Magic Bar

We need this. An interactive bar that not only catapults the bartender into a more God like status then they already inhabit by giving them power over alcohol AND light. But manages at the same time to stimulate your average impaired patron to believe that they have magical powers. Sign me up! This bar top really hits it home with the fact that we are all really interconnected, and when I put my credit card down to pay I want a point of light highlighting that fact. Get your own bar here.

The Evil vs. Magical Debate

It all starts of innocently enough. Looking through the news today I come upon an article about a "pink dolphin" and I investigate further. I think  "What a perfect transition from yesterdays rainbow post." But in reading up on the dolphin I discover that the impossibly cute pink dolphin wasn't just caught up in a simple chemical spill. But rather was a sinister albino. 

Almost all of us know instinctually to be afraid of albinos - mostly because of how evilly they are portrayed in films. I know this because with my crack detective work I came across a few articles that back up my claim- so if you are still not convinced I suggest you go here. Skip the boring prelude (obviously written by an albino) and get right to the good stuff. You see, irrefutable truth!!!

Then because I don't always dig through just the first page of internet image searches to bring you pointless blurbs I sometimes go to page 2. I came across an article listed in a real newspaper. The Seattle Times wrote an article last year on  Albinos being "hunted" for their body parts. Here are some direct quotes from the article.

"Many people in Tanzania — and across Africa, for that matter — believe albinos have magical powers.Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich."

Now I don't know what to think. Magical power? I am aware that there are many documented cases of REAL magic. But I find it hard to shift my paradigm from evil to magic. All I really wanted to do was show a cute pink dolphin and now I am caught up in the age old "evil or magic" debate.

Screw it, I know albinos are evil (and maybe just a little bit magical) just like I know that this is awesome.