D.C.-artist Lee Gainers has produced a series of smart and elegant prints called "Two Month's Salary." Each piece lists a profession and then shows the engagement rings that a man on that profession's median salary could afford to purchase (engagement rings are, apparently, supposed to chew up two month's salary). It's possibly testament to my own poor taste that the rings available to the truck driver looked better to me than the rings available to the A-list actor. The latter borrow too much from the belts you get when you win the WWE Tag Team Championship. Indeed, the main takeaway, I think, is that women should seek out more patrol officers for holy matrimony because they seem to have access to the classiest jewelry.Dana Goldstein takes the art as a jumping-off point for a longer meditation on engagement rings. "I totally understand the appeal of engagement rings in that they visibly mark a milestone in someone's life," she says. I sort of don't. I understand the appeal of dinners at Le Bernadin to mark a milestone. If you want visual proof, you can probably buy a shirt or something. Conversely, I do understand the utility rings possess for signaling attachment. And I think it's a good thing! Having spent my share of time single, I rather appreciated the cool clarity offered by commitment jewelry. But then there's no reason men shouldn't be wearing engagement rings as well. Presumably, this will all soon be obsolete as we'll just upload our attachment status to an iPhone app or Facebook profile and would-be suitors can quickly check their smart phones before approaching. Unrelated: Clicking around Gainers' site, I really loved her series "Household." PATROL OFFICERS HAVE THE NICEST ENGAGEMENT RINGS.
D.C.-artist Lee Gainers has produced a series of smart and elegant prints called "Two Month's Salary." Each piece lists a profession and then shows the engagement rings that a man on that profession's median salary could afford to purchase (engagement rings are, apparently, supposed to chew up two month's salary). It's possibly testament to my own poor taste that the rings available to the truck driver looked better to me than the rings available to the A-list actor. The latter borrow too much from the belts you get when you win the WWE Tag Team Championship. Indeed, the main takeaway, I think, is that women should seek out more patrol officers for holy matrimony because they seem to have access to the classiest jewelry.Dana Goldstein takes the art as a jumping-off point for a longer meditation on engagement rings. "I totally understand the appeal of engagement rings in that they visibly mark a milestone in someone's life," she says. I sort of don't. I understand the appeal of dinners at Le Bernadin to mark a milestone. If you want visual proof, you can probably buy a shirt or something. Conversely, I do understand the utility rings possess for signaling attachment. And I think it's a good thing! Having spent my share of time single, I rather appreciated the cool clarity offered by commitment jewelry. But then there's no reason men shouldn't be wearing engagement rings as well. Presumably, this will all soon be obsolete as we'll just upload our attachment status to an iPhone app or Facebook profile and would-be suitors can quickly check their smart phones before approaching. Unrelated: Clicking around Gainers' site, I really loved her series "Household." 
