I'm phoning it in.

At lunch today, we discussed A blog entry from The Sneeze about cognitive dissonance inducing intercontextuality. My riff on this was that there is actually a food called Fruit Leather which could be made by ... well follow the link. Anyhow Fruit roll-ups are not meant to be fruit but are an artifice of fruit leather and that the whole thing was somehow the simulacrum of the essence of Cinderella.

Its really funny that the whole time we were talking about Cinderella, since it turns out that the sneeze was talking about Rapunzel. It means that the difference is insubstantial for purposes of this discussion.

The outcome of this discussion was that culture can only eat itself for so long before it is completely consumed and that at some point someone needs to come up with a new idea.

And I have one... No actually I don't