white three-ring binder
Item:
A white three-ring binder, with nothing inside.
Why It’s Here:
It’s a metaphor. A metaphor for creative potential. Because all of us, we’re like three ring binders of life. We yearn to be filled with college- or wide-rule paper. We foster within us a burning need to snap open, snap shut—but always by the end tabs, never by the rings, or they will get bent. And nobody wants bent rings. Nobody.
Or maybe it’s a metaphor for the new year. Happy 2007: get to work on this binder. What a dreary thought.
Probable Recipient:
Some jackass little kid who will bend the rings. Goddammit.
May Auld Aquantaince Be Forgot:
And something something beer. Here’s to regular updates, folks.
JadeNB Said,
January 2, 2007 @ 11:15 am
Welcome back!
muddgirl Said,
January 4, 2007 @ 1:58 pm
Even if one is scrupulous in using only the end tabs, resisting the temptation of opening and closing by pulling on the top ring (which is always the loosest), the rings will inevitably bend, so that papers half-slide out, or else are pierced by misaligned metal jaws. THAT is a metaphor, my friend.