Tuesday, November 13, 2007

vanity blurb...narcissitic materialist poets

from aolnews: "Out of the 9.3million personalized plates on the roads of America...16 percent of the plates issued by Virginia. New Hampshire came in second with nearly 14 percent. Illinois had about 13.4 percent...Texas had the fewest, with only about a half percent...

Ion Bogdan Vasi, an assistant sociology professor at Columbia University, calls people who personalize their plates "the narcissistic-materialist poets of the iGeneration.' 'Most people buy personalized plates simply because they want to tell the world they are special," Gee, I'm not sure I'd like to be a narcissistic-materialist poet...the poet part sounds nice, but the rest...no.