Mr. Housing Bubble

I wore my new Mr. Housing Bubble (“Not affiliated with Mr. Internet Bubble”) t-shirt while at Mayfair mall today and three or four youthful black men stopped me and insisted on getting a cameraphone photo of the cool shirt. Now, I’m a white nerd type, so far from cool that light leaving from cool takes years to reach me, so I don’t really know for sure if they actually thought it is a cool shirt, or if this was more of an ironic thing, and they thought I was the biggest dweb ever, but they seemed cheerful. For all I know, there is some pre-existing Mr. Bubble that has nothing to do with joking about people losing money in the stock market or real estate, and they were getting some joke that I’m not even aware of. Anyway, with my fashion sense, I don’t wear a lot of clothes that attract attention, so it was an interesting experience. (The music+science=sexy shirt is popular at filks, though.)