4 posts tagged “random”
Whilst doing a little tidy up today, I happened across a truly amazing relic from days long past: a pair of really sweet 80s looking Oakley Frogskins. Sadly, they were not wrapped in a pair of Original Jams, but they are awesome all the same. Just feast your eyes on these bad boys. Nothing says "I'm a Sweeet Dude" like a pair of translucent purple shades that debuted in 1986 and now retail for $110 as part of a collectors edition series. Seeing that did make me briefly think of ebaying these bad dogs, but I tried 'em on and thought, naaaaah, I'm keepin' 'em!
There's a doubly amazing personal twist to this little anecdote: these are the first pair of nice sunglasses I ever bought; I must've spent about $60 on them when I was in 7th grade or so. That these purple glasses, cool only now that retro is back in and something about our constantly plugged and always published crackberry lives makes us yearn for the faux-glam glory of the 80s, were the keystone item of my middle school style is yet another argument never to send a boy to a single sex school during his developmental years. I seriously thought these things were devastatingly fresh lady killers.
Furthermore, I lose sunglasses. All. The. Time. But if I get some cheapees for $5, those things stick to me forever. However, if I buy nice glasses, they are gone. For example, I got a really nice pair of Ray Bans from a former vendor of my FORMER employer for free. Since they were free, I couldn't lose them if I tried. In fact I lost and re-found them on at least 3 occasions (had I paid retial for them they would've been gone after the first time). Then one evening while out of the town, I happened across a fair young lass and deigned to say hello, neglecting to notice the large gentleman on her arm. He promptly plucked my glasses off of my forehead and tossed them into the sea of bodies behind us. Then and only then were those free glasses well & truly gone, through illicit means of a wayward and unfortunately encountered douchebag.
But I feel a karmaic circle completing itself here, as the first expensive sunglasses I ever bought are once again in my possesion, and even looking a whole hell of a lot smoother then they did when I originally acquired them circa 1993. To all the hundreds of dollars of lost nice shades out there that I've left on bar tops or beach towels, let's meet up again soon!
The fine people at Poke bring the concept of channel surfing to the realm of intarnetz vide. I think you will enjoy it muchly.
Of course I had to share it, with a glare of abject horror on my face, you can be quite certain, when Michelle Obama executed a terrorist fist jab on the view. Scarreh! It seems the terrorists have infiltrated our handshakery to highest levels as our dear leader is now doing the jab! Ack the terrorists have won!!!
What is it about the internet that emboldens every idiot to publicize themself? There needs to be a serious psychological study on this and a comparative analysis to pre-internet forms of highly published unmitigated douchebaggery.
Check Dimitri the lover out, and listen to the radio interview on there. When I listened to the douchiest phone message in history at holytaco yesterday, I doubted its veracity, but this guy appears to be a bona fide internet personality. Amazing!
Oh and happy Canada day all! I actually love Canada and Canadians and it is, honestly, a pure coincidence that I should write a quip about this guy today - not one of our fair neighbor to the north's finest specimens.
