tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26671202017336845092024-02-06T21:59:19.603-08:00guidetobadtasteA general guide to having bad taste.The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.comBlogger291125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-80266807206656327282016-05-06T13:51:00.003-07:002016-05-06T13:51:48.463-07:00Chain-smoking and dusting off the shelves<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-35863704720774033852015-03-11T18:32:00.001-07:002015-03-11T18:32:59.709-07:00We were men once... and casual.There's something about pre-re-appreciation that gets me; the calm before the eminent bullshittery that is marketing and repackaging.<br />
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There were men once. The greatest of casual men. They were post-"90s what is now being called norm-core" and pre-"skinny ties, Interpol, and resold authenticity". They wore the greatest of casual sneakers.<br />
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Like crap you got at Pay-Less and cost $25 because, "who is this tasteless, even?" Which is great that they got those shoes so cheap they could shell out for the latest Nokia and cell-phone holster; the real testament to virtue, wealth, and social standing.<br />
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*stands over gas grill, not charcoal like the Baptists next door, and proclaims the day won*<br />
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"YEP GOT THIS NOKIA HERE, SEE HERE TELLS THE TIME HERE. AND WHEN YOU PRESS THIS BUTTON IT TELLS YOU ALL THE NUMBERS YOU SAVED. Y'KNOW WHAT ELSE IT DOES?<br />
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TAKES PITCHERS. TOOK A PITCHER OF WHEN SOMEONE BUMPED INTO MY REAR BUMPER AND SENT IT TO MY INSURANCE AGENT AND I MADE SURE I GOT REIMBURSED. FUCKING KID DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE DAMN STICK TOOK MY CAR FIVE DAYS TO GET THE DENT POUNDING OUT BY THE BODY SHOP.<br />
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YEAH, I GOT A NINETY-NINE MUSTANG QUITE THE CAR BUT INSURANCE RATES ARE HIGH. STILL LOOKS PRETTY GOOD EVEN WITH THE BUMPER PAINT A LITTLE OFF. THE BODY SHOP DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB HERE BUT THE PAINT TEXTURE AINT QUITE ON BUT IT'S PRETTY CLOSE DUNCHA THINK?"<br />
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*drinks Bud. NASCAR, a well followed and interesting sport at the time (this would've been in proximity to Earnhardt's death) zips and buzzes in the background*<br />
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They were casual ubermenschen. Their likes will never be seen again.<br />
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Well, that's not entirely true. We'll see their corrupted spirits in hip-bars, manifested as young men.<br />
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<span class="s1">Bill Evans is just one of many jazz tragedies. So if you’ve been here before, you can continue on.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">His story could be told as a family story — as his brother Harry's story is intertwined — but Harry never played with Miles Davis so it’s not.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">After Harry’s tragedy (schizophrenia and suicide), Bill recorded <i>We Will Meet Again</i> and <i>I Will Say Goodbye</i>. Those two albums, in my opinion, are his best works*.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Either way, this is a clothes blog and I should probably talk about Bill Evan’s style and subsequent decent into the 1970s and final days. While he recorded <i>We Will Meet Again</i> and <i>I Will Say Goodbye</i> in the 70s, many of his laudable sartorial days are in years prior — indicating the fallibility of man just through his sartorial decisions. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Are there lessons to take away from this? Sartorially, none that you don’t already know.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Maybe it’s that you shouldn’t abuse heroin. Maybe it’s that you should get so cut up inside when you go through a family tragedy. Maybe it’s that if you never beat yourself up, you won’t be remembered as a jazz great or just great in general. Maybe it’s that if you never beat yourself up, you’ll never go down a path of heroin, depression, and a decade long suicide.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Maybe it’s that the impulsive jazz of life is up, down, happy, sad, and that man isn’t consistent. You could be remembered for great things. They’ll remember your “fuck ups” too, though.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Heck, maybe it’ll be that your “fuck ups” are what help you craft great things. Maybe you’ll be dressed terribly while doing it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">*Of course this is a subjective opinion. There are a lot of Jazz Heads who would disagree and be able to formulate a more cohesive argument than I ever could.</span></div>
The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-23496121618472463892014-07-15T18:01:00.000-07:002014-07-15T18:07:21.201-07:00Best Made Co.Stumbling on the internet late at night, SF found an odd piece of writing on a website he apparently trolls. He sent it my way and we decided to share it with you all.<br />
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Either way, given that Best Made Co. is a brand familiar with #menswear heads, I figured that it was worth a share.<br />
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<span class="s1">"There are different ways to create an axe. There’s the homegrown, hardware store, classic oak handle, with cheap, sticky lacquer, that sticks on your hands when you chop, axe that you can pick up for $15. Then, there are axes where the creator takes the idea of an axe, makes it sophisticated like a fine whiskey or wine, creates it out of the best materials for your money, with a sharp that stays sharp many uses after, handles that is smooth and allows you to make swift strokes, and will always look inconspicuous in your car so that you’re never read your Miranda’s. Those are the axes we’re looking for. The top of the barrel. From the first time I swung this axe crafted by Best Made Co., I knew that I’d be writing about it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I selected a Best Made Co. axe with a 4lb Dayton pattern head made out of 5160 alloy steel hardened to 54-56 HRS, allowing for reach and swiftness -- both necessities in our business. I gave it a few swings in store -- it felt appropriate and even people around me were a bit frightened; the perfect reaction. The American Felling Axe is the heavier model and recommended. When hewering limbs, small axes never do the job.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The detailing on the head of the axe is a nice touch, with an unpolished nature being a nod to axe murderers of old. The details are inconspicuous, yet you can’t help but stare at it. It’s the sort of thing your victims will see but never think, “Gee, that’s an awful fancy axe. I wonder if he’s going to swing it at my head. It’d be a shame, he probably spent a fortune on it,” -- anything other than absolute terror in henosis and imminence. The hickory is the sort of weight that’d you’d expect in an old folk tale -- just right in the most sinister sense. There is almost an ancient feel to the axe, even though it’s brand new, giving life to old arms and the opposite to some young souls. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On the first test run, I caught a young man in an alley -- urinating behind a dumpster of a bar. Snagging him by his collar, I drug him deeper into the depths of dark. With a hefty swing, I sent his conscious into kenosis -- head splattering, spewing, and peppering blood, bile, and bits of the trachea and esophagus onto the pavement and old chinese take-out boxes. The first swing felt right. The motion was fluid and well-balance, much unlike anything you’d buy at ACE Hardware or the like. I hewered a few more limbs off the frame and disposed of the body, leaving what looked to be vomited pasta sauce on the wall. Finishing cleaning up the mess, I wiped the blade down with a towel that would be burnt. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It was after this that I realized that I was holding a penultimate blade -- something only to be beaten by a craftsmen yet to be born. Great art would be produced with Best Made Co. axes. I, at least, would see to it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://www.bestmadeco.com/collections/axes">The Best Made Co. American Felling Axe retails at $350 USD</a>."</span></div>
The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-40732640206153922482014-06-30T18:38:00.001-07:002014-06-30T18:38:50.205-07:00How to sell the unsellableKnowing a total of 0 things about marketing, I thought I'd lend a generous (and very free) hand to a large menswear shop and figure out how to sell the product that hasn't moved since last season.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mrporter.com/am/home.mrp">Mr. Porter</a> tends to stock its shop full of elusive and hard-to-find products -- usually they're hard to find for a reason but I digress -- then is stuck trying to move Milwakee Buck mascot costumes made out of 40% Alpaca, 20% Gold, 10% Snow Leopard feces, and 30% Lycra. Y'see, there's just not a big enough market for that sort of thing.<br />
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But, on the edges, in the corners of society, there are people who must want these products, right?<br />
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One's man's unsold product is another man's severely discounted steal.<br />
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40 year old men who work in puppetry for Nick Jr.<br />
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The men who work in the Amazon warehouses and never leave -- vestigal eyes and all.<br />
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Upper-middle-class juggalos.<br />
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Men who are children's librarians.<br />
