Due to the various oddities of Blogger the correspondent is unable to add a photograph of a hat or a man in a hat. So this writer asks the reader to use his or her imagination.
It is the middle of summer and it is time for a man to wear a light colored and light constructed hat. Not a baseball cap worn sideways, backwards, or frontward. Not a skater's "beanie", which is, in reality, a truncated navy watch cap, not a rasta toque whether made of cotton or hemp. It is time for a proper straw hat with a proper brim.
There are two choices: the Panama or the boater. The boater is the lesser choice simply because they are harder to find, and the fact that the modern wearer of a boater may find himself embarrassed by comments by idiots on the street that the wearer is an escapee from a barbershop quartet. But, of course, the modern man cares little for the trend of the times. The modern man wants to present himself as a man and a gentleman in a society of children and barbarians.
Having said that, your faithful correspondent would suggest that the modern gentleman not willing to wear a proper boater or skimmer wear a Panama hat of some sort. The cost of the hats varies greatly - from $300 for a handmade hat from Ecuador to $10 hat made of a paper product from China. The point is to have a cool hat that looks sharp and to have a hat that looks like a man's hat.
Get a freakin' hat for the summer and save yourself from the sun.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
What Do They Have In Common?
There are sometimes people who have outlived their own perceived influence or importance. This is not necessarily a matter of the person aging and holding to old ideas or philosophies, but more the matter of holding to old stupid ideas or philosophies or denying that they ever held those ideas. Prime examples would be Timothy Leary and his idea that LSD was a great thing for the general populace as a way to get to "enlightenment" or Jimmy Carter who denies to this day that he is responsible for the current rotten government of Iran or that Fidel Castro is a rat bastard.
Recently two women who came to fame in the '60s and '70s are making fools of themselves and showing their absolute lack of awareness of how times have changed or opinions have not changed.
Firstly, let us look at Jane Fonda. Miss Fonda, whose best cinematic work was contained in two movies -- Cat Ballou and Barbarella (based on a comic strip that was based on the almost divine Brigette Bardot) -- is one of those people who is always re-inventing herself because she seems to not know who she really is. She was a sex kitten, she was a leftist political activist, she was an exercise guru, she was a Christian woman, she was a feminist, she now is an exercise guru aiming at seniors. Many of her various permutations seem to be based on the man with whom she is living at the time; Roger Vadim equals sex kitten, Tom Hayden equals political activist, Ted Turner equals jumping jack (or is it jumping Jill?). Once divorced from the mouth of the South she declared herself a Christian of the liberal sort, and when that didn't get her the proper attention she wanted she went back to the exercise bit because, let us admit it, she is in pretty good shape for an old broad.
Dear Jane is now pushing some product or another and planned to push the thing on QVC. Let us keep in mind that during the '60s. '70s and early '80s that Janie would have gotten no closer to QVC than she would have gotten to a nuclear power plant. Now that, fame-wise she's a was and not an is, she wants to push her thing on cable.
The trouble for her is that people have long memories and they remember that during the Vietnam War she campaigned, actively in favor of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. This writer remembers the time and the scandal that she caused and the embarrassment she caused her father. Janie made radio broadcasts a'la Tokyo Rose to the U.S. troops, the difference being that Tokyo Rose was forced to make the broadcasts while Miss Fonda did so with enthusiasm. The result is that QVC, after a good number of written protests from viewers about Janie's appearance, cancelled the appearance of Hanoi Jane.
Jane's reaction? Denial. She did nothing to harm the American troops fighting in Vietnam. In fact, she was leading the charge waving Old Glory while fending off bullets from the Cong with her metal cufflets like Wonder Woman.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Jane Fonda Blames Canceled QVC Appearance on the ‘Right Wing’
If our dear Jane had had any sense in her noggin she would have taken the BB route: love animals, love her nation and fear unrestricted immigration by the uncivilized.
Secondly, we have Erica Jong. For those who are old enough to remember, Miss Jon wrote a book (a novel) called Fear of Flying. The premise of the book was that "free love" i.e., unrestricted sexual activity, was a good thing for women. In other words, being a slut allowed women to find themselves and empower themselves.
