December 07, 2009
Everything is everything
Salad Mom casually dropped into conversation the other day that she didn't much care for the new banner for the Salad Bowl.
"That doesn't sound like something you'd say," she said.
There's a story behind why it's there, of course.
A few years back, the Salad clan hooked on to the movie "Dumb and Dumber."
Of particular note was this scene, which takes place early in the movie. The sequence, which finds Harry and Lloyd discovering that their parrot's head has been detatched, seemed to speak to a particular moment in our lives when it seemed everything was going off the rails:
Like I said, it spoke to us. From then on whenever life would go awry, we'd reach for the shorthand of screaming, "Our pets' heads are falling off!"
:::crickets:::
You had to be there.
Anyway, not long ago we hit a particularly rough patch again at Casa del Ensalada. Everything seemed to be snowballing against us.
And I just happened to trip across this t-shirt:
I sent it immediately to Salad Wife at work, who appropriately fell into a torrent of hysterical, dark, soul-smudged laughter. Something about a cuddly, lovable panda barely holding on to the horizon seemed to be a perfect metaphor for what we were dealing with.
I liked it so much and I thought it was such an accurate barometer, I made it into the Salad banner.
But as I said, Salad Mom dislikes it greatly.
And I want Salad Mom to be happy. So I started looking around online for an alternative.
The candidates for replacement at this point are:
Too Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Too Twitter.
Too Van Halen "Diver Down"-ish.
Too wordy, prosaic and convoluted.
Too happy and shiny.
Face it, not everything can be amazing. If it were, it would lose its amazingness.
Sorry, mom. I'm sticking with the panda.
Don't worry. It'll be okay.
Posted by Jeff at December 7, 2009 06:21 AM | TrackBack