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Best Hat Brands???
A good hat is a good hat Akubra makes them. They're fairly common on the west coast. They are thicker and stiffer than their fedoras, but I'd bet they'll take the devil's own beating. Carpe diem Fast -
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What do you use to shave?
Best cream ever There's shaving and SHAVING. There's beards and BEARDS. My brother looks like a skinny U.S. Grant in a coupla' three days. If I go ooooeeee close I get to skip a day. Then there's the skin thing. There are books on shaving and forums on shaving and all kinds of stuff out there...- Fast
- Post #333
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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is it safe to wear a WWII vintage leather flight jacket?
Why did you buy it? If you got it to have it, you have it. Put her in plexi case on the hallway wall and enjoy. If you got it to wear it. Put it on and if and when a cuff or lining goes. Take her to a good tailor and get her fixed. And enjoy. If it is old and you wear it, something will...- Fast
- Post #9
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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To Be Or Not To Be
To be, rather to do First, the depression wasn't as much fun as everybody made it out to be. As a society we're actually a little nicer about making sure people get to eat and such. Folks back then actually died of poverty, and in large numbers, and until the mid 30's your family helped or you...- Fast
- Post #9
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Which book/movie affected you the most?
Book/Movie Book: Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe Here's the package: Everybody's story is the epic. All of the good and most of the bad in this book goes there. Film: Unforgiven by Clint Eastwood Cowboy Noir! Carpe Diem Fast- Fast
- Post #87
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Fred Astaire vs Cary Grant
Astair Vs. Grant I'll take grant. Astair hais good footwork, but grant has size, reach, and weight advantages. I give the whole thing 4 rounds max. Sorry. . . Grant. The guy could wear anything. The guy still looked great at I think it was eighty something. This is a good match. Both had...- Fast
- Post #33
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What's the Best/Worst Advice Your Parents Gave You?
Parental advice On Drama: Don't go looking for trouble, It will find you plenty soon enough without any help On Fear, panic, etc: First, figure you've had it, now calm down and look and think. Do what you can to improve your position. There's more. Carpe Diem Fast- Fast
- Post #36
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Box storage stain
The bleach mark treatment I believe this can be addresed with the powder hatmakers use to even out dye jobs. The hatmaking members would know better than I. I got one of those little plastic hatstands. I wil be getting more of them. Whenever you store any garment in a container, wrap it in... -
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Best Hat Brands???
Pleeeeez add I would not dare to exclude. The Confession: I have a beaver brand (not eagle, ooops misspoke. too long a day or night or whatever) and love the hat. Now the biggie: I do not own a bailey, I do not know where to get one in L.A. or between here and SFO, Carpe Diem Fast -
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What's your favourite season?
Favorite season Bob Gaudio. Back in the San Francisco Bay Area, it had to be the long wet autumn that sneered at winter as, like a runner beating out the throw and catcher's touch into the home plate of spring. Now, in southern California, we haven't any seasons. It's all summer, and...- Fast
- Post #67
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The ridicuously committed and deliriously single thread
The Draft The term for a child born out of wedlock is ba***rd. It isn't just a word, but the allusion to a crushing reality. Children are conscripts. If you draft 'em, you owe them. The fact that this debt of the heart (parenthood) is hardly ever paid when the commitment is kinda sorta what...- Fast
- Post #28
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What do you do for Living?
career I teach secondary English. Before that I wrote . . . well, just about anything one might read, except a novel. In my late thirties I made a newspaper for an ethnic community and ad campaigns. Anybody remember the beginning of credit repair? I was one of those guys. We lied for a...- Fast
- Post #439
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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the old fashoned barber shop shave...
Barbers, you, and the straight razor Got a barber shop shave the day of my 1st wedding, long long ago. Took all the guys out for a trim and shave. Cool ritual. Not the best shave. He did use a straight edge, and had more experience with razor cuts than beards. A demand thing. That wasn't the...- Fast
- Post #47
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What are you listening to?
Right Now. . . While reading the posts, Jane Monheit's In the Sun, and Come Dream With Me before that John Lewis, Bach's preludes and fugues volumes 1-3. Carpe Diem Fast -
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What are you wearing today??
For the cause I wore my new Akubra squatter out all afternoon, and it really was more like straw weather, but it needs a litle "active shrinking" to fit. Otherwise Columbia Titanium shirt and pants and the customary Filson safari jacket. Next time I stroll to heat shrink the hat, no jacket (yes...- Fast
- Post #954
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Best Hat Brands???
Where ya get what Unfortunately, you can't go into any town and get a good hat. I got the feeling once here, that if one could, the fedora lounge would not be what it is. Walked through a mall today. 70 stores, 2 carried hats, or rather things that looked like hats. The quality milliner of... -
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Your Philosopher of Choice is ...
OH THE SEMANTICS! It was, to the classical french and the ancient greeks (it's hard to figure out if it's more classical or more ancient). The modern lexicographers have it a little differently. They say it is "the branch of knowledge or academic study devoted to the systematic...- Fast
- Post #239
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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News about Marlowe project
The Simple Art of Murder If you have not yet, and have interest in the genre, read the essay introducing the book: The Simple Art of Murder. It defines the american 20th century hero, for good and/or ill. It explains the american novel of detection versus the British. That said, I don't...- Fast
- Post #26
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What kind of noir do you prefer?
Noir. What Noir? The term noir, applied to cinema, came before television. Noir in film never went away. Pessimism, fatalism, and menace make noir noir. Sin City, Get Carter (the recent stallone, like it or not), Road to Perdition. I guess whan you get down to it a guy who'll dress up in a...- Fast
- Post #17
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Your Philosopher of Choice is ...
Philosophy/ Religion Fundamentally, philosophy is metacognition, a sort of figuring out how and why we figure stuf out the way we do. Religion on the other hand is more straightforward: man's relationship to God. Ergo: If you view theologians as philosophers, they are mistaken and...- Fast
- Post #233
- Forum: The Observation Bar
