Neil discusses his love of a good flannel shirt. The fashion industry just never got him... Big new documentary from the BBC screening tonight in the UK. More here. Or listen to RustRadio now.
Friday, October 31
Thursday, October 30
warms you twice
"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." -Henry Ford
Some argue wood heats you four times; chop, split, stack and burn. Putting the siblings to work above.
whale
The kid loves whales now, since watching Burt Dow. The image above is from a Seattle designer Derek Sullivan who designed some of last year's Hayes Brothers boards.
guilty pleasure -pipe gloves
Guilty pleasure here, no not drinking bud... pipe gloves. Above, old Burton's, who were in early on this idea, though i remember people using crosscountry gloves quite a bit in the springtime before anyone made gloves especially for the task. Anyway...have a bit of a thing for these now and the designs are getting ridic'. Had been looking for the below from Drop and just found them now, they were actually last year's (not sure they ever made it out??) but love the Levi's homage. Found them for $15 from REI.
The game changers were Danny Kass and Grenade Gloves though. Remember 2001; Danny took the top spot at the USOpen fronting Grenade Gloves as his sponsor... the beauty of it was, he didn't even wear gloves. The gloves hadn't even been made at that point. Still the Grenade crew had already sprayed/bombed the grenade logo over every mountain in the US...and there was no actual product. Brilliant. Further reading. They have really legitimized (ironically) the category of "glove company" in snowboarding. [NB: i am not affiliated w Kass and co. at all... he did yell "Open Season baby!" into the camera once though... nice young man.]
Still like to be an old codger and wear lifties or old chainsaw gloves though... especially on the busy days.
Wednesday, October 29
the thirty-nine steps
John Buchan (1st Baron of Tweedsmuir) wrote the The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1915, but the 1935 Hitchcock film, The 39 Steps (note slight name change) may be more familiar. Criterion has a fantastic blog that abstracts the movie; stills and commentary. (Criterion Collection release available here). I love it as an early thriller, and soft spot for me due to the Scottish locations. We lived for a while near Tweedsmuir, in Broughton, now home to the John Buchan Center.
Want to read it right now?? You betcha... Bartleby lets you read the full text online here; an awesome resource.
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