Preparations are in full swing for my Kilimanjaro trip, and I am running around like an even crazier than normal person. Still, I have vowed to post every weekday for the whole year of 2010 and I am highly reluctant to fail at this, or in fact, anything. Luckily, I happened across the following video depicting some pretty creative additions to bike lanes in the Portland area and it made for a great short update.
It seems that some Nintendo-loving vandal has painted some Mariokart-themed symbols in some of Portland’s bike lanes, echoing the Portlander’s well known propensity for video game themed tattoos which I’ve just extracted metaphorically from my hind parts.
I have no more reason to believe that Portland’s fine citizens are more likely to have a Nintendo tattoo than I have to believe that Cheryl is stealing my bathroom tissue a roll at a time. I just spent an hour numbering them, however, for science.
Behold, the upshot: One of my favorite things about the internet is that there is so much information about so many people who are so deeply bizarre that you can make up pretty much anything at all, google it, and then find out that it exists. It is as though Google is a Schroedinger’s Cat of human peculiarity, except that nearly every time you open the box the cat is alive and has been doing some highly embarrassing things on video.
In this case I googled “portland mario tattoo” and got this:
Then I googled “Toilet Paper Theft” and came up with this:
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Police blame a woman named Butts for stealing toilet paper from a central Iowa courthouse, and while they’re chuckling, the theft charge could put her in prison.
With all that in mind, look forward to regular posts from me over the days I’ll be absent. I’ve been squirreling away some fun posts that will be auto-posted and auto-tweeted while I’m away.
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