An Unheralded Medium for Communication
During my recent visit to New Mexico, I got the chance to appreciate a good ol’ fashioned medium for blasting one’s special kind of crazy out to the world.
Look, I’m not talking about no Twitter, no kind of Facebook, no blog telling the world how I think about things. No!
I’m talking about full on signs attached to one’s vehicular mode of transportation.
Not bumper stickers. Signs.
Who knew?
My trip began with a journey from the airport on I-10 headed for Las Cruces. For a large part of the journey, I followed an eighteen wheeler with a rather large sign attached to the back.
As a matter of fact, this sign:
I mean, I don’t know for sure, but I always thought The Big Guy had a better sense of humor than that. I’d like to think if he had a problem with my little nickname, well, he’d just tell me. Why’d I have to learn about this from the back of a semi?
Should I call the number on the sign and ask?
Later that same day, I stopped off for lunch. I had a quick bite at a place over by the mall in Las Cruces and when I came out to my rental car, I noted that the car parked next to me was covered with stickers, signs and slogans.
The one that caught my eye was a bright yellow number that said:
“What if Glenn Beck is Right?”
After I finished hurting my head pondering what that meant, I was reminded of the South Park episode where Cartman riffs on Glenn Beck.
Which makes me wonder if maybe the real question is…what if Cartman is right?
Huh? Huh?
“I’m just asking questions!”
So seeing those two signs got me thinking about Southern New Mexico. It seems things have taken a lean to the right since I lived there last.
But just like the old saying about my home state, “If you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes” turns out it took only a couple days to bring things back into perspective.
As I drove back to the airport on Sunday, again on I-10, I followed a beat up old Subaru with a hand-lettered sign on the back.
This bit of typesetting said, and I quote: “If you are going to ride my ass, the least you can do is pull my hair.”
In big letters. Covering the entire rear window.
Which just made my eyes ping-zing around in my brain while the word “Tilt” flashed over my head….
Cruces is getting to be an odd place.
