I had occasion to be at the Zoo today and after watching about a dozen school groups wander by in the late-Spring sunlight I was forced to wonder: why is it that girls’ private school uniforms always suck?
Inevitably the boys are wearing some version of white shirt (dress or golf) with navy blue or black pants over black shoes. The girls, on the other hand, are usually wearing the same god-awful polyester jumper in some fake plaid that’s never seen the inside of a Scottish clan meeting and a blouse with the Peter Pan collar. What’s wrong with white shirt and blue pants for everyone?
And a couple of other random questions from yesterday…
The city’s leadership, in their infinite wisdom, decided about two years ago that street light banners, the kind that are stretched between two short polls that have been attached high on a light pole, were just the thing to perk up neighborhoods that never get street sweeping, don’t have enough police patrols, and really, really need some attention from DPW‘s paving crews.
I’m not sure how but someone managed to get a banner up there that reads “God loves you.” Yesterday it was hanging upside down, the top sort of ragged and flapping, detached from the upper pole. Now, white knowledge1 tells us that a flag hanging upside down from its intended position is a sign of distress. So, does this mean that God doesn’t love us?
And, lastly, one of the radio stations in DC recently switched formats, from “oldies” to what they’re calling “the greatest rock and roll of all time.” Now, I don’t think they fully grasp what that means because they’re not playing any Pink Floyd or any Doors, or any Janice or Jimi, which begs the question: what’s the difference between rock and pop? Between rock and blues?
Weird things my mother and I discuss in the car on the way to the grocery store.
1 white knowledge n. information acquired without conscious effort. Double-Tongued
I love a new word. White Knowledge. Hummm…what group does this best describe?
I am so on the same page with you about the uniforms. Simple and tasteful goes a long way. And comfort is necessary also.
STB
Tartan. A plaid is an item of clothing and, if patterned to show your clan affiliation, then that pattern is a tartan.
And Janice Joplin is definitely the blues. No-one with that much pain is rock and roll. My personal definition? I’m glad you asked! Rock and roll is about sex and summer and guitars and cars and good things. Blues is what happens when you let those things go or never attain them in the first place.
I sit corrected. Thank you for the proper terminology.
As for the radio station…they still have the shortest playlist in the history of playlists. I swear if I hear “White Winged Dove” one more d@mn time I may scream. 😉