Trendy vs. Practical
trend·y
adj. trend·i·er, trend·i·est
1. Of or in accord with the latest fad or fashion: trendy clothes.
prac·ti·cal
adj.
1. Intended to serve a purpose without elaboration: practical low-heeled shoes.
2. Concerned with the production or operation of something useful: Woodworking is a practical art.
Usually I wouldn't write a followup entry. Nor would I write an entry as a response to comments from someone like Shaun (love you dude!), but this subject just can't be ignored. I promise I'll make this personal squabble brief and painless. Or maybe just brief. We'll see...
It was brought to my attention that for writing "Pink is the New Black?" on my blogger I was being hypocritical. I beg to differ. Yes, blogging or web logging did start out as a trendy thing. I offer you several reasons why it now fails to be so, at least in most cases. The first is that there is a marked difference between trendy and practical, as demonstrated above. This blog's purpose is not to keep with some kind of web standard, but rather because it gives me a very easy and PRACTICAL way of communicating thoughts to friends and releasing emotional/lyrical/whatever energy. I write in this blog to clear my mind, to vent frustration, to compose pieces, etc. I DO NOT write stupid, inane entries every few hours about my day and all of its trivialities. If I were to do this, then perhaps this would entail following a trend: desperately trying to come up with things to talk about so that there never goes by a day sans an entry. Another reason, much in keeping with the first, is that there are certain things that, over time, become a non-issue when it comes to trendiness. Computers, cd's, hip-hop, the internet were definitely all trends for a while. But these things have become a part of life. They are essential to this modern society that we live in.
Basically this entry died... but it's been sitting as a draft for a week now, and I just wanted to make sure that I got this thought up there.
Oh, and Jeremiah said something genius... People who go out and buy pink clothes now and continue to wear them will start to regret it (just like the eighties is still doing to some poor folks).
So sayeth The Brad...
adj. trend·i·er, trend·i·est
1. Of or in accord with the latest fad or fashion: trendy clothes.
prac·ti·cal
adj.
1. Intended to serve a purpose without elaboration: practical low-heeled shoes.
2. Concerned with the production or operation of something useful: Woodworking is a practical art.
Usually I wouldn't write a followup entry. Nor would I write an entry as a response to comments from someone like Shaun (love you dude!), but this subject just can't be ignored. I promise I'll make this personal squabble brief and painless. Or maybe just brief. We'll see...
It was brought to my attention that for writing "Pink is the New Black?" on my blogger I was being hypocritical. I beg to differ. Yes, blogging or web logging did start out as a trendy thing. I offer you several reasons why it now fails to be so, at least in most cases. The first is that there is a marked difference between trendy and practical, as demonstrated above. This blog's purpose is not to keep with some kind of web standard, but rather because it gives me a very easy and PRACTICAL way of communicating thoughts to friends and releasing emotional/lyrical/whatever energy. I write in this blog to clear my mind, to vent frustration, to compose pieces, etc. I DO NOT write stupid, inane entries every few hours about my day and all of its trivialities. If I were to do this, then perhaps this would entail following a trend: desperately trying to come up with things to talk about so that there never goes by a day sans an entry. Another reason, much in keeping with the first, is that there are certain things that, over time, become a non-issue when it comes to trendiness. Computers, cd's, hip-hop, the internet were definitely all trends for a while. But these things have become a part of life. They are essential to this modern society that we live in.
Basically this entry died... but it's been sitting as a draft for a week now, and I just wanted to make sure that I got this thought up there.
Oh, and Jeremiah said something genius... People who go out and buy pink clothes now and continue to wear them will start to regret it (just like the eighties is still doing to some poor folks).
So sayeth The Brad...
1 Comments:
Brad you are a trendy mo. Don't deny it.
~Shaun
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