McSweeney’s Internet Tendency has posted an incisive and terribly important piece of psychological insight: a list entitled “What Your Favorite ’80s Band Says About You.” But while many of the items on this list are right on target — if your fave is Big Country, for example, you probably have a Highlander poster in a tube in the back of your closet; get it? Big Country was a Scottish band, Highlander is about an immortal Scotsman — I have to confess that I’m utterly baffled by the one that best applies to me. Here it is:
Rick Springfield: Your wallet weighs over a pound.
Huh? WTF is that supposed to mean? Anyone? My wallet… weighs… over a pound. Why would it weigh so much? And what does liking Rick Springfield have to do with that? Sometimes, I feel very dense…