oh my glasses
So I picked up my new sunglasses the other day. When I put them on for my wife, she said:
"They're...stylish. And don't take this the wrong way, but...you're not stylish."
Oh well. I'm gonna wear them on the bus and see what everyone there thinks.
If you want to see what they look like, they're right here.
"They're...stylish. And don't take this the wrong way, but...you're not stylish."
Oh well. I'm gonna wear them on the bus and see what everyone there thinks.
If you want to see what they look like, they're right here.
posted by la.barabbas at 7:42 PM
7 Comments:
Yo! The link doesn't work!
Are THESE the glasses?
Dr. Barab,
I need to go glasses shopping soon. I've been wearing cable-temple wire-rim lennon spec for over 20 years now; time for an update. I occasionally chaperone your sister-in-law (lots of damned hyphens in this thing, eh?) around town, and actually met you at a holiday gala in Appalachia recently. So you kinda know me. First question: go mod or stick with the tried and true? I've never had any trouble with pushy sales-clerks due to my regional proclivity to blurt out "FUCK OFF" at the slightest provocation, but I am blind as a bat without the glasses, and thus can't tell what the ones I'm trying on look like. Can I trust the Editor to help me select glasses?(in lieu of those ding-bats at lenscrappers) I also considered taking my digital camera along, and self-portraiting each potential candidate, so that I could then view them with my real glasses on. But which is geekier: the self-portrait thing or having a chick tell you if you look ok? I know - there's lots of questions in this supposed comment - but could you help a brother out? Eagerly awaiting. (but take your time - this is important)
Is LA-B suddenly a men's advice columnist? I like that.
I'll help you pick out specs, Earlnemo. Although I think taking pics is also a fine idea. Hey!
We could take pics, put them online, and then let folks vote!
OR
Let LA-B choose... Ooooooo... yes....
earlnemo - Years ago, when I had very long hair, I wore round wire frame glasses myself and loved them (and in fact, one night in Dallas, Texas, I won $100 in a rock star look-a-like contest. The competition was Freddie Mercury and one of those ZZ Top guys but I won, of course, as John Lennon.) But they would bend, the little screws would unwind, the lens would pop out and the nose pads would turn green. So I turned to black plasic and have never looked back. For a lazy man like myself, there's no better eyeglasses than the grab 'n go of a pair of Buddy Holly specs. And they're still rock star.
That being said, I would take the Editor with you. She's pretty rock 'n roll - even though I do love the idea of you posting pictures of yourself trying on various glasses. It'd be like a creepy Julia Roberts montage!
Woo Hoo!
I'm Rock 'n' Roll!
LA-B says I am, so it must be true!
When was Dr B NOT an advise columnist?
And notice I left our your sexist discrimations. He is, after all, the original internet eucharist. Great taste is unisex.
Thanks for the advise, again. Very practical. I do have almost half a film canister of green nose-pads in the desk drawer, right next to the finger-nail clipping collection.
Wanna go to the mall and start the project Sunday, Ms.Ed? I'll buy you a banannaa split...
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