I'm Flying! I'm Stupid! YAY!

OK. So I'm on a plane and I'm blogging.

One of my secret guilty pleasures, is perusing Delta Sky Mall magazine.

If you are not familiar with Sky Mall, it is an in-flight magazine that is sort of like the print version of QVC. The products are so insane that apparently only people who are very high up in the sky are permitted to read it.

Here are three of my favorites from the Summer 2011 installment and please forgive the shitty picture quality. I'm blogging from a big, steel bird in the sky.

1. Very tired man sleeping on very huge pillow on a plane:

















or as they call it: "SKY REST" $29.95

The description says, "The miraculous, wedge-shaped travel pillow makes even the most uncomfortable spots downright pleasant."

You've got to be kidding me. My neck hurts from just looking at the picture. It's also a God damn fire hazard. I'm guessing you need to be really drunk to appreciate it or maybe just a mental patient. I'm pretty sure Delta would actually make you check that with the rest of your luggage. I'm also guessing this guy had to purchase two seats. I'm sticking with the whole falling asleep on the person next to me plan.

2. What is your cat doing in the furniture?


















Or as they call it: "KITTY WASHROOM" $99.98

That's right folks. Do you want to keep your kitty's litter box out of site and at the same time ad a beautiful piece of furniture to your home? Well if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Yes, this country style, bleached wood end table and cabinet, houses your feline's shit box. Because a pile of cat poo wasn't bad enough in your basement? Now not only will your living room smell like a cats ass but your friends and guests will think you are a disgusting, filthy human being.

"Helen, is that a new piece of furniture?"
"Why yes it is? Do you like it?"
"It's gorgeous! Did you shit your pants?"

Why not turn your bathtub into a urinal for the town meth addict? Or perhaps convert your refrigerator into a morgue? Why stop there?

3. The Kill Me Slowly Helmet Thingy


































Or as they call it: "iRESTORE HAIR LASER" $499


This is how this brain helmet works. "Just sit, relax and 650nm lasers and red luminous optical lights provide phototherapy, a scientific process providing stimulation to cells in your hair follicles."

What about the part where the wizard turns you into a jack-o'-lantern and tiny little monkeys fly out of your piehole? This thing either does absolutely nothing or it is going to burn your fucking skull cap off. My favorite part is the guy in the picture is just casually wearing his cancer hat while watching TV or surfing the net. So here's the deal. You're going bald. You're insecure. So insecure that you are willing to do anything to keep whatever hair you have left but at the same time, you have no problem with wearing this designer Storm Trooper helmet. Honey, if you ever catch me wearing this around the house, please hit me with the biggest frying pan we have.

I hope there isn't a guy wearing an iRestore on the plane. They should probably alter the in-flight announcements just in case.

"Will all passengers now please turn off all personal electronic devices, including cellphones, laptops and iRestore Hair Therapy Treatment Helmets."

We're probably gonna crash.

Comments

  1. "It's gorgeous! Did you shit your pants?"
    Do you mean today?

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  2. what is wrong with you????? i should have known something was up when i saw that magazine on the floor this morning. YUV!!!

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  3. haha..... just dont fall asleep with the hair lazer on..... or you may cook your brain.... either that or end up with a huge freekin fro!

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  4. I wish I could have been this entertained when I flew over to Ireland. It was my first flight and over 8, I think, hours long. At least I could have had a giggle or three with this stuff and your commentary, especially your commentary.

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  5. dude, that sky pillow looks awesome. Or at least, it would have on my six hour flight. It looks very... odd!

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  6. I am glad to see at least a resemblance of you returning to blogging more frequently =)

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  7. I think there should be a publicly available list of people who have purchased that helmet -- kind of like a sex-offenders list -- so we can know who to keep an eye on.

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  8. You forgot the $3,000 piece of exercise equipment that you only need to use for two minutes a day. Worth every thousand, they swear.

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  9. I love Sky Mall! My favorite is the Couture Arm Sling (if I had a nickel for every time I broke my arm right before a black tie affair), and the World’s Largest Crossword Puzzle. “Don’t get a life, get this!”

    I can just imagine the guy who spends his Friday nights staring at the wall, racking his brain trying to figure out the answer to 13,654 across.

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  10. Laughing out loud (if only there were a way to abbreviate that). I'm here because Amalah and her roommate put a room service cart in front of your room at Blogher. Or something like that.

    Thank you for contributing to my Google reader habit. I was wondering what I was going to do with all that damned free time...

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  11. Um, first off, that pillow is amazeballs... But I'm CERTAIN would be too big to be a carry on...

    Second, What is that cat doing in the furniture?!? Wait.... Ohhhh, it's discreet kitty washroom! I don't have cats, but I'll take two!

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  12. That wedge pillow has been in those things since the early nineties. I'm just waiting for the day I see the headline "Dumbass With Wedge Pillow Gets Stuck in Overwing Exit" and see that the product has killed someone.

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  13. My husband brought the Sky Mall magazine from his trip last week, and I totally thought about getting him that hair growth system as a joke!

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  14. Just stumbled upon your blog via Networked Blogs, it looked awesome! Definitely going to subscribe to this. Hopefully it will improve my fledgling efforts from over the pond !
    Please feel free to take a look at an 'outnumbered' Dad from the UK, any feedback gratefully accepted!

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