Be it known now that feminism was the best thing that good happen to men. It meant that women, when they weren't busy wondering of they were carpet munchers, would bed with any guy who asked. Even the Romans, who among the upper classes were unbound libertines, the women as much as the men, didn't advocate the Jongian philosophy. They at least had the sense of decency to be hypocrites ("hypocrisy equals the duty that vice pays to virtue"), while the Jongian woman is really nothing but a sort of nymphomaniac without the psychological pathology. He reward is not even that of the cheapest crack whore. She'll give a guy a leg over in order to "discover her power" while Beulah on the corner of Fifth and Main, does the same for 10 bucks. The result? Beluah has ten dollars. The Jongian woman feels "empowered."
Well, Miss Jong has out lived her time in the '70s and '80s. The girl children of the Erica philosophy have finally figured out that sometimes tradition, instead of being a restrictive and anti-female mode of oppression of women, can be a tradition for a reason; that it works better, and is better, for the self and society than is the new thing. But Madame Jong denies that she is wrong. She's rather her own daughter behave like the slut that she was
Today's women are rejecting promiscuity for monogamy and motherhood | Mail Online
It makes one wonder.
Recently two women who came to fame in the '60s and '70s are making fools of themselves and showing their absolute lack of awareness of how times have changed or opinions have not changed.
Firstly, let us look at Jane Fonda. Miss Fonda, whose best cinematic work was contained in two movies -- Cat Ballou and Barbarella (based on a comic strip that was based on the almost divine Brigette Bardot) -- is one of those people who is always re-inventing herself because she seems to not know who she really is. She was a sex kitten, she was a leftist political activist, she was an exercise guru, she was a Christian woman, she was a feminist, she now is an exercise guru aiming at seniors. Many of her various permutations seem to be based on the man with whom she is living at the time; Roger Vadim equals sex kitten, Tom Hayden equals political activist, Ted Turner equals jumping jack (or is it jumping Jill?). Once divorced from the mouth of the South she declared herself a Christian of the liberal sort, and when that didn't get her the proper attention she wanted she went back to the exercise bit because, let us admit it, she is in pretty good shape for an old broad.
Dear Jane is now pushing some product or another and planned to push the thing on QVC. Let us keep in mind that during the '60s. '70s and early '80s that Janie would have gotten no closer to QVC than she would have gotten to a nuclear power plant. Now that, fame-wise she's a was and not an is, she wants to push her thing on cable.
The trouble for her is that people have long memories and they remember that during the Vietnam War she campaigned, actively in favor of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. This writer remembers the time and the scandal that she caused and the embarrassment she caused her father. Janie made radio broadcasts a'la Tokyo Rose to the U.S. troops, the difference being that Tokyo Rose was forced to make the broadcasts while Miss Fonda did so with enthusiasm. The result is that QVC, after a good number of written protests from viewers about Janie's appearance, cancelled the appearance of Hanoi Jane.
Jane's reaction? Denial. She did nothing to harm the American troops fighting in Vietnam. In fact, she was leading the charge waving Old Glory while fending off bullets from the Cong with her metal cufflets like Wonder Woman.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Jane Fonda Blames Canceled QVC Appearance on the ‘Right Wing’
If our dear Jane had had any sense in her noggin she would have taken the BB route: love animals, love her nation and fear unrestricted immigration by the uncivilized.
Secondly, we have Erica Jong. For those who are old enough to remember, Miss Jon wrote a book (a novel) called Fear of Flying. The premise of the book was that "free love" i.e., unrestricted sexual activity, was a good thing for women. In other words, being a slut allowed women to find themselves and empower themselves.
Be it known now that feminism was the best thing that good happen to men. It meant that women, when they weren't busy wondering of they were carpet munchers, would bed with any guy who asked. Even the Romans, who among the upper classes were unbound libertines, the women as much as the men, didn't advocate the Jongian philosophy. They at least had the sense of decency to be hypocrites ("hypocrisy equals the duty that vice pays to virtue"), while the Jongian woman is really nothing but a sort of nymphomaniac without the psychological pathology. He reward is not even that of the cheapest crack whore. She'll give a guy a leg over in order to "discover her power" while Beulah on the corner of Fifth and Main, does the same for 10 bucks. The result? Beluah has ten dollars. The Jongian woman feels "empowered."
Well, Miss Jong has out lived her time in the '70s and '80s. The girl children of the Erica philosophy have finally figured out that sometimes tradition, instead of being a restrictive and anti-female mode of oppression of women, can be a tradition for a reason; that it works better, and is better, for the self and society than is the new thing. But Madame Jong denies that she is wrong. She's rather her own daughter behave like the slut that she was
Today's women are rejecting promiscuity for monogamy and motherhood | Mail Online
It makes one wonder.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
I Can't Reed!
