Adult.

[izeveryboyin]

All of my close and personal friends know that my slingbag is a source of never-ending pride and joy for me. Through it, I can post my most vulgar, sarcastic, satirical, creative, artisitic and downright weird slogans, pictures and punctuation marks with pride. The irony of the title of this thread is that I have a butto with only that word in black and white slapped on my bag with a million others of different odd and peculiar slogans. But with my frenzied obsession for buttons and pins, and fake pin on flowers of every inexplicable color, even black, I seem to be the furthest from it. I can often be found with my nose stuck in a comic book going "gee golly wow" and marveling at the artwork. I think Shel Silverstine's a genious and I still watch Arthur cartoons like I have been since it first came out in 1994. I was ten then. Jesus. And funny enough, I was more grown-up then at ten years old than I could ever call myself now at 21. What the hell was wrong with me? It seemed my life was pretention, jest and speculation, and that I had been fooling myself into believeing that I was all grown up like the Rugrats spin off, while all the time I'd been relasping into a constant state of infantile oblivion, only to realize years down the line that none of it was worth shit. I spent most of my kid life wishing I was all grown up. I wore grown-up clothes (except during those strange 2 sporadic years when I was a Skate Betty, but please, please, let's not go there) I wore a little make-up here and there, I was an expert at guys. I ate at "classy coffehouses" trying to latch on to the Bohemian crowd of Chciago's northside, and I did for awhile. It was nice. We talked about poetry and getting laid, music and revolution. We were like a modern Weather Underground, only tamer, and with less to fight for. No, strike that, we just didn't know where to look. Anyway, the point is, back then I was so much more grown up and organized, now I just eat cereal in the morning with my dog laughing at Ren and Stimpy Cartoons andstepping over dirty laundry. (okay, okay, so maybe I always did that, but you get my point). Is it really just me? have I really become THAT bored with myself that I've created this illusion of childishness? Is it childish to ask? What is the word "adult" anyway? What does it mean? And who the hell can really say they are. If it entails stuffing yourself in suits and working at an office, stuff it. If it involves extreme responsibility, i.e marrige, children, stuff it. If it involves not being able to watch saturday morning cartoons then dude... that's just plain evil.

--k

[mousey1]

I enjoy reading you.

I am an adulterated adult. A child in disguise with stars in my eyes. A zirconia in the rough.

Anyway, what's a slingbag?

What's a butto and why are you slapping slogos on it?

Show us your buttons and pins collection. Would you say you're obsessed a teensy weensy bit?

"east is east and west is west
and the wrong one I have chose
Let's go where I'll keep on wearin'
Those frills and flowers and
buttons and bows
those rings and things and
buttons and bows"

but I digress....into song.....again.....sheesh......

Anyway adulthood is overrated....that's why I became a mouse....a cartoon mouse.

You're young, enjoy life and let it flow naturally
If you're wise in your decisions
And follow your heart
You won't end up
In a yuppie rut
You'll always be
The best you
There
Iz

[Marksman45]

kayla --> there's a difference between childishness and immaturity.
And Shel Silverstein *is* a genius
And I hope you never lose the ability to read a comic book and go "golly gee wow" -- not enough people have that ability

mousey --> "But I digress... into song" <-- I'm gonna steal that line, just so you know :)

[mousey1]

Steal it!!! I give it you. May you use it infinitely more productively.

[izeveryboyin]

mousey.... how dare you acknowledge my typos!!! Arrggghhh!!! A slingbag are those back packs you see that sit on kids asses attatched by a strap slung over the shoulder. I love buttons that read slogans. Am I obsessive... hmmm. Can you tell? Thanks mars for the support. I'll say "gee golly wow"!! just for you!!
--k