January
31, 2005
Umm, this has nothing to do with wearing pink.
I got home from my vacation / book tour and feel like the earth has shifted
out from underneath me. Let me try to explain - I had such an amazing
time with my friends in San Francisco and the weather and the feeling
I get just being in that city which is one of complete comfort (for the
most part) and then coming to New York....I have to come to grips with
the fact that I dont like New York that much - its such a hard city for
me to live in sometimes. I am a West coast person not used to the cold
and snow - and I have to come to grips with the fact that it depresses
me. I also have been feeling like I need to be around my closer friends
- who all happen to live in San Francisco (I lived there for 6 years and
moved to go live in New Orleans with Kris who is now my ex) --- there
is a lot to think about - like maybe i need to start making my way back
to San Francisco... though I have made some amazing headway in my life
here in New York - I have started more projects here and have had great
luck with work enviornments that i never had in SF. Yet, I am also older
- I havent lived in SF for about three years. Maybe I am ready to go back
-- i am told by friends that rent is getting cheaper -- I also have the
luxury of getting a job at the Oakland branch of my job...thats cool.
I dont know. Here I am after a great trip to California wondering, having
to re-think this city....can New York be totally fulfilling? Can ANY city
be totally fulfilling? I cut all my hair off yesterday...because whenever
i feel an intense moment of change coming on I cut it all off so I can
look at my face. I do. When I feel like I am about to throw up with all
the questions swirling within me what really helps is to cut off all my
hair and stare into my own eyes and make connection...I really do look
like Jake Gyllenhall especially with all my hair cut off...more pictures
soon I promise. And there is a party on the horizon...small yay...
--Morty -- oh wait pink moment of the day - a little girl saying to her
mother "his shoes are so cool!" she smiles at me - we make pink
connection...
January 27,
2005
los angeles
so much family visiting and all the while i have had this awful head cold!
my family has tried to understand the idea of "living art" which
none of them had ever heard of. They also could not understand the feeling
of wanting to wear pink all the time after one bad remark made to me on
the street. Its OK - maybe a few family members will start reading the
blog...they might be very surprised by what they read! so i am off to
the airport today - back to new york - looking forward to seeing sady
and everyone else. NOT looking forward to the weather...damn.
i am coming home with a new zest for the performance - i am determined
to stay positive while wearing pink. I seemed to forget that feeling amongst
the other feelings of shame and weirdness in public - but the truth is
wearing pink is fun and its a sexy color. i urge all of you out there
to wear pink sometime this coming week.
---morty!---
Comments
I love your project. Keep going. It's not going to be easy - who'd
have thought that a colour could have so much power? - but this is great
work you're doing. I admire the way that you are putting yourself out
there, it's very brave and inspiring. Anywa, just wanted to say that I
am enjoying your thought-provoking blog and that I wish you every success.
Charlotte x Posted
by: Charlotte Cooper | January 31, 2005 at 08:01 AM
I truly enjoyed
your visit to CA and I understand your feeling behind wearing Pink. I
wear it just for you!!! See you soon. Love your sis, Jodi Posted
by: Your sis | January 31, 2005 at 12:05 PM
I don't know if
more people are wearing pink or that I'm noticing pink more because of
your salute and commentary on the color. Anyhoo, I automatically think
of you now whenever I see someone wearing pink, which is cool side effect.
Is this happening to anyone else who knows you? Well I think this is a
great and innovative performance piece and send you warm rays of pink
support.
JoDy A
Posted by: JoDy A | February 09, 2005 at 06:39 PM
January 24,
2005
WHOOOAAAAAAAAAAWWW
jessica jessica jessica lanyadoo - even the name is brilliant! this is
the person my friends and i go to for astrology readings and tarot as
well - i got a reading from her today and even though i wont go into detail
lets just say it blows me out of the water everytime i see her - she just
KNOWS stuff about you that you have never explained to her and when she
says it out loud its just .. i feel stunned -
she gave me a lot of great advice - i suggest anyone who lives or is heading
to san francisco to check her out -- this is her website:
www.lovelanyadoo.com
i am going to miss sf so much! i have spent a week here and not once YES
not once! has anyone given me the yells/remarks/attitude that i get in
new york for wearing head to toe pink -- matter of fact (and this is good!)
walking today to meet a friend a random guy on his bike came up to me
and said "you like pink so much you decided to wear it again today
huh?" - he had seen me before i guess - and he smiled at me when
he spoke so that was the great pink moment of the day. ok goodbye san
francisco i miss you already and i love you dearly. i am off to drink
down and dirty at the eagle tonight with friends
and get ready for los angeles --- and the family leg of the tour....
