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

Star Cookies Are Here

At this time of year, in this part of Brooklyn, signs start going up: "Star Cookies". What are these cookies? They are simple, unremarkable, COMPLETELY ADDICTING little cookies shaped like stars- natch. There are boxes of said cookies piled to the ceilings of most stores in my neighborhood, honest to god.

I suspect that these cookies may have magical powers.

I was feeling a little blue today: it was 2 in the afternoon, and I hadn't left my apartment yet, and I decided to head out for a stroll. A store was selling star cookies in smaller boxes for (sic:) "ONLY 1 DOLAR" so I bought a box. Got a cup of coffee, went home, ate half the box of cookies AND IMMEDIATELY FELT GREAT.

I discovered today what native Brooklynites have appartently known for years: star cookies are the answer for the wintertime blues.

Nothing to say

Now I have a forum. Somewhere to write, and you know, MAYBE someone might read it, SOMETIME...and I have nothing to say.

I was going to write something about ambition and how it's ruining these United States, and I was maybe going to write something about Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant (Grant had panic attacks!) and maybe something about the Maury Povich show, which I seem to be viewing on a daily basis, but I don't really have it in me.

Blah blah blah.