Sunday, January 6, 2013

2013 Predictions

Alex Fine ~ The New York Observer
The staff at The New York Observer "simply squinted real hard and observed" some funny 2013 predictions.  Some faves:
  • Mayor Bloomberg replaces all movie theater seats with Bowflex Tread Climbers.
  • Unemployment drops when millions of working YouTube house cats are included in the jobs numbers.
  • Tina Brown helms the reboot of Cat Fancy with controversial “Garfield at 50” cover.
  • Mitt Romney is found wandering around a construction site in La Jolla, screaming, “But he says you didn’t build that!”
  • Clint Eastwood’s chair is acquired by the Smithsonian, where it teams up with Archie Bunker’s chair to give Dick Van Dyke’s ottoman a beat-down with Ben Franklin’s walking stick. 
  • In the Mad Men season premiere, set in 1986, an aging Don Draper grimly stares at a mango wine cooler and realizes he no longer has the words.
  • Tim Cook leaves Apple and moves to an ashram, only to find all anyone wants to hear about is what Steve was really like.

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