odd little bean

i sure love an awful lot of things.  i often cite my love of stripes, tea parties, forks, mathematics, adventure time, the song green and grey by virginia coalition, costume parties, etc.  i rarely, however, bring up one of the things i love the most:

i love people and things who look like they should be one way, and in reality are another way.  see also: mashups.  i love things that are 2-in-1 and don’t make any sense if only given a superficial glance.  my latest mashup obsession is gary vaynerchuk.  gary vee (as the kids call him) is a wine junkie.   it’s ridiculous.  the kidult knows ANYTHING and EVERYTHING about wine.  why is he a mashup?  he’s a mashup because he’s a huge jets fan, rocks a hard core bro groove, and looks like he would be more into scotch and miller high life than bordeaux and malbec.  i just found all of this out last weekend, when i finally clicked on a twitter link to his wine tv episode on march madness wines.  i was hooked in under 5 minutes.  i know a good mashup when i see one.

i actually saw links and references to gary vee on twitter and facebook for over a year, but refused to click through.  wine people generally give me the creeps.  they’re highbrow, enjoy bicycling through vineyards, and typically cheat on their girlfriends.  legit.  all of those were good reasons for me to avoid clicking on gary’s links, but there was actually a larger issue at play.

wristbands.

2 years ago at SXSW all of my san francisco friends began flickring pics of them wearing wristbands with (what i thought were) cute little swimming sperm on them.  i love pervy stuff.  i NEEDED sperm wristbands, and i needed them yesterday.

i dropped some vague hints about how i wanted sperm wristbands, but no one brought any back for me.  i was devastated.  some friends.  hmph.  i later found out that the wristbands were actually lightning bolt wristbands given out by gary vee himself.  i believe i twittered about how much i wanted some…i might have even @garyvee’d my tweets but honestly i can’t remember and i don’t feel like checking.  the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth, and i probably should have just direct messaged him and asked him if i could buy a pair, but i didn’t and i remained resentful.  and remained resentful.  and remained resentful.  if only someone had told me that he was a jersey boy (i was born in the jerz) i don’t think this one-sided battle would have ever had to take place.  i would never fight with someone from my home turf.

i have no idea why i finally clicked on a link of his.  maybe it’s because people like @geechee_girl are always touting his praises.  maybe i just got tired of just not knowing.  either way…i’m now strongly considering becoming a vayniac.   gary is great.  gary mentioned in his april 3rd wine tv post that it was the 2nd anniversary of good people day (a holiday he had created the previous year to celebrate good people).  gary was honoring his sister, and he encouraged all of his viewers to blog/vlog about a good person in their lives.  well…

congrats, gary.  you’ll never know you were my good person, but *i* know, and i’m sending good vibes in your general direction.

i just have to throw in something unrelated.  well…i mean…my brain graphs in scatterplot, so it actually DOES relate, but it would take way to long for me to explain the relationship to you since it’s non-linear and involves complex dynamic multinomial variables.  exactly.  here’s the news: i got new boots!

stripetastic, huh?  here they are on my rickity-rack:

when is good boot day?  i’ve got a great candidate in mind… two of them actually.