From the Circular File: Leroy’s Rejected Cartoons – A Tribute to Ed McMahon

From the Circular File: Leroy’s Rejected Cartoons – A Tribute to Ed McMahon

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Ridiculous Stock Photography Brings You: The Edge of Sanity

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Words fail to describe this dismal scene. Why are these people successful, exactly? Did they just buy the building they're congaing through? No, they look too ridiculous to get a loan. I think it's far more likely the short bus they rode in on was cropped out of the background...along with the helmets they're supposed to wear.

Maybe that's the success?

And what's more disturbing -- the old perv with his hand on his junk?

Or the guy MOUNTING him from behind in this terrifying display of 'success'?

Ridiculous Stock Photography Brings You: Ethnic Café

Welcome to our new weekly series, Ridiculous Stock Photography.

Working in advertising exposes us to page after page of ridiculous, cliched and sometimes just plain awkward stock photos. Photos that companies around the world try to use to sell their products but instead label their hard work with sad excuses for photos.

So we travel...to the bottom of the photography barrel.

First up this week is the "business diversity" group shot. Here we have a line of obviously differently skin toned peeps with implied success (wearing a suit apparently = "successful" in stock photos). I presume this was taken from the point of view of the local Starbucks barista, located on the ground floor of these people's 87 story office building.

The message? Success is color blind. But, redheads still end up at the back of the line.

Go North, Young Man

Wow, what is this, almost a month without a post? My, I've been busy. The photo above is from my recent trip to Toronto, Canada for a capoeira event. The week before I left I was training every night of the week on top of working full time again. There. Now my absence is justified!

A few things I learned about Canada on this (second) visit to "America's Hat":

1. Loonies = $1. Toonies = $2. Canadians love coins and apparently have a helluva sense of humor about finances by naming their coins after a cartoon I watched as a kid.

2. Fruit is served with everything, thus making it healthier. Even when it's covered in powered sugar.

3. Z isn't "zee". It's "zed". I don't know about you, but the only Zedd I ever heard of growing up was this guy from Power Rangers. Regardless, Rush's "YYZ" (or "YYZED") is still bad ass.

4. Canadians will relentlessly make fun of America's for our spelling of certain words as much as we make fun of them for saying "Eh" and "Aboot". Which, by the way, they don't say either.

5. Lastly, Canadians are perhaps some of the kindest people I've ever met.

So I ventured north and had a great time. I came back with a new higher belt in capoeira. It's exciting but feels...heavy around my waist. I need to begin teaching beginners in Kansas City, so look for an announcement of new capoeira classes for beginners beginning sometime time soon.