so i just want to rant a little.
ever since i was little, i always wanted to make a time capsule. i have this faint, distant memory of creating one for school and eventually burying it in my backyard, but if, in fact, my memory serves me correctly, i'm pretty positive it was made out of a shoebox (because what else would we have used?) and thus rotted away, completely defeating the purpose indicated in its very name. anyway, i really always wanted a really, really cool one. i wanted to encapsulate an era--to define a time--to bottle culture. it seemed like this intensely important job, being an editor of life! of time! royal, really. needless to say, i imagined mine looking like...well, a CAPSULE. like a little pill. like this, minus satsuki and the creepy winnie the pooh paraphernalia.
so, i'm doing some work online today and i stumble upon "obama's time capsule" and i'm thinking, finally, someone's gotten hip to this...he really did it. he put all these little things from his campaign inside a little tube and he buried it in the white house garden. so i click click click to get to the bottom of what appears to be my dream come true. a presidential time capsule. genius.
guess again.
not only is it not actually "obama's" capsule, it isn't even a freaking capsule.
it's a book. they sell it on amazon.
you make your own and it looks like this:
it's $34.95 and a complete bummer. sure, the book is a nice idea, but it's a book of photos and honestly, we would have all been fine if they could have just called it "obama's scrapbook" or "obama's photo album" or whatever. but they just HAD to use the word "capsule." it's dumb and misleading and sad and i got really excited there for a moment.
i really need someone to redeem this for me.
that is all.
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