Flippant Friday Fotos

[sabotabby]

Your moment of Zen:





I was going to write up the first Flippant Friday Fashion post, and then I realized that I was bound to be taking lots of photos of stupidly dressed activists at tomorrow's demo. So I'll limit myself to one particularly bad case of What Not To Wear.



Okay...I've been trying to get a photo of this guy for awhile, but since he's fucking Death incarnate, it's kind of hard to just snap a shot of him. Someone is taking Goth a little too far! You can't really see from this shot, but besides the black raincoat and homemade chador, this fellow is sporting a black baseball cap and gigantic black sunglasses. Why he doesn't just invest in a nice burka, I don't know.

But the worst thing? The absolute worst?

He's wearing brown socks.

Comments

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Brown socks?!?!? He must be stopped.

[sabotabby]

You can't stop him. He's the Grim Reaper with bad fashion sense.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Well, he's killing the part of me that says people can wear what they want, that's for sure. WE NEED RULES, PEOPLE!!!

I mean, ahem, hey, whatever floats his boat, man.

[sabotabby]

Yes. We are very tolerant people. For God's sake get a better outfit!

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Exactly. ;)

[fugitivesaint.livejournal.com]

if he is the Mr. Grimm in the flesh, you might want to brave chance and investigate whether or not those "brown socks" are more then a mere lapse in fashion etiqquette. those brown socks might be some kind of metaphysical talisman. in fact, those socks might just be the source of Mr. Grimm's "reaper power!" who can tell the ways of death?

[sabotabby]

Does that mean if I steal them, I get the power to decide who lives and who dies?

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

ummm...
i sometimes wear brown socks.
with black shoes.

[sabotabby]

I sometimes wear blue socks with black shoes. It's the cumulative effect that's the problem.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

"brown socks"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Thank you for this. My day is the sucky and I have no socks.

[sabotabby]

I do try. And I hope your day improves!

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Even Death has days when everything else is in the dirty clothes?

Or does he always have brown socks?

[sabotabby]

Hey, I knew he looked familiar!

What's the Unibomber doing in Hogtown?

Or does he always have brown socks?

To be honest, I've never noticed the socks; I've always been engrossed in how damned scary that guy is. I only saw the socks after I cropped the photo. The closest I've ever been to him is when he followed me for half a block once.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Brown socks are an absolute crim eagainst humanity. Death must be punished!

And no goth would ever be caught with brown socks, you can bet your New Order on vinyl!

[sabotabby]

I have brown socks! I have argyle brown socks and stripy brown socks. But I'm not goth.

And I love your icon.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Noooooo! Not brown socks!!!

That icon was made by mein Freund mimisoliel, who makes a whole buncha kick ass animated movie icons!

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

It's the scary garbage-bag-burka man!

Do you ever wonder what his neurochemical disorder is?

[sabotabby]

I wonder that daily.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

O.k., I don't wonder daily, but then I don't see him every day.

Oh, and the IT guys who work in the basement of the Comma Mines? So very yuppie. Two of them were doing terrible things to a borrowed BMW convertible today (standard transmission, which they couldn't drive). So Zingerella's fashion advice of the day is "If you borrow hot wheels, make certain you're cool enough to drive them." Bucking and jerking down Richmond = very uncool.

Say, want to come contra dancing tomorrow night?

[sabotabby]

If I can still stand. Arabic coffee -> demo -> corsetry tends to result in a very sleepy sabotabby.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

O.k. My friend J. is bugging me to go, but I can always drop in on the way home.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!

This guy (?) scared the hell outta me once! I was in the car, parked on a sidestreet off Bathurst at Queen, and ze peeks into my car. I didn't see hir coming at all so I was very surprised, so much that I actually rolled up the window and possibly drove off, I can't remember. I felt pretty silly afterwards. A week later he was still around that area. I tried to follow hir around but I think ze realized that ze was being tailed, so I decided not to insist. A few minutes later, Michael Jackson was pronounced not guilty on all 10 counts.

You put your finger on it. Ze totally is DEAtH iNCARNAtE.

[sabotabby]

I've flipped back and forth on whether ze is a man or a woman. i have never seen enough to tell. How about "it," given that Death Incarnate shouldn't really be gendered...

If I saw it peeking into my car I'd probably have a heart attack.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

F is convinced that it's a she.

[corvus.livejournal.com]

hey! big favor! feel like hosting the web site of the local philly JATO/etc. chapter? :) :) :) i'll be your best friend/send you a radical care package!

[sabotabby]

Hosting how? On fairlyunusual.com? I can if it's not too big (i.e., no movie clips or Flash animations.)

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Nope. A bunch of Word files (maybe JPGs, though they'd probably be lower quality) of past fliers, some info about the group, a couple links, and... err, I guess that's it.

[sabotabby]

No problem in that case.