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Raffi.<br />
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These are the men to whom the products must be marketable.<br />
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Upon development of a time machine, Mr. Porter should take trip back to the early 20th century and sell these on the streets of where-ever boat races occur.<br />
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While paper currency will be reasonably useless, there are many current day coin collectors who pay sums of money for the $2 of coins these jackets would collect. This requires a second step, but moving goods is the most important part -- amount of steps taken is a trifling concern.<br />
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Used car salesmen who specialize in late 80s Chryslers.<br />
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On the streets of NYFW. That's an odd and useless crew if I've ever seen one. They would eat this shit up.<br />
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Too bad they've never been to a site like Mr. Porter. OHWAIT....<br />
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Sell this product to men who run Street Fighter console tournaments as prize support.<br />
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It would be an interesting way to 1. increase attendance for these things because people love competing for dumb things and 2. move these hoodies because the real world is not an anime (somebody tell that to Rick Owens though? Maybe? Nah? Ok.).<br />
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Donate to the Island of Bill Cosby clones. No hope of selling this product -- cut your losses and run.<br />
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<br />The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-57910054577234959602014-05-27T19:40:00.000-07:002014-05-27T19:43:57.495-07:00Waves and Wine<a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/gant-rugger-waves_zps99956e38.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo gant-rugger-waves_zps99956e38.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/gant-rugger-waves_zps99956e38.jpg" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://us.gant.com/gant-rugger-pf14-campaign-waves">New Gant Rugger</a> products hurr.<br />
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Waves is apparently a theme -- a sort of surfing, melancholy vibe that is possibly tangible through the copyright. You guys have read Ginny Woolf or whatever since you went to Sewanee or Haverford or BU or whatever, so you probably understand. Or whatever.<br />
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It's a bit Gap Kids in three figures but you've got dreams and plans of being a surfer, so go forth...<br />
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What this really needs...<br />
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What this really needs is a big bag of Franzia. Red, sugar laced, and staining.<br />
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The kind you drink with a tie as you tell others what losers they are because they're not wearing a tie.<br />
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Isn't that #menswear?<br />
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Your "being" in sartorial supremacy while drinking wine that'll get fucking all over you.<br />
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This is just a reminder that everyone is drinking the same Franzia. You should try some.<br />
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Waves is nice, I guess.<br />
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I don't know. I only looked at a couple pictures.<br />
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Edit: It's also post-Memorial Day Weekend so, "YAHHHH GO WHITE CLOTHING THINGS" obligatory post.<br />
<br />The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-18245939204380927512014-04-22T18:19:00.001-07:002014-04-22T18:28:15.089-07:00GOP SocksHW and I are on a first name basis, or so my email would tell me.<br />
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Anyway, I got an emessage from him a few days ago -- he's pretty hip these days -- concerning a new venture of his:<br />
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John,</div>
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I don’t know what your guilty pleasures are in life, but one of mine is socks.</div>
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I’m a self-proclaimed sock man. The louder, the brighter, the crazier the pattern -- the better! It’s usually the first thing people notice I’m wearing whenever I’m out in public and that’s the way I like it.</div>
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So when Chairman Reince Priebus asked me to write to you on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC), I told him I’d be happy to do it. But on one condition: <a href="http://click1.action.gop.com/ozrcrgzplvfdwgwgdknkzdszmsdpmmkncjwkjtsttwrlf_frnnsrrdh.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">my letter to you had to involve socks.</a></div>
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I’m proud to say the RNC has commissioned a limited-edition pair of socks in my honor. Embroidered with the Republican elephant and my signature on them, they’re sure to get you noticed.</div>
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<a href="http://click1.action.gop.com/dpsldkpbmngfckckfrwrpfzpszfbssrwlhcrhtzttcdmt_frnnsrrdh.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">You can get your own pair today or as a gift for your favorite Republican by sending a special campaign contribution of $35 or more to the RNC now.</a> And if you donate $35 or more to the RNC now, your gift will be matched by a group of donors. </div>
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(the rest is edited out for brevities sake)</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 27.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/socks_zpsf8cc119d.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo socks_zpsf8cc119d.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/socks_zpsf8cc119d.jpg" /></a></span></span></div>
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So, following other sock brand kickstarters selling subpar socks, the GOP has gotten on that band wagon. </div>
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You can wear these as a way to ensure that you'll never be ganked by a CIA spook and as a way to support the right-wing oligarchy. </div>
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The left-wing oligarchy hasn't caught on yet but I'd expect them to be selling Jimmy Carter peanut crafts on kickstarter within the week. </div>
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I understand that HW is a big sock guy but you'd think that they'd at least be over-the-calf.<br />
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Regardless, this GOP funding campaign looks no different than a "BRAND NEW SOCK BRAND COMPANY ABOUT COOL DESIGNS". Perhaps this campaign doesn't speak to how crap a political party is but to how crap crowd-sourced clothing brands are. If political party can do it, can't we all?</div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-70989015126158304182014-03-19T17:32:00.003-07:002014-03-19T17:32:36.244-07:00ExcitingSpring is here and, once again, life is exciting for reasons other than bad weather.<br />
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Don't have any excitement in your life? Don't worry. Every mens clothing company ever has you covered.<br />
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They're going to sell you some exciting jackets.<br />
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<a href="http://www.oipolloi.com/battenwear-team-jacket-green-floral">OP</a><br />
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They're bright. They have print.<br />
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They're crrraaaazzzzzyyyyyyy.<br />
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<a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/20-01-2014_monitaly_patpullover_floral__zpsec90876c.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo 20-01-2014_monitaly_patpullover_floral__zpsec90876c.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/20-01-2014_monitaly_patpullover_floral__zpsec90876c.jpg" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.endclothing.com/monitaly-pat-pullover-jacket.html?gclid=CPjwi7btn70CFcg7Ogod_jAAzQ">End</a><br />
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It's something that would be featured in a GQ spring issue.<br />
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Don't take the bait.<br />
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Exciting clothes are for unexciting people. Or rather, people who see an exciting coat and say, "Well, I'm pretty exciting so I should probably have that."<br />
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<a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-03-19at73223PM_zps04bbfcfe.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-03-19at73223PM_zps04bbfcfe.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-03-19at73223PM_zps04bbfcfe.png" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.clubmonaco.com/home/index.jsp">CM</a><br />
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This coat has been on sale for a year, I'm pretty sure.<br />
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Coincidence? I think not.<br />
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Do you know why Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery?<br />
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His bright-ass coat.<br />
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Don't get sold into slavery.<br />
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Wear boring coats.The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-64603209169751149242014-02-12T18:35:00.003-08:002014-02-12T18:35:53.619-08:00Are your pants too tight?
