Trendsetter

Everyone I know secretly thinks they've started a trend. Or two. Or not so secretly.

One example: someone I once knew contended that the phrase "Too cute to shoot" was actually started by him back in the early '90s, or so. This is, of course, unverifiable, as neither myself nor anyone else I'm acquainted with has ever heard that phrase outside of the context of a conversation about catchphrases, but nevertheless this certain someone remains proud of this (dubious) achievement. (see FN)

I myself will never be convinced that it was not I that brought the word "hipster" back into wide usage. (All me, people.)

Also, in seventh grade, I started wearing Birkenstocks, for which I was widely derided as being "too hippieish", or alternatively, for "thinking I was Jesus or something". By ninth grade the entire population of Clinton High School had at least one pair of Birkenstocks, and I had moved on to Gene Simmons-style platform boots and thick black eyeliner. A trend in a microcosm, but a trend nonetheless...a sad trend featuring ugly (if comfortable) shoes, but...

So- I've decided to try and start a new one. GREEN FINGERNAIL POLISH. It's the next big thing, people. I'm telling you. Right now all the starlets are wearing BLACK fingernail polish, which seems just a tad Cure fan circa 1991 to me, (not that there's anything wrong with that), so I took it a step to the left and went green. Green! Like Sally Bowles! Cabaret! "Start by admitting from cradle to tomb, it isn't that long a stay: life IS a Cabaret, old chum, if you have a little green nail polish on!" All y'all just wait and see. I say give it a month, and then pick up a copy of Vogue.

Footnote: "Too cute to shoot" may actually deserve a, shall we say, "surgance", (as there is no record of the phrase having made much headway in it's original go round, I think "resurgance" may be too strong a term). Think about it. I hearby submit a short play to demonstrate usage:

TCTS
by J.S.

Man: Darling!

Woman: What?

Man: You look marvelous in that gren nail polish! You're too cute to shoot!

FIN