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  1. Zip Gun Aria

    Remembering Barbara Billingsley & Other Iconic TV Moms (& Dads)

    Carolyn Jones as Morticia in the original Addams Family. She and Gomez were the healthiest couple I've ever seen on television and therefore the best role models. Even as a little boy, I loved how they looked at each other, and how, even after decades of marriage, Gomez would be driven insane...
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    Wolverine 1000 Mile Boot review

    Rather amazing score on your part, FT. Very happy for you, and thanks for the heads-up! I actually paused just now to go to the DSW site looking for those, but of course they were probably only available at your store. I'll have a quick look at the DSW en route to my securing vittles, but I'm...
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    Wolverine 1000 Mile Boot review

    Apologies for resurrecting this thread. However: I remember jealously noting the excitement when the 1[,]000 Mile Boot was announced. But at $325, I knew the only pair of shoes I'd ever buy that cost that much would be Alden wingtips. That is until an old thread on Style Forums got me...
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    Valentines Day?

    In the past, I tended toward romantic gestures in the manner of Chrétien de Troyes and the troubadours: acrostics based on the recipient's name, contrapuntal pieces derived from same with pitches substituted for letters. These tended not to be understood. I've since learned that the most...
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    What Are You Reading

    The Annotated Alice and The Annotated Snark were among my favorite books as a child -- possibly because the esoteric aspects of all three contributions (Carroll, Gardner and Tenniel's) were really for adults. Those books, the Complete Works of Poe (including the satires), Ovid's Metamorphosis...
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    What Are You Reading

    Currently browsing old friends because I have a story due for an anthology: Ferdydurke, by Witold Gombrowicz The Secret Life of the Lord of Musashi, by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki The Lime Twig, by John Hawkes (my third favorite stylist) The Bride's Tragedy, by Thomas Lovell Beddoes I've got the music...
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    Things to consider: vintage style and your style

    Sorry to go all Roland Barthes on your collective arses, but that, unfortunately, is how I think when faced with unthinking cultural programming. Anyone who posits a normative cultural credo apart from personal preference, apart from the thrill of wearing what feels good, is foregrounding their...
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    Dressing well returns?

    I'm a writer, too, and live in the same city as you. We should go for a quick drink at some point (my treat, since I'm flush for the moment). Feel free to dress down if you're feeling incognito. I relate to your sartorial travails. A common comment on the street when I wear a black suit...
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    Who Didn't Just Pull Up Into My Driveway This Year...

    No worries -- there will always be other posh spots to discover in our burg. I'm just waiting for my clothes to dry before stepping into the snow to head for my kitten's comforting nook (and by nook, I mean nook). I've been in holiday solitary position myself, though. Don't feel alone just...
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    Dressing well returns?

    Sorry to hear that. At least your clothes are boss.
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    Who Didn't Just Pull Up Into My Driveway This Year...

    I love the fact you're from Vancouver. I'm from there originally, though we moved to the States when I was still a mewling brat. I'm about to go to White Plains to have dinner with my girlfriend and possibly her twin sis and sis's girlfriend. Most people don't realize how relaxing it is to...
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    Dressing well returns?

    You won't even see what that article describes on the streets of NYC. You have to go to fashion schools like FIT, and places like Green Point, Dumbo and Williamsburg to find examples. Most younger people I see wear open unlaced boots or sneakers, niche jeans, and either untucked shirts...
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    Where did your user name come from??

    I'm a writer as well as a studio musician. First reviews called my short story collection "contemporary noir," "fin de siecle" and "40s-elegiac," and noted that it tended to be violent. I took most of that as a compliment and tailored my sig to spec: nostalgia, noir, violence, elegy and art.
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    What to do with old comic books and popular science magazines.

    I have the same problem, actually. Mine are from a great uncle and I've kept them in my mother's house for years. Some are EC comics; a few are from the 40s. I'd love to sell them, but in my experience, comic book collectors are often unwilling to acknowledge a thing's true value. I'd love...
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    Dressing well returns?

    Yes, it's commonplace to read a piece of "shoddy journalism" in any age, contemporary or otherwise. But it's especially annoying when the piece applies to you, your own sense of style, and that of friends and other people you've known throughout your life. Being ignored was more fun.
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    Dressing well returns?

    I share your annoyance with many pieces in the NYT. However, I think the problem lies with the aims of entertainment journalism generally, not with the NYT in particular. I think the NYT contains more useful articles than certain other papers simply because it has access to such a broad range...
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    What Happened to Chivalry?

    C.S. Lewis says rather interesting things about chivalry in his scholarly study, Allegory of Love. His thesis is that the misreading of Ovid's Art of Love (which is largely satirical), combined with the sexual intolerance of medieval Christianity (not a put-down of the religion -- consider who...
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    Dressing well returns?

    Thanks for the link. The odd thing is that that thread really isn't "about" the article itself, in the sense that no one examined the incredibly ageist and cultural presumptions it made, and absolutely no one has made the correlations I did in the above post. The previous thread seems only to...
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    Motherlode Site/Jitterbuzz

    I see what you mean, now that I'm not taking the quaint console in the bottom frame to be the end of the page. Frame sets aren't used much anymore, and some browsers don't make frame scroll bars apparent under different user prefs and plugin settings. This site might not be "just about swing...
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    Dressing well returns?

    Irksome NYT Piece on Vintage Style Here's an article from the New York Times that makes me want to set fire to my own pelvis: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/fashion/17CODES.html According to author David Coleman, the interest in dressing sharp expressed on sites like this one is all due...

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