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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Say have you met Lydia?
David Brooks has an interesting editorial on tattoos today.
I'm not much of a fan of tattoos myself but don't really care one way or another if other people like them. But when ever I see young people with them, and a good number of my friends have them, I always think "Good god, is there anything I thought was cool when I was 18 that I still think is cool now?" If they'd been in when I was that age I shudder to think what I would be stuck with now. A Beatles tattoo maybe? That I guess I could live with, but I'd just as likely be at the beach trying to hide the starship Enterprise, a pair of 20-sided dice, or a Porsche 928. Yeah, not even a 911.People adopt socially acceptable transgressions — like tattoos — to show they are edgy, but inside they are still middle class. You run into these candy-cane grunge types: people with piercings and inkings all over their bodies who look like Sid Vicious but talk like Barry Manilow. They’ve got the alienated look — just not the anger.
Body art is all well and good I guess, if you are into that kind of thing, but maybe people should hold off until they're 35 or so.