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<span class="s1">I hadn’t heard from Sam Franklin for sometime so I had a pleasant surprise last Friday when I got an email from him. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It wasn’t the typical, questioning drivel I’ve become used to; it was a well-thought out explanation of a rule of thumb(law). Tiring of the deafening subjectivity of #menswear philosophists, SF drafted a test for a transgression that he and I have seen far too much of. He then sent it to me in an encrypted file (the paranoia of any great creator is that someone may take your work) which I have just now unlocked to share with all of you.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">His post isn’t long and it offers helpful insight into your day-to-day functioning as an adult male who purchases trousers perhaps a tad-too-small. We’ve all done it, but recognizing that you’ve done it - that is, purchase trousers a tad-too-small - is the first step to correcting your errors. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sam Franklin; U TROSERS ARE TO SMALL:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">how u now u trosers are too small? </span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">if pepple can c your pen is</span></div>
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<span class="s1">no one wants to c your penis in pubic</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/824f8cda-befc-4c6c-8524-7c4c9f104bf5_zps9e3d2e2f.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo 824f8cda-befc-4c6c-8524-7c4c9f104bf5_zps9e3d2e2f.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/824f8cda-befc-4c6c-8524-7c4c9f104bf5_zps9e3d2e2f.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1">sartorial doctrine more like penile doctrine amaright?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">matt peen wers pants too small</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/c18f8bfa-fc0e-4e34-9d20-5e804a4d77af_zps5f157d8d.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo c18f8bfa-fc0e-4e34-9d20-5e804a4d77af_zps5f157d8d.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/c18f8bfa-fc0e-4e34-9d20-5e804a4d77af_zps5f157d8d.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1">some ppl grow pubes on their face</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/07494dbf-aec5-415a-bd58-79be478edcd1_zps692c0eb1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo 07494dbf-aec5-415a-bd58-79be478edcd1_zps692c0eb1.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/07494dbf-aec5-415a-bd58-79be478edcd1_zps692c0eb1.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1">how do u no your pants r too tight?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">pen is</span></div>
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dats how.</div>
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learn the basics</div>
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folow the rule</div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>no man is a island</i></span></div>
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<i><span class="s1"></span><br /></i></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>every man is a pen island</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>-</i> Sam Franklin</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1">photos from:</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://edwinzee.tumblr.com/">Edwin Zee</a>, <a href="http://sartorialdoctrine.com/">Sartorial (Penile) Doctrine</a>, <a href="http://sirfenimore.tumblr.com/">Fenimore</a>, and <a href="http://guerreisms.com/">Guerreisms</a>, respectively.</span></div>
The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-38441715104376160122014-01-27T18:57:00.001-08:002014-01-27T18:57:47.886-08:00Esquire TV<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">There’s been little buzz about Esquire’s new endevor, television. Ivy-Style ran a post about it, but it was merely a +1 for Ben Silver. It’s a men’s lifestyle/living magazine. How could it not be relevant?</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyway, I decided to take some time to watch some uninspired television and let you what I think.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">First up: White-Collar Brawlers. The premise of the show is to get two office mates who don’t like each other particularly much, train them for two months and then have ‘em beat the snot out of each other. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">You get a good primer of current #Americanofficewear. The guy on the left is going to be fighting the guy on the right. You can already tell where this is headed. Where is the suspense?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">#americanofficewear continues. It’s like “The Office” but they’re not wearing it as a mirror of reality. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Gym-trainer-guy is skeptical of the chubby asian man and is regretting to get involved in this TV show. When gym-trainer-guy asks the chubby asian man why he is getting in the fight, the man, on the spot, replies that he is trying to get fit and prove to his wife that he can take care of himself... and her... when they’re at the bar. The TV producers run with that theme and make it the subject of the episode.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> Chubby asian man’s wife.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Jeff Gordon’s old Dupont car weighs in. He has little insight. He could be fed lines from the producer. I can’t tell because the lines are wish-washy and flaccid. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Allegedly fit man has run a marathon. They don’t tell us his time. Darn. I was hoping for an ego inflation. Cool sunglasses, right?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Chubby asian man pep talk. Do it for your wife, chubby asian man! You can do it!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The fight is about to start! They have a tuxedoed announcer and rustic chairs filling an old manufacturing room. Friends and family are there. Chubby asian man’s wife looks anxious. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Chubby asian man has lost weight and is ready to take on Donkey Teeth. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">This isn’t going well for our hero.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">OOOOHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Donkey Teeth wins. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s ok though, chubby asian man has gotten more fit and has self-respect. Self-worth comes from inside, the show implies, as everyone cheers for the chubby asian man as well as Donkey Teeth, validating their existence. The irony punches you in the face much harder than either of these guys ever could. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Either way, this show is kind of boring. Two men who don’t know how to box are pitted against one another, story lines are created, and then they box ungracefully and on unequal levels. If I wanted to watch bad boxing, I’d go get drunk with my volatile friends.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Next show: special about the best bars in America.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Two comedians, one possibly of Polack descent, the other likely of Italian, get drunk, posit some fed lines to the camera, and don’t live up to their job description. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">In one scene, the Italian comedian approaches two women by asking if they frequent there often. The camera pauses as the Polack shakes his head at his friend’s ineptitude, building a climax to see if the Italian will get shut down. He doesn’t. Why doesn’t he? Why can’t there be a crest, fall, and crescendo like any good flick? Why is there not heartbreak here, only to be mended at another bar? Or even just a storyline about how cool brodom can be (a la Superbad or any military flick)?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“Do you guys come here often?”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It just rolls right off the tongue.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’ll have to try it next time. I bet it works.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">They count their drinks like proper frat dudes. Pro. We wonder why we have a binge drinking problem.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The dudes spend like anywhere from $200-$500 per night on drinks. I hope Esquire foots the bill. The beers pictured are only like $5, which isn’t bad.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This show is set up like a History Channel or TLC special and performs like one.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Next show: Alternate Route feat. Matt Hranek of The William Brown Project. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The episode I watched was the one were Matt goes to Charleston and does stuff.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">They show us his hotel room. It’s either a Hampton or a fancy one downtown. Can you tell?*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: x-small;">*It’s a fancy one downtown.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Matt goes to a restaurant and eats food like he knows exactly what he’s looking for. He’s an expert.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He drives a nice car around for the weekend. They tell us, “Matt is cool. He drives this car.” Hranek explains why he likes the car so much because he knows a lot about cars as well, apparently.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He visits legendary store, Ben Silver and is shown around by ‘also-legend’, Bob Prenner.</span></div>
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<a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-01-07at94049PM_zps3e642f03.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-01-07at94049PM_zps3e642f03.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-01-07at94049PM_zps3e642f03.png" /></a></div>
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<span class="s1">Hranek proclaims to the audience that he has found his style sweet spot. He knows. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Prenner discusses his shop with Hranek and shows him their product, which is all dope. Hranek tells Prenner that he has been thinking about brass buttons on his grey jacket. Prenner tells Hranek to stop being daft while avoiding telling the camera that Hranek’s idea is bad and will result in a poor looking jacket.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Hranek then goes to a flea market and tells us how to shop for deals, using the phrase “I” a lot when describing how to do things. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-01-07at94938PM_zps240ca79d.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-01-07at94938PM_zps240ca79d.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-01-07at94938PM_zps240ca79d.png" /></a></u></span></div>
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<span class="s1">He also goes digging for clams. He lets the pros take care of this one.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This show appears to be a “No Reservations” knock-off but lacks severely. Where Bourdain sold his show through a balance of knowledge and self-deprecation, this show is stuck in a weird sort of self-aggrandizement. In “No Reservations”, the host frames the show and not the other way around. If were grabbing a formula show (that being “No Reservations”), you should at least complete all the variables appropriately. G. Bruce Boyer, whose’s Ivy-Style response is a bit more vicious than my review, nails it on the head.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-01-02at75734PM_zps6dd08636.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-01-02at75734PM_zps6dd08636.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-01-02at75734PM_zps6dd08636.png" /></a></u></span><br />
