10.13.2023 – I took ideas people

I took ideas people
understood, gave in way they
did not understand

“It was just something I wanted to do,.”

“It wasn’t anything thought out. It was just personal to me … I wanted to make sure I took ideas people understood and gave it to them in a way they just did not understand.”

So says designer Thom Browne in an article about him titled, Fashion designer Thom Browne: ‘Men should be able to wear anything’ by Edward Helmore in the Guardian.

The theme of his collection this year, according to the article is:

The theme of his collection this season is Moby-Dick, because he read it as a boy. It includes a dark green, below-the knee Harris tweed skirt for men. It’s a manifesto, something to wear to a corporate office. “I think we live in a world where men should be able to wear anything,” he says. “I don’t really care if anybody wants to wear it, but I think it looks good, and it’s an interesting proposition for anyone who does.”

Read that last bit over again.

It includes a dark green, below-the knee Harris tweed skirt for men.

“I think we live in a world where men should be able to wear anything.”

Well boy howdy if he wanted to take something I thought I understood and give it in a way I did not understand Mr. Browne achieved that with his skirt for men.

On the other hand, had he called it a kilt, it would only be about 1000 behind the times.

For some reason, the entire article brought this Calvin and Hobbs comic strip to mind.

Why do I write?

I think I can embrace both thoughts here.

I want to take ideas people understood and give it back to them in a way they just did not understand.

And …

I just want to make your day a little more surreal.

So remember this.

If you send a chocolate back in time just 15 minutes, it means that 15 minutes ago you had two chocolate bars.

Since you might have been in your lab messing around with time travel, and you got a chocolate bar when you already had one, you would know that in 15 minutes, you had to send that chocolate bar in time.

What happens if you eat that chocolate bar?

Or, consider this, if John Conner had been a woman, she could have been pregnant with herself.