In the future, maybe each of us will have a blog.  Almost everyone has a “page” of some sort, be it Facebook or otherwise, that represents them as a person.  Nothing wrong with that, the Overlord has more than a few.  What if instead of uploading a picture every month or so and updating their status, everyone started to broadcast a steady signal.  What if photographs were taken with the purpose of sharing them immediately and letting everyone know that You are having so much fun right now.  Well, what if?  Honestly, that future doesn’t look all that different than the here and now.  That future is still very silent and selective and contrived to fit into a space that doesn’t really exist….really.  Well, it doesn’t exist until it begins to influence our actions in real life, and in that respect, this place has become very real to me.

Let’s look at some pictures.  Today I went shopping, and was very excited to have found a dress for an upcoming event that was not black.  Overlord is queen of black, but black is not always appropriate.  Damn it if the zipper didn’t break the first time I tried it on.

So what did the Overlord do?  She kept the tags on, fastened the back with some safety pins, and had some photos taken on the Doomsday Observation Deck.  She’ll return the perfect dress, the only one of it’s kind, found on a clearance rack, tomorrow.

You can’t see the tags, the broken zipper, the safety pins, or my colorful neighbors screaming from street level.  Yes, We live among screamers, I’m not exaggerating, and it only gets worse as the day wears on.

Hell, You can’t even see the Overlord’s messy apartment Lair.

Just a few well chosen shots to act as a momento for those of You who didn’t believe that I could pull off a shade lighter than black.

Cleverly angled so I wouldn’t  squish up My face and press delete.

These shoes have yet to make it out of the house.

The internet is absolutely riddled with this stuff, and I love it.  I absorb it.  Looking at pictures of people striking a pose in the backyard or on the street is one of My favorite pastimes.  I bet You didn’t know that about the Overlord.

No one takes a picture of the crap on their coffee table, or writes about cleaning vomit off the bathroom floor.  No one tells You about the pint of ice cream they devoured at midnight.  Our blogs leave that stuff behind, and become something other than life.  All the best stuff documented and packaged up into a big box of “I wish, I hope, I might be this one day”.  Then We all go out and devour the contents of Your dream life in little, believable, candid slices.  I actually love it.  Reality can be a little too real sometimes.  However, it is necessary to keep perspective while strolling through the well crafted landscape of a stranger’s life.

…..and then sometimes I miss the grit….

Tagged as: bargain stores, broken zippers, Doomsday observation Deck, I also love grey, I can't stop eating ice cream, I'm scared of color, momento, Overlord strikes a pose, returned clothing, screamers, strangers, The internet is fake

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