Sunday, December 9, 2007

Define Marijuana, Please

These Happy Go Lucky Western lookin' kids grace the back cover of a Chinese Dictionary designed for students.

They're playing the recorder, a popular instrument here (all the kids in our school take their recorders to music class).

But why does the music look like a cloud of smoke? And why are the rising clouds green? And why are the kid's eyes who's playing (smoking) now seem glazed over? And his friend, giggling like baked, I'd say. It's perfectly innocent. Most kids here certainly have no context for a drug reference. And I'm sure it was designed completely unintentionally. But still...

1 comment:

Beans with Garlic said...

still thinking of you buddy. miss ya.

-adamt.