Jerseys & Tassels
I was wandering semi-aimlessly around downtown Denver on Sunday night. At some point I began seeing a cavalcade of adults in Broncos logo-wear all over the place. The cavalcade soon turned into a throng, and I realized that a Broncos game must have just gotten over. No matter how many times I see it, whenever I see two adult males walking together, both wearing Broncos jerseys, my mind can never quite resolve that as being suitable adult male macho behavior. Something about that attire strikes me as highly cartoonish and just doesn't comport with my idea of the psychological profile of people that take football seriously enough to don a replica of their favorite team's jersey.
Another example: you often see those leather-clad biker guys with the really loud choppers and all that, doing their damndest to look bad-ass, and then you notice that they have leather tassels on the end of their handlebars. I don't get that. How are leather tassels supposed to add to the bad-assitude of a guy's overall look? My sister had tassels (albeit vinyl and alternating purple and white) on her Huffy bike, so I just don't understand how that accoutrement is supposed to carry over.
Lately, when we pull up next to biker with tassels at stoplights, I've been asking Glenda how much $$$ she'd give me if I would roll down the window and, in my finest lisping nance voice, say to him, "Hey, I like your tassels!"
Also: have you ever seen the word "extol" in a sentence where the word "virtue" did not soon follow? Can one extol something other than virtues?
I find the uniform of any particular demographic laughable and slightly off putting . . . like the cabal of androgynous slacker types you see in carefully selected vintage t-shirts under thriftstore v-necks or button-downs a size too small, shuffling bleary-eyed down Main Street of Anywhere, USA. Wash your hair, for crissakes. And lose that damn ski cap, it's 95 degrees outside!
Oh, and if you have a barbed-wire armband tattoo, you should sever the appendage and beat yourself to death with it.
- Chris October 12, 2004 11:25I think I can extol the content of this Web site. Isn't extolling just shouting something from the rooftops? Heaping praise, or what have you?
Also, I would like to commission a study measuring the precise moment a cavalcade becomes a throng.
- JOhn Elway October 13, 2004 12:28