Free Thoughts: Timeless Styles

“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.” / dall-e2, 2023
“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.” / dall-e2, 2023

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
— Karl Lagerfeld


“Victorian Party” / Chicago, IL / 📸: unknown / ca. 1970
“Victorian Party” / Chicago, IL / 📸: unknown / ca. 1970

True style is timeless. In theory, there’s no such thing as “poor” style.

You either have style or you don’t.

In practice, there are, of course, degrees of difference. Nobody looks the same in the same dress. Lol the fear of showing up somewhere in the same outfit as someone else isn’t the fear of looking the same as the other wearer. It’s that the other will “wear it better.”

The perfect outfit doesn’t make everyone who wears it look the same. The perfect outfit makes everyone who wears it look like they’re the only one wearing it.


“Golden Hour at the Eagle” / Greenacres, FL / June 2023 / 📸: Dave Westreich
“Golden Hour at the Eagle” / Greenacres, FL / June 2023 / 📸: Dave Westreich

A beagle, seagull, and an eagle walk into a bar. The beagle says to the seagull, “Watch out for that eagle.” The seagull says, “OK.”

Chomp-

— Cat Thomas


“TV Me” / NYC / Feb 2021
“TV Me” / NYC / Feb 2021

Like amino acids that form genes, digital bits are neither straight nor queer. They are, however, “binary” as they course across networks as zeroes and ones. Go figure.

fwiw, “genderqueer” written in binary code:
01100111 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110001 01110101 01100101 01100101 01110010


“Pittsburgh Perambulation” / Pittsburgh, PA / July 2023
“Pittsburgh Perambulation” / Pittsburgh, PA / July 2023

writers who “perambulate” instead of “walk,”
burble and blather instead of talk.

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