48stateroadtrip.com » stores http://48stateroadtrip.com 114 days, 48 states, 1 roadtrip Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:45:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Store” = “Museum”: The Dark Underbelly of Suburban Newspeak (Day 60) http://48stateroadtrip.com/2009/09/store-museum-the-dark-underbelly-of-suburban-newspeak-day-60/ http://48stateroadtrip.com/2009/09/store-museum-the-dark-underbelly-of-suburban-newspeak-day-60/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:46:09 +0000 bkdunn http://48stateroadtrip.com/?p=930 Spent most of Day 60 working on my grad school apps (and Days 61 and 62 — so you know what you got to look forward to!). Eventually, though, at my nephew’s insistance, went to Cabela’s with my brother and his two kids. My and his wife have trained the kids to believe that Cabela’s is a museum — handy, since it’s only 15 minutes away from the house (Chicago’s real museums are 90 minutes or so away and, IIRC, charge admission).

I was going to go with “joy” initially, then changed to “dark underbelly”. I suppose “reality” would have also worked, but it sounds less inflammatory.

cabelas-shooting-galleryAnd when you shoot the snake, it hisses at you.

My niece and nephew both like the stuffed animals best — well, not “stuffed animals”, animals that were shot, then stuffed by a taxidermist. That kind.

bkd

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