a friend of mine told me something silly a couple years ago while she was working as the head of the copywriting department at the office where i work as a graphic designer, and i still think about it semi-frequently.
her theory was that all people can be binarily categorized two different ways. every persons face and head is either Potato, or Rat. and every persons personality and demeanor is either Fingerer or Fister.
i like the first one because while it does divide people based upon their physical appearance, the division is in no way tied to attractiveness, or even to any specific definable characteristic(s). I also like it because it works! like, you can look at anyones face and very easily decide whether it is Potato or Rat. I can't efficiently explain why, but you can.
i like the second one because it sounds dirty, and in a way it is, but in another way, its also not. the nature of "fingering" could be interpreted as a light, grazing touch upon any surface. or poking someone in the shoulder with your index finger. or the obvious sexual connotation, fingering an orifice. and fisting; a fist fight, obviously. the sex one, of course. the "rock" in rock, paper, scissors. the way you hold an axe or a hammer or a microphone.
both categorizational methods are as abstract and open-ended as they are definitive and binary. and silly. i think that's why i enjoy them and still revisit them from time to time. i've been tragically busy at work and haven't had the motivation to write in the evenings for the past few days, but after seeing and talking to Zoe and Meetka about "blogging" again i want to try to make myself write something, anything, here as often as possible. later!
- Rat Fister
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