Friday the 2nd

I just saw this TV ad for something called a "Snuggie". It's a fleece blanket with sleeves, intended for people who want to wrap themselves in a blanket, but feel the need to keep their hands free for eating and tossing footballs and such.

So the ad shows people wrapped in their sleeve-blankets, walking around the house, cooking marshmellows over a campfire, etc, and they all look like MONKS. Seriously, the Snuggie looks exactly like the sort of loose robe that monks usually wear -- in what little monk-related fiction I've seen, anyway. Monks at a cookout... monks in the bleachers cheering on their team... monks playing Monopoly (isn't that a violation of the vow of poverty?)... monks raiding the fridge... it's kind of creepy, actually.