Progressive Nomenclature

Those who follow @munki about the tubes — in, of course, a warm and non-threatening way — will know that she shifts house and contents regularly.  It was an unexpected turn of events, however, to find (via @dubh ) the tender cat-and-crochet chronicles of Not Pants transformed into something belonging to another user at Tumblr.

Most curious of all, to my language-logging mind, is the way in which what was a metaphor, whose self-effacing qualities provided an aspirational example, is now the literal title of a tumblelog of fashion faux pas, in no way connected with the former operator of the original URL.  This is not to say that I don’t value the social service of pointing out the affront to aesthetics of those who sport tights as the rest of us sport tracky-dacks, but it is to say that something is lost in the change.

Perhaps one day if there is no more Harvest Bird, some avian-loving user will fly in and do something similar with this domain, but I doubt it somehow.

• [dubh:] Seems @munki’s http://notpants.tumblr.com/ has taken a fairly literal tack lately. #
• [munki:] I deleted that tumblr account. Seems like someone else has registered it and turned notpants pants. #
• [dubh:] Oops. Not in any way affiliated with you. I thought it was stretching the bounds of irony a bit… #