High School Me
Looking for something else, today I came across a bag containing all the buttons I used to wear on my denim jacket in high school.
- A Commander Salamander pin (Freebie from a punk sort of store in Washington DC that became something of a Thing among certain groups in my high school. Much-prized items were brought back from Model UN and other DC field trips. [Ask my about my red silk salamander tie...])
- Another Straight for Gay Rights
- Practice Nonviolence
- Hard Rock Café (Freebie pin)
- Question Authority
- A flag of Japan
- No more Hibakusha (what that means)
- Love animals don't eat them (Picture of Winnie the Pooh)
- Four little buttons of the Wandering Fool (The symbol of my college. That's right. The Wandering Fool was the symbol of my college)
- A rainbow-striped pig (Always got the most attention of all my buttons)
- A little map of the world
- Military Intelligence Is A Contradiction In Terms
- Snoopy yawning with Woodstock on his head
- Extinct: Too much armour not enough brains (Picture of a dinosaur)
- Hard Rock Café again (classy purchased version)
- Nuclear Moratorium
- Snoopy Has Fleas
- Nuclear-Free Zone
The bag also contained (not from high school) two diaper clips - for securing cloth diapers without pins - and a bullet I found on the ground in either El Salvador or Nicaragua.
8 comments:
With that much bling have you ever considered a career it TGI Fridays?
(bling is the wrong word but I dont remember the exact quote from Office Space)
Wow. Talk about a treasure trove!
Pictures!!!
Pictures!!!
I'm really surprised at how few of those I remember. Were they more college than high school? Love animals don't eat them reminds me of a story! That you probably don't remember. We were eating at an Italian restaurant with the family. I'm thinking post college, but back on visits. I can't place the time exactly, but I was being a vegetarian, and I was finally ready to bond with you over it. (When you came home from college a vegetarian, I was a little weirded out by it.) So anyway, I started a conversation about not wanting to eat animals, and I hadn't realized, but you were over it. You're all nonchalant, like, It doesn't bother me, it's just the food chain. I think I pouted. Okay, I know I pouted. :)
I wonder where my buttons are....
pidomon, it's "flair" and the funny thing is I was talking about doing a blog post about my flair earlier this morning.
I still have quite a few of mine from the punk days.
I have mine from earlier days too, some political, some not. It'd be a long list, as I was quite the "flair" collector for a few years. Someday when I don't know what to blog, I may post a few of my favorites.
I posted about my flair with a link back here. :-)
You were the kind of kid I liked a lot, albeit before you were a kid.
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