How to use an apostrophe (or, dirty, dirty grammar porn for filthy grammarians)
There are three things people love to use: hookers, commas, and apostrophes. Not sure if this sentence needs a break? Let’s put a comma – no wait make that 5 commas. What about this sentence concerning the Ellis brothers and their ownership of the sawmill? Put an apostrophe after the ‘b’ in ‘brother’ and then [...]
Paper Nike’s
Check out artist David Browning’s sweet paper art Nikes. Finally, some Nikes not made in China!
Postmodern Gentleman and Office Tramp at Refinery 29/Inven.tory/Save Fashion
God writing that title was painful. However, i just learned that increasing your web traffic means putting really specific phrasing into the title, a fact that is both informative and depressing. Like learning how to get rid of weird rashes. Anyways, there was some kind of charity event at Inven.tory in SoHo last week called [...]
Expletive Construction is (expletive) awesome.
I was in an ESL class the other day and the topic was on subject verb agreement. An exercise question posed: There is/are four bananas on the table. Of course the answer is “are”, as the subject “four bananas” requires a plural verb. The word “there” in this case, is not the subject. I just [...]
Belts
So damn true.
Mobile Garden and Mobile Fashion
That picture in the last post was taken in Washington Square Park, a favorite spot amongst transients and fashionites alike. It was also the spot for an endeavor for the arts. Tattfoo, a charming artist of ecological bent, in collaboration with Yana handbags, braved the elements to produce work for the former’s Mobile Garden project. [...]
Harvard D-bag in training shuns sweatpants
I was recently told about this piece of work by a kindly reader: The Look Book: James Danner Posted to New York Magazine by jgreen on June 10, 2009 Click to Play | View Details My God. look at him. His hair is so floppy I think he might be part cocker spaniel. And I [...]
Do You Like Fish Dicks?
HAHAHAH LOL ROFL LOLCATS LMAO LCHAIRMANMAO. Ha. It makes you wonder if the South Park creators aren’t actually followers of fashion after all. Kinda makes me wish that I could select these characters like some kind of hip hop RPG. >>Kanye West Class: Mogul Hit Points: 6 Million Attributes: Protection from Criticism. Does double damage [...]
Look at this fucking hipster signals end of PMG
This website is awesome. Unfortunately, it has totally negated the need for this website’s existence. It was a good run y’all. http://www.latfh.com/
Riding the It Factor Can Cause Chaffing
So about a week ago the Times put out this article on perhaps the latest way to waste money: bicycles. You could tell that the person who wrote it hasn’t ridden a bike since his Huffy was stolen from him after Mrs. Cobbler’s 4th/5th grade combination class. You could tell because the author brazenly endangered [...]
Topshop Opens to Mixed Retractions
Ok. Fine. FINE. Assholes. Some of my comments were a tad hasty. Some of this stuff is pretty cute. I had some of my crazy ninjas arm themselves with smoke grenades, shurikens, and iphones and assault the Topshop stronghold. Needless to say their findings were shocking. First, we have some cute short/suit things. I think [...]
Topshop Opens to Mixed Fanfare
Good evening, reader. Topshop, the latest in the battle to take to the low-to-moderately priced fashion no man’s land, opened up this week in the Apple. I’m all down for stores that sell colorful t-shirts for less than double digits and feature celebrity designers of dubious taste and skill. But more than anything the opening [...]
Outdated Fashions? No such thing for the PMG
GREETINGS READER: A good friend forwarded me the following link from The Art of Manliness on the art of said manliness. A fine list of things that any good man of style will quickly find in his closet, or at least will recognize as being worthy of consideration. One of the tenents of a Postmodern [...]
Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony aka BORING
GREETINGS REAder. As a huge fan those with names that have funky vowels, I’m was excited to see Chloë Sevigny designing for that overpriced, undervalued boutique Opening Ceremony. Unfortunately, the results were less than arousing. Nice pants, chap. I believe they are too legit to quit. But the throwbacks weren’t limited to music. Classic films [...]
New Amsterdam 2: Many Generalizations
GOOD EVENING. So continuing with last week’s post, I feel I must relate my general impressions of New York’s style. Mind you a few things: 1) I’ve only been to New York twice. 2) Both times I nearly died from hypothermia. Am I using hyperbole? No. In this case it would be hypobole! Ah. That [...]
New Amsterdam 1: Patricia Fields Party and Other Unrelated Activities
DEAR READER PLEASE forgive my recent respite. I was off on an important trip to New Amsterdam*, attending to important meetings and relations as is the demand of the life of a Postmodern Gentleman. Amongst the dodging other human beings in the subway, paying Disneyland-esque prices for even basic necessities, and nearly freezing my Little [...]
Grammy Time.
IT HAS COME TO my attention that perhaps it is apt to delve back into that blackhole of human endevour called popular culture. And if pop culture is but a vacuous hole in time space, then surely musicians are but very singularity which rips atom from atom. It is literally a musician’s job to take [...]
Many Ties
It has come to my attention that many a many of you, with great danger to your personal honor, disregard the importance of neck ties in your personal appearance. I cannot stand for this. Behold the below graphic, forwarded to me by a good friend whilst he dug around one of the multitudes of Pneumatic [...]
Tweed Bicycle Ride
It has come to my attention that certain blokes have put it upon themselves to merge the very Gentlemanly arts of bicycle-riding and tweed-wearing. It is of course, the British. Indeed, to me, this is as arousing as anything the San Fernando Valley can excrete. And while I am all for mixtures of transportation and [...]
Hail to the Chief
It has come to my attention that a new President has been installed into the…Presidency. While this whole democratic republic system grinds against my parliamentary system sensibilities, but the entire event was cause for celebration. And while the Washington chill is less than optimal for Postmodern filflandery, there are some who still know how to [...]
Letters of Frowning Upon #1
It has come to my attention that I have promised to relate my sartorial philosophy, but have not yet delivered on my word. This must change. As a Postmodern Gentleman, I find myself to be full of Postmodern Fury, that is Postmodern Indignation. And since I am far to civilized to raise my fists, and [...]
Defloration
It has come to my attention that some time in 1960s, a very scandalous but amusing book was published entitled, The Recently Deflowered Girl. The very nice young people over at The Steel Closet brought it to my attention. Quite a read. The recommendations on manners post-coitus are spot on. But indeed the illustrations are [...]
Golden Globes
It has come to my attention that in order to garner a larger Readership, I should report on things topical and tropical, at least at first. Indeed, it is just as well. For here, I may espouse to you, Dear Reader, the merits and practices of that fine high dress code, black tie. First, it [...]
