And a sturdy young man had decided shorts were the appropriate level of running gear....
November 18, 2021
It was 7:04 in the morning, and the temperature was 27°.
The sun lit up the last of this fall's very tenacious foliage....
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Check out the Piano Puzzler podcast: Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We (Piano Puzzler) get one of our listeners on the phone, and our caller listens to Bruce play his Piano Puzzler™. They then try to do two things: name the hidden tune, and name the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking.
Has anybody compared quotes from Kamala Harris and 2007 Miss SC contestant Caitlyn Upton, on why most US citizens can't locate South Africa on a map
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children.
What is the Althouse stance on men in capris? David Sedaris is coming to Seattle, and the photo of him in the ad has him wearing striped capri pants. They look ridiculous.
Dang it, Meade, that must’ve been cold!
Ha! Leahy is retiring after a poll came out that showed him trailing Republican Phill Scott in Vermont in his re-election bid to the US Senate. Of course Leahy said the polls was BS, but he is retiring anyway.
Here is CNN weighing in:
But, there's also something else interesting about Vermont: It has one of the most popular Republican governors in the country in a man named Phil Scott. Scott, first elected in 2016, was reelected in 2020 by 41 points, which -- because math -- is larger than Biden's 35-point margin in the state that same year. - CNN
All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy.
“ David Sedaris is coming to Seattle, and the photo of him in the ad has him wearing striped capri pants.”
As he’s written a few times, he believes his calves are his best feature and he loves shopping for avant-garde clothes. It’s a well thought out form of individual expression and he takes full responsibility for it.
Therefore he’s not the problem.
Nor is this running man the problem.
The problem is adult men looking like oversized toddlers.
More on "Dark Academia" here. It sounds like a crock -- academic things and dark or gothic things that don't have much in common thrown into a stylistic crock pot. Donna Tartt's novel has a lot to do with a "Dark Academia" aesthetic. I'd add a lot of TV and movies set in Oxbridge or boarding schools. Robin Williams' movie and the "Dark Archies" TV series seem more off-target, as do mid-20th century prep school fashions. I haven't seen Riverdale, but the idea of rebooting Archie comics as mystery or horror or crime or goth always seemed incredibly asinine.
It was 70-deg F on our afternoon Center Mass hike.
I never heard of a man saying his calves are his best feature.
I've been reading Democratic Vistas, the pamphlet-length essay Walt Whitman composed in 1870, first published in 1871:
<< You said in your soul, I will be empire of empires, overshadowing all else, past and present, putting the history of Old-World dynasties, conquests behind me, as of no account--making a new history, a history of democracy, making old history a dwarf--I alone inaugurating largeness, culminating time. If these, O lands of America, are indeed the prizes, the determinations of your soul, be it so. But behold the cost, and already specimens of the cost. Thought you greatness was to ripen for you like a pear? If you would have greatness, know that you must conquer it through ages, centuries--must pay for it with a proportionate price. For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil-like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and men.
<< Yet I have dreamed, merged in that hidden-tangled problem of our fate, whose long unraveling stretches mysteriously through time--dreamed out, portrayed, hinted already-- a little or a larger band--a band of brave and true, unprecedented yet--armed and equipped at every point--the members separated, it may be, by different dates and States, or south, or north, or east, or west--Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Canadian--a year, a century here, and other centuries there--but always one, compact in soul, conscience-conserving, God-inculcating, inspired achievers, not only in literature, the greatest art, but achievers in all art--a new, undying order, dynasty, from age to age transmitted--a band, a class, at least as fit to cope with current years, our dangers, needs, as those who, for their times, so long, so well, in armor or in cowl, upheld and made illustrious, that far-back feudal, priestly world. >>
When your thighs and calves look as good as mine, you wear shorts when the temperature calls for them.
“David Sedaris is coming to Seattle, and the photo of him in the ad has him wearing striped capri pants.”
Gay men get a pass on anything fashion-related, no matter how bad they look.
Heterosexual Italian men (who live in Italy) have the same privilege.
Those are the only two exceptions...
When I was still running, 27 F would have found me shorts, still. The legs don't get cold at all even down to the upper teens. All you really need at 27 F is good fleece pullover, gloves and a wool cap to cover down over your ears.
Did John Holmes ever serve on a jury?
Speaking of which, it’s Wisconsin, so I expect the vote to acquit will be hung at 124-2.
Those of us who grew up in cold climates in the '60s, and for a long time before that, remember our classmates who were girls wearing skirts above their knees and saddle shoes on days when the temperatures were around zero. We boys were privileged to wear long pants, but I can still remember my admiration for those girls ability to take the cold.
NYT still pushing the Wuhan Market origin of Covid allegation: "First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims"
link to aggregated page
Another National Felons League (NFL) domestic violence video has surfaced. I’ve seen it and it’s the worst I’ve seen from an NFL player.
Whitman is a bear to diagram.
I have very pretty legs, and though I don't run or jog I also don't hesitate to show off when the weather allows. I wouldn't wear long or dark socks, though.
I don’t think there’s such a thing as a woman who likes a man for his calves unless you toss in thighs and glutes for free…
Vermont Republicans are more like Clinton Democrats. Maybe Charlie Baker.
The rest of the country would not identify them as Republican…I think ‘just not crazy’ is about right.
Joe Smith @ 4:20:
"Gay men get a pass on anything fashion-related, no matter how bad they look.
Heterosexual Italian men (who live in Italy) have the same privilege.
Those are the only two exceptions..."
Wait what about golfers? I thought they were included in the 'can dress oddly' group as well....
ALP asks about golfer garb.
I think of that as 'bad' without being 'odd,' but YMMV.
"Those pants are so ugly a doctor wouldn't wear them to play golf in."
'Wait what about golfers? I thought they were included in the 'can dress oddly' group as well....'
If you are going full-on Payne Stewart, yes. But you can't half-ass it.
The '60s and '70s were the golden age of golf attire.
@ALP:
What is the Althouse stance on men in capris? David Sedaris is coming to Seattle, and the photo of him in the ad has him wearing striped capri pants. They look ridiculous.
Wow. What do you say to a tailor to get that silhouette? I fucked your sister?
Sedaris is a bit of a Japanophile, and I bet that translates to a love of Tokyo's bizarre street fashion. Japan also has a history of avant-garde fashion designers, from Yohji Yamamoto to Issey Miyake to Rei Kawakubo. For many people, this is ultra modern and forward thinking. For me, it's costumey and gimmicky. Your outfit shows up 10 minutes before you do. Something about the theatricality and pageantry of it all tends to resonate with a certain kind of gay man. But whatever avant-garde tastes Sedaris may have, there is noting new or unusual about looking like a frumpy old queen.
Jersey Fled said...I never heard of a man saying his calves are his best feature.
I couldn’t pick my calves out of a line up. Is it simply because I’m not gay? Or does it suggest a fetish on Mr. Sedaris’ part? Is he a leg man?
actually beck has a deep dive on the gain of function research, that was authorized in 2005, the Times ignores what's right in their face,
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