Sweet, Sweet Ephemera

This afternoon I went to what I think was my first wedding shower. Blissfully it was at my coffee shop and the espresso was back. Thank you God! Anyhow, Jeremy and I did have a party before our wedding but we didn't do anything traditional, especially since I didn't want to have a ceremony in the first place. . . oh well.

Todays wedding shower was really cool and enjoyable. I made a Chinese Wedding Blessing as a present for the shower. He Ai. (Huh I) which means Harmonious Love. I'd say that's a good wish for a couple getting married. The wedding is on 9-11 at the church I went to when I was a kid and was baptised in and went to school at, briefly. Of course we didn't start going to church until I was like nine or something like that and I did not even become a Christian until a few years ago.

*** And now in a completely alternate vein:

Last night Luke and I were watching a show on TLC called "What not to Wear" Every commercial break there was a spot about Prepartion H. Somehow this is related to clothing. An uncomfortable looking man would squirm around on a golf cart. Yuck. It's just like those commercials about "that not so fresh feeling". Why? We all know we can go to the drug store and buy any number of things to drug away our problems. To top things off I read in a magazine tonight that Preparation H is one of the most commonly shoplifted items in the U.S. Seems like those commercials are working a little too well. Either that or you can snort the stuff or make it into crystal meth. . .

I would like to imagine what it would be like if Preparation H got a cult following like Spam or was endorsed as a new celebrity religion *cough*Tom*cough*Cruise. Pop singers like Alanis Morrissite (notice what her name could be re-arranged to spell) could pedal it and have albums such as "Jagged Little Tube" and "Supposed Former Preparation H Junkie". Just a thought. Nothing against the angry girl from the North. I like some of her stuff, but when you are quoted in Rolling Stone as saying "these are just are outerbody vehicles" well doesn't that kind of connect to something like Prep H? (Also a good band name).

So what's my point. Pure entertainment and the consideration of ephemera. Blogs like mine are a good example. They are like the commonplace books of this century. Life in the US has such a tension between the absurdly superficial and the authentic. Notice how I began this as a discussion of a real and important event and then descended into speculative madness?

So there.