-morty
January 24,
2005
So in love ...
Yes i feel like i am back in love with san francisco - i have not gotten
even one major negative reaction to wearing pink - and i have gone everywhere
from the mission to north beach to china town - nobody seems fazed by
it.... this really makes me wonder - whats UP with NEW YORK CITY! damn
its like all of a sudden the most conservative place..after thinking about
this it actually makes me sad - it makes me think of the performance piece
i saw of the artist Penny Arcade - a performer who has been in new york
for years and has seen the change - its drastic and in so many ways..on
so many levels --- and i wonder will it ever go back to being an artist
friendly place again? no... the gallerys and the commerce that art has
become - that is apart of what i am talking about but i am also talking
about just looking kinda crazy on the street... that used to be ok....its
really not ok very much now.... the wearing pink has been a challenge
- and here in san francisco its such a non-issue. so refreshing! and yet
maybe thats why its happening in new york and not here -- the meaning
is more important to me to help new yorkers understand that crazyness
happens on the streets and its OK! not that wearing pink from head to
toe is sooooo crazy but .... anyhow...
shouldnt get used to this feeling of normalcy --- leaving san francisco
in 2 days!
Comments
that walkmen song
"we've been had"
which is, i think, about nyc and the idea that certain places are more
real artist communitieswe've been had, some say it's over, i'm just glad
i'm gettin' older
Posted by: sady | January 24, 2005 at 09:22 AM
January 21,
2005
SAN FRANCISCO! I LOVE YOU!
Ok you want to know what its like to wear all pink on the streets of San
Francisco? I am no longer the freak I am in new york city - last night
someone said "man, if you aint a rockstar you could be one in that
outfit!" and he was serious! I've been walking around SF and getting
many smiles - no attacks at all - and whats interesting is when i walked
down mission street with a friend, a girl who happens to have noticeable
facial hair she was barked at by some guy but it was like he didnt even
notice i was there.... i guess funny outfits are the norm here .... but
i still have a few days to get some other reactions so... but jeez the
sun is shining and the thrift stores are teeming with pink gear and i
am having such a great time here.... I am already dreading snow and freezing
temps in nyc...i know i know yes i AM from california and yes i live in
new york - no sympathy i guess ...
January 19,
2005
Oh, the airport
i had a super long meeting with my mix festival group last night and ended
up quite wasted - now i am dressed (in pink) and on my way to the airport...
with a bit of a hangover - please please i am praying i get no bullshit
on the street from the house to the train i really have a headache!
wish me a good flight - i hate flying....
-morty
Comments
I think "people in pink" are on the No-Fly list, right?
commie sympathizers
peaceniks
Code Pink!
http://www.codepink4peace.org/
Posted by: Sady Sullivan | January 19, 2005 at 04:11
PM
January 18,
2005
OK ITS BACK
yes the pink is back - i feel so much better not wearing it for one day
- i went to a gallery opening after work and really relished in taking
off my jacket and exposing my great pink outfit -- i got many smiles --
that was nice - bjork was there ..but didnt seem interested in my outfit
- i am leaving to san francisco tomorrow - i cant wait! oh but there is
packing and a big mix festival meeting tonight -- ok well i hope everyone
is staying warm its so damn cold today in new york!
photos - i promise more soon
do you want to send me some pink clothes? I prefer them over white that
i have to dye because now i am worried a little about the dangers of wearing
hand dyed clothes (unfounded fear? not sure yet)
send me clothes i need them!
morty diamond
1083 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Bye
Morty
January 17,
2005
I HAVE DEFECTED!
