Expensive and unorthodox sleep aides.

Caution: could cause nightmares.  Really, really boring ones.

Anyone registered to receive PMO notices knows that they need to check their mail over the weekend or risk having it fill up.

Why?  Well Dear Leader seems to think we are getting value for money with these:

Who except the odd salivating member of the Dear Leader Fan Club, guiltily fantasizing over what a dreamily-dreamy-dream the Beloved Leader is as they chew marshmallows – slowly – late at night has the slightest bit of interest in seeing these, let alone foot the bill for them.  And why so many of this type that show Steve, nothing but Steve, and even cases of Steve in front of a picture of Steve?

Yes, yes.  I know.  “but-but-but-ADSCAM!!!”

Someone took my truck off-roading and got it stuck on a stump.  Expensive, yes.  Unnecessary, yes.  But if someone else leaves the cream out and it goes bad, I’m not going to say “hey, who cares, remember the truck?”

No, I’ll still be annoyed because it’s wasteful and unnecessary.

So not another word about ADSCAM.  I will never forget ADSCAM.  I have it tattooed on my arm.  I renamed my dog ADSCAM.

Now back to the photos.

Some photos actually put Steve in some sort of context, but the majority of the shots are self-aggrandizing.  Sort of creepy if you go through the PMO photo link with its page after page of Harper close-ups, as above.

This group is one of my favourites:

29 June 2006

Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends the opening ceremony of Jeux de l’Acadie (3 photos)

Only 3 photos there, and guess what?  No ceremony, no Acadians, no athletes. Just Steve, Steve, and look...Steve.

 

Here’s a telling one:

Steve, the really important focus of this meeting on funding for AIDS.  Really, who gives a fuck about Gates, right?

But then, we are dealing with a guy who thinks the perfect Christmas card is a photo of him looking at photos of him and who believes the best décor consists exclusively of…yes, pictures of him.

Why would Stevie think we are at all interested in this barrage of photos of him…talking, mostly.  Or just standing there?  Or looking like he always looks, all the time, same expression.

It isn’t as though he has the spontaneous, fun nature that makes for good candid shots like this guy had:

 He doesn’t do warm and fuzzy well at all:

And can’t even pull off a decent I’m-just-a-regular-dad shot:

And don’t look for him in celebrity news like this fellow:

Steve can’t do casual like this man could:

People wanted to follow Pierre Trudeau around with a camera.  He was fun, interesting, spontaneous.

I suppose Steve hopes that if he shoves his picture at us often enough, we will  be enthralled (as in brainwashed).  Cult leaders are known for that tactic.  Or he has such a powerful belief in his own wonderfulness he figures if we see his image often enough, we’ll just all swoon with love and hand our lives over to him.

Not in a billion universes and all of time, Stevo.  Besides being a small minded, vicious, provincial, misogynistic, petulant, sulky, visionless, unimaginative, sociopathic, ego-centric creature, you’re as boring as dandruff.