Gangsters Abound
The csbmonkey is over 40, the magical age when you can abandon all pretenses of being cool ever again and settle down to dressing just enough to cover yourself when you go out to the store to pick up good beer and laundry detergent. However, the csbmonkey does make some efforts not to be to obvious about his realization that he’s totally abandon ‘cool’ or even ‘decent’ behavior. As the csbmonkey was heading out of the Official Corporate Coffee Shop Of The United States Of America, he saw another over 40 fellow wearing a shirt that simply said “Spiritual Gangster” and nothing else. And thus there was confusion. The shirt, while probably innocuous, is also essentially stupid and meaningless. Fine to abandon cool and all of its trappings, but to adopt what is just making enough sense to not be a non-sequitor as your fashion choice for the day smacks of a lost soul that believes it has found the map.
And then he turned his head an exposed a piece of technology that the csbmonkey truly, truly despises: the bluetooth over-the-ear attached to nothing headset. The Spiritual Gangster (note: he was not a Spiritual GangsTA) was sporting what is possible the lamest and least of cool accessories he could possible have attached to his skull. The Spirtual Gangster was just another part of the collective of Bluetooth Borg Headsetters.
These are the times in which you and the csbmonkey live. When it’s ok for a mid-40 something man at Official Corporate Coffee Shop Of The United States to wear a long sleeve t-shirt that indicating that he is a Spiritual Gangster of the tribe Bluetooth Borg Headsetters. It does make me wonder what such a Spiritual Gangster’s god looks like.