Do My Eyes Look Scary?

This was at the top of an e-mail from a University of Iowa office. The mail had nothing to do with penguins, top hats and monocles, penguins wearing top hats and monocles, or Lyndon Baines Johnson. It is surreal and random in a way that can’t possibly be intentionally surreal and random. The people that write e-mail newsletters at the University of Iowa are way too earnest for those sorts of hijinks.