The week in photos!
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If my calculations are correct, when I start pouring this in, you’re gonna see some serious shit!
I’m making my world-famous (using an extremely liberal definition of “world-famous”) chicken wing soup, after much familial pressure to do so. It’s been a while!
Oh yeah. We need a Food Hall of Fame, and Frank of Frank’s Red Hot fame needs to be one of the inaugural inductees.
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Black Dickies overalls: The cool details
Years ago I was idly searching eBay and saw a pair of Dickies overalls in black. Finding overalls in black can be difficult, and the price was right, so I snapped them up. Unfortunately, they were of a kind of odd sizing, with a label indicating “XL” as opposed to the more traditional waist-and-inseam measurement, and these were just never quite there for me as an option.
Until now. I’ve been losing weight very slowly and very steadily over the last couple of years, with the result that I can at last get into these comfortably.
Personally, I think they look kind of nifty.
And even more cool is that when I looked at them up close, I discovered that they’re not a pure black, like my black Carhartt’s. It turns out that these are actually a pair of Hickory-striped overalls, that the fine folks at Dickies dyed into blackness. You can see the stripes up close, which is really cool:
And I dig the black Dickies brand tag, which is red on every other pair of Dickies that I own (save two, on which the tag is white). These are seriously cool.
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I am NOT a Minion!
I just like yellow. Sheesh.
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One perk of owning lots of overalls
Every year around Halloween, I enjoy going on Twitter and seeing all kinds of this going on:
Apparently everyone is gonna be a minion this year for Halloween bc this thrift store is sold out of overalls lol
— Jessica Lesaca (@jessicalesaca) October 28, 2013
If anyone has overalls/suspenders please let me know ASAP!
— YuanQiu (@YuanQiu98) October 28, 2013
If anyone has overalls it would be much appreciated.
— Emma LaRue (@emmamaelarue) October 28, 2013
Does anyone have overalls I can borrow??? Pweeeaaaassseee
— Kaylee Fee (@CadetFee) October 28, 2013
Why are overalls and yellow shirts so hard to find?!?! What in earth.
— Julie Renee (@julierenee6) October 28, 2013
average day in the life of Sam… wandering around Value Village looking for overalls.
— Sam Irwin (@ski_1997) October 28, 2013
I’m starting to feel like Dwight Schrute in that episode of The Office, when it’s Christmas so he finds out what the hot new toy is, buys every single one in Scranton, and then eBays them all for a tidy profit. Except I’m not selling my overalls, so it’s really not like that at all.
Anyway….
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Writing in the hotel room
Getting a little work done before we head to Ithaca, because as Captain Malcolm Reynolds once said, “We work before we play.”
He also said some other stuff, but that’s the one that’s relevant here.
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The Wearing of the Green!
Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome
Oddities and Awesome abound!
:: Oh Japan, never, ever change!
As LiveDoor News pointed out this week, a new trend is spreading among Japanese schoolgirls. It’s called “cream puff face” (“ganmen shuukuriimu” or 顔面シュークリーム). And, you guessed it, it involves smushing a cream puff in someone’s face.
This isn’t exactly a new trend, as it’s possible to find examples of cream puff faces as early as 2007 and 2008. And, yes, this is a spin on the old fashioned pie in the face gag. But in Japan, the trend really started to take off with schoolgirls in 2011. The Japanese mainstream is just catching on now.
Huh….
(Well, stop the whaling. Other than that, never change!)
:: Check out these detailed floor plans of teevee households. I never realized that the Simpsons have two living rooms!
:: Want to make your own ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ posters? Of course you do!
More next week!!!
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A Day at the Farm
Well, it was really cold. So it was really only about 45 minutes.
But anyway, the other day I had some time to myself, so I decided to go to Knox Farm in East Aurora to take some pictures. I knew it was cold, but I didn’t figure on how biting the wind was, so I didn’t do nearly as much walking around as I had intended. Mostly I stuck around the farm buildings themselves.
Knox Farm is a former New York State Park that was once the estate of the Knox family, a rich clan that once lived here but has since dispersed. The state never really figured out what to do with the place, park-wise, and then the budgetary disasters that unfolded during the Great Recession gave the state the opportunity to eliminate the farm as a state park. (This despite that they didn’t even have to close State Parks during the Great Depression, but that was then, when America was more willing to levy taxes in order to pay for things we collectively wanted, as opposed to a country that seemingly wants low taxes and not much else. But I digress.)
Anyhow, here are a few of the photos from that day:
Note the cross-country skiers:
These next two turned out cool, because I placed the camera in a dark place, relative to where I was standing. It was not this bright! But it makes me look all science-fictiony or something.
I also drove up to the Mill Road Overlook, which is simply where the road passes by the top of a wide field on a hill, allowing a wonderful view. Some activists are currently trying to secure this property so that it remains a wonderful view, as opposed to the site of yet another boring development of ugly McMansions. The view that day from up there was wonderfully stark, since it was getting on late afternoon by this point.
I really do love this area!