The revolution will be both televised and airbrushed.
Yesterday, I went to the State Fair of Texas with my friend and colleague John Cline. We’d made the same trip last year, and while in line for the Texas Star ferris wheel, he’d started in about wanting an airbrushed t-shirt but not being sure what to put on it. We ran through a few ideas, until I hit on “All that is solid melts into air,” which he decided would be just the thing to go with an airbrushed unicorn. He didn’t get one, but, this year, at the fair, he went for it.
I got sucked in, too, and the image above is the shirt I bought — complete with May of ‘68 graffiti slogan. (I’ll post a picture of John’s when I get a chance). This makes the second piece of clothing I own with a Situationist-inspired slogan blasted across the chest. The other is my go-to black hooded sweatshirt, which reads “We are all undesireables” in French.
Shortly after we’d picked our shirts up, we were having a good laugh about them, and a fair employee asked John what the shirt said. John read it off and mentioned it was a quote from Marx. The man stared very, very politely in the way people do when they’re restraining themselves. I think Shakespeare might have been a safer answer.