a visit. I could see them pouring over the “blood splatters, speculating on the weapons used, the angles of entry and most of all the absence of the body.
In a great civilian uprising against — the Panopticonic Red Light Camera — those unblinking red eyes are being closed in the polling place by voter fury.
Today, I propose the immediate ban on any celebrity using a “Baby Wave”
– the slow opening and closing of spread fingers closing into a fist with the palm facing you — that red carpet fame carpetbaggers like Paris Hilton and Penelope Cruz and many others routinely use instead of a proper, flat-handed, wave that pivots on the wrist from a visible elbow anchored to the side of the body. In the image below, we have the perfected example of a proper Baby Wave — from Heath Ledger’s daughter Matilda– and since the Baby Wave is from a celebrity baby, we’re fine its flexing and extension.
Every so often, we need to stop, decompress from the tension in our present lives and look back at the human traps that were set in order to punish the foreign and the strange — and then we must vow to never let that happen again. Today, let us look back in fury at the “Red Scare” that throttled everything good about America after World War I.
Sometimes it takes a criminal act to set us free from the Panopticonic Eye of our government watchers.
Yesterday, I asked you to identify the one Color of Life — and that single article made me think along many difference paths as I contemplated your answers. At first, I thought the answer was Green; but I’ve come to believe the color of life is really: Red.
Barack Obama turned the world Blue. Red Republicans claim there is no Obama mandate, but we who won the world — know the United States is forever changed — but how can we semiotically prove the provenance of the Blue Mandate?
We believe in branding. Your logo, your namespace, and your textual perception is everything online, and it is the only thing that matters when you are a popular company propagating your brand. We were horrified to learn Pepsi recently changed their semiotic logo and bottle in favor of a strange, smiling, grinning, yawning set of variations on the Obama-like red-white-and-blue theme. Here is the old, favorite Pepsi Logo we all know and love:
