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I try to wear almost only all black (or dark gray), no shorts and no logos โ mostly for aesthetic simplicity, though shout out to Naomi Klein and reading Adbusters at suburban Barnes & Nobles โ but I'm softening. My friend Bryan, in a nod to his British and Mexican heritage, started rocking old school semi-shiny black Umbro shorts a few years ago and pointed out that they're cheap on Amazon (sorry Naomi Klein). I only have one pair but they're extremely durable and I wore them all summer: around the house, at the beach, to play softball, to go out. People love to remember Umbros. My other major go-to exception is keeping a small pile of Polo chino hats in various colors as a nod to Young Dro (Atlanta's Cam'ron) and because the various little bears on the hats are all wearing Polo themselves, on some mise en abyme-ish shit.
Nov 9, 2022
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black uniqlo polo, tan Lee riveted jeans (thrifted women's jeans so they fit above the waist), stance ankle socks, sambas, hat is like 12 years old from a defunct dubstep label
Jul 11, 2024
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Thicc as shakes Nicholas K forest green Dune-esque hoodie with integrated Bedouin-looking scarf to make the Unabomber's stylist proud coupled with their spring grass green convertible sweatpants with legs that unzip to shorts and showcase my deliciously hairy, short chicken legs.
1970's retro aka contemporary power-gay Company of We charcoal grey shimmer pants with black poly f'in French Connection metrosexual polo I've rocked since you were dropping logs in your baby ass baskets and Versace electric blue blazer doin' a PSA that this mf sippin' a Vesper alone at the bar got no life but to spit real shit and gnarly truf's to a secretly self-indulgent, hyper-emotional thus avoidant online forum from the aught nots.
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May 11, 2024
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-white adidas sambas with blue on the back (bought these at Nordstrom for cheap and absolutely love them)
-olive green nylon bomber jacket (love wearing it when it's cooler, perfect fall vibes jacket)
-green plaid French bulldog tie (I think it injects a little fun to formal settings, I wear it whenever I can)
-bear tapestry vans slip ons (my friend gave me these because he was sent them by accident by vans, they are kinda goofy but so much fun)
-I miss modern baseball hat (I wear this hat every day, it's in my pfp and I love it, thank you tiktok shop)
May 13, 2024
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My friend Jay recently mentioned in passing a 2010 story in The New Yorker, "Sleeping With Weapons" by Tad Friend, about the totally batshit feud between the actor and musician John Lurie and his protege John Perry. It's like 8,000+ words of mayhem and mental illness and I can't believe the magazine ran it or that I'd never read it, especially since there was a whole controversy afterward, including a hunger strike. It reminded me that there's just an endless array of weird old stores from 10 years ago, from 50 years ago, from last year, and you can just mainline them in one subway ride for no money. I always go back to stuff like Nancy Jo Sales on the Pussy Posse or the Golden Suicides, or Chris Heath's Fiona Apple cover story for Rolling Stone from 1998, or Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!" or Ta-Nehisi Coates on MF DOOM. (Use Pocket to get around paywalls.)
Nov 9, 2022
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I'm not exactly recommending the music โ the sound is very specific: punchline Detroit rap about scamming over sped-up '80s samples โ so much as the total package persona. When I first stumbled on Babytron in 2019, I was drawn to his ridiculous references (Jimmy Neutron, Dennis Schrรถder), unpopular music videos shot in electronics departments and beginner's mustache, but also the YouTube comments saying that he looked like Drake Bell or speculating about his race. In the years since, he's gotten some good press and grown out his hair yet almost everything else is the same: tons of music, low-budget videos, rapid-fire Gen-Z Mitch Hedberg bars. He still doesn't have a Wikipedia page. When I saw him live earlier this year, someone asked me how old I was, because they were pretty sure I was the oldest person there. (Iโm 34.) He headlined for like 25 minutes and missed about half of his verses because he was hitting a blunt. Stop saying that I'm offbeat if I match the tempo.
Nov 9, 2022
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I subscribe to a bunch of shit, share log-ins for others and get sent some screeners, but nothing compares to being asked by a friend to illegally locate the third movie spinoff of a Danish sitcom or a German TV documentary about Michael Jackson for free online. It's hunting and gathering for millennial men. The big streaming platforms suck so bad anyway, they flatten most coolness out of culture and they try to trick you into watching stuff in the basest ways. At least I feel accomplished when I do some "Hackers"-style Googling, hit half a dozen dead links and then have to close a swarm of popups like I'm catching flies out of thin air just to watch four innings of a Yankees game.
Nov 9, 2022