November 30, 2005

• It's the new black.
• Start wearing purple, wearing purple
• Engineers at my school dye themselves purple from head to toe using a compound called Gentian Violet during frosh week and Homecoming. 'Tis a barrel of laughs, even if the chemical is a carcinogen (only mildly, I hear...)
• It's the light wavelengths bouncing off of it. They're so... short...
• Well I guess they are rare because of the Purple People Eater....
• Thanks ian would! What a great vid. Now I cannot get that tune out of my brain... maybe I'll start wearing purple now...
• Grandma Purple presumably inspired by Joyce Vranich's I Will Wear Purple but couldn't see it anywhere.
• i've thought for a while that gogol bordello's start wearing purple was inspired by vranich's poem. i have no evidence to back this up. purple is thought by some to denote sexual frustration.
• Some of those sites also say it's a favorite color of artists! Ha! Right, while I am somewhat perturbed by the Purple People site and would never ever buy one of their products, I absolutely love the color. I don't ever dress head to toe in it, and certainly don't decorate my home with it, I just have a lot of clothes in various shades o' violet. I also like to wear burgundy, which tends to get as many spontaneous love-hate reactions as purple, oddly enough. Why do I like the colors? One major reason is that I have a pronounced pink tint to my skin. Red, yellow, brown, many blues and the very common yellowish beige look awful on me. (The beige thing is a real pain, I have to make my own clothes in more neutral or pinkish beiges in order to get neutrals in my wardrobe.) Purple and burgundy look very good on me, and I like the depth in them. Voilà.
• Jenny Joseph's poem, the basis for Vranich's less weighty version.
• I've heard that there's even a group-blog website that uses a purple color scheme as its default. Crazy! Thanks for the vid, Ian. I should have just watched that instead of wastng all that time watching the movie it was recently in which shall remain nameless.
• I have purple ink in my fountain pen. I hope that doesn't make me as unhinged as users of green ink.
• I'm sort of a purple person. I was probably inspired by the Jenny Joseph poem fish tick mentions, but I also just like the color. :) I do wear other colors, but I have a lot of purple in my wardrobe, and the last two cars I've bought have been purple--the second one a very black purple where the purple is becoming more pronounced as the car ages. The folders in my file drawers are purple, as are the pendaflex hangers they're sitting in. The posters hung behind my couch are predonminantly purple. The wineglass from last night's dinner sitting by my computer that needs to go to the kitchen to be washed is purple. I woudn't consider buying any of the purple people store products that proclaim my love for purple. I'm a purple person, but I don't need to talk about it much. It's just part of who I am. One thing about being a purple person is that when you have the reputation for it, you start to accumulate purple gifts. The wineglass I mentioned wasn't a purchase of mine: it came from a dear friend along with its mate as an engagement gift to me and my husband about 6 years ago. When you're a purple person, you're purple for life.
• I like purple. Purple looks good on me. I am sitting here now, in a purple t-shirt, looking at a purple mousepad and purple handrest inserts on my laptop, drinking out of a purple mug. Having said all that, some of those links disturb the bejeebus out of me. (Except that purple Xmas tree. I want one of those. Ooh, and a purple Leatherman tool!!)
• I work with a purple person. Why aren't there people obsessed with other colors in the same way? Is it the alliteration that's the draw?
• Purple is my favorite color, but I don't own a whole lot of purple things. It is more of an accent color for me, with black being the predominate color that surrounds me. Does that make me a purple person?
• Are you sure it doesn't have something to do with the Purple Man? I hear he's good at starting cults...
• A lot of people in Camden Town wear a lot of black, with accent colours of purple and red. They tend to be quite pale. A friend from my theatre co wears a lot of purple stripes, and has a Tim Burton bag and a Dr Seuss t-shirt. Are all these related?
• That's the one I was thinking of fish tick - I was deceived by Google and my own dim memory.
• Let's not forget the Red Hat Society - they are old, and starting to wear purple in a big way.
• It seems to me that stores like that exist for just about any obsession (cat people come to mind, offhand). But why purple? I don't know either. The purple people I know are obsessive about it too. And annoying.
• I am a purple person. I am wearing a purple shirt and ring right now. I have a purple wallet, purple checks, purple pens (in appearance and ink) galore, my cell phone is purple, water bottle, Post-its, clipboard, Game Boy... and that's just what I can see in my cubicle without getting up. I am currently squee-ing over the fact that I found a dressed-in-purple Santa figurine last weekend. I'm not absolutely crazy over the color, I just prefer purple. If I see an item I like, and it comes in purple, I get it in purple. Why? It's the color of royalty. It's an easy color to wear and it's not something you see *everyone* in. It is a rich and visually interesting color. A lot of my favorite scents (lilac, lavender) are associated with purple. Few of the people I frequently share living space with are as into it as I am, which makes it easy to claim my stuff. "Oh, that's Amanda's toothbrush/hairclip/pen. It's purple." immlass is very right: once people know you like purple, the purple gifts just keep coming. Dog forbid I ever stop liking it, no one will know what to do for me when it's gift giving time!
• I used to have a really nice purple-glaze ceramic hash pipe. I had my (custom) electric guitar laquered in a dark purple. That's as far as I go.
• MonkerFilter: not something you see *everyone* in
• I like purple too. I have purple shirts, but they just don't work on Bay Street, except on special occasions. I blame this.
• We have a bright purple house down the road from us. I mean really bright. With elecric blue trim. My sister calls it "Mistint Manor". When I used to work in a paint store, the screw-ups were called "mistints"...never mind...
• I had my (custom) electric guitar laquered in a dark purple. Sure that wasn't deep purple?
• Yeah, Zanshin, I was a child in time, you bloodsucker. In fact I was a speed king.
• A highway star, even?
• and now you're a living wreck?
• as a pasty redhead I can really only wear that lovely autumnal, muted eggplant purple, which I like. it goes well with my predominantly PIB wardrobe. but I think you purple people are WEIRDOS!!!!
• Does this have anything to do with those 'Indigo Children'?
• Sounds like a cult, get 'im!
• Sounds like a cult, get 'im!
• Sorry dial ups slow, sometimes I double post by accident.
• purple is thought by some to denote sexual frustration. Oh. So that's my problem. I have quite a few purple outfits and stuff. Blue is still my favourite colour, but ever since my father gave me an amethyst bracelet(looks slightly like this, but the amethysts I have are deeper and more even in colour) I've been actively coordinating my clothes to match it. So my wardrobes full of dark purple shawls, lavender or pink outfits. But some shades of purple are clear no-nos for me, especially the very bright or very red shades. *goes back to browsing passionforpurple*
• I have a friend like that. She's really annoying. My mother-in-law is a purpleholic, too. Ever notice that a lot of them are redheads? I think it's something about their eyes not getting the same wavelength as the rest of us. Aliens.