Signs: Reading Room

Here's an old Christian Science Reading Room sign, the building is still being used as a CS Reading Room so it is also a contemporary sign. Notice how they don't ask you to ask them about CS, like the "Ask me About Kabala" sign down the street from me. No, CS is old fashioned and discrete, they let you rest your feet in a reading room. Which is why there are fewer and fewer CSists in the world, they are not keeping up in the cutthroat competition that religion has become these days.

Speaking of a losing company; General Motors. I don't know if this is happening in your hood or not, but in LA GM is offering to subsidize your gas consumption at 1.99 if you buy one of their gas guzzling cars, like the Hummer, which gets 10 to 12 miles per gallon in the city. But after a year you're on your own sucker! I was ranting about how stupid this is and how no one would fall for such a stupid offer, and how desperate GM must be to offer this kind of money losing incentive - you know, just because I like to kick a dog when it's down. But my beloved, C. said, "Well it's just like when we were at H.D. Buttercup and that guy said that all those 90 dollar pillows were on sale at 20% off if you bought four. And we spent 30 minutes looking at all the pillows trying to find the perfect combination of four pillows because they were 20% off." Which we did, because it was such a deal, like 1.99 gas. I mean for four decorative pillows instead of paying 360 dollars we would be spending 288 dollars. On pillows. It was such a good deal. And we had picked out the four perfect pillows that would look so great on the new couch when I realized that 1) we're unemployed 2) we have hound dogs and 3) hound dogs and silk pillows that are dry clean only do not go together so the whole IDEA of DECORATOR pillows in this context was RIDICULOUSLY STUPID. And we left with out any pillows. I mean it was such an insane idea that I had to make ridiculous an ADVERB for chrissakes. That's how stupid it was. But it wasn't as stupid as paying over 50 grand for a car that gets 10 miles per gallon so you can get 1.99 gas for a year. That's just pathetic.