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<span class="s1">Next show: Risky Listings, a show about restaurant real estate in NYC.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This show is petty, silly, a little forced, but so goddamn brilliant. It’s the quintessential reality show, only the reality occurs at work and not in a hot tub. Each character is looking out for numero uno, as Mr. Bossman herds them like cats.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Because I am generally interesting in clothing and how people wear it, it was interesting to see how these guys picked up one certain things. They’ll pick up on some stuff that has been circulating what we would call #menswear and then they’ll completely miss certain stuff, have a void, an fill it with old frat wear or european club wear. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-01-07at45315PM_zpsbd5d7ea3.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-01-07at45315PM_zpsbd5d7ea3.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-01-07at45315PM_zpsbd5d7ea3.png" /></a></u></span><br />
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<span class="s1">This show has absurd premises, ridiculous buyers (see above), and lots of character infighting. There are a couple of decisions where you can see the writing on the wall. Reality is coming like a freight train and it looks so good. This is the best show on Esquire TV that I had the opportunity to watch.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A-</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Next show: How I rock It. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-01-07at101943PM_zps3cb66be5.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-01-07at101943PM_zps3cb66be5.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-01-07at101943PM_zps3cb66be5.png" /></a></u></span></div>
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<span class="s1">This show does anything but. Baron Davis, the host, awkwardly introduces each awkward guest, who have screen time devoted without the presence of Davis or any competent host to mitigate the unseemliness. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2014-01-07at101954PM_zps98448f6e.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2014-01-07at101954PM_zps98448f6e.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2014-01-07at101954PM_zps98448f6e.png" /></a></u></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Even if Davis were there, the cursory overview of each person or people hardly breaks down any sort of glass that exists between the viewer and the guest.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Most telling is the segment of Shimon and Ariel Ovadia. While brilliant menswear designers, the Ovadia brothers don’t seem to be fit for the camera. The segment painfully bumbles along as the brothers provide awkward answers to sterile questions, using a tone not unlike a tone some one would use when their doctor asks them about sex, cigarettes, or alcohol. The segment is bizarrely rescued by actor Vincent Piazza, who, accustomed to the camera, warms the scene with just a few slick lines. I don’t know how he does it, it’s not like it even has any authenticity to it, it just flows. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">The producer foists the responsibility of carrying the segment to the subjects, which not all are capable of doing. The Ovadia brothers were probably put on earth to design men's clothing, not cater to a TV audience.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This is probably where the show fails: Baron Davis is the “host” but the real hosts are the subject of each segment. Some are accustomed to being followed around by a camera and are brilliant in their own narcissism (see above), which this show lauds. Others, not so much, and the show flounders despite having a Sesame Street style clip rotation. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Esquire TV has growing pains, that’s for sure. It has some bright spots and some new TV shows that I didn’t have time to get to (disclosure: I was doing the watching over Christmas Break). Like any fledgling, it’s a work in progress. Viewers are an easy telling guide of whether to drop a show or not. However, when I watch some of these shows, I notice a lot of these problems could be nipped at the bud with a bit more oversight by “head honcho” Esquire TV. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Esquire TV appears to be largely letting producers do what they want. However, for a network to be brilliant, I’m pretty sure Esquire TV has to (a) only get good producers or (b) explicitly structure a network frame so that each show furthers the network’s vision, tell the producers what you want, and then ensure that the man behind the camera does what you want. Don’t dabble in TV, grab it by the balls.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Of course, not being experienced in TV, I could be way off base. But that seems unlikely.</span></div>
The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-13266139147114056362013-12-06T07:53:00.000-08:002013-12-06T07:53:12.305-08:00Ringing Bells<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">In a series of cold days, this was probably a warm spell. I didn’t have to wear a hat. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">My father had volunteered himself and a random family member to ring the bell for the Salvation Army outside the local Wal-Mart, a small kindness -- if you could even call it that; perhaps more along the lines of “not too much of an inconvenience”. I was the random family member.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">When we started ringing the bells -- terrible, annoying things, really -- it was sunny and fairly warm for late November. Two years prior, my father and I were ringing in the dark, stamping our feet and breathing condensation into wool scarves. The Penn State game against Wisconsin had been on the radio and we listened as Bill Bradley limped the team to the end. Some people like to act like work is some sort of immortal creation, both to yourself and the communities you work in. That season for the local area had been a testament to that fallacy. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Anyway, the community had moved on and the sun was shining and a girls softball team from the neighboring town was attempting to raise funds a few meters away from our red bucket. They weren’t very successful as town rivalries run deep, something fathers and mothers with ‘just the most special children’ tend to forget. They were selling Krispy Kremes, which are fuckin’ gross. A father of a team member was heckling the locals, trying to get them to buy some donuts. There’s something about overweight men in sweats, heckling shoppers, that makes people not want to buy donuts. I’m not sure if I can put my finger on it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sometime in between where I could no longer hear myself think and when the fat, donut selling, man became demoralized, a black Chevy Astro van, circa ’95 so you’re probably familiar with the model, pulled up in the yellow warning paint of the Wal-Mart and was put into park. The paint on the hood was corroded as well as around the tires, so it sort of looked like the sort of vehicle that would appear in The Expendables other than the handicapped tag above the dash. A slight, orange camo-wearing guy, graying and sprite with a pornstar mustache(?), popped out of the drivers side of the car and busily hurried inside. A minute later and half-a-dozen, “Have a Merry Christmas” calls to donors from my father and I, he came back out riding a motorized scooter designated for handicaps. He did so nonchalantly; he had done it a thousand times. He parked it just outside of the passenger door of the Astro van. The passenger door opened and a feminine blob slid off the passenger seat, took two dainty steps, and slid its way onto the motorized scooter. The scooter, not aware of it’s passenger, zipped off into the store. The man got back into the vehicle and pulled into a handicapped spot where he sat and silently waited.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sometime later and after a few breaks to read the instructions on the back of the sign such as:</span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1">NO POLITICAL VIEWS SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED OR EXPRESSED WHILE FUNDRAISING FOR THE SALVATION ARMY</span></li>
</ol>
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<span class="s1">and </span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1">NO SMOKING OR DRINKING WHILE FUNDRAISING FOR THE SALVATION ARMY</span></li>
</ol>
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<span class="s1">The van moved.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It turned on, backed up, and returned to it’s spot in the yellow paint. The sprite, camouflaged man hopped out and opened his phone. I was bit busy at this point, ringing the bell and telling, “Merry Christmas,” to donors, to discern what he was doing or saying. But in less than a minute, the blob glided out of the automatic doors on her scooter, with the basket on the scooter filled above the brim, and towing, with one arm, a cart full of frozen pizza, tomatoes, salad, milk, cereal, bread, bananas, Diet Coke, jelly, yogurt, cheese, peanut butter, and who knows what else -- maybe there were some Christmas presents hidden in there. A caravan, in a modern sense. The cart zipped around to the back of the van and the couple(?) began to load the groceries into the vehicle. The feminine blob hacked and coughed as the cold had begun to set in as the sun retreated behind a cloud and the air was dry. The scooter drove around to the passenger side after the loaded had ended, and the woman loaded herself into the passenger side, with a hephephuuuuuuurrrrrruuuuuuuupppppp and she was in. The man got into the drivers side and drove off. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The scooter sat abandoned. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The lousy donut salesman, with nothing better to do, walked over to the scooter, hopped on and drove it inside. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We finished up our shift by taking off the aprons and handing the bells to the new ringers. My father bought a dozen donuts from the girls softball team because he felt bad. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Hard work doesn’t always create great things. Often it creates very normal things, like having a bit of food for the coming week.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sometimes people like to act like their hard work sets them apart but, since a lot of people work very hard, it’s much more likely that ideas and ideals do that.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And ideas and ideals are bullshit. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">You are perhaps set apart by bullshit.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">You should be proud.</span></div>
The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-59663587439455555862013-11-27T13:18:00.003-08:002013-11-27T13:20:13.807-08:00In which a Buzzfeed/Gawker/Jezebel writer writes an unintentional fiction about #menswear because they need things to conform to their world-view<div class="MsoNormal">
Men have been dressing way better recently, right? I don’t
know, maybe. People still wear Jets hoodies at the bars I go to but sometimes I
see a guy wearing a blazer and jeans or maybe even a tie and shit, and I, like,
totally swoon, right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Where did this come from? How can I explain this phenomenon?