Some of you will balk - but most will probably understand that today I
DID NOT wear pink! What started out as a mindful way of cleaning my few
pink clothes i put on a pair of blue jeans and a shirt and non pink shoes
and went to the damn laundromat and you know what? I felt a HUGE weight
off my shoulders - nobody even looked at me - Dirty Dancing was playing
on the TV and i watched it in peace as my laundry dried - i got home and
got together the outfit i was to wear today - pink jeans ...yeah the whole
pink outfit ... and i just say there and looked at it for a long time
...I simply could not bring myself to put it on! It was intense what my
brain was going through. But i figured one day just one day off would
be OK - i came to work today and got some crap for not being in pink but
when i began to explain to my co-workers what had happened at my house
- having to choose to put on the clothes - i started to almost well up
with tears ... i didnt realize just how STRESSFUL wearing an all pink
outfit would be and here i am almost at some sort of breakdown from it!
Can you imagine this ... pink - but the stares / the laughs / the verbal
reactions can be so so -- well so many things .... I AM out there for
all the world to react to -that IS a big part of the performace -- i just
need a breather to re-discover how to do this performance without killing
myself - literally
---any positive words would be great right now...
--morty
Comments
I think one of the hardest things with endurance/living/body art works
is that it is difficult for other people to fully understand how hard
it is.
I have a friend, Donna, who used to do this piece where she would spend
a day picking up grains of rice from the floor. No big deal right? She
wasn't in a hurry, so, how hard could it be, besides the boredom aspect?
well, turns out that picking up tiny grains of rice between your fingers
becomes really painful after awhile, they feel sharp, your joints hurt,
your knees and back get sore. but people who popped in and watched her
for a few minutes couldn't see that at all, to them it just seemed meditative.
It's good that you are letting people know how this project feels to do.
Maybe there can be a weekly Wear Pink in Solidarity with Morty Day? It
will be different for the ladies than the fellas, I'm sure but there's
always support in numbers. and I love it when people match.
=heart=
Posted by: sady | January 18, 2005 at 10:19 AM
January 16,
2005
A thought about race, class, homosexuality and the color pink
I have given quite a lot of thought to this part of the performance piece
that has to do with living in Bushwick, a neighborhood where white people
are the minority - I want to clarify a few things that may need to be
talked about more - I have been living in Bushwick for exactly three months
now. I live in a household that has been there for many years - my friend
who has been on the lease for the last five years is also a white transman.
Living in Bushwick is truly the classic gentrification case. White people
move into predominantly minority neighborhood and gradually make it "safer"
and "cleaner" and "better" and then before you know
it -- its a mostly white neighborhood. And yes the main reason I moved
into this place is because it was what I could afford. I want people to
know the reasons why I have decided to not do my performance on the streets
of Bushwick
1. I do not feel safe with the reactions I am getting dressed in head
to toe pink around my neighborhood - the attitude is not just distaste
but a very real violent reaction. The verbal threats i got were specifically
about looking like a fag and there was a threat to phyiscally assault
me.
BUT THIS IS THE BIG QUESTION I WANT EVERYONE TO THINK ABOUT ...could it
have been ANY neighborhood where such a violent reaction occurs? My awareness
with my surroundings has obviously grown with wearing pink and I am trying
to discern WHO the people are that are actively yelling at me, laughing
at me and generally causing me grief on the streets... not just in Bushwick
but in other parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan (though no physical violence
as of yet). Because I am in Bushwick a lot and I have been getting harassed
in my neighborhood I notice it is by mostly african amercian men. Would
I have the same reaction on the streets of Harlem or other parts of NYC
that are mostly minority neighborhoods? Would it change if the neighborhood
was more afluent? This also brings up masculinity - how masculinity and
race and class intersect. The harassment is mostly about looking "like
a fag" --- and that pink denotes feminity - and a lot of men yell
at me "Oh man! i thought you were a girl!" after seeing me.
What about mostly white neighborhoods??
