Cool or Creepy?
Sep 26th, 2010 by craig
Lately I’ve come across some things that have me a little perplexed. The first was this sign during one of my bike rides:
I’m not sure what to think about touring cemeteries. At first I thought “eweuuu, that’s a bunch of dead people in there, why would I want to tour dead people, or worse, the place the dead people have settled into.” But the more I thought about it I began to wonder if I was off – it could be very historically entertaining, I’m an antique fan and generally like old things, perhaps old burial plots could prove interesting…I don’t know, having a hard time coming down on one or the other side of this one, cool or creepy.
So it was in that mindset that I came across this picture:
Someone must think this is a cool picture, either the photographer or the folks in the picture. To me, it’s just creepy. I don’t know why it’s creepy, but it’s creepy. However, I’m trying to have sympathy for the faction that votes cool on this one.
Then on another bike ride, an organized one where I rode with lots of other riders, many of whom were men; I saw lots of men wearing bicycle shorts. And once again, I found myself a little befuddled. I know how I feel about this guy in the blue ones, but some guys probably look pretty good in bicycle shorts, like guys in football uniforms – I’ve been told by my female friends that those tight pants football players wear has some kind of appeal. 
However, unlike football pants, when the guy in bicycle shorts turns around and faces me I’m always a little uncomfortable. I’m not sure what the deal is, but bicycle shorts seem to ‘present’ a little more than I want to deal with. So, I don’t know: bicycle shorts, cool or creepy?
The most recent one was an image I came across while watching tv. It was Lady Gaga and Cher at the VMAs. Lady Gaga’s meat dress has me a little flummoxed (is that a flank steak on her head?) but what has me confused is Cher. In that outfit. Do I need to remind you that she’s 64? Yes, 64. In that outfit. I just can’t decide – is that cool, or is that creepy.
Cher, Cool that she can look that fabulous at 64.
Gaga, totally creepy with meat on her head (and the rest of her). Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Cemetery tours, weird. Would depend on the cemetery. Something medieval, cool. Lynden? Creepy.
NFL players in tight pants, cool. 🙂
Bicycle shorts, REALLY CREEPY. There’s so much more than I want to see in that photo….
Creepy, creepy,creepy, Cool, creepy!!
These are all pretty creepy. Though I have a soft sport for Lady Gaga for her unabashed support of gay rights.
Creepiest is that forever family photo…. something just very wrong about it.
I chuckled through this entire post. I too find the family all dressed in “eternal” white to be creepy (I posted the same pic on my blog). Those bicycle shorts are just in bad taste, but football players are fine by me.
I think it’s time for Cher to quit wondering if “she can turn back time.”
Yes, I think Cher has turned back time once too many… LOL.
I didn’t mind the bicycle shorts… lol.. I understand how it can make others uncomfortable. Once in SLC some guy got on the bus wearing those and I had to look away, as did everyone else. But I like the photo because of their legs… I truly appreciate bikers’ legs…
The family in white was truly weird. Let’s see an update of the 9 of them in say, 3 million years from now.. They might not be so pleasant then..
And Lady Gaga tried too hard to be today’s Madonna I think – though I too appreciate her efforts for gay rights..
Something I forgot to mention: We have an interestingly named funeral home here in the area, you can see their name at the bottom of the cemetery sign. It may be that I leaned creepy there because it’s sponsored by Moles Funeral Home…..
Thanks to those that reminded me that Cher wants to “turn back time”!! Excellent!
Robert, yes, you hit the nail on the head – in 3 million years I can easily see those folks in the same clothes, in the same setting, in the same pose, still looking in each others eyes, but with everyone’s hands on someone else’s neck!