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Archive for 2016
June 8, 2016
THAT’S OKAY, THERE ARE PROBABLY STILL A FEW INDUSTRIES FOR JERRY BROWN TO RUN OUT: Jacobs Engineering plans to move jobs from Pasadena to Texas.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Liberals, Want Trump to Win? Keep Calling Him Racist.
I DON’T TRUST THEM: Tech giants join speech police: Do we really want techno-bureaucrats deciding the difference between free speech and hate speech? No, especially because there’s no difference. “Hate speech” is just a term invented by people who oppose free speech.
AT AMAZON, save on Strength and Training Essentials. I hope that guy in the squat rack is just warming up.
Plus, this week’s deals in Movies & TV.
UPDATE: Link was broken. Fixed now. Sorry!
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Not Getting Any? Blame Netflix.
THIS GOT RARE MEDIA PUSHBACK: Kerry orders State to redo investigation into video edit.
ASHE SCHOW: The Fall Of Renee Ellmers.
NAKED LUNCH, OR TWO LONDONS IN ONE:
—Headline, the London Mirror, today.
—Headline, the London Telegraph, August 15, 2009.
The clash of two rapidly re-primitivizing cultures is sure to end well…
IT’S SAD TO SEE THE LENGTHS TO WHICH THEY’RE GOING TO FLOG THE doomed Ghostbusters reboot.
WAIT, WHICH DECADE IS THIS? Pontiac Fiero Formula vs Toyota MR2 Supercharged: Which is the better inexpensive, mid-engined sports car?
BREAKING: AT LEAST 9 PEOPLE SHOT, 3 KILLED IN TEL AVIV TERRORIST ATTACK (brief but graphic video, likely of suspect being shot, at link).
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: New York Teachers union would rather cover up abuse than protect our kids.
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Waitress assaulted on French Riviera for ‘serving alcohol’ on first day of holy month of Ramadan. “I didn’t think that in France, country of liberty, I would have been assaulted like that.” In that country, you wouldn’t have been.
TROLL LEVEL: GRANDMASTER. Hillary Clinton Denies Jewish Man’s Attempt at History. “Hillary Clinton has won enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination for president, the Associated Press reported late Monday, effectively crushing Bernie Sanders’ historic bid to become America’s first Jewish president.”
NEWT DISPUTE TAKES ROOT? Newt Ponders Trump Train Exit, Calls Donald ‘Absurd Amateur.’
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Electrify Your Skateboard With A Cordless Power Drill.
FASHION ELITISM AND THE ZOOLANDER-IZATION OF LANDS’ END:
The friendly catalog-based clothing retailer known for unimaginative (I say classic), rarely updated (I say tradition-minded), boxy (I say unconstraining) apparel is these days in the grip of a fashion-forward Italian CEO named Federica Marchionni, and here the error of Lands’ End’s current path becomes apparent. Lands’ End is based in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, and should not be run by an Italian, someone who is fashion-forward or, especially, someone named Federica. Lands’ End is as unpretentious as a Ford-150. It should be run by someone named Mitch or Phil, and, no, I do not mean Mitchell and especially not Phillippe. Marchionni is given to describing the company’s proudly fashion-backward line as “ugly” and asks in meetings, “Who would wear that?” Dark rumors abound that Lands’ End will be buying ads in the September issue of Vogue, that celebrity photographer Bruce Weber will be doing shoots for its products, that weird-looking asymmetrical dresses that appear to have been splattered with blood by abstract expressionists will be the new focus of the company’s line.
This is as dire a situation as Budweiser being bought by Belgians. Indeed, it’s far worse; it’s as though Budweiser stopped making beer and reintroduced itself as an appletini manufacturer. Marchionni, whose previous bonehead attempt to inject sophistication was to ally the brand with leftist politics, must be fired immediately before Lands’ End turns into some sort of hideous would-be Pucci of Wisconsin.
I suppose it could be worse — William F. Buckley was asked for his ID by a 19-year old clerk at venerable Abercrombie & Fitch in 2001, because their catalog was suddenly “kind of porny inside,” as the young clerk gushed to the then-76 year old Buckley.
After it was purchased from Marks & Spencer by Luxottica scion Claudio del Vecchio in 2001, I watched Brooks Brothers eventually go through the same trend as Kyle Smith describes of Land’s End. In the early days of his acquisition, del Vecchio seemed to upgrade to overall quality of the menswear from the Marks & Spencer period and reintroduced several items from Brooks’ classic menswear collection. Concurrently, their catalogs began to feature several older (i.e. 40-something) models instead of the usual Zoolander types. (I wasn’t the only Brooks regular to have a serious crush on Roxanne Gould back then). By 2009 or 2010, gone were the older models from Brooks’ catalog and in was the goofy “Black Fleece” line of clothes, which seemed designed for stick-figure Derek Zoolander – or perhaps Pee-wee Herman. Those of us who are longtime Brooks addicts felt more than a little alienated, but I guess a high-end multinational fashion firm knows what their doing.
Which brings us to: “Ralph Lauren Is Closing Stores, Cutting Jobs as Sales Slump.”
Fellow Insta-contributor and Glamour maven Virginia Postrel called it in 2014.
SO HEY, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE CANADIAN LADY WHO “RESCUED” THE LOBSTER?
Apparently, the sight of a lobster for sale in a grocery-store tank “weighed on [her] psyche.” So she bought it, “drove six hours to Winnipeg, [and] shipped it via UPS to a vegan contact out in Halifax for $225, where the lobster was released into the ocean by a fellow vegan out east.”
This story might remind some readers of the first act of a 1998 episode of The Simpsons, but no, it happened in real life just a while ago, and if you dare, you can listen to this chick compare what she did to the Underground Railroad.
Sojourner Crustacean isn’t the only vegan to make the news lately.
This isn’t the 21st century I was promised.
ASTOUNDING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Large glasses encourage people to drink more, faster: study.
AT AMAZON, deals on Cell Phones & Service Plans.