When i go into mostly
white neighborhoods things change-- nobody seems to care enough to yell
at me or harass me verbally - As of yet that is - ......because this performance
piece is about gender and color and masculinity - how I move within each
neighborhood and get different reactions - this is very interesting to
discover and talk about.
2. I do NOT think its OK to move into a neighborhood like Bushwick and
expect the people in the neighborhood to accept this performance... because
I know that a man dressed this way, no matter what his race is - is going
to cause an eruption AND i am NOT saying I do not understand it. but again
its not just that i look white -- its also that i just look like a gay
man. So we also have to think about homosexuality and where that plays
a part in the harassment.So the "who the fuck does he think he is"
is correct in some ways..... Who the fuck do i think i am walking around
in pink expecting everyone to agree with it... I AM NOT EXPECTING EVERYONE
TO AGREE WITH IT. and what is of utmost importance to me is respecting
those around me.
I want to say that I had never felt threatened in any way in Bushwick
OR any other part of NYC until I started to wear pink. think about that....I
think it says a lot.
There is so much more to say but i would really like some input ...please
comment if you would.
--Morty
Comments
I love Pink and so should everyone around the world. Who cares who
is wearing it, it is just a color. I love you Morty!!! Please stay safe.
Posted by: Jodi | January 17, 2005 at 12:38 PM
thanks for the
support! see you soon!!!
Posted by: Morty | January 17, 2005 at 05:30 PM
i think it's a
totally complex situation, morty, you're right. it's not easily explained
soley by race or sexuality or gender. i mean, look at hip hop figures
like cam'ron and russel simmons, who, last season, "made pink gangsta".
also, i've seen numerous young men of color in light pink t-shirts, so
long they may as well be dresses riding the trains and walking the streets.
what does this mean? i have no idea. i'm sure, as you mentioned, it has
to do with how people read you and some level of intrusion. and while
at times we must be empathetic to such reactions, that doesn't always
make them okay. all this to say more power to you, morty, and take care
of yourself.
Posted by: taryn | January 18, 2005 at 01:32 PM
yes pink had or
has become a gang color (not just gangsta, but an actual gang color).
i don't know if it still is as I don't see many boys wearing pink anymore.
but i'm sure they won't read you as a gang member but they might think
there's a mocking quality to your manner of dress. Add that along with
the being perceived at gay and that's a whole lot of tension.
yes, please stay safe.
Posted by: deb | January 31, 2005 at 09:08 AM
January 16,
2005
Standing on the street - staring at that man
I decided to do some street theater by just hanging out on the street
and checking out reactions - dressed in my basic head to toe pink I hung
out around Union Square - a fairly busy area in general but on weekends
pretty crazy. It was a lot of staring - and a lot of young people, not
kids but teenagers, laughing. Some of them will wait until they pass me
and then bust out laughing and pointing - others will look me straight
in the eye and say "whats up with that!" - I know! I DO look
silly! and it IS sort of funny! I appreciate the laughing actually more
than stares or mean looks of death. At least these kids see it as more
of a joke than a threat to their gender identity constructs - who wears
pink - ONLY GIRLS AND FAGS! oh god i am already so over it!!! I am determined
to go out looking for men who are wearing pink - when i get home from
San Francisco I plan on running around Manhattan armed with a camera to
find pink clad dudes...i may not actually find any but it'll be fun to
try. Going to San Francisco for a week...I also wonder how the reactions
will change on the west coast.... are we really more open-minded over
there? We shall see......happy sunday --- and thanks for reading my blog
-- send me a message!!
January 15,
2005
WALKING bottle of PEPTO BISMOL
Pink PINK PINK! Sometimes it is a huge part of my life - this living art
- and other times i forget that irs even happening - i take my clothes
off to go to sleep - i am lying naked on my bed watching a movie and i
drift into a life where pink means nothing to me - when i wake up it catches
my eye - my pink pants draped over the chair - oh yes, right - i have
to put those on today - of course i am not forcing myself - but sometimes
a little piece of me wants to dress in some other color - i take a shower
i eat and all the while i am preparing myself for this color - i take
my time today - maybe i REALLY dont want to wear pink right now but then
i must be naked. ok but now i have to get on with the day - and slowly
put on the outfit - pink jeans - a pink button up shirt - pink sweater
- pink hightops - i hope my trip to san francisco next week with yield
more clothes and additions to my pink life. still...no pink socks and
no pink underwear -- thats going to cost me some money that i dont have
right now - so here i am all fully dressed - i feel like a walking bottle
of pepto bismol - yeeeck! - i look down and i understand how strong this
color is - well all color is strong i think in their own way but pink....pink
is powerful i feel more powerful that most other colors. more photos soon
- i am in the market for a digital camera so i can upload everyday a brand
new photo..... all in good time ...
