https:\/\/medium.com\/@bruces\/ancient-everyday-weirdness-591955f40a2d<\/a><\/p>\nThis design essay is part of a series, including \u201cThe Homemade Limits of Everyday Weirdness\u201d and \u201cSome Public Limits of Everyday Weirdness.\u201d I release these essays on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
My two earlier essays were about weird domestic arrangements. This one concerns weird everyday objects.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery Day Carry\u201d is a lifestyle native to the 21st century. This hobby was directly named after \u201cthe everyday.\u201d \u201cEvery Day Carry\u201d concerns tools, toys and\/or utensils which somebody, somehow, feels obliged to lug around on their own person. All the time. Every Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWeird Everyday Carry\u201d is a niche even more intriguing to me, because it combines my abiding interests in the oxymoronic, the everyday, and the weird. How weird is everyday weird? What are the limits to weirdness? How long has this weirdness been going on?<\/p>\n
That term-of-art \u201cEvery Day Carry\u201d is a neologism from digital social media, but the weirdness is prehistoric. The term-of-art from archaeology would be \u201cmanuport.\u201d A \u201cmanuport\u201d is some hand-carried knick-knack, a small shiny object, commonly a pretty rock, that somebody saw and grasped. They picked it up, by hand, and lugged it a long distance, just because they were happy to look at it, and they wanted it in their hand….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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