Don't Read?

Wow. Check this out!

Okay, first of all, "Don't Read"?! Yeah, that's a cool message. As if we don't have enough illiterate morons in the world.

Don't Read? Okay, I won't read your stupid advertisement. Thanks for the warning, marketing genius.

And just who in the heck are they trying to convince with this? Hey, if you listen to our audiobooks, you too can be cool/ look like ... a sexually ambiguous pirate trying to break out of the porn business? A fantasy convention Romeo wannabe with delusions of grandeur? Uh ... okay. I'll get right on that.

But for those who do read, yet ALSO want to listen to fiction while driving, or jogging, or battling the forces of evil, here's a pretty cool sounding link.

Hippy Sippy

Oh my gawd, I can't believe how lucky I was that this wasn't around when I was a kid.

I mean, sure, I did a few candy cigarettes, but I see now those were just a gateway candy. I might have ended up strung out on sugar, working the corner by the neighborhood "little store" (well, you know, more than I already did), who knows what!




From wikpedia:
Hippy Sippy was a candy introduced in the late 1960s. It derived its name from its packaging: small multi-colored pellets contained in a toy package syringe.[1] The intent was to mimick drug usage in the hippie culture, primarily through the toy syringe being a reminder of heroin, and secondarily through the multi-colored candy being a reminder of uppers and downers. Included was a button with the phrase "Hippy Sippy says I'll try anything!" printed on it.

Hippy Sippy was immediately controversial, and outraged many people, including liberals and leaders of the (then) young generation. It was promptly removed from the market, but is still remembered due to its cultural shock value.

More recently, the name was adopted by saxophonist Hank Mobley for his song Hippy Sippy Blues.