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[prog]

I have not posted much since 2005 began. I do have a pile, literally, of half-finished posts in the bottom-left corner of my screen. Some are quite recent, some are months old. This is because of my habit of picking away at a thoughtful post over some length of time in an iJournal window, until it comes to pass that I actually need to say something, so to make room I grab the wandering text and drag it onto my desktop (a little patch of which is visible down in the corner), where it gets saved as a little text-clipping icon. So, I have a bunch of these, and I will now lamely resolve to do something with them, one at a time.

Here's one:

M, J and I all more black. Actually I threw on a grey overshirt before leaving. There was a time I routinely dressed in all black, on the theory that black always looks good, and goes well with black. And I would do so today, except that strangers get jokey about it. (Not in a mean-spirited way, just a mundanely sigh-stupid way. The person I buy the coffee from says "Oh oh, he's wearing all black!" or the person I hand the ticket to says "You must be the infamous man in black!". Yes, I am Johnny Cash, or perhaps a vampire. You will now stand very still while I sing my rendition of Leonard Nimoy's rendition of "I Walk the Line". Do not run from me; I am your friend.

I think that was meant to be part of a post about visiting WorldCon for a day, back in September. I don't think I ever did a proper post about it, which is too bad, cuz it was a great and memorable time, all told.

Comments

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

I used to wear predominantly grey clothing.

[jordanwillow.livejournal.com]

When I worked in New York I often wore all black, and no one ever said a word (since everyone else was wearing black too, I guess). Then when I moved to Boston and wore all black, I got constant comments. What a drag.

[prog.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting; I wouldn't have guessed that it's a Boston/New England thing, or that it's not so much in NYC (hard to tell which, with only two datapoints).

I wonder if it has less to do with local fashion sense and more to do with the relative propensity of either place's citizens to talk to strangers.