welcome in the pink day!
-morty
January 14,
2005
sensitive young man in pink
i worked many hours at the mix festival office downtown - went out looking
for a snack and its really interesting - all these business folks they
are totally devoid of any awareness of their surroundings -- i am downtown
like Wall Street - where big money happens in new york city - they just
walk right past me as if well as if there was nobody there - I am wearing
pink jeans and a pink sweatshirt and of course my pink hightops - but
when i hopped on the train to go home i put on my black hoodie - so i
was half pink half black and as i made my way from the platform to the
street i could see a small group of young guys at the bottom of the stairs
- i thought for sure they wouldnt notice me but then one turns around
and stares - nothing is said - i walk past - still nothing but as soon
as i am a few feet away i hear a really loud cackle a guffaw but LOUD
- and a remark "HA! Look! Pink!" these guys were not very good
at throwing insults but it frightened me no less - i walked down the street
and all i was thinking was please nobody notice my pants - i thought like
this all the way to my house -- its so scary - i cant explain it - maybe
others of you out there have felt this way ... i know i am a target and
i feel literally like a target like its just a matter of time till i get
hurt - god this really ....sucks. i really am afraid.
i cant wait to go to work today - where everyone loves me in pink....
--morty
Comments
I know the feeling of walking around afraid. At school there are a
load of people who's mission in life is to make my life hell. They stopped
a week or so ago after I told a teacher but I still look at the floor
every time I see them.
Posted by: Mark | February 02, 2006 at 08:05 PM
January 13,
2005
PACK A PUNCH
here were a few things that went down yesterday:
i got an email from leslie feinberg letting me know ze thinks the project
is brilliant and that i have her full support!
walking down 2nd avenue in the east village i came upon a large group
of young boys (15-16 year olds) who began to harrass me -- "Hey faggot!
You in the pink!"
I am slowly getting used to this torture -- though i do have to say i
am little more jumpy in public and most likely will be for the rest of
the year....
talking with a friend yesterday who is familiar with textiles she began
to tell me how toxic a lot of dyes are - especially RIT dye - which i
have used once. I begin to realize that this might be really bad for my
body and am starting to investigate other types of dye that are more natural.
i am wondering more about camouflage -- for the first time in my performance
i wore a black hoodie to the train station and when i felt comfortable
replaced it with my pink sweater - that happened on the train with a few
people giving me stares --- but i felt more in charge of my space with
the black on (weird isnt it?) in my neighborhood so i think i am going
this route -- also thinking of getting a pair of very thin black pants
that i can just throw over my pink when i feel it necessary.
today i am inside working on the mix festival (www.mixfest.org)
so probably wont get too much attention today....
--morty
January 11,
2005
IDEAS / PINK STEPS
I had this idea for a performance as a part of my year in pink project:
the post office thats on 8th avenue and in the West 30's is HUGE - it
takes up a whole city block and the steps to the building are extraordinary
--- the thing about this massive building is that its this drab sorta
sad looking grey - i thought one day i would come with a few very long
strips of bright pink butcher paper and cover a few steps of the post
office with it - then do some sort of fun performance on those bright
pink steps -- the contrast of the pink to the grey would be stricking
- then i could sit there and act out a PINK Q and A.
Like this:
Q: (Police man talking) Excuse me sir but just what do you think you're
doing!
A: Well...this is my performance piece for the year 2005 - see I am dressed
in all pink and will be for the whole year and why I am doing this is...
Cop: TAKE THIS PINK STUFF OUTTA HERE OR YOUR GOING TO BE ARRESTED!
