Hello, it's me. I'm a white person. I am pretty predictable. You probably know exactly what I do and don't like.
If not, check out the blog Christian Lander has been writing for a bit more than a year now. "Stuff White People Like" includes, as of this month, the TV show Mad Men. [Funny how I declared my love for MM last week.]
Erik's been fussing about SWPL for a while, but since I often ignore what he fusses about, I just recently discovered Lander's book that lists the 100 top things of what white people like. The discovery happened while I was in the dressing room of Urban Outfitters (think H&M, but more fashionably trashy), waiting for my (younger and female) cousins from Germany. While they were trying on every item in the store (looking terribly cute in those little t-shirts sized XS), I lounged on the leather sofa in the dressing room area. I greatly appreciated that UO put a sofa there; better even was the couch table full of books, ranging from a guide on how to make artisanal cup cakes in the shape of dogs (check it out here) to Lander's compilation.
No matter what page I turned to, I found something that describes my likes: buying organic, living in Seattle, bilingual education for our kids, the name Sebastian, Whole Foods, the New Yorker, NPR, the Ivy League and an arts degree, Obama, the TV series The Wire, cooking gadgets, not having a car (since there's bicycling) or cable TV (since there's Netflix), bicycling & Netflix, art museums, David Sedaris, recycling, architecture, public transportation that's not a bus. Out of the 100 items, I identified with 78 or so.
Erik's been teasing me all weekend about how lily-white I am. I'm so white I'm see-through transparent.
Me and my two last names (stuff white people like # 22) are going knitting now. Knitting is not listed. Not yet anyway. Just wait.
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