Thursday, February 23, 2006
O Mullet, Where Art Thou?
Two weeks ago, I took my girlfriend to Disneyland for her birthday. It was pretty great. Middle of the week, free passes, no lines, warm weather.
But something was amiss. A few hours in, it hit me: there's a shocking lack of mullets. It used to be that, on a good day at Disneyland -- a long summer day -- I counted dozens, sometimes hundreds of mullets from all over the country. So what gives? Has the mullet run its course?
I think pop culture has created a mullet backlash. Remember all the jabronies who bought a Cartman T shirt after South Park came out? Or when Nirvana blew up and that douchy guy in your English class was suddenly sooo into them, and definitely done with Boyz 2 Men? The mullet's a great thing gone bad from hype, and now it seems we've scared off its proprietors.
If it is in fact dead, then that's just depressing. I'll miss the irony, sure. But more so, I'll miss the balls out-ness. A mullet makes a bold statement, a bold statement from a megaphone held up to a Marshall stack that's plugged into Eddie Van Halen's guitar. It'd be a genuine shame to lose that. And what about those of us who marveled at it before it was cool? What unifies us now? Moustaches?! Not even close!
Two weeks ago, I took my girlfriend to Disneyland for her birthday. It was pretty great. Middle of the week, free passes, no lines, warm weather.
But something was amiss. A few hours in, it hit me: there's a shocking lack of mullets. It used to be that, on a good day at Disneyland -- a long summer day -- I counted dozens, sometimes hundreds of mullets from all over the country. So what gives? Has the mullet run its course?
I think pop culture has created a mullet backlash. Remember all the jabronies who bought a Cartman T shirt after South Park came out? Or when Nirvana blew up and that douchy guy in your English class was suddenly sooo into them, and definitely done with Boyz 2 Men? The mullet's a great thing gone bad from hype, and now it seems we've scared off its proprietors.
If it is in fact dead, then that's just depressing. I'll miss the irony, sure. But more so, I'll miss the balls out-ness. A mullet makes a bold statement, a bold statement from a megaphone held up to a Marshall stack that's plugged into Eddie Van Halen's guitar. It'd be a genuine shame to lose that. And what about those of us who marveled at it before it was cool? What unifies us now? Moustaches?! Not even close!
