this weekend's essay: judge a book by its cover


the other day, i was watching my daily dose of golden girls. it was the episode where blanche decides to sell a mercedes, only it's not really her mercedes.** in fact, she rents the mercedes and advertises its sale in the newspaper in order to get more dates. she casually mentions that you can tell a lot by the way a man drives.

a while back, i mentioned that one of the the first things i notice is a person's shoes. i don't know what i can tell about a person by his/her shoes, but the shoes you had/have on when i first saw/see you always play an important role in the way i view you. in the comments section of that entry the always eloquent saf broke down the shoe science,

A shoe is not just a cover for the foot... It is, at the very least, an indication of a person's taste or sense of aesthetics. It can also signify his or her financial situation, level of materialism, or even allegiance to a certain subculture. And you can usually tell if you're dealing with a person who values comfort over appearance or vice-versa, is comfortable with his or her height, or is casual or formal in his or her approach to life. Shoes are, like, signifiers of the sole.

For example, I only wears three-to-four inch heels unless I'm wearing sandals or flip-flops, of which I have approximately 20 pairs. W-T-F does that say about me? I have a fucking Napoleon complex, I'm lightweight hung up on appearing "sophisticated," I'm a bit of a compulsive shoe shopper, and I think that my fucking feet are cute.

See, the shit is a science.

so, you know, i was just wondering, if you had to complete the sentence, "you can tell a lot by a person if/by the way s/he _____," how would you fill in the blank? (you know, like what sonny tells calogero about women and car doors in a bronx tale.)

enjoy your weekend.

**will somebody tell me why rue mcclanahan (one of the greatest. names. ever.) was in the fighting temptations? not that i saw the movie. i was just wondering.

(and for the ladies out there obsessed with shoes, i rock {clean} sneaks like, e'ryday. mostly pumas, but also ponys or adidas maybe once e'ry two weeks. you know, fyi.)