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January 5, 2004

RateMyBushyEyebrows.com

Photos to come of my husband's nice busy pair. This idea would another of those "rate my ..." sites, which would have pictures of bushy eyebrows. Some of them get really extreme. I think tekekahkweuhsés is nice! And how appropriate to know the word in West Virginia Mingo!

I think the "rate my..." francise is hard to beat. It's one of those things like calendars or coffee mugs or t-shirts that's ready made for specific content insertion. It's interesting how many of those kinds of things we have. I don't know if it's latestage/rampant capitalism/consumerism, or boredom, or what. The "rate my" my thing doesn't have anything to do with identity, does it? Whereas, t-shirts and coffee mugs are ostensibly about identity at some level ("I am the world's greatest grandmother/cat lover/leo/Metalica fan" etc.). I think it would be nice if someone sold a mug that just said, "world's greatest coffee mug" on it. Maybe I'll make a cafe press shop for that.

However, I think things that are easily loaded with outside content/themes need a name of their own and an analylsis of their own. I don't have one to offer myself at the moment -- but I'm sure I don't need to -- someone must have done so, already. I'm still working on the classification of what it is I'm thinking about: they are things that try to say more than their function.

I'm seeing this as something relatively contemporary -- possibly driven by/led by advertising? What did early wall calendars look like? where they invented by advertisers?

I need to do more research on this topic, but I'm not sure I'll have time -- but that's why this is a blog and not a dissertation.

In the meantime, stay tuned for bushy eye brows!

Posted by mary at January 5, 2004 1:07 PM

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