Kill Blobby-the-whale
I Took Bear Creek Road to work this morning, and
shortly after I dropped onto Hwy 17, a great blue
heron flew over the freeway. Good omen.
In unrelated news ...
(For the non-locals: highway 17 is the main drag
connecting
Santa Cruz (sea level) over the hill (Patchen
Pass, 1800 feet elevation) to Silicon Valley
(approximately sea level).)
For nearly as long as I've lived in Santa Cruz
County, there has been a billboard for the
southbounders, just before you reach the
straightaway freeway section that bypasses
Scotts Valley. The billboard almost exclusively
advertises some car dealership, and it almost
always features this very annoying rounded-cartoon
whale/seal character, very badly drawn.
Well, I was so delighted to see a URL covering part of
that billboard a few days ago ... http://www.killblobby.com/ ...
that I literally laughed out loud.
Ahh, I thought, someone agrees with me about the grossness
of that dorky blobby whale-thing. I could hardly contain
the anticipation to see what humorous website someone
had come up with, taking up a web-collection or doing
a silly web-survey asking that the damn blobby whale-thing
never grace our commute again.
Sadly, it turned out to be some kid-with-cancer site.
At least it's a "successful surgery" k-w-c site, but
still. Color me wryly disappointed, and send Cole
my congratulations and best wishes.
9:37:47 PM
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