When I saw the Vibrators defense up there, I was remembering how in the 1980s a friend of mine and I used to paint slogans on t-shirts, just things we made up that seemed really hilarious to us as teenagers. Among our peer group, we had a lot of demand for two shirts in particular: "Surf Nicaragua" (this, in c. 1986), and "Would you name YOUR kid 'Muammar'?" (yup, that would be Gaddafi we were referencing).
We thought we were so clever just then, with our limited interpretation of the six o'clock news. We honestly were just cherry-picking, but it seemed so political at the time. We didn't actually think through what statement we might be making -- it's just important to make a statement!
I try to forgive us in retrospect for whatever it was that we might have accidentally been saying with those t-shirts, given that we were landlocked in the Bible belt and be raised by conservative Republicans, but I'm also pretty thrilled that legions of folks aren't putting the analysis into these early creative endeavors of mine.
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Date: 2006-11-20 05:31 pm (UTC)When I saw the Vibrators defense up there, I was remembering how in the 1980s a friend of mine and I used to paint slogans on t-shirts, just things we made up that seemed really hilarious to us as teenagers. Among our peer group, we had a lot of demand for two shirts in particular: "Surf Nicaragua" (this, in c. 1986), and "Would you name YOUR kid 'Muammar'?" (yup, that would be Gaddafi we were referencing).
We thought we were so clever just then, with our limited interpretation of the six o'clock news. We honestly were just cherry-picking, but it seemed so political at the time. We didn't actually think through what statement we might be making -- it's just important to make a statement!
I try to forgive us in retrospect for whatever it was that we might have accidentally been saying with those t-shirts, given that we were landlocked in the Bible belt and be raised by conservative Republicans, but I'm also pretty thrilled that legions of folks aren't putting the analysis into these early creative endeavors of mine.