Diary of an up and coming sociopath

I had an unintentional Radiohead fanboy day today. This morning I put on my hail to the thief t-shirt because it’s one of the ones I save as acceptable work wear. Then, at lunch, I went and bought the Thom Yorke album. Then later, on the tube home, the only thing I had to read in my bag was a small book I bought a few weeks ago about OK Computer (having read the one about Doolittle a while ago.)

The trouble is that I chose the wrong t-shirt this morning. As I explained to Ian, had I thought ahead I’d have worn something not related to music, and certainly not related to Radiohead. The t-shirt is an effective idea delivery vector. It’s important to me that I’m wearing the right t-shirt on the right occasion, and that means if I’m going to buy music, I try not to wear a music t-shirt, else I’ll just look like an individual with an unbalanced lifestyle. In the same way I wear my comics t-shirts to gigs, and my gig t-shirts to comic conventions, the right attire must be selected, and it can determine whether or not one spends the important parts of the day looking stupid or not. 

It’s a rare occasion where I think about how what I’m wearing might look to other people. Clearly it works, because I’m always getting complimented on my choice of t-shirt, from conventions to shops to book readings, it’s pretty much the only praise I’ve ever had about my appearance, so I’m at least doing something right in that area. Today’s faux pas must be avoided in future.