Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Cross-Cultural Encounter

Last night, on the subway, I saw an Asian kid wearing an Italian horn. In case you don't know what an Italian horn is (what? mingya!), it looks like this:



And that's about how big his was, too. It's was HUGE! It looked ridonkulous.

It made me realize that's what white people look like when they wear yin-yangs.

Imagine one of these around my neck, in my ears, around my wrist and at one point even in my (allergy-ridden) nostril and you can pretty much conjur my teen years:


All the while I thought I was deep, but really I was just an Asian kid wearing an Italian horn. I get it now. And I'm sorry.