Hard For Me

In theory, from now on I will be keeping my mouth shut on certain matters.

Easy for me to sleep, never easy for me to shut TF UP.

"Talk, Calvin." 

"Are you going to waterboard me? 'Coz if you do that my mouth will not be able to talk and believe me, I'll talk until you are forced to waterboard me to get me to shut up!"

Anyway, Michael Pompeo is IN. The End.

Back to the normal programming...

Sold at this year's Pitti Uomo, but not worn by
visitors. I'd wear it though.

Sometimes what looks like 'negative news' is at least substantial news and it is real and good.

I'm sure you are all aware that prior to iPhone 5's and 6's and Plus+ to infinity and beyond with all of this personal technology, the television interviews of prominent people that you all saw, were heavily subjected to 'video magic.' Video magic is where things that people like 'Rain-hat George Bush' said, that he wasn't supposed to say, were edited out, and even little facial expressions and body language stuff was removed from the finally aired video clip.

The 'red carpet look,' all that 'glamour,' all those glitzy glossy people... It's all fantastically 'digitally produced.'

Last week was the running of a totally famous European high fashion and style festival, the equivalent of which to entertainment, is the Film Oscar: Pitti Uomo. 

The world's current leading (men's) fashion and style commentators, Hugo Jacomet and Sonya Glyn Nicholson, were in attendance throughout the festival and made the observation that the usual people - rich people - who turned up to this thing had just about all taken to wearing plain old jeans this year. I find this kind of observation is a reflection on what they are feeling about the economic conditions (for them) and it usually denotes effects we will see later on in the year in the wider economy.

It's a lot harder, now that everyone has an advanced digital movie camera in their top pocket which can capture reality and stick it up on YouTube -, it's a lot harder to be someone and something that you are not.

Which leaves a little space for unvarnished truth and reality.

You will also recall that pithy observation by some supposed 'former' RUSSIAN spy, Yuri Bezmenov, where he said that Americans would not change their (false) opinions which they hold as hard fact, even when faced with authentic facts which contradicted what they believed. Which I suppose then doesn't explain how Donald Trump got in! He's so obviously the Prince of All Darkness...

But now is the time we can reflect on the beautiful use of the phrase 'alternative facts,' in contrast to what Bezmenov's observation was.

I notice CNN claimed that there was no such thing as an 'alternative' fact - there was only a 'fact.' I disagree. CNN indulges in inauthentic facts all the time. 

Never mind. 

Let us cast our minds to some nice, distant, quiet place, far away from all of this tumult.

Perhaps somewhere on the beautiful Amalfi Coast in Italy.

Sitting here, looking down at the sea, we can gain a different perspective on how life is 'spun' by the Press. When no one is intended to be looking at us to see whether we are rich, or poor, or well-shod, or well-whatever - then certainly, we may wear whatever pleases.

Humans being generally social animals, their speech and manner of talking is almost never just some instantaneous explosion of atavistic emotion, but has a great deal of regard to what the listener is expected to hear.

Art and culture have ways of employing even the detritus of suburbia and human habitation to invent ways of evoking subtle feelings. 

Who we are is often reflected by what we like and how we like to feel and what we have surrounding us in our lives. That is, if we have the room to have a lot of choice in the matter, of course. The mind must serve, health must be adequate, and so on.