Post #22417 by donhonyc on Sat, Feb 8, 2003 11:36 AM

When I put my post up last night, I hadn't read any of the posts on this thread, there was already a ton up there, I just saw the topic and responded to that. On closer examination I see alot of talk about what is cool and not cool. I have a few opinions on this. First, cool is whatever YOU want it to be. Second, I'll just say, if you'll indulge me for a sec, what I think is cool: Cool is NOT what you see on TV. Cool is definitley NOT on MTV that's fer sure. Generally speaking the 'youth culture', the so-called 18-34 group (where people used to look for the roots of 'cool') is so NOT cool anymore. Anything the media says is cool is NOT NOT cool. Cool is something you don't know about yet. Cool is also something buried somewhere awaiting your (re)discovery. And perhaps I'll get some grief for this, but the old standard icons of cool (people mostly from the 50s and 60s) in the context of those times, are STILL COOL and always will be. They invented cool. People try to duplicate it and live but can't. Wrong time, wrong place. And last but not least I'll say this: TECHNOLOGY I'm afraid to announce is NOT cool . That's right folks..all of us in this world dubbed 'cyber space' ARE ALL NERDS. NO ONE gets a free ride on that one. Anybody with a computer 20 years ago was 'a nerd', and guess what...still applies now, there's just more out there so it isn't as obvious. It's sorta like that Frank Zappa song 'Plastic People' where Frank sings about, uh...plastic people. At some point in the tune he says 'then go home and check yourself...you think we're singin' 'bout someone else'.

So lighten up. Make a Mai-Tai, plug in the tiki lights and embrace you're geekiness! Oh yea..one more thing...I DON'T wear Hawaiian shirts...that's for nerds!
:drink: Aloha!

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