Be it known that this writer does not have a college education. He has a high school education and he served an apprenticeship in a trade. The lovely Lady Nib has a college education in art, but she has the sense to ignore all the social nonsense that the university added to a training in painting and drawing.
This being said, your faithful correspondent has always been a big reader of novels ranging from Lester Dent to Shakespeare and Joyce (a truly rotten writer despite what the Micks may say). In high school we were expected to be able to read sophisticate and adult (not "adult") literature.
Now it seems that the average high school student cannot read a non-abridged version of one of Fitzgerald's novels.
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal
Let's face it, Roger Ebert is an elitist butthead, but a blind squirrel is right occasionally.
This being said, your faithful correspondent has always been a big reader of novels ranging from Lester Dent to Shakespeare and Joyce (a truly rotten writer despite what the Micks may say). In high school we were expected to be able to read sophisticate and adult (not "adult") literature.
Now it seems that the average high school student cannot read a non-abridged version of one of Fitzgerald's novels.
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal
Let's face it, Roger Ebert is an elitist butthead, but a blind squirrel is right occasionally.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Da News
We here at the Manor have the unfortunate honor of being served by two newspapers. One is the Long Beach Press-Telegram, which is good for local news. The other is the Los Angeles Times which covers national and international news than it does local news.
This writer started reading the Times when the Herald-Examiner went belly up despite the fact that the Her-Ex was a better paper. It was more of a newspaper than the Times in that it actually reported the news in a fairly objective manner. The Times, since the late 1960s, has been a forum for the opinions of the "reporters."
In fact, if one listens to the various Times reporters and journalists and one were to take them seriously, one would think that the Times is the most objective news organ in the Southland. But those name scribes mostly live west of the L.A. City Hall. They do not live in East L.A., they do not live in the South Bay or South Central. They do not live in the southeast county. And worst of all, they seem to be all the products of journalism schools from whatever college or university.
Newspaper reporters like to portray themselves as "cynical" despite the fact that they are the biggest suckers in town. They will accept the story that a welfare mother has been wronged at a public housing facility before they will investigate that said welfare mother has raised a couple or three gang bangers and that she has a big screen television and she has her nails done by a Thai immigrant.
Let's face the facts. The journalism game has always been dirty. Back in the day reporters were high school grads who could write. Those guys were always out for a scoop, even to the extent of ruining a murder investigation like the Elizabeth Short murder in 1947. But the old timers were looking for a story. They weren't looking to change society
The modern reporter, having been infected by the university, is trying to change the world. The welfare mother is a victim instead of a lazy bitch and the bum is a victim of societal neglect instead of a bad drunk who'd rather be drunk than work.
Speaking for those at the Manor, we'd much prefer the old type newspaper man than the modern journalist. At least that guy, while trying to get a scoop, was pretty honest, straight forward and clear-eyed. He saw a bastard as a bastard, not as a poor thing.
This writer started reading the Times when the Herald-Examiner went belly up despite the fact that the Her-Ex was a better paper. It was more of a newspaper than the Times in that it actually reported the news in a fairly objective manner. The Times, since the late 1960s, has been a forum for the opinions of the "reporters."
In fact, if one listens to the various Times reporters and journalists and one were to take them seriously, one would think that the Times is the most objective news organ in the Southland. But those name scribes mostly live west of the L.A. City Hall. They do not live in East L.A., they do not live in the South Bay or South Central. They do not live in the southeast county. And worst of all, they seem to be all the products of journalism schools from whatever college or university.
Newspaper reporters like to portray themselves as "cynical" despite the fact that they are the biggest suckers in town. They will accept the story that a welfare mother has been wronged at a public housing facility before they will investigate that said welfare mother has raised a couple or three gang bangers and that she has a big screen television and she has her nails done by a Thai immigrant.
Let's face the facts. The journalism game has always been dirty. Back in the day reporters were high school grads who could write. Those guys were always out for a scoop, even to the extent of ruining a murder investigation like the Elizabeth Short murder in 1947. But the old timers were looking for a story. They weren't looking to change society
The modern reporter, having been infected by the university, is trying to change the world. The welfare mother is a victim instead of a lazy bitch and the bum is a victim of societal neglect instead of a bad drunk who'd rather be drunk than work.
Speaking for those at the Manor, we'd much prefer the old type newspaper man than the modern journalist. At least that guy, while trying to get a scoop, was pretty honest, straight forward and clear-eyed. He saw a bastard as a bastard, not as a poor thing.
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