I’m a bit on the busy side this weekend, so rather than put in the hours that I normally would on a Weekend Open Thread I’m just going to tell our largely male readership a thing or two about your couture. Read this article and take it to heart — or, like me, don’t. OJB — taking care of fashion-challenged males since, well, since its inception!
If you don’t look like this in a suit, you are apparently making some sort of mistake.
This is your Weekend Open Thread, possibly to include a Dearthwatch when I get around to it. Talk about this or anything else you’d like, within reasonable bounds of decency and decorum.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
I hear that Method Man is going to be at the YOST in Santa Ana, but I can’t find any verification. I found it, on Sunday.
Sun 1/26 | Doors: 7:30 pm | $25 GA / $60 VIP | All Ages
1. Duh
2. Yeah
3. Nobody would really wear a pocket square, right?
4. You bought an off-the-rack suit? You strike me as someone who would do that.
5. Yeah, slobs.
6. True, dat.
7. Elementary
8. For those of you who didn’t go to art school.
9. Yes, Mr. Bond.
10. If you bought the jacket used at a thrift store and plan to wear it with jeans because it was cheap. Otherwise, why’d you buy a peak lapel jacket new?
11. The standard if you have a, what’s it called,…a job.
12. If you live in earthquake country or wear really slick pants.
13. And want to look like Napoleon Bonaparte.
14. And remember to sit down too if you are trying to sit down.
15. Who is going to measure this one?
16. Big heads: big brains that can tie a Windsor knot.
17. Because of bonny prince whatever who was so fat he couldn’t button his vest at the bottom, so nobody else could either. See how classist this whole thing is?
18. Just ask the man of bronze.
19. Or just long enough to drag across the top of the guacamole.
20. And hand it to your wife/husband/manservant to open the pockets for you.
21. And that your legs are long enough to reach the ground.
22. Unless you are George Raft?
23. It can be longer, but it should be at least this long.
24. Yes.
25. Short if you’re young, longer if you aren’t.
26. Always wear an undershirt, unless you are wearing a tropical shirt, in which case you probably aren’t wearing a suit.
27. Yes, go for the dimple, always go for the dimple, but you probably should be out of your suit at this point in the evening.
I love it! The comments are a must read, proof that men can be every bit as vain, although none of them point out what whores the models are when jealous, so they get points for being more dignified than the ladies commenting on fashion mags.
#4 Really, we can’t find a better shoulder-gaffe shot than the guy whose shoulders were injured in military service?
#7 Never belts, “braces” (not suspenders) buttoned not clipped.
#11 Matt Bomer would look fabulous in anything, or nothing, or…where was I?
#13 The huge and overly casual sweater looks ridiculous, like a bad spoof of a 70s era Od Spice commercial.
#16 Windsor? Four in hand? Nope. Bow tie. A man who can tie his own bow tie (without benefit of a mirror) is the sexiest thing on earth. He is confident, and has great dexterity. ’nuff said.
#23 I am not a fan of the too-short too-tight trousers, these gentlemen look like they went shopping in their little sister’s closets.
#26 I agree with Fullerton Rag, undershirt ALWAYS, one assumes if we have progressed to the point of debating the finer points of shoe color we have already mastered the undergarment portion of the wardrobe.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going back for that shot of Matt Bomer. He has a husband. Damn. Oh wait, so do I, sorry honey….
at least now i know why mr diamond always looks so stylish in court
I am more of a “before” picture, willie.
I remember a line from the Sopranos. “Look at those two dudes – Before and WAY before.”
mr diamond is being way too modest,,,every time i am in court, he is there wearing either brioni or zegna,,,,,and those fifteen hundred dollar bruno magli shoes
I think that you may have me confused with the person my dog thinks I am.
(n.b.: My dog is also imaginary.)
Is Facebook down for anyone else right now, or am I singularly blessed?
You are singularly blessed.
In fact, I have finally started putting some time into OUR facebook page – the Orange Juice Blog facebook page – and it is booming… https://www.facebook.com/pages/Orange-Juice-Blog/136961069648739
Good luck, I’m sure you’ll be allowed back onto the island soon enough.
About time! Run an ad!
greg,
its so cool that you have an imaginary dog…I wonder if he knows my imaginary girlfriend
I imagine so.
President Obama indulged in the ritual monarchical pretense of giving his State of the Union speech before an audience of sycophants and hustlers – commonly known as Congress.
In the course of his lackluster recitation of tired Democrat talking points – grievance and division – he managed to be simultaneously boring and contemptible, yet captivating in his arrogance. Watching him, it was clear the man is forever impervious to the reality which has assaulted his presidency. His aura of self-regard and smug condescension glowed as he soaked in the awkward applause of his Democratic colleagues.
http://www.pocketfullofliberty.com/state-of-the-union/
Good Lord, talk about transference…
Smug? Contemptible? Arrogant?
That was the feeling I had as Republicans refused to stand and cheer for the reality that a person can no longer be denied health insurance for a pre-existing condition.
Think about that for a moment…the contempt that the Republicans have for this President even compels them to be unable to celebrate THAT simple, yet profoundly meaningful change in healthcare.
“boring” and “captivating” … of course this isn’t skallywag’s writing, but it’s telling that he thinks it’s good writing.
I actually improved the writing of the original author.
Sad. Was it you who made the President boring and captivating?
No – but he was boring in content & delivery – and captivating at the same in the depth & breadth of his narcissism.