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Monday, May 08, 2006

SO WHAT'S THIS I HEAR?

Wal-Mart is in a patent fight over the use of the Smiley face???? Well, sheesh, this seems ridiculous to me: a circle, curved line and two dots that has been around for a long time and Wal-Mart wants to claim it for its own? That's low.

Actually, I have not found the Wal-Mart Smiley Face to be an inducement to buy anything - I think the yellow circle that sometimes bounces in TV commercials to be a little on the annoying and stickman cartoonish side. Look at it: Doesn't this guy look a little vacant to you? Does he say to you, "I've thought about this product and price and I'm smiling because I'm happy that this is a good deal?" I think he looks like a manic shopper out of control, sreaming, "I'm happy, I'm happy, Oh, yeah, I'm happy but I have no idea why . . . Oh, I'm yellow, yep, yellow. Woo-hoo, Let's buy something because I'm yellow and I'm smiling.

UPDATE: Read about it in THIS ARTICLE from the LA Times.

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Explorers used to go into unknown territory to see what was there; I am going into the realm of blogs to see what I can add, and, in writing posts about my life here in Northeast Indiana, to see what I can discover about myself and the place I live. Maybe this is not so much a new-fangled blog as it is an old-fashioned pot-bellied stove around which stories and news are exchanged and shared.

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Yo, there. Okay, I don't exactly look like my picture here. I have written for some papers in different places and at present I am writing for the Kendallville Mall. You may have read some of my articles; you may not have. A lot of the time I write for myself, and sometimes I don't do it on paper. Sometimes I write in my mind where the words can soothe or encourage or firmly establish a feeling in my memory place. Would that be my heart? Maybe. Sometimes I write funny stuff; I think I am at times melancholy. I don't think of myself as a writer or storyteller. I believe I just have a need to attach words to things. Perhaps it is a way of praying , a need such as that expressed by C.S. Lewis in the movie Shadowlands:"That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me."

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