For some reason I've been receiving links to this article, sent to me by friends who invariably write, "This reminds me of you." (I don't have to click on the URL anymore. I recognize it already.) It's actually a rather terrible article, which consists mostly of an enumeration of various brand names, a poor attempt at a neologism, and a profile of what sounds like the most terribly self-absorbed young white New Yorkers.
But let me make something clear:
People! It's not me.
I own exactly one pair of sneakers -- actually, they're running shoes I haven't used in a while, so they don't count. (Though I'd have to say that there are these S. Carters which look really nice.)
I do not own any designer jeans. Every now and then I pop into Ross and mutter to myself, No wonder these jeans are at Ross.
Unlike many of my other colleagues, I actually wear suits to work.
I do not have any hedge funds, or any money to put in one, whatever the hell a hedge fund is.
I do not know how to skateboard, or snowboard, nor do I have the desire to ever be on one, or, quite frankly, to hang out with thirtyish-year olds who do. Some of you already know how I feel about sports (unless it's Izzy playing): I can't think of anything more boring.
ick. yeah that's totally not you at all. though i will say this much - you don't act like a mid-30-something, whatever that's supposed to be.
so are people trying to compliment you on your cool factor? i.e. "you look young, you're hip, and we can't classify you."
i wonder what an article about the *asian* or *flip* mid-30-something hip dad would look like? doh, wait, he'd listen to hiphop.
Posted by: barb on April 18, 2006 09:32 AMThis article http://imaginingourselves.imow.org/pb/Story.aspx?id=180&lang=1&g=0 reminds me of you. Come on, fess up now, you're ghostwriting for them aren't you?
Posted by: Kryzystof K on April 19, 2006 08:29 AMI've had people say similar things to me about that article, I just shrug them off, and walk away in my designer jeans and Chuck Taylors.
Posted by: david on April 19, 2006 11:46 AMugh. that article makes me want to hit those men wielding babies.
Posted by: karen Swing on April 19, 2006 03:16 PMwell, SOMETHING is compelling us to send it to you. I sent it to you for your hip and somewhat eclectic musical taste. Although I still think you are a music snob ;-)
Also, a 30-something dad/professor walking around with a Jack Spade hip bag? C'mon!!! As if :-)
Posted by: romeo on April 20, 2006 11:09 AMThat's disgusting. Being lumped in with any of the fashionable wankery described in that article is a f*kin insult.
wily may have el weirdo cool tastes, but he's not a pathetic trend-chasing poseur.
articles like this exist solely to help marketers chase yet another "generation". there's new demographics to define! bah.
Posted by: krangsquared on April 22, 2006 11:40 PM
Romeo: I am *so* not hip. And I am indeed a music snob -- and proudly so -- but to say, as you and Smoothie do, that I don't like "the mainstream" isn't accurate either.
Krangsquared: since we've never actually met, you have no idea whether I am indeed a "pathetic trend-chasing poseur." =)
Are your friends colorblind. You ain't white!!
Posted by: brown on April 28, 2006 08:34 AMMy God!
I think that is me! Well, the ~ 40 yo acting 20 something part... I sure asheck don't chase any fashion trends tho; I think it's more of the dressing the way I did in college thing. (Arrested development...)