the microcosm

For a little minute there, while in the midst of the writer’s strike, politics was the best reality TV in the land.  Then as candidates got pushed out and the race was down to a republican with one foot in the grave and two democrats who kept saying the same shit everytime they were on the air, I got bored.  Well, tonight I was happy to see the hot CNN females (especially Suzanne Malveaux) talking about the candidates and I even cracked up at the fat, ugly male newscasters fighting for time and the hotties’ attention.  But, after hours of that broadcast playing in the background of my evening activities, the highight reel went to Obama’s concession speech.  Nothing he said was surprising, nothing he did was surprising, but the three, totally effeminate Abercrombie & Fitch wearing fools in the background stole the show.  During the course of a fairly engaging speech they took turns looking disinterested, laughing at serious subjects and talking behind their handwritten support signs.  I do not know if the Evansville, Indiana Abercrombie & Fitch store is having a sale or if product placement has taken a giant leap backwards, but it was uncanny how they fit perfectly in the frame. 

I have had a long relationship with Abercrombie & Fitch.  I have never really worn their clothes.  However I did wear one tee shirt that drkllpnt gave me in college.  He used to work there and by association I met quite of a few of the employees.  Ah, the girls were magically sexy and yet mystically dumb.  The guys were mostly vain and ditsy (drkllpnt, being a notable exception).  I remember that clothing carried some fashion weight back then, but I had not seen it as much in the mainstream again until tonight.  Whatever Obama’s message was, I will now associate him with these idiots wearing their Abercrombie logos across their chests. 

Have a look yourself:  Short clip of the speech.