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  1. Captain Lex

    The Fedora Lounge's own Matt Deckard on HONY

    Jinx!
  2. Captain Lex

    The Fedora Lounge's own Matt Deckard on HONY

    I'm not sure how many of you Loungers are familiar with the Facebook photography page Humans of New York, but it's fairly popular in some circles. The photographer, Brandon Stanton, takes street portraits of people in New York and asks them probing questions, which answers he uses for captions...
  3. Captain Lex

    The Art of Manliness

    I read AoM a lot, actually! Their clothing and grooming stuff is pretty good; a lot of their "manly skills" are pretty fun, and a lot of their character-building advice is good stuff. The only issue I really have with the site, but I have it a lot, is when they seem to ignore the idea that...
  4. Captain Lex

    Something I miss with the decline of the printed word

    Actually, I like this aspect of it, for the reverse. In addition to all the other reasons why I consider the Kindle to be the perfect complement to a my physical library (which I assure you is enormous), I also occasionally appreciate the opportunity to read what I wish without having to be self...
  5. Captain Lex

    Fedora Lounge Pin?

    Every now and then the Fedora Lounge store ad appears in the banner at the top of the page. It still displays pictures of the pin, but they sadly haven't been for sale there for at least as long as I've been a member.
  7. Captain Lex

    Flip-Flops

    I hate the feeling of having things between my toes, so when I do need shower shoes I go for soccer sandals. In the summer, when, due to my shorts, it would be at least feasible to wear sandals, I wear boat shoes instead. There are some people for whom their aesthetic works with flip-flop (e.g...
  8. Captain Lex

    The death of independent cinema - a local perspective

    In the Twin Cities we're quite lucky to have our independent cinemas be successful enough that they can (and all have, now that my own employers have done it) make the switch. My own views on the matter are known to be controversial, so I'll abstain from making any more general a comment than...
  9. Captain Lex

    Premature burial that causes you the most pain....

    For me it begins and ends with Twin Peaks, though one wonders how long it could really have been kept going and kept the quality up. Many people already (and quite mistakenly) don't like the second season as much anyway.
  10. Captain Lex

    History Channel Gone Wrong

    I really like American Pickers, but I recognize it's at best faintly connected to history. My parents watch a lot of HGTV, and to their (the channel's) credit that content is mostly on-topic, but I would say few people would argue that television's non-fiction content is what you should be...
  11. Captain Lex

    40s two tone hollywood

    That's the ticket, sir! I should like to take a page from your book!
  13. Captain Lex

    40s two tone hollywood

    Maybe one day, if I'm diligent and frugal, one day I can own a Hollywood jacket of my very own. Wherever did they get the one that George McFly wears in Back to the Future? I assume they didn't pay such crazy prices for trivial costume pieces.
  14. Captain Lex

    Hat Stores-a list

    Excellent, thank you! Exactly the sort of thing I was expecting, sadly. Related: what makes a proper pith helmet proper?
  15. Captain Lex

    Hat Stores-a list

    J Peterman $35 Pith Helmet http://www.jpeterman.com/Lightweight-Pith-Helmet I was perusing the newly-arrived user's manual and saw, on the same page as their $178 safari jacket, this lightweight pith helmet. $35 is a low price for anything on the Peterman catalogue, let alone a hat that's...
  16. Captain Lex

    Frustrated! Addressing people by their title, and other 'old-fashioned' sayings

    For the same reason that 'they', originally and still a plural pronoun, is a (the!) widely-used gender-neutral singular pronoun. Context matters. The question I am addressing here is not, by the way, 'how did this come to be', as I could not tell you. The question I am addressing is 'is it bad...
  17. Captain Lex

    Frustrated! Addressing people by their title, and other 'old-fashioned' sayings

    You are correct, I do not for a moment believe we could start fresh. It is foolish even to try. If the power were placed into my hands to bring in a new era of gender-neutral terminology, I'd delve into the past of our language and bring out the perfect set of new terms. I would not say guys at...
  19. Captain Lex

    Frustrated! Addressing people by their title, and other 'old-fashioned' sayings

    I consider my agency with language more of a rudder than a steering wheel: people at least know what I mean when I address a group of women by "guys"; the convention exists, my justification is for the preserving of that convention, not creating it. Calling a group of guys "ladies" a) is...
  20. Captain Lex

    Frustrated! Addressing people by their title, and other 'old-fashioned' sayings

    Indeed so! Where it falls apart is not that we must call women by male appellations — that decision is a symptom of an earlier mistake. As a student of the Bible, you are no doubt aware of the Greek words Άνθρωπος and Άνδρος. The great error of the evolution of English was that we should have a...
  21. Captain Lex

    Frustrated! Addressing people by their title, and other 'old-fashioned' sayings

    I apologize, I'm a compulsive editor because my old boards looked down upon double-posting. I'll here quote myself: EDIT: Let us always cite our sources: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=woman&allowed_in_frame=0
  22. Captain Lex

    Frustrated! Addressing people by their title, and other 'old-fashioned' sayings

    As much as I am in to old-timey slang (generally from about 1890s England up to the present), I relish more playing games with the fluidity of language (which, indeed, is another aspect of using archaic slang), and thus I gladly address women as "dude", address groups of women as "guys", and...
  23. Captain Lex

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    "The most substantial of our tailoring lies beneath the surface...so here's an artist's depiction of said surface."

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