“One Look ...

Is Worth a Thousand Words..."

Advertising executive Fred R. Barnard invented this saying to promote his agency's ads taken out in Printer's Ink in 1921 with the headline and attributed to an 'ancient Japanese philosopher.'

I like to say 'mental health is also health') as endorphins are the only truly good drug in the world, made by your body for its own good. Walk and walk, lift some weights to a Youtube video, get a walk buddy or an exercise buddy, you can maintain distance and be safe and healthy.

For now, what I was hopefully cleverly alluding to the above intro quote (a Shortstorylong tradition) was the idea of what ultimately became the common refrain, 'A picture is worth a thousand words,' a saying that is pretty much true and that is why it has stayed strong, I believe, even though it came from a racist sham appropriation advertising gimmick (truth reveals itself in strange places, I find). Nowadays, as the old folks always begin (right behind them!) the thing is pictures and words - I can't bring myself to say memes are worth a thousand words, though. Maybe 50! But creating them is a fun challenge. In this kind, you have to read the body language of the figures in the photo, and I think I did that decently - 

I haven't taken some fucking 'meme class' or anything, don't get me wrong, just sharing what I have noticed about them. I am certain sociologists have studied and written the hell out of memes. Maybe I will write a meme essay; a thousand words about 50 words haha! The other thing about this kinda meme? If the person seeing it never saw Star Wars, they won't get it. At all. And who the hell are these people who haven't seen Star Wars, anyway? Sheesh! 

From now til my last day my parting salutation is, 'Be well,' because we all need to be, no matter what madness and injustice swirls around us, we have to come through this, and we will. More later.

Without further ado, meme number two (apologies to Mr. Shakespeare) Feel free to spread this like a vi-..eh...like good news.  

Meme by Wayne R. Flower ( ; ) I thought it would be a good joke to post credit for a meme - Maybe I should up the joke start signing them!) The photo is obviously not mine and from Star Wars, The Return of the Jedi [I must let you behead me for incorrectly previously listing this as from The Empire Strikes Back. But in my defense, sick and on meds, I caught it myself, FORGIVE ME haha get over it.] ... [Aaaaand I also misspelled 'harmonica'  on the first meme I posted. Gosh how embarrassing, especially if people shared it. Fired from my first meme job, man]

 

Be well,
Wayne