It’s probably because women are earning more money so men have to gussy up a
bit. I took a feminist studies course one semester so I’m an expert about
changing gender identities. Yeah, that’s totally it. Woman power is causing men
to up their game and not look like a goat vomited up a sweater. Once one guy
discovered that wearing classy, Paul Newman-esque, things, then everyone
realized it works. Guys think with their dicks so totally.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why do #menswear writers make rules lists? I just stumbled upon #menswear blogs so I'm an expert now. Don’t they know
that everything is subjective except for the things that I don’t want to be
subjective? Here I say, “something really misinformed about the menswear
industry.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Men want to dress well because they’re all fuckin’
conformists. Yep, that’s it. You all wear those ties and jackets and boots and
look like a clone and I hate it. I wish everyone dressed grunge because that’s
how I dress and I want to be able to say, “I dressed grunge but now I dress
like I’m from suburban Calgary and need to wear a parka everywhere because
everyone dresses grunge now.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Something provocative and obviously wrong to drive pageviews
from #menswear acolytes leaving comments after a couple people link this
article on their twitter and a Valet mention.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A run on sentence about socks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Men dress well now because they want to be their grandfathers.
This is it. I need to make statements like this because it was what
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-72919765394536541782013-11-01T09:21:00.000-07:002013-11-01T09:21:02.877-07:00BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">Big #menswear movement. They’ve been taking over “the game” and you don’t even know how to handle how they interpret style through their lenses. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Their pictures just get you, man.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">So stylish.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Brilliance.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Giving men an apex to climb to and all else is trash. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The movement started in 2005.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This shit is 8.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">What is an #influencer?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographers have been presenting the best of the style world for a number of years and have plenty of published works. They make up at least half (nah, more than that) of tumblr. They’ve been featured on GQ, Esquire, and yours truly (nah, not really, might be cool though? prolly not, i hur they got ‘tude). </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://www.thesartorialist.com/">The Sartorialist</a>, <a href="http://jakandjil.com/">Tommy Ton</a>, <a href="http://guerreisms.com/">Guerreisms</a>, <a href="http://myspace.com/">some other shit</a>, <a href="http://jakandjil.com/">I think maybe some girl’s facebook albums</a>, and a variety of other experienced photographers have been takin’ over influence. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">“BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographers go to awesome events like Pitti Uomo, Paris Fashion Week, and NYFW and take “BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographs. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">iPhone? Nah, “BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographs take photos with the best equipment. They get to paid to take “BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographs so premium production would be expected.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">There are even short films about “BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographers. It’s an art-form.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographers have guided us towards what we should be and how we should act and “if you’re thinking about red then you should think about these pictures of my friends that I took.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Logic is photos which are light and dark and texture and reblogs.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">*puff*</span></div>
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<span class="s1">People have written pontification pieces about “BUT-REALLY-DOE-I-JUS’-TAKE-PITCHERS-OF-MAH-FRIENDS” photographers; this piece included.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Goddamn, right?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Can’t wait to see 30 more in my Feedly. It's like I'm creepin' on y'alls facebook profiles. Which, who knows, maybe?</span></div>
The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-11293991948736902722013-10-24T12:32:00.004-07:002013-10-24T12:34:29.279-07:00Shop Matters<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Hippy dippy would appear to still sell well, if cool stockist are any indicator. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’ve written about Birkenstock’s before and return to them because they’re an interesting piece of footwear. They have a variety of contexts outside of men who write about clothes on the internet and their odd ideals of how the “piece” was worn in the past. Yet, one of those contexts that the Birkenstock clog is partaking in is men who write about clothes on the internet. The cool, hard-to-find Birkenstock model, The Maine, is carried at a number of “hip” establishments. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">They’re carried by Oi Polloi, Albam, Unionmade, and... </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://www.zappos.com/birkenstock-maine-jasper-suede">Zappos</a>?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Zappos? The Amazon hydra head? The non-hippy-dippy, non-coffee drinkin’, non-Warby Parker wearin’, non-jean tearin’, and non-cool factor sharin’ corporation that ships your mom’s walking shoes to your front stoop?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Are the hard-to-find Maine’s just a shoe that you wear to church? Have they fallen from the graces from the sartorially esoteric pantheon and down to Champs trash available to *gasp* people whose favorite restaurant is Cracker Barrel? #elimanningwear</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Have they fallen to where kids whose blog posts are just made up of rhetorical questions feature them?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Either way, the question I find entertaining is the following: Does the shop matter?</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Does it matter in person?</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Does it matter when you're ordering on the internet?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Being a cheap-ass, my subjective answer is no.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Though I am unsure if everyone will answer exactly as I do.</span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-18973436246783655142013-10-02T11:55:00.000-07:002013-10-02T11:55:00.489-07:00Ken Burns<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Watching a lot of Ken Burns requires quite the attention span. One could interrupt me a la “at a loud party style” with a loud interjection:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">OH GAWD I LOVED ‘THE WAR’</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I LOVED HIS BASEBALL SERIES</span></div>
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<span class="s1">ASHOKAN FAREWELL</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And then divert the conversation somewhere actually interesting a la “some NYT editorial about new epiphanies a new mother has because no one in the world has ever been a mother before so this is really uncharted territory.” Which will be good, because Ken Burns is boring and not a great small-talk subject.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Some people like boring, or what they would say is beauty in details only they can see. These people are (insert interest)-philes and a subsection is the targeted audience of this piece.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well, Ken Burns likes to include photos, over a century old, of people in baggy, slightly short clothing covered in dirt in his films. The clothing sort of hangs on their short frames and you can tell it had as much wear as the photo has a century into it’s existence. There aren’t a lot of places you can get clothing that makes you look this dated. It would be silly, really, to sell it OTR. You’d look like a re-enactor, a notoriously weird group of people who spend weekends traveling to historical towns and doing things like churning butter -- which is reasonably absurd like writing about clothes. Most would have this sort of thing custom made from deadstock material or from a mill like Woolrich. Or you can buy it from <a href="http://misterfreedom.com/index.html">Mister Freedom</a>. It’s not cheap. It’s a bit silly. But the online store is the only place you can buy stuff like it. Unless you’re in Hollywood. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">An experimental sartorial theorist could give you a scheme like, “wear it with all modern pieces and it’ll get incorporated into your own modern sartorial era,” which could very well work but I don’t quite know what one would do with this stuff once one gets ahold of it. Wear it in public? Pan slowly in and out with a video camera and have a haunting Ashokan Farewell piece play in the background? Get someone with out-of-date prescription glasses to talk about them on camera? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">#influencers determine how much brands bring in because of the campaigns we are involved in.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">As #menswear bloggers have become more and more lifestyle #influencers, more and more lifestyle products are looking for #influencers to promote their products.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">For example, alcohol brands know that to make any sort of money, they have to start ground roots campaigns to sell their products to the hip and #influential.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Beck’s had a marginally large campaign recently as they reached out to #menswear bloggers and gotten their endorsement. They reached out to GTBT but, since my #influence is so large, I didn’t want to rock the boat. Also, GTBT is unique. #influencers don’t follow other #influencers. #influencers don’t just reblog other #influencers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Instead, I decided to use my #influencer weight to endorse a product that gets little screen time. Like, TIME archive photos only it’s a product that you can buy.