Me: OK OK! Jeezus... (under my breath) another anti-pink asshole.
I'm going to do something like this and look forward to cops flying off
the hook...they're so good at it I feel it my duty to antagonize....
-Morty
January 11,
2005
its snowing
snowing in new york! keep on the lookout for the pink iceman...
January 10,
2005
ISNT IT FUN TO STARE?
Staring - I admit that i do it sometimes --- and now on my 11th day I
have to admit that staring is becoming a daily part of my life --- Staring
happens a lot in the train and train platforms -- i mean here we are all
stuck together - a few have ipods and shit to distract them - but i dont,
many dont have distractions butttttt i, mr wearing all pink guy, can be
a huge distraction - maybe even one that will take up the whole boring
train ride! I dont mind - again its apart of the performance (gotta get
those business cards!) but i wonder - am i that interesting to look at?
I guess I am - people whisper to their friends they point and yes they
even talk to me and say "whats up with that pink?" in a tone
i can never quite pinpoint - am i making you angry? or happy? hmmm and
what kind of dialogue should i start up -- i mean here i am i have these
peoples attention (for better or worse) and i feel like they are expecting
me to start juggling or something - but maybe instead i could go off about
pink and its conotations we all have to it and why its really a mind blowing
thing to see a man walking around in all pink the headlines will say "Man
In All Pink Only Wants You To Reconsider Your Emotions About Color and
Make It Alright To Wear Pink and Still Look Masculine" I know a lot
of you reading have no issues at all with men wearing pink ---
good night till tomorrow
-Morty
January 10,
2005
Toys In Babeland fun
For all of you that dont know I work at Toys In Babeland - an amazing
place to work not just because its a sex toy store thats owned by 2 amazing
women but all my co-workers are all really great and i love going to work..I
really do! Especially Friday. Anyway here I am wearing my pink outfit
--- I always get a huge smile from co-workers and it makes me feel like
I am "in the zone" I love that when I go to work I am working
yes, and I am Morty working... but I am more than that while wearing pink
- i get to ineract with customers on many levels and many of them ask
me about my pink outfit. to which i tell them "Its my year in pink!
A performance where I wear all pink and walk the earth gathering information
about gender, color, communication, and art."
--send me a comment! bye -- Morty
Comments
yea morty! i cannot wait to work with you in this year of pink. i have
been looking in my closet to find things to donate (seriously) and i think
i've found a couple of things. yea morty!
Posted by: taryn | January 11, 2005 at 01:32 PM
January 10,
2005
Morning time
Hello! I have more clothes that i have dyed pink - i go to work today
- so its a lot of customers for the most part being complementary to my
outfit....a nice change of pace...
January 09,
2005
HATE CRIMES / PINK / NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS
This is a time based performance - this is an art piece - and this is
a piece that conjures up many emotions from those who see me -- when i
got harrassed last night i was in my neighborhood of bushwick a mostly
non-white area - the boys who attacked me were african american - this
is all so relevant - why did seeing a guy in pink make them act so evil
toward me? it was a clear hate crime - the threat to kick my ass and calling
me a faggot - i imagined the boys right before their car pulled up to
me - one guy saying to the other "hey look at that sick shit..stop
the car! stop the car!" i just stood there helpless -- i thought
to myself if i run that might give them an excuse to get out and run after
me and attack. i thought of myself in that second the bunny that gets
let loose so dogs can run after it and kill it - so i just stood there
while they made the decision to get out and kick my ass or not. i also
felt very young --- the thought of getting beaten up by what looked to
me to be boys no older than 17 or 18 gave me this old feeling of getting
called a dyke in highschool by the burly football player -- and also later
on in my life when i started my transition it brought back memories of
getting spit on on the bus by a group of young girls (all of them african
american) who yelled WHAT IS IT! GIRL OR BOY! WHATEVER IT IS ITS FUCKING
NASTY! laughing and pointing at me... i felt just as helpless then as
i did last night.
