Three Lefts Will

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You know that wonderfully silly saying "Two wrongs don't make a right... but three lefts will!?"

I know I should not expect much when reading the back page of a weekly rag published by the village voice media octopus, but I have to wonder what goes through people's mind when they create ads like this:

San Mei City Pages Advertising

I am not sure what San Mei Rejuvenation Centers is rejuvenating. From the image I would guess that they are concerned for my spiritual growth, if my spirit were housed in my... how do you say... halla-halla... little brown terrorist.

This comes right below the American Apparel ad:

American Apparel City Pages Advertising

I am sure this is an ad for clothing. Hot, scantilly clad, lesbian-for-straight-men clothing. The age of consent bending makeup is bonus. I don't know about you, yeah you, but I don't shop in places where the ads make me feel like I need to register as a sex offender.

I am getting side-tracked though. Back to the San Mei ad. You know when you talk about the tourism industry in South East Asia and somebody cracks "Two Dolla, sucky sucky," causing everybody in ear shot to look around to see if polite society heard that crack? I am not sure what this ad communicates but my first thought isn't about the architecture of this or that dynasty in the 13th century BCE or CE for that matter.