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azurelunatic) wrote2002-03-26 01:22 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-03-26 01:22 pm
copy/paste of comment to fosfomifira: Labels
I play with labels as I did with my father's label machine when I was small. I took it and affixed multiple labels to everything, making it twice as confusing, to try and read them all. "Joanie's Drawer." "Secret." "Do not open." "Warning!!!!!"
I have a collection of attitude buttons at home, pins with sarcastic slogans. I think my favorite (at the moment) is "My Life Is An Open Comic Book". I have so many of them... I have this purple hat, a rather silly one with a brim and plenty of space on it to pin all these pins, with all these slogans that describe attitudes I do hold or have held at some point in time. You can read my hat and tell quite a bit about me, if you take the time.
I collect labels. I subscribe to the Mr. Potatohead school of pop psychology. There used to be a childrens' toy, a little potato-shaped doll with holes in him. You had eyes, a whole different bunch of eyes, you could put on him. Big eyes, little eyes, silly eyes... I think he had glasses-eyes too. Different mouths. Different ears. Different shoes. You could mix and match each of his little body-part accessories, and come up with not an infinite number of different looks for him, but a decently large number. There are so many different labels out there, if you collect a sufficiently large number about yourself, you can create an image that, if not exactly you, will pass for you on close glance.
I have a collection of attitude buttons at home, pins with sarcastic slogans. I think my favorite (at the moment) is "My Life Is An Open Comic Book". I have so many of them... I have this purple hat, a rather silly one with a brim and plenty of space on it to pin all these pins, with all these slogans that describe attitudes I do hold or have held at some point in time. You can read my hat and tell quite a bit about me, if you take the time.
I collect labels. I subscribe to the Mr. Potatohead school of pop psychology. There used to be a childrens' toy, a little potato-shaped doll with holes in him. You had eyes, a whole different bunch of eyes, you could put on him. Big eyes, little eyes, silly eyes... I think he had glasses-eyes too. Different mouths. Different ears. Different shoes. You could mix and match each of his little body-part accessories, and come up with not an infinite number of different looks for him, but a decently large number. There are so many different labels out there, if you collect a sufficiently large number about yourself, you can create an image that, if not exactly you, will pass for you on close glance.
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