{"id":7216,"date":"2013-02-13T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2013-02-13T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:34:13","slug":"image-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7216","title":{"rendered":"Image is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6618\" alt=\"userpic=masks\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/userpicmasks.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>In the musical <em>Jekyll &amp; Hyde<\/em>, a major point has to do with the fa\u00e7ade we present to the world. I was thinking about that as I looked over my collected news chum, for all the articles I&#8217;ve selected have to do with the image we present to the world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s Written On Your Face<\/strong>. As a parent &#8212; correction, as an older parent &#8212; there are degrees of things you don&#8217;t want to hear from your child. One is, &#8220;Dad, I got a piercing.&#8221; These run the range from the simple ear (no big deal) to the nose (ummmm, but growing in acceptance) to the (unmentionable) (ohh, ick). Another is, &#8220;Dad, I got a tattoo.&#8221; Tattoos are growing in acceptability with the current generation, but for at least some in my generation, they aren&#8217;t mainstream (although I have many contemporaries that enjoy their tats&#8211;to each their own). Still, there are bounds of conventionality &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/08\/tech\/social-media\/apparently-this-matters-face-tattoos\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5\">this article talks about a growing trend that is pushing those bounds: facial tattoos<\/a>. That&#8217;s right: tattoos &#8230; of words and other stuff &#8230; all across your face. What&#8217;s your thought on that?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big Yellow Taxi<\/strong>. Washington DC is planning the cab of the future. More specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/faint-praise-for-dcs-taxicabs-of-the-future-theyre-not-that-ugly\/2013\/02\/12\/dd348d74-748e-11e2-8f84-3e4b513b1a13_story.html\">they are planning the look of their authorized taxicabs, and working to make them all looks the same, no matter the company<\/a>. Now, I&#8217;m from Los Angeles, where most people don&#8217;t even know what a cab is, let alone how to call one. Still, cabs are a major part of many cities &#8212; including DC &#8212; and I can&#8217;t say that I like the look of any of their proposals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Living Up To Your Name<\/strong>. There is a burger joint in Las Vegas called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartattackgrill.com\/\">Heart Attack Grill<\/a>&#8220;. They work hard to emphasize that them. So it should be no surprise that their unofficial spokesman, whose caricature graces the front of their menu, clothing line and merchandise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/11\/heart-attack-grill-spokesman-dies-heart-attack\/\">suffered a heart attack last week as he waited at the bus stop in front of the restaurant<\/a>. He was <del>29<\/del> <ins>52<\/ins> [ETA: The first guy to die, of the flu, was 29], and weighed about 180 lbs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sound of the Sea<\/strong>. You have an old piano that is rusting. What to do with it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Piano-sounds-its-last-notes-by-the-ocean-4267465.php\">One enterprising San Francisco artist set it up on a bluff overlooking the ocean, and invited people to play it as it deteriorated<\/a>. Alas, the city has caught on, and it will be removed after Thursday. Still, the image of a once grand piano falling apart is a wonderful parallel to how life is lived, and the fact that even as we are deteriorating, we can still bring joy to others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the musical Jekyll &amp; Hyde, a major point has to do with the fa\u00e7ade we present to the world. I was thinking about that as I looked over my collected news chum, for all the articles I&#8217;ve selected have to do with the image we present to the world: It&#8217;s Written On Your Face. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7216\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7218,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}