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  1. Carlisle Blues

    Hats In The Car/A Newbie Question

    lol lol lol lol That is my atavist mobile...:p :p
  2. Carlisle Blues

    Hats In The Car/A Newbie Question

    Driving with my brimmed hat in my Toyota Highlander is safe and I have plenty of room...:)
  3. Carlisle Blues

    My problems with suits

    Thank you very much for speaking about this topic.. Discussions regarding nutritional are invaluable. As layman we are "fed" so many differing opinions regarding nutrition and I think what you have so freely shared with us is wonderful....:)
  4. Carlisle Blues

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    Z. I realized you addressed Tomasso but I found this entertaining and thought this may interest you...... "Kermit "Shine" Forbes was a former boxer who had worked as a sparring partner for famed writer Ernest Hemingway. Forbes met Hemingway on Thanksgiving eve in 1936; Forbes was working...
  5. Carlisle Blues

    Remember common ¢ents?

    ^^^ lol lol lol lol lol
  7. Carlisle Blues

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    Hemingway loved the sport “My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.” -Hemingway in a conversation with Josephine Herbst. It appears that Hemingway was deluded as to his boxing ability. He often boasted to interviewers that he was "a good semi-professional boxer." In 1922, Heavyweight...
  8. Carlisle Blues

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    ^^^ yes ....and "the first of what may have been as many as five concussions." according to 'Note' "My True Occupation is that of a Writer": Hemingway's passport correspondence-Hemingway Review, The, Spring, 2005 by Daniel Robinson (sounds like he may have a little soup in NYC);)
  9. Carlisle Blues

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    This image of Hemingway is from the digital collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. Well worth the trip. Just think the most exciting city on earth. Food being thrown at you while the servers yell at you. Then a trip to the bakery to help...
  10. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    Tradition provides continuity, a basis by which a person, organization or ideal has roots...:)
  11. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    Thank you for explaining that....:)
  13. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    Lee that refers to post #280 and a couple prior to that :rolleyes: in this thread.
  14. Carlisle Blues

    Big men & double breasted suits

    Size 50 jacket 36 waist DB are preferable I like the cut and the feel of the jacket. Keep it buttoned when standing ...unbuttoned when sitting..:)
  15. Carlisle Blues

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    I could not agree more...sometimes it is packaged a little differently or called something a little more catchy but it all is the same and it goes round and around....;)
  16. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    I am beginning to get a better idea of where you are coming from. This person said it best : All I can add is to thine own self be true. If you are not comfortable with the way you are then seek appropriate measures and qualified personnel to assist you. In any event I will send good...
  17. Carlisle Blues

    A Baby Girl for Miss Golightly

    Congrats Miss Golightly!!!!!!!!!!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
  19. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    Yes we all get a dose of that.... If you read earlier posts you would see that I was told I was no longer welcomed here because those posters made assumptions about me that were unfounded and without merit. Well I am here and here I will stay. Now I have to go and feed my wood stove so...
  20. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    That is an impossible situation. I live a life that speaks to vintage in several different ways including some of the ways of those who consider themselves atavist, anachronist, revivalist or no label. But in no way am I maladaptive, rejecting or alienating anything from modern culture nor do I...
  21. Carlisle Blues

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. $6800. First edition, with Hemingway's bookplate on front pastedown. Acquired directly from the Hemingway family (with letter of provenance included), this copy of the first edition of Death in the...
  22. Carlisle Blues

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    Jack this term does it apply to all of the members of The Fedora Lounge or just a few certain types of individuals. If so, please specify. In other words did you want input from other members of the forum?
  23. Carlisle Blues

    Chocolate Bacon

    Kettle popcorn is the same principle...sweet and salty and more desirable.

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