To Alcohol!
August 21st, 2009
No alcohol-drinking person today doesn’t know Homer Simpson. In fact, Homer Simpson, of The Simpsons fame, may be the only cartoon character best loved by beer-chugging, couch-heating, and donut-chomping men all over the world. His passion for drinking surpasses even that of lumpenproletariats from third world countries. Fanatics have even compiled tons of lines from Homer, through the years The Simpsons have spent on television that discourse about the mundane and transforming it into philosophy. Totally, there is no reason for someone not to like Homer Simpson other than being a yeti. Hell, even yetis would probably learn drinking draft if exposed long enough to Homers bickering.
And because of this, Homer is an industry. Shirts, mugs, accessories—thousands have been sold spreading the Homer Cult. Once, even communists in China commented the single biggest threat to their culture which adheres to Mao Zedong’s concept of discipline is the uncontrolled swelling of Homer’s hegemonic nature in just about everywhere The Simpsons is showed.
That’s why it is not a surprise to have silver cufflinks made with Homer’s face in it. Although it’s quite ambiguous, cufflinks are often used in formal occasions. Funny cufflinks like those with Homer designs (and they would definitely be funny) seems to contradict the occasion.
But men, how they’ve changed so much and still can’t let go of alcohol. They can easily turn formal torpidity to a lively, colored and tipsy—if not barf-reeking—night. So it wouldn’t be too curious a thing for others to see them wearing Homer’s ode to alcohol cufflinks. And it’s cool…cool without stooping to a gay level.
