Still confused
While we are on the subject of "things that confuse el Monstro," I would like to open the table to an even more confusing subject than the war in Iraq: Cowboys.
Let me try to figure this out. They really like cowboys (circa 1864... The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, you may remember was set in the civil war), and so they dress up MODERN DAY as cowboys. Furthermore, since some modern conveniences weren't available to cowboys back then, they have had to invent some things. Essentially, cowboys would have driven pickup trucks if pickup trucks had been around. The reason I assume all this is because since, oh I don't know, the turn of the last century, there haven't been any cowboys only cowboy impersonators, and this is okay...Men walking around dressed in costumes from an historical epoch...that's okay. No cause for alarm here, Joe just likes to dress in his jammies everyday, and to make sure that Joe doesn't feel like he's ummmm....wearing a costume when its not Halloween, there's a whole culture of people who've fixated on this costume as well.
I can understand the costume thing. I've seen many a confused 16 year old dressed like Edward Scissorhands, but the thing is they know they're in a costume. That's part of the reason they do it, I imagine. They say, "like you society (in a real Radiohead-esque attitude) I too wear a costume, but I choose mine." Which isn't really true. It's kind of a goth uniform. Regardless though, the cowboy doesn't seem to want to acknowledge the fact that they're playing pretend. Also, Goths grow out of it, whereas cowboys seem to want to wear their costumes well into old age. Do they secretly wear Spiderman underoos so as to fulfill two childhood fantasies at the same time.
Is it a horse thing? I mean, much of what the cowboy look is about is horse riding. Big hat to block the sun when you're out on the range. Chaps, etc.. If so, why this horse rider costume? Why not jockeys or 12th century knights, or Samurai? That would be cool.
So to sum up. It is now 2005, not 1865. No one rides horses anymore except upper middle class girls. If I walked around all day dressed like a ninja and reading haiku, they'd lock me up. And finally, cowboys are ridiculous.
Let me try to figure this out. They really like cowboys (circa 1864... The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, you may remember was set in the civil war), and so they dress up MODERN DAY as cowboys. Furthermore, since some modern conveniences weren't available to cowboys back then, they have had to invent some things. Essentially, cowboys would have driven pickup trucks if pickup trucks had been around. The reason I assume all this is because since, oh I don't know, the turn of the last century, there haven't been any cowboys only cowboy impersonators, and this is okay...Men walking around dressed in costumes from an historical epoch...that's okay. No cause for alarm here, Joe just likes to dress in his jammies everyday, and to make sure that Joe doesn't feel like he's ummmm....wearing a costume when its not Halloween, there's a whole culture of people who've fixated on this costume as well.
I can understand the costume thing. I've seen many a confused 16 year old dressed like Edward Scissorhands, but the thing is they know they're in a costume. That's part of the reason they do it, I imagine. They say, "like you society (in a real Radiohead-esque attitude) I too wear a costume, but I choose mine." Which isn't really true. It's kind of a goth uniform. Regardless though, the cowboy doesn't seem to want to acknowledge the fact that they're playing pretend. Also, Goths grow out of it, whereas cowboys seem to want to wear their costumes well into old age. Do they secretly wear Spiderman underoos so as to fulfill two childhood fantasies at the same time.
Is it a horse thing? I mean, much of what the cowboy look is about is horse riding. Big hat to block the sun when you're out on the range. Chaps, etc.. If so, why this horse rider costume? Why not jockeys or 12th century knights, or Samurai? That would be cool.
So to sum up. It is now 2005, not 1865. No one rides horses anymore except upper middle class girls. If I walked around all day dressed like a ninja and reading haiku, they'd lock me up. And finally, cowboys are ridiculous.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
11:24 AM
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Oh, I forgot to add. In Europe, where there never were any cowboys, if you're dressed like a cowboy it means that you're a member of Depeche Mode.
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