Sillybean
Contemplating the monkey
I can’t stop thinking about the process that led to a ceramic monkey trash can arriving on the shelves at Target. I mean, let’s take another look at this thing:

Someone designed that. (“What is missing from my monkey trash can? YES. A banana. That’s it. My work here is done.”) And furthermore, someone else approved the design (“Why yes, this is good, there are Americans who will pay money for this.”) and sent it off to a manufacturing division somewhere. And someone in the manufacturing division said, “Plastics will not do justice to this objet dâ
Posted on July 28, 2008 at 10:57 am in Absurdity, Life · 2 comments
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Oh my! The collection is called “Do Your Room”. Weird.
Someone put a plant in the monkey’s head and you’re questioning the design esthetics?!