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  1. tonyb

    The House

    ^^^^^ Might be drug addicts. Might not be. I’ve known junkies I wouldn’t trust any farther than I can spit and others I’ve put up at my place when their options were that or the freeway overpass. It was mostly fear that kept me from injecting illicit drugs. Too easy to OD (I’ve lost friends and...
  2. tonyb

    The House

    Up the block from us is what I think is called a “group home.” The young men living there have mental health “issues.” I often see them standing outside smoking or whatever. I nod and wave on my way by. On a balmy afternoon one of those fellows walked by my place. I was outside, doing one...
  3. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I met a guy, a friend of a friend, who owns a house in San Francisco right across from Golden Gate Park. I don’t know how he came into the property, but the safest bet is that he inherited it. He carved it up into rooms large enough to accommodate a bed and not much more. He had no difficulty...
  4. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Yeah, I got that on right now. I like that the couple at the center of it are far from the glamorous types. They’re both on the, um, chunky side. The people featured in too many shows of that genre got the gig in no small part because they’re pretty. Too many pretend to an expertise they don’t...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Marketing ...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    FedEx farms out a lot of their work. Even the vehicles carrying FedEx colors are often operated by independent contractors. Of course, the more you farm stuff out, the less control you have. I once worked for a fly-by-night outfit that contracted with FedEx. I have little doubt that some of...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I don’t know the age at which blue jeans might be inappropriate. If there’s anything that isn’t a political or class signifier in this culture it is blue jeans. Maybe in times past a person might have gotten “too old” for blue jeans, but that time is indeed in the past. Elderly...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    More on “distressed” clothing ... Went to JCPenney this afternoon to pick up a couple-three summer shirts. Saw these jeans and took a couple pictures. Got home and took a picture of my self-distressed pants du jour. Call me an accidental fashionista.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And I find equally silly the practice of buying super high-end blue jeans and never getting them dirty and rarely laundering them, as is the habit among a small subset of denim aficionados.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can see how plain white undershirts were almost necessary back when we were less disposed toward the disposable. These days most of us have much less invested in our clothing, in time and adjusted dollars, than we did in generations past. So whatever protection such an undergarment might have...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that a large majority of Americans rarely if ever wear undershirts these days.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the not-so-distant past it was common to see shopping carts abandoned quite some distance from the stores they were “borrowed” from. It wasn’t so unusual to see some with the wheels removed, presumably to be used on some kids’ gravity-powered vehicles. I don’t see that so much anymore. The...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The case can be made that pretty much everything one does is done for “one’s own satisfaction.” Just depends on what one finds satisfying. The species continues only because most of us take satisfaction in being of some service to others. To a degree one’s physical presentation is a service...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh, and most any nubile young woman, tattooed or not, will be attractive enough to plenty of young men, and not-so-young men, too, for that matter. Biology will not be denied.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s all about projecting an image, an image that person finds appealing, no less a statement than makeup and heels and a little black dress. As I’ve already made clear, my opinion on the matter, or yours or anyone else’s here, doesn’t count for much. And that extravagantly tattooed person’s...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I find it hard to believe that any person (other than a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, maybe) got a tattoo they didn’t find attractive in one way or another. Maybe they weren’t entirely satisfied with the artist’s efforts after the fact, but they didn’t go into the parlor not wanting...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Pretty much my take on it. It’s not for me or you or anyone else here to tell a person how to present him- or herself. And it’s not for any other person to tell me or you how we are to perceive that person. A person ought be free to walk this world with a pair of jockey shorts stretched...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    No monopoly, true enough. But we do have some major players in that industry.
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Yeah, it’s a real good analogy, but like all analogies it isn’t quite perfect. There is a penalty for not returning the shopping cart, provided being regarded as an inconsiderate a**hole might be called a penalty. But then, being so regarded is of no apparent concern to inconsiderate...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    The saying goes something like “Pay more to get what you really want and cry only once.” And it ain’t like they give away the lesser stuff.

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