today i helped a friend move some furniture and went to Whole Foods where
my friend stopped me and said "Look! the guy who greets people is
wearing pink!" He was wearing a pink button down shirt -
it looked good on him. I wondered very briefly if he ever gets shit for
wearing that shirt... then i realized how neighborhood centric this hatred
is. Bushwick...those boys who attacked me - they have a hardcore idea
of what is appropriate in their neighborhood. and faggots and pink are
NOT ok -- masculinity....i dont know there is something my brain is trying
to wrap around. i am a white person wearing pink in a neighborhood that
isnt used to seeing that - ever -
i understand this - so my friends and i are talking and discussing the
idea of when i am in my neighborhood if i can make a clause to the performance
that says its ok to be undercover i.e. not wear so much pink - for my
safety - i am still thinking about that -- sady said "because we
already know hate crimes exist and thats not what this performance is
about" and i agree 100%. but i am also an all or nothing type of
person. and what would be sufficient for disguise purposes like no pink
scarf of hat and instead black but what about the pink shoes and jeans?
would that be enough to get another attack??
i still have to make those cards - not that i would have handed those
boys a card but for those with only mild acts of freakout - someone i
would feel comfortable handing a card that says - - did you have a positive
or negative reaction to me? this is a performance piece based on the color
pink - it would say other stuff i just cant think of it right now...
you know... i am a little scared right now - i know what i look like makes
some people angry and conjures up violence (yes pink makes people see
red!) i have to meditate on all this.....
Comments
hi morty! ducky doolittle linked to your pink journal--it's good to
see you(on-line). i love the color pink and wear it often, though usually
not head to toe. i'm sorry to hear your pink-wearing has provoked negative
response, but i can't say i'm surprised. be safe and keep rockin' the
pink!
love, pete
Posted by: pete weiss | January 10, 2005 at 02:31 AM
January 08,
2005
It Only Took A Second
"Only bitches wear pink you fucking FAGGOT!!" This is what is
yelled at me from a car that stops in the crosswalk that i am about to
walk through - three guys laugh and after the faggot remark one of the
guys says "I should get out and the beat the fucking shit out of
you!"
I stand there totally helpless and actually emotionless too.. what can
i say? I have my hands full with grocery bags and I am walking back to
my house from the grocery store no more than three blocks away from where
i live. what i can i say or do? i just stand there - a few seconds later
the car speeds away.....and i walk the block and a half back to my house.
I am wearing head to toe pink - a pink scarf and pink hat as well as pink
shoes and jeans....but when i get home all i can think about is why! I
am questioning the performance piece in terms of safety for my life....
January 08,
2005
Oh Jesus!
Well here i am my first attempt at an online journal - i never thought
- really never thought that i would carry a conversation with the world
in such a way - but here i am - and i figured after so many interesting
things were actually happening to me with regards to my year in pink that
i was sure many others would want to know! So hopefully all this typing
is not in vain! Today i stayed inside and YES wore pink! even when nobody
can catch me wearing another color - i know a lot of people would ask
me well dont cheat and wear black to bed - ok ok i am admitting that my
very favorite thing to sleep in are my blue sweatpants and .....i do still
wear them! ok ok but i havent had the money to get a new pair of PINK
sleeping sweatpants! I was bought a pair of pink sweatpants and they were
too long -- so they dont get much use ..yet.. but in any case here i am
in head to toe pink (yes even my shoes) and writing this journal... more
soon.
Commentsi told you i would hem those pink sweatpants
for you!Posted by: Sady Sullivan | January 08, 2005 at
07:02 PM
it should also
be known that morty cheated and started his year in Pink BEFORE the year
2005 officially began. that's right, he was decked head to toe in pink
pink pink on the 31st.
and we were walking out of the liquor store on new year's eve having bought
some champagne and this guy said something like "you're sweatin'
that pink!" he was really into it! and some other stranger affectionately
called Morty Mr. Pinky in a really delicious accent
Posted by: Sady | January 08, 2005 at 07:10 PM
Yes its true -
i did start a day early but i dont know i just got overly excited about
not having to pick out a new years eve outfit....
Posted by: Morty | January 08, 2005 at 07:18 PM
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