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">While they never reached out to GTBT, Banker’s Club is a brand whose message and vision is the same as GTBT. Banker’s Club is GTBT in alcohol form. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Being huge #influencers, we also made a promotional video to start the #influencers campaign with Banker’s Club. </span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/75547569" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-54803213710663650202013-09-10T20:01:00.000-07:002013-09-10T20:01:51.413-07:00Michael Bastian S/S '14<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I liked <a href="http://www.gq.com/fashion-shows/mens-collections/michael-bastian-spring-2014">Michael Bastian’s S/S ’14 show</a>. I wasn’t there, so I couldn’t tell you if the soundtrack was appropriate. I listened to some old Hatebreed while I flipped through it, so maybe that’s the trick to creating the correct audio environment to enjoying the show but I wouldn’t know since the experience cannot be repeated. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">But regardless of what crap is going through your speakers, the clothes looked pretty cool. The pineapple pants were probably the end-all for the event as a sort of final putsch of the excessive utilitarian thing that I know I was snorting. I could continue to discuss various pieces and looks but you could probably just read some NYT writer who is more talented at conveying what exactly leopard print pants mean (masculine ferality and our general symbiosis with fleas). It’s supposed to be, like, french holidays or whatever but I think somebody else can give you a better press release.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">You’ve already seen all of these looks but I’ll post the pineapple pants for reference and then tell you a subjective sense of what I got from the show. Hopefully you’ll have something to relate to it but, if not, I’m sure the next thing on the internet will be genuinely entertaining for you.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">About two months ago, my brother and I were at a Holiday Inn near Hammondsport in New York. Hammondsport was built up fairly well as it was an old vacationing town surrounding a finger lake but there were few people to see. It was a large echoing shell of a town, sort of like Wildwood in November. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">They’re really nice places, Holiday Inns, if you don’t get a smoking room. My brother and I had a non-smoking room on the second floor that some folks perceived to be a smoking room so, subjective views had overruled the objective rule set in place by the corporation and it smelled of American Spirits (fancy). Despite being old, with liquid marks on the wood stain from big glasses of sweating water or just big glasses of sweating cheap gin and an AC unit that rattled just like in the movies or when you stayed at that Red Roof, the room had that youthful “fuck you” to it that you only find in kids who know they’ve got jack shit to look forward to. Perhaps that was just the cigarette smell speaking. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">At the same time as we were in the hotel, there were clowns residing on the first floor. They were there for a Rotary Wounded Veterans event. It was a community event. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Around 6:30am one morning, we met an elderly woman, about 80, and her mentally challenged daughter who had been living at the hotel for about a year. Their house had burned down the previous fall. The hotel coffee was watery. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">One of the evenings we stayed there, I turned on the TV. The local channel was showing old French movies, with no subtitles. The TV could not change channels. The actors in the films were superb. I felt rather like a fancy cinephile, being able to interpret each eyebrow raise and excessive arm gesture. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The next morning I rode a bike around the lake. It was the middle of July and the town wasn’t quite what you would call busy. Cars were more sparse than my small hometown. Old boats creaked in the grass of the nostalgia of probably just a decade or two ago. A bar looked like it got sort of busy at night. The town looked good. The air smelled good. You’d think the town could sell nostalgia to just about anyone. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">For some reason, when I flipped through the pictures of the show, I thought of my weekend in Hammondsport. I hadn’t thought of it in a month. The weekend didn't end well for my brother or me. The nostalgia of some other vacationing family was quirky and delightful but I’m not sure I’d go back. </span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-51538080216570983492013-08-21T16:43:00.001-07:002013-08-21T16:43:29.513-07:00Endless Hobby<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Hi, my name is Mark and I’m a professional hobbiest. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well, I do it for a living. I just do hobbies. Like model airplanes and drawing other people’s sneakers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Yeah, I read that post. I didn’t like the marketing slash business aspect of it. I think that some people try to sell out too early and end up just selling out their personal brand, right? So cashing in is really hard.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Yeah, well that always drives me nuts about some of these guys, like, shouldn’t they be concerned with telling us what is important and creating content that is authentic rather than creating content for someone else under their own name?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well, they could always eat cold ravioli. That’s what I do. No, you don’t need money.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I think they should separate job from blog and hobby, y’know? Like, if you can be self-sufficient then you could spend free time creating content without having to sell your personal brand, right?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well, I figure you could do like 1 post every two weeks working 40 hours a week. I guess you couldn’t have a family. Hobbies are your family, right?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">You could work part-time, I think, and just live meagerly. Don’t get a hobby that requires significant funds or significant apartment space.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">If you don’t have time for a post of anything just have your friends take pictures of you doing your hobby. That’s basically content.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">That much for a camera? No way.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well, cold ravioli man. It’s what I do.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Yeah, it is spartan and generally unhappy but you gotta’ sacrifice for the good of the hobby and the authenticity of the content.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Whatever, man. No, I can’t give you the employee discount, that’s against the rules. Just get the blue-light special, it saves you like the same amount. </span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-72510674509554870362013-08-15T12:10:00.001-07:002013-08-15T12:10:03.866-07:00Sombreros<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">EDITOR’S NOTE: SAM AND JOHN DISCUSS “HOT TRENDZ” FOR LATE THIS SUMMER OVER EMAIL.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">SF: I’ve been doin alot of reserch about cool clothes for summer what do you think r cool clothes</span></div>
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<span class="s1">SF: what tshirts arent cool at all u know what is cool? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">SF: nop i did reserch and i know what is the coolest</span></div>
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<span class="s1">SF: no its real i know because i asked schuman and schuman said that every1 is wering somberos on the streets i even asked bill cuninghamm and i asked jackjillblogguy and i asked tommy aton and gurrism even thugh i didnt no what he was saying becuse he has funny assent</span></div>
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<span class="s1">SF: schuman knows everybody he will tell you cuse he is so smart</span></div>
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<span class="s1">SF: Jon i did a product rund upt of all the best somberos you can wear in public</span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-60232055208020062952013-08-14T14:04:00.000-07:002013-08-14T14:13:24.453-07:00Book Review: Lost Cat<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">GTBT isn’t a clothing blog. It’s a terrible clothing blog. And terrible clothing blogs also happen to think they influence your lifestyle.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well, I did some reading of clothing blogs that also happen to make lifestyle suggestions and guess what?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">They tell me reading makes you cooler or something.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">They tell you to read things like <i>The Economist</i>, Jonathan Franzen, Junot Diaz, and, I dunno, Ann Coulter. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Specifically, I picked up Jason’s (he apparently needs no last name) latest work, <i><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/lost-cat-5.html">Lost Cat</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’ve been following Jason and his work for about 8 years now. Stripping story-telling bare, he relies on no impressionism that some artists rely on. He’s almost Herge in his pacing and paneling. However, where Herge is a borderline travel novel comic book (no character development, lots of regional/issue development), who the hell knows where Jason’s stories take place. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Jason’s stories are always black, black, horrible, hilarious jokes. Existential crisis are farces as Jason plays his minimalist art in on itself. He embraces Hemingway’s zero-ending stories and lets you fill in the blanks. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>Lost Cat </i>is a return for Jason to the clean palette. For his past few volumes, he has used color. The color sits in his books, not doing much of anything. Whereas when he uses black and white, he simplifies the story around his characters and allows your imagination to fill in the blank -- sort of like Eisner does with his impressionism but assuming a lot more capability within the reader’s mind. I like this as it allows more assumption to take place. His anthropomorphic, and apparently clavicless, characters blank expressions convey more than you or I could get out of a couple drawings. <i>Lost Cat</i>, by utilizing dabs of melancholy yellow, allows Jason access to visual depth that he did not have with just a black and white palette. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>Lost Cat</i> tells the story of an idealistic detective, sort of like whatever Owen Wilson’s character in <i>Midnight In Paris</i>, but less curmudgeony and backward looking. The detective gets caught up in a number different storylines which are hilarious yet probably commonplace. Jason is pretty obviously influenced by old films in this work, as always but it’s more obvious here, as he picks out old film lines and names to use for his characters. Like in an old film, a cigarette is a useful tooling for skipping words but conveying meaning.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Jason claims that he intends no hidden meaning in each story. Which is probably true but I think there are certain inexplicable things he tries to get at in each story he tells.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>Lost Cat</i> won’t make you cooler. When you’re sitting in a living room and somebody asks you what you’ve been reading and you say, “I just read <i>Lost Cat </i>by Jason,” they will look at you and say, “Oh.” Awkward silence will be cued and then someone will hopefully get you both a drink. "Have you listened to the new Mumford and Sons albums?" you ask. She, regretting saying "no" the first time, says "yes" and then you'll both talk about shitty music that you both hate for the next 30 minutes.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Books in general won’t make you cooler. I don’t know where people got that idea. But neither will dicking around on the internet.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">What will make you “EFFORTLESSLY COOL”?</span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-22355288475314176932013-08-06T12:20:00.001-07:002013-08-06T12:20:19.961-07:00Cat-PissSartorial rules tend to be subjective things that one creates for oneself to make things easier in the morning when a big pile of clothes lie in front of you. They also tend to be pretty useless when espoused to others.<div>
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Should you always wear clothes?</div>
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The Traditionalist: Yes. Button-downs, blazers, and chinos, please.</div>
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The Part-Time Nudist: Not when you're at the nudist beach.</div>
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But here's a rule I like: "Don't wear lots of exciting things because too much excitement causes stress for everyone. And stress isn't fun or happy."</div>
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"Don't wear exciting things on your feet because exciting things on your feet will stress everyone out including your cat and nobody likes a stressed out cat because they piss on your carpet."</div>
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Here's a collaboration between Clarks and Woolrich.</div>
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"Let's do exciting things because we don't know what we're doing."</div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-76820049292523998702013-07-29T20:09:00.000-07:002013-07-30T10:55:20.063-07:00SuitSuppy<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Some Amsterdam(n) corporate show has made it to the states. You could say that it made it a while back, but NYC is an incubator for corporate retail sales as brands test the fickle (ha, that’s a joke) American preference. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">No, I’m not talking about medical marijuana, although this may encourage many of my readers to stop immediately.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’m talking about <a href="http://us.suitsupply.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Home-Show">Suit Supply</a> (from here on out, I’ll be calling it SuitSuppy, because I can and I because I think it’s hilarious; and no, you’re not expected to laugh). Originally from Amsterdam, the company has decided that sales in the US are apparently large enough that it will expand even more into middle America. If you want to look like you stepped out of a Sartorialist photo (or whatever knockoff blog kids are following these days) but happen to live in Texarkana, you can drive down the road to Dallas and pick up your gear. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Already set up in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, NYC, and Philly, SuitSuppy will sell you that sprezzy look for, like a paycheck or something. Cheap, right? They’re moving into Dallas, Denver, Seattle, and Houston so middle America can get theirs for cheap as well.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I suppose hipper men will dole out the cash for a sport jacket that doesn’t quite fit and is generally kinda’ shitty but will SuitSuppy’s sales translate into middle America? Lets look at what they’re selling to Americans.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Don’t mind that this suit is slightly tugging at the model, it’s denim. Americans fucking love denim. Americans get their couches upholstered with denim. They get their cars upholstered with denim. They wear denim hats. Whatever green eggs and ham was to Sam (pre-conversion -- like Saul but maybe not as extreme), denim is the antithesis of that to Americans. By posting cruddy denim suits on tumblr, I know that people will reblog the shit out of that (it’s science). I don’t know if this translates to sales but I’ll run with it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This jacket doesn’t fit. At all.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">But most Americans don’t know that so they’ll just see a cloudy, but grand and shiny, ideal that they can purchase. Some shit about “‘bout that life” and a T.I. music video. People dreaming of being something else. SuitSuppy is selling something. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Good product? From what I’ve heard, it’s not the best. Good ideals? Yeah, I guess.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">If I’ve learned anything from looking through clothing marketing ads for 20 odd years, I’d say that good ideals are the best way to sell your product; quality product be damned.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s what I take away from SuitSuppy. This stuff is Willie Wonka. All loony and mod and quirky but still wealthy because being poor is only cool when you’re in really good shape and someone who is 30 years old doesn’t have time for sit-ups and 6am runs. SuitSuppy is for the middle American man who wants to stay ahead of the curve but awkwardly so because wearing a 3-piece suit in Dallas is definitively gross. (I heard bitches love butt-sweat stains?) </span></div>
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<span class="s1">But do Americans want to buy Willie Wonka? That remains yet to be seen. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Will the Willie Wonka collection go live in the spring?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Will you stop buying Long John Silver’s to fit into those slim wool trousers?</span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-70267615075197601402013-07-02T20:20:00.000-07:002013-07-02T20:25:59.134-07:00Unionfaded<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Do you remember <a href="http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/men-uniform-0?page=3">this article</a>?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">She applauds an amassment of taste, which tends to value things other than personal choice and “value” and other bullshit that I talk too much about.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“This compels me to bring up the importance of proper cuffing, which, according to Kirby, is done as a one-inch two-fold. Caillouette’s wife chimes in, concerned about a friend who needs a cuffing intervention. “He thinks he’s cuffing his jeans. But he’s not cuffing them--he’s rolling them up!” she exclaims. “You’ve got to tell him,” she implores her husband. Sure, it may seem like no big deal. But in this perfectly casual fashion movement, what may seem like an insignificant detail to some might just be what separates the boys from the men.”</span></div>
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<a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/Birkenstock_Boston_in_Jasper_Suede_9084.html">Birkenstock Boston</a></div>
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<span class="s1">This model of clogs were not this price 12 months ago. This is not a joke. This is a fact. You can wear them with your $70 socks. That’s not a joke either. They’re there.</span></div>
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Laid-back surfer vibes respond to market demands, as it were.</div>
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<a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/gitman_vintage_Sayulita_Blanket_Button_Down_in_Light_Stripe__10165.html">Gitman</a></div>
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<span class="s1">Unionmade bought these at the Jack Horkheimer estate sale. He had hundreds of them stored away, just waiting for humanity to take them to new frontiers. Like a fucking coffee shop.</span></div>
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<a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/Carhartt_Slash_Sweatshirt_in_Dark_Grey_Heather_10243.html">Carhartt</a></div>
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<span class="s1">This is a sweatshirt. I always get bacon grease on my sweatshirts. I really put the "work" in workwear.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/Makr_Swivel_Work_Stool_in_Reedgreen_9928.html">Makr</a></span></div>
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<span class="s1">We had these stools in middle school science class. </span>Half of the stools were broken. They weren't made by the same company but, hey, potato, tomato, some other stuff that doesn't really make sense and might be a vegetable. </div>
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<span class="s1">BAGS ARE FOR CARRYING IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIKE SMALLER BAGS.</span></div>
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<a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/Postalco_Rain_Cape_in_Sage_Green_10179.html">Postalco</a></div>
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<span class="s1"> Ok, rain ponchos are cool. I give up just tearing down everything I see. This is the sort of thing that would seem useless until it’s terrible outside and you don’t care that you look ridiculous. That, in my self-venerated opinion, is cool.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/Wheel_Printed_Cover_Notebook_A7_in_Cream_0_zpse50c5681.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo Wheel_Printed_Cover_Notebook_A7_in_Cream_0_zpse50c5681.jpg" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/Wheel_Printed_Cover_Notebook_A7_in_Cream_0_zpse50c5681.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/Postalco_Wheel_Printed_Cover_Notebook_A7_in_Cream_10189.html">Postalco</a></span></div>
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<span class="s1">You’ve got a lot of ideas. I get it, you’re creative. You’ve got a twitter that you’re active on. Every friendship you have is a collaboration. I collaborated with my dog when we killed a raccoon the other day. Nobody bought it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://unionmadegoods.com/Baxter_of_California_Under_Eye_Complex_953.html">Baxter</a> (also happens to be the name of Ron Burgundy's dog)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Unionmade shop is about being rugged. Yeah, yeah I typed that.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Cuff your pants just so or you might freeze to death, or something whatever.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">But probably you’ll just be judged by your friends wives. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Which I suppose is the social equivalent.</span></div>
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The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-33117580524144813542013-06-17T17:41:00.002-07:002013-06-17T18:46:02.331-07:00The Sartorial Relevance of Rob ZombieI hope that most are familiar with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI">Dragula</a> to some extent. It's rougly 15 years old now and shows it's age. However, perhaps there are some current sartorial cues for us to take a look at in this video that may "cement" their timelessness.<br />
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Eh, probably not. But would you rather have me write about Unionmade's new arrivals?<br />
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<a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/lugger91/media/ScreenShot2013-06-17at74039PM_zps9794234c.png.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo ScreenShot2013-06-17at74039PM_zps9794234c.png" border="0" src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/lugger91/ScreenShot2013-06-17at74039PM_zps9794234c.png" /></a><br />
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Black leather trench coats...<br />
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Well, this is going swimmingly already. How many "timeless" people wear black leather trench coats?<br />
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*the crowd goes silent*<br />
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It looks like a current Varvatos design. I'll have to look further into this. Or <a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/collection-outerwear/l/4014">you can</a>.<br />
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Rob wears a hat for a total of 1.5 seconds in this video. Perhaps it shows a level of uncertainty and self-conciousness when he puts outdated hats on his head.<br />
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Perhaps it also shows how dumb some of you guys look wearing hats. Perhaps.<br />
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Rob has a dope car. Would he outstunt RL in a vehicle like this? Not sure if Ralph Lauren has a car like this. Maybe.<br />
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Well if Rob doesn't wear Varvatos then his bandmates certainly do.<br />
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Except for his robots. They just wear metal.<br />
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Zombie crossfades video of children in BoO over bombs blowing up. People who wear BoO aren't hard at all. They eat OJ and Nilla Wafers and still think they're in high school; a private institution where everyone wears repp ties, too short jackets, and twee collars. I concur with Rob.<br />
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Is that Sternberg though? Looks like he's jammin'.<br />
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Come over to the dark side Sternberg. BoO collab with Zombie in the spring. Please?<br />
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RL may have a car like this but RL doesn't have a buncha' demon homies to roll deep with.<br />
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Even if he does, they don't jam out like Rob Zombie and company.<br />
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Rob Zombie guest post on Ivy-Style.<br />
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This is European minimalist. Slimane.<br />
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ROB ZOMBIE WAS ALREADY THERE. Y'ALL THINK YOU'RE HILLARY AND NORGAY. DESIGNERS ARE JUST SELLING YOU NOSTALGIA.<br />
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Does RL have a buncha' witches to roll around with?<br />
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Well, he does have a wife and daughter.<br />
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So count Rob Zombie and RL even.<br />
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CONCLUSION:<br />
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Rob Zombie is just Varvatos.<br />
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Gilt always seems to have a buncha' Varvatos on the extra sale rack.<br />
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If they have Rob Zombie curate a Varvatos sale I bet they move a lot more Varvatos than they are currently. It's a one time cash-in but I figure it could be worth it. Enough kids grew up with Twisted Metal that I'm sure they could sell Varvatos on a nostalgia byline.<br />
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Gilt, get Rob Zombie to curate a sale. Do it. Do it now.<br />
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<br />The Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666513036467767528noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667120201733684509.post-36252150862295620712013-06-10T18:51:00.001-07:002013-06-10T18:55:56.569-07:00Non-Iron Shirts<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">He was months out from the election but the party was working hard for him early. They had brought in Portman to stump for him. Portman is a fiery guy with lots of zest and was great at getting crowds into a fervor. He’ll jump up to the stage, push the men’s and women’s buttons, get everyone going in the direction of a singular opinion. When he leaves the stage the mobocratic mothers in L. Pulitzer are always left slobbering, waiting for anyone with a semblance of diction to take the stage, telling them what cause they should support and how they should support it. Portman could really soften a crowd up. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>In the local community college gymnasium, Portman bounced up and down on the stage. The seat candidate wiped his forehead. It was hot. A geriatric complained about the current seat holder.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“Fuckin’ goddamn sonevahbitch is gonna cut everything and spend all my taxes and turn this nation into goddamn Saddy Araybia or goddamn Chaina. We gotta get that sonevahbitch outta there if it’s my last vote. Won’t leave my grandchildren that fuckin’--”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The candidate was swept away by his aide. Portman had finished.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It was now his turn to talk. To talk about what he was going to do.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">As he mounted the stage, the stageboards creaked and swayed. Perhaps he should get down so some one could tighten things up. He pushed the thought from his mind and walked to the microphone. His sweat was cold and his legs felt old. This shirt he was wearing, it really didn’t breathe, did it? It locked all his body heat up which made him woozy. Well, at least he didn’t need it to be ironed.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“Fellow Americans of....”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He stopped. Coughed. Something went up and then down in his throat. Then, “Fellow residents of the great state of...”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He stopped again. Coughed again and then went to cough again. Instead of coughing, he yakked. Just a little baby yak. Yellow and milky and soupy and not too gross. It fell out of his mouth and onto his shirt. Just a dollop, really.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He looked out to the crowd.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He looked to his aide, stage left. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">He looked back out to the crowd </span></div>
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<span class="s1">And then everything went red.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And then everything went white.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And then everything went blue.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And then everything went black.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He woke up laying on the floor in the lobby. Some random woman was dabbing his forehead. She was morbidly obese, about his age, and smiling at him. The candidate’s red tie was covering up his yak stain. The yak had soaked through his undershirt and he could feel the warmth on his skin. His aide walked up to him with a washcloth full of ice cubes and pressed it to his head.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“We’ll have to get you a new shirt before you meet those contractors,” the aide told the candidate. The candidate looked at his aide, not quite able to comprehend what had just happened.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The room was silent but was next to the gym, so you could hear the noises happening within. It sounded like Portman was back on stage. Removed from the mob, the silence was awkward.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“They make non-iron shirts. They should make non-stain shirts too. We sure could use something like that,” the aide told the fat woman. Or maybe the candidate. “Heh, we could probably use something like that in one of your entrepreneurial speeches. Y’know, fostering new ideas and stuff. That’d be great. The garment industry in the southern part of the district would be all over that. God, what would the world do without us?” The aide smiled as his phone began to vibrate. The aide stood up and took the phone call.</span></div>
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