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arguchiki just got some potentially excellent news today. my niece--who turns 18 tomorrow (born on the 4th of july) and who just graduated from high school--wants to use some of her graduation dough to come visit me! (she lives in grand rapids, mi.) i hope everything works out. i'll have to come up with some fun, under-21 stuff for her to do, though. but what am i thinking? there's a ton of stuff to do around here, especially compared with grand rapids. i'm just nervous because i don't want her to get bored. right now she still seems to think i'm relatively cool, and i have to make sure she never learns the truth! ;-)
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glaucon about willie nelson--can't stand him, so i'm not attending his 4th of july BBQ at the gorge tomorrow, in case you were wondering; and neil young--not crazy about him, either, but i like a few songs, and if he were having a 4th of july BBQ at the gorge i would probably go, unless it were cost-prohibitive. now i have "southern man" running through my head and i can't get rid of it. which is interesting, because i saw a southern-themed t-shirt today. it was being worn by a barista at cafe solstice on the ave. he's african-american (a fact which is relevant to the shirt's meaning). the t-shirt itself is gold, and it has a confederate flag on the front of it, reconfigured to have a green background, black bars, and red stars. i remarked to the guy--and it's true--that i had never before seen anyone creatively, critically reconfigure the confederate flag. he was delighted that i noticed, and that i got it. turns out it's his design. he said that he's had a lot of people completely miss the shirt's subversive meaning.
which reminds me of this t-shirt i have--it's not exactly subversive, but it is satirical. it's black, with a pink silkscreened design on it. the design has the outline of a handgun, framed by the words, "guns don't kill people...people with mustaches kill people." a couple of years ago i wore this shirt to the public library downtown, and this guy came up to me and was like..."yeah, sister! we 2nd amendment supporters have to stick together!" and i had to set him straight. since then i've been reluctant to wear the shirt; perhaps the humor is too subtle for a general audience. (please tell me, gentle reader, that you get it...)
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glaucon about willie nelson--can't stand him, so i'm not attending his 4th of july BBQ at the gorge tomorrow, in case you were wondering; and neil young--not crazy about him, either, but i like a few songs, and if he were having a 4th of july BBQ at the gorge i would probably go, unless it were cost-prohibitive. now i have "southern man" running through my head and i can't get rid of it. which is interesting, because i saw a southern-themed t-shirt today. it was being worn by a barista at cafe solstice on the ave. he's african-american (a fact which is relevant to the shirt's meaning). the t-shirt itself is gold, and it has a confederate flag on the front of it, reconfigured to have a green background, black bars, and red stars. i remarked to the guy--and it's true--that i had never before seen anyone creatively, critically reconfigure the confederate flag. he was delighted that i noticed, and that i got it. turns out it's his design. he said that he's had a lot of people completely miss the shirt's subversive meaning.which reminds me of this t-shirt i have--it's not exactly subversive, but it is satirical. it's black, with a pink silkscreened design on it. the design has the outline of a handgun, framed by the words, "guns don't kill people...people with mustaches kill people." a couple of years ago i wore this shirt to the public library downtown, and this guy came up to me and was like..."yeah, sister! we 2nd amendment supporters have to stick together!" and i had to set him straight. since then i've been reluctant to wear the shirt; perhaps the humor is too subtle for a general audience. (please tell me, gentle reader, that you get it...)
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Date: 2007-07-04 12:05 pm (UTC)People with guns kill people. ;)
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Date: 2007-07-04 05:15 pm (UTC)Heh. :) Yeah, pretty subtle, but I assume I get it.
Btw, speaking of mustaches, that just reminded me of a movie I had meant to see - La Moustache: