More social commentary...

This prank is another one I pulled tihs weekend. This is how you do it:

Walk down any city street, but preferably a stuffy one, like Madison Avenue on a dark and rainy Saturday afternoon. Sing, in full belting voice (though still barely audible over the rain and traffic), Gustavo Santoalalla's "The Wings." You might not know this piece by name, but it is, in fact, the instrumental acoustic guitar theme from Focus Features' film, Brokeback Mountain.

This accomplishes several things:

-It is cathartic, especially if the music is stuck in your head.

-It reminds people that they should be tolerant of homosexuality.

-It is funny to try and belt out a song that is a languidly rolling acoustic guitar instrumental.

This relates nicely to another thought I had at around the same time I pulled this prank. I was in the Abercrombie and Fitch on Fifth Avenue, New York, USA. I found that this store was basically the locus of hell-- more or less the worst place I had ever been. But one thing that struck me amidst all of the identically dressed fraternity brothers with popped collars was how homoerotic all of the imagery in store was. Now I realize that this is something that everyone realized about a hundred years ago. But in this store, there is a large wall mural that is entirely comprised of muscular shirtless men climbing all over construction equipment.

I think fraternity life is interesting because a lot of aspects of it are similarly homoerotic. For example, in my fraternity, one of the initiation rituals (which I really shouldn't be publishing on the internet) was to have each of the pledges bend over with no pants on. Then the senior members of our fraternity would have anal sex with each pledge until they reached orgasm. At the time it seemed like harmless fun, but in retrospect, it seems like there was actually something homoerotic about it. But that was a far more innocent time.

I might erase this post soon so read it while it's still available.