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Everybody seems to think I was serious, it was tongue-in-cheek. Having a tattoo, or
loving the Sisters of Mercy doesn't make you cool, but having a personality and the
ability to maintain a lively conversation bundled with a sense of humor does. I find
that grossly lacking at STC meetings in Minneapolis. But you would have to be someone
that came from a different city (not a born-here one) to understand the true
repression of the TC. The "cover" as you call it is also a snapshot into what a
person is like. The cover in the TC is frigidity, combined with repression and a
cliqueish that would stun an 11th grade cheerleader.
As an editorial in Yoga Journal said about Minneapolis, " I was walking around the
lakes one day with a friend and everyone appears to be friendly because they say
'hello' as you pass, but it is all a front, a show, because they're critisizing you
in their head."
Hasn't anyone looked at someone and said, "oh, they must have personality?" Perhaps
because they dress funky, carry themselves with a certain attitude, appear not to
conform to everyone else's set of rules. Funny, but I really think the "cover" can
say you're cool, or not.
Bruce Byfield wrote:
> Michele Davis wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I don't like the meetings, here in the TC it cultivates a lot of
> > real losers (what I mean by that is that the demographic group by and large
> > doesn't listen to cool music, have a tattoo, a weave, an alternative lifestyle,
> > anything interesting to say, etc.)
>
> It's not relevant to tech writing, but I can't resist mentioning
> that one of the strangest people I know is a Roman Catholic monk who
> is a travelling book-seller and writes poetry in his spare time. The
> last time I saw him, he was a volunteer aide-de-camp to the exile
> King of Rwuanda, and was leading my spouse and I on a brandy-enhazed
> trip through the streets of one of the poorer parts of Vancouver
> with him in full evening wear with him singing "Lydia the Tatooed
> Lady" at the top of his lungs.
>
> By contrast, I've met pagan Goths who, aside from their beliefs and
> clothing, had the hearts and spirits of accountants nearing
> retirement age.
>
> The cover, in short, is rarely the whole story.
>
> --
> Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
> Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
> 604.421.7189 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
>
> "People gonna judge you by the company you choose,
> And I can't be seen with somebody who's got the wrong tatoos."
> - OysterBand, "Don't Slit Your Wrists for Me"
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