Age of Hooper (The): Inauguration's Aftermath ...

February 04, 2009

Inauguration's Aftermath ...

Actual "life" took me into DC today and, tired of dealing with traffic, I decided to Metro.

While in the Metro I noticed something which, frankly, I barely noticed during the Inauguration ... probably because it was simply of a piece with the surrounding adulation.

Pepsi was certainly seizing the day and, in the process, taking "carpe diem" and in subtle irony mixing it with "caveat emptor" into a fine corporate mush of an ad campaign ... and festooning same in all possible ranges of captive-passenger vision. Kinda creepy ... and just a tad Stalinist I think.

An Ode I might say to the generation seemingly convinced that life has a reset button. Note the URL: refresheverything.com ...

I'll add more to this sad display when I get home. Life still intervenes, after all.

**** UPDATE ****

Here's the rest of my photos ... in no particular order. They speak for themselves, I think.

Please forgive the fuzziness and handshake ... it was dark and I hate using the flash.

I should say that, believe it or not, all of these photos were taken at a single station. Adds to the creepiness, mai oui? We were awash, as it were, with the O. And I didn't even photograph them all ... some were just boring and there were repeats.

... I never did like Pepsi anyway ...

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What is the Age of Hooper?

'The builders did not know the uses to which their work would descend; they made a new house with the stones of the old castle; year by year, generation after generation, they enriched and extended it; year by year the great harvest of timber in the park grew to ripeness; until, in sudden frost, came the Age of Hooper; the place was desolate and the work all brought to nothing; Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ..... Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

March 2009

Books I Recommend

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Paul M. Johnson: Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
A sober and sobering review of the 20th Century and the monsters it created.
P. G. Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters
Perfect.
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
Everything started going wrong and this world became a world of midgets. Still, redemption may be around the corner.
Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism
One of the most comprehensive, fair-minded, and illuminating histories of Israel and the Zionist movement that created it.
Bruce Catton: A Stillness at Appomattox
A taste: "The men of this army left books and letters behind them, and in these there is remarkable testimony that the men who marched away from winter quarters that morning took a last look back and saw a golden haze which, even at the moment of looking, they knew they would never see again. They tell how the birds were singing, and how the warm scented air came rolling up the river valley, and how they noticed things like wildflowers and the young green leaves, and they speak of the moving pageant which they saw and of which they themselves were part. "Everything," wrote a youth from Maine, "was bright and blowing." It would never be like this again, and young soldiers in a land that would honor them and then tolerate them and finally forget them, would look back on this one morning and see in it something that came from beyond the rim of the world."