Friday, January 16, 2004
4 years in (no catchy name)
...
4 years in, and still no catchy name.
the nineties went out with a whimper.
the eighties was the decade of greed.
the seventies gave us... bell-bottoms?
the sixties changed the world
(for about thirty seconds).
the fifties gave us television.
the forties tried to teach us a lesson.
the thirties gave us a depression.
the twenties supposedly had us dancing in glee.
anyway...
we're 4 years in, and still no catchy name.
so, who's slacking here? is it just because
it's a numeric linguistic challenge?
because "the zeroes" doesn't conveniently end in a "T"?
no. we could easily call it the oughties.
or the noughties. or even the naughties.
in fact, i remember talking about this
very subject -- way back in the late nineties.
the new millennium has left us nameless.
maybe that's a good thing.
but we all felt like "we" belonged in the nineties.
(even if it never really created any great diversity
of musical genres, art, literature, etc.)
whether you were liberal, or conservative,
or moderate, or even oblivious, you knew
you were "living in the nineties."
it felt like something to you.
and we all felt like "we" belonged in the eighties too,
(even if some of us were just on the outside looking in)
likewise, individually, we all felt like "we" belonged
in the seventies, and the sixties, etc..
we could look forward, and/or inward.
but where are we now? where are we now?
we're 4 years in, and there's still no catchy name.
so, whose job is it anyway? the media's?
they usually *love* catchy titles,
(and logos, and theme music, etc.).
anyway, that's what we writers do.
we notice things.
even when it seems like... nobody else does.
and if it's any consolation,
we people of the unnamed decade,
we've got a good five plus years
to procrastinate naming those tensies.
oh, and by the way...
if you're waiting for the punchlines?
get out your Mastercard
(and go to paypal.com)
-$Zero... ThankYouForReading...
ThisFreeBlog... (PunchlinesAreExtra)...
care to comment?
4 years in, and still no catchy name.
the nineties went out with a whimper.
the eighties was the decade of greed.
the seventies gave us... bell-bottoms?
the sixties changed the world
(for about thirty seconds).
the fifties gave us television.
the forties tried to teach us a lesson.
the thirties gave us a depression.
the twenties supposedly had us dancing in glee.
anyway...
we're 4 years in, and still no catchy name.
so, who's slacking here? is it just because
it's a numeric linguistic challenge?
because "the zeroes" doesn't conveniently end in a "T"?
no. we could easily call it the oughties.
or the noughties. or even the naughties.
in fact, i remember talking about this
very subject -- way back in the late nineties.
the new millennium has left us nameless.
maybe that's a good thing.
but we all felt like "we" belonged in the nineties.
(even if it never really created any great diversity
of musical genres, art, literature, etc.)
whether you were liberal, or conservative,
or moderate, or even oblivious, you knew
you were "living in the nineties."
it felt like something to you.
and we all felt like "we" belonged in the eighties too,
(even if some of us were just on the outside looking in)
likewise, individually, we all felt like "we" belonged
in the seventies, and the sixties, etc..
we could look forward, and/or inward.
but where are we now? where are we now?
we're 4 years in, and there's still no catchy name.
so, whose job is it anyway? the media's?
they usually *love* catchy titles,
(and logos, and theme music, etc.).
anyway, that's what we writers do.
we notice things.
even when it seems like... nobody else does.
and if it's any consolation,
we people of the unnamed decade,
we've got a good five plus years
to procrastinate naming those tensies.
oh, and by the way...
if you're waiting for the punchlines?
get out your Mastercard
(and go to paypal.com)
-$Zero... ThankYouForReading...
ThisFreeBlog... (PunchlinesAreExtra)...
care to comment?
