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Steven Kippel
A compendium of my web presence.
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2013-05-14
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2013-05-13
Bannau Brycheiniog, Wales
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2013-05-09
Public Shaming: As I Lay Dying Singer Attempts to Murder His Wife, Metalheads: "She Probably Deserved It!"
Tim Lambesis of Christian metal band As I Lay Dying was arrested Tuesday night in a murder-for-hire plot. Apparently, he did the nice Christian thing and tried to hire a hitman to MURDER his wife, who was filing for divorce. More like As I Lazily Lay on the Couch While Someone Else Does My…
Source: publicshaming
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2013-05-03
Professional tailor and patternmaker Jeffery Diduch has created a nice little guide on how to properly measure garments. This is useful if you ever want to purchase made-to-measure clothes online, or if you want to sell clothes on eBay or StyleForum. You can see the full guide here.
Note, if you’re buying online made-to-measure clothes, sometimes companies will have their own ways they want you to measure, so best to always check with them first. The above is pretty much the convention though, from my experience.
Source: putthison
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2013-05-02
FOX Soccer Blog: Portland Timbers make 8-year-old's wish come true
If you need a feel good story today. If you need a smile. If you want to believe in humanity again. Watch this video.
Eight-year-old Atticus Lane-Dupre loves soccer. Last fall, he started to feel pain while playing with his team, The Green Machine. He was diagnosed with cancer (Wilms’ tumor) and missed the last game of the season as a result of the treatment he was receiving.
Atticus’ wish was simple: To…
Source: foxsoccer
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2013-04-05
IT’S A TRAP!
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2013-03-14
Sochi, Russia
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[L]iving within your means is the most liberating stance you can take in the evolution of your style, but to live within your means doesn’t mean settling for what is cheapest, it means having less but having better. A single great cigar, once a month, with one great meal is better than a hundred cheap smokes. Likewise with clothing, to be ‘cheap’ often does you more disservice in the way you treat your own things. If you have two great pairs of shoes and three well cut suits, all of which you treat with something like reverence for the joy they bring you to wear, you will always look sharp. So, for myself at least, after many years dealing with all things classic menswear, I have come to this conclusion - cheap is always just cheap. Less, but better, is the path of the quality man.
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Source: putthison
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Robert Reich: The Contest Over the Real Economic Problem
I think focusing on balancing the budget is a way to ignore the public debate over individual functions of government. It’s easier to just lump all spending together and say it’s all too high instead of looking at individual programs like Adoption Assistance to debate if we really need it. Instead they focus on the big picture so they don’t have to explain why they’re cutting funding for Meals on Wheels; and it benefits the Republicans because then they don’t have to figure out a way to pay for the programs the American people want.
“Our biggest problems over the next ten years are not deficits,” the President told House Republicans Wednesday, according to those who attended the meeting.
The President needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly. The biggest problems we face are unemployment,…
Source: robertreich
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2013-03-04
Because You Are An Adult, You Need A Sincere Suit
Not every man should wear a suit and tie every day. I myself wear a suit once a month at most. But every man in America should own a suit. I am defining “man” broadly here - let’s call it sixteen and up. One suit. For when it matters.
“What do you mean, ‘for when it matters?’”
Well, I get an email about three times a week that says, “I’ve got an unexpected (funeral/wedding/job interview/christening/wake/big meeting/court appearance) coming up next week. Where can I get a good suit on short notice for a good price?”
I usually (almost always) help these people. I suggest Brooks Brothers or maybe Suit Supply, two very good sources for suits, and I suggest they try to find a passable alterationist to work on short notice, and I suggest they not try to save money on this because it’s important and because as engineers say: “cheap, fast, good: pick two.”
But there’s something I really want to say to these people that I don’t. Something a little sour. Something I will say to you, man-who-has-not-yet-faced-sartorial-crisis.
YOU’RE A GROWN MAN. YOU SHOULD ALREADY OWN A SUIT.
This particular event may have been unexpected, but did you seriously not expect that something would come up in your life that would require grown-up clothes? Even professional surfers who live in beach huts in Bali have great-uncles who die back in Fresno. And great-aunts who’d feel bad if their grand-nephew showed up at the funeral in khakis and a polo shirt from his catholic high school’s uniform.
You will need a suit, and it is better to buy it on your time. When you buy a suit on short notice, you get something ill-fitting, you pay too much, you don’t have time to make your own decisions about what you want, you can only go to one store, you might not even be able to get it altered… in other words: you’re fucked from the word “go.”
So get real. Take some time, and buy yourself a good suit. One good suit. What my mom calls a “sincere suit.” It should be solid gray and conservatively styled so you can wear it for a good five or ten years when this stuff comes up. A plain, mid-gray suit can be worn to any event which requires a suit, from Easter Dinner at grandma’s to your co-worker’s unexpected wake.
Get yourself a shirt and two ties, too - one very dark for funerals, one a little happier, though still sober, for not-sad events. Neither of these ties should have Bugs Bunny on them, by the way. And some dress shoes, and socks and a belt. Just one set of basic, serious-business clothes. Because you will need them. Not all the time, but sometime. Inevitably.
You don’t have to be a suit-and-tie guy. You don’t even have to be a wears-pants-instead-of-shorts guy. But if you’re a grown man, you should own a suit.
Source: putthison
