Velcro City Tourist Board

protect us from what we want

Spotted yesterday, on the promo screens in a major supermarket at the big mall near my studio:

Obesity is an illness. It should be treated as such.

This definitely-not-a-sotto-voce-advert-for-a-prescription-drug was brought to me, out of the kindness of their hearts, by Eli Lilly.

Spotted elsewhere in the same supermarket: a Red Bull advent calendar. Twenty-four full-sized seasonal cans of sugary shit with which to celebrate each bright, be-winged December morning!

Who exactly are we trying to fool, here? The one thing we’re still capable of giving up is apparently giving up.

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