It all started long ago, when the batteries in the stupid man cave clock died. I call it stupid because the basement is not a 'man cave'; it's a 'Kat cave', because I spend more time in the basement than the collective population of males in my house. The clock itself is stupid because it comes from the era when the basement's walls were dedicated solely to sports, which I find stupid. (Now, we covered one of the pictures of Alan with the poster that came with Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. We moved down two of the same goalie, and replaced them with posters of Jim Morrison, KISS, and The Beatles.) So, the batteries died, and time started to have no meaning in the basement. We replaced the batteries, but now, I have to look at a clock with some butt-ugly guy making a grunting-type face whenever I want to check the time.
Now, as I'm in grade 8, I have woodshop once every 6 school days, and I have to make something out of wood. One of the options is to make a clock. Being someone in desperate need of a clock, I had to choose between a clock or a bigger CD rack. Do I live with the 5 layers of CDs beside the player, who do I keep staring at that hideous face for the time? I chose the clock. If I have time at the end of the term, I can make an additional layer for my CDs.
A clock made in woodshop is a rectangle with the numbers on one half, and a logo or design of some kind on the other half. Most kids choose a sports logo, or a number. I chose Led Zeppelin's 4 symbols. (It was a hard choice between them and the KISS army logo. I got talked out of that because there were too many colors.)
I printed out a picture of the four symbols and traced a circle around them, because the woodshop teacher is highly against squares. The whole time I was cutting out the circle: "What do they mean?" "Are they, like, symbols of a cult?" (yes.) "Why would you put something on a clock that no one knows what it means?" (Anyone who's anyone knows where the symbols come from)
The whole time, I was trying to convince the people around me who had nothing better to do that I was basically putting the name of an album on a clock. ("Who's the band?")
This is why I cry for this generation. They do not know of the symbols. How can any self-respecting human being not know what the symbols are?
In case you are one of the non-self-respecting human beings, these are the symbols. The four symbols. They represent music the gods wrote and the angels sang. They represent the four members of Led Zeppelin: (clockwise, starting from top left) Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham. (Clockwise, that was a pun. Get it?)
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