Tuesday, August 03, 2004
(3:38 PM) | Adam R:
Sports
Adam Kotsko says he has "always objected in principle to most large logos on shirts." I've been thinking about my t-shirts a lot lately. In a post at The Pickle today I noted that it felt cool being at an expensive restaurant smelling bad and wearing a shirt that read "I love feminist theory." Just now I am at the library wearing a "Wish You Were Here" tee from Auburn, NY. The shirt features a picture of the Auburn penitentiary--or as locals call it, "the home [of the electric chair]." On the back I wrote with a Sharpie, "THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE IT, BABY, I DON'T WANT TO LIVE FOREVER." I inked the anarchy symbol for the 'A's.I guess I'm inordinately image-conscious. As I'm sitting here I've already taken in the people on the computers around me. Most notably are the two men sitting kitty-corner to my workstation. I swear, one dude is like Philip K. Dick at age 20 (if he were 20 in 1992 and not 1942). He's wearing a Doors shirt quoting the song "People Are Strange" in psychadelic text and chatting on a BBS. Maybe I'm out of it, but I didn't know people still used those things (I'd love to hear from the people who do). The guy sitting next to him looks--I shit you not-- like Philip K. Dick circa 1978.
Westminster, MD has the coolest library.
I'm at computer 10, sitting next to a "co-ed." I can't keep from staring at her. It's embarrassing, but I have to find out what kind of belt she's wearing. I don't know why. Sitting across from me is a harried exec in a frazzled business suit. What's his story? A Ving Rhames-ish man in painter's duds just walked past carrying four DVDs. Two 14-year-olds are bored. One is wearing a West Coast Choppers tee from Long Beach. A man wearing a name-tag that says "Geological Society" is hassling a librarian's assistant. There's a lanky security guard that is uncharacteristically pale for a Marylander. I'm sure the fisherman standing next to him agrees with me. And if the blond MILF would browse to her right she would be confronted with--you'll never believe this--Petrafied, one of Star Song's many Petra compilation albums.
PKD1978 just stood up and gave me a knowing look. Then he made a note.
And me, until I started writing this post, I was reading an interview with Brandon Sing, the minor league baseball player. He's in the Cubs organization and they might bring him up from the Florida State League. Can you imagine!
And I was feeling dumb sitting next to that cute girl and reading about sports, like a schmuck. I felt dumb, that is, until I remembered I was wearing a shirt with a Motorhead quote on the back. Then I felt better.
I hope you don't feel like this was a waste of time. It's sort of the prologue to the series of sports reflections I'm going to start writing here at The Weblog. Unless I get fired.
