T-SHIRTS
OK, maybe this is some kind of neurosis on
my part, but I have to vent on this. It seems like there is
an unwritten rule that after a certain age (or shall we say
a "state of mind") one can no longer wear t-shirts with
things written on it and still be respectably fashionable.
And it's a particularly egregious insult to sophistication
if one wears a (God forbid) t-shirt with the name of a band
on it after you're 25 or so. "I mean, it's sooooo
juveline." But SOMEHOW it's OK if you walk around with
collared T-shirts (you know what I mean) with huge letters
on the front saying "Java," or "Microsoft," or "Gap," or
"Calvin Klein," or "Apple," or "Harvard" on it. But it's
extremely uncool to wear a t-shirt that says "Kid Rock" or
(God forbid even more) "Nirvana." Face it people, we are
all whores. We are whores because we wear things made by
corporations who suck money out of poor people's pockets
and give it to the rich. So on the whole, I'd rather be
wearing something that proclaims I'm a whore by saying
"Nirvana" than by saying "Calvin Klein." In general, about
wearing t-shirts with words on them: chill out! Get over
your innate fear of being associated with t-shirt wearing
35+ year old fat balding white trashy looking people who
drive trucks. Special message for those that think that
wearing clothing with no messages on it somehow makes you
pure or chaste from the evil influences of the corporate
machine: You're still a whore.