I called the Adidas store on Melrose and (like everywhere) they were sold out. “Good luck trying to find those,” the lady told me. “They came out a long time ago.”

“When”

“May 6th.”

“You mean ten days ago?”

“Yes.”

I’ve been making my intentionally ambiguous “Disappointed” shirts for some years now, then today I spotted a surprisingly similar Keanan Duffty shirt displaying a more aggressive sentiment: a grenade flying towards the Magic Kingdom with the word Destroy rendered above. Issues of unoriginality aside, the Destroy shirt will run you $80 but my more elegant and less angry JustinSpace label “Disappointed” shirt is only $20 ($22 with shipping).

I realize New Orleans has seen better days, but if you’re running for Mayor of that city you should probably pose in the real thing, and not, as Kimberly Williamson Butler has done here, pose in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square.

UPDATE: Her slogan is “The end of politics as usual.” I couldn’t agree more. Oh we’re having fun with this. Her mayoral campaign has expanded to other lands and even New York
And now Keith Olbermann, Arianna Huffington, and some British paper are all running with it. I’ll pat myself on the back for breaking the story of Crazy Lady Running for New Orleans Mayor.UPDATE: Readers noticed the Disneyland trashcan in the photo has now been Photoshopped out but the photo still remains on her site. And previous evidence of the digitally blurred Blue Bayou restaurant sign seems to indicate the campaign knew from the get-go this was not an actual New Orleans setting. Some one please get her on a morning talk show ­ put her in front of a green screen and change her backgrounds throughout the interview.
UPDATE: It’s all done now - she finally changed the photo to something not fake, so sad.

From the Kansas City Star last week:

“You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.”

Chuck Palahniuk chuckles as he says this, steering his pickup down Highway 14 just on the Washington side of the Columbia River. He’s saying you can’t judge an author by his books.

Come to think of it, he’s wearing a black T-shirt that says “Disappointed” in Disney-style script.

Palahniuk (pronounced “paula-nick”) loves the irony of this…

That would be my Disappointed shirt. I gave Chuck one last year after he complimented me on mine at a “Haunted” reading.

It’s a sad thing we Americans learn our geography via war coverage, instead
of, say, hyperbolic promotional theme park videos.

“Although it is a long and costly war, the number of soldiers increases instead of decreasing. So let’s take part in the war of development together, and let our victims be poverty, ignorance and backwardness.”

-Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, crown prince of Dubai speaking about Dubailand, the new $5 billion entertainment development under construction in his country.

He’s funny. I like how he gets you thinking he’s talking about jihad or something. Nope. When he says “radical extremism” he means a new water slide.

See, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates (they border the Persian gulf opposite Iran) is bursting with nifty stuff, like those man-made islands in the shape of countries, and other islands that look like palm trees, and that neat building that looks like a sail. And soon they’ll have dinosaurs and roller coasters too. I just wanna know when I start work on it.

Tour the Creation Museum currently under construction in northern Kentucky. When Biblical folklore, modern science, and low budgets collide, hilarity ensues.

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