what hat are you?

there are plenty of options and functions of hats. wear them to look cool, keep your head warm, keep sun out of your eyes at a baseball game.... it's a long list

hope to lead you into the right direction when picking out the hat to represent your personal brand.

Trucker
classic bro hat. often combined with vintage looking shirt, plaid shorts, and sandals. not the most respectable hat but can be pulled off a select handful of dudes.

la bamba

if you've ever played in a ska band than you own one of these. also worn by people who wish they were born in a different time period and like things that look, sound, and feel old.

golf hat

you like to let people know that you play golf and have money. doesn't mean you have titleist clubs but like to make that impression.

military

you have never fought in a war but like the boring grey fatigue sort of look. you like having a bill on your hat but you either don't like sports or don't want to represent a certain team. a strong choice among hipsters.

knit/winter

doesn't have to be cold to wear one of these. wear it on a bad hair day or just cuz you like the look. often worn towards the back of the head so it bunches up a little bit at the back/top part of the skull for a 'fuck it... this is as good as it gets' look. a favorite among sk8r bros and many alts.

cyclist

if you were this hat and don't bike often than it's just a crutch. these hats only work or people who are serious about bicycles and who have shortish hair.

of course these are just a few of the hundreds of hat options but hopefully it will help you select what hat fits you. or just when judging other people you see in hats.

fuck waiting rooms

spent five and a half hours in a med-center yesterday. all they did was give me a shot, give me a breathing treatment, 2 chest x-rays, and wrote me a few prescriptions. all things that should take no longer than 1 hour combined. i think i spent 4.5 of those hours sitting alone in a room trying to stay awake and wondering if they forgot they put me in there.

long story short i have some intense bronchitis

took a steroid shot in the ass too, felt like barry bonds.

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fuck it... gonna chill with a movie... in the mood for something with edward norton

Chicago; bike friendly city with a strong personal brand and a landslide of yes's

took a trip to chicago over the weekend. went on a couple long bike rides through the city and along the lake. have to appreciate the efforts they're making to accommodate bicyclists. the areas on the sides of the road reserved for bikes is something every city should have.

as an entry level fixed gear rider with minimal inner-city riding experience i felt very comfortable.

also enjoyed the culture and style of the place. the city itself had a brand that was simple but strong.

yes's also outweighed no's in a significant way that is always an appealing attribute.

(something that i would like to say we have here but can't convince myself of)

city rating .... 4.5 out of 5

good game chicago

first few days

yesterday, and so far today, the weather has been the best. a few anxious leaves have fallen, and the air has been crisp. my favorite. being comfortable in a sweatshirt all day long is perfect. couldn't ask for more.

makes me think of sundays with the family when i was younger. getting some apples, cider, and donuts from Robinette's and walking around proven trails.... prime.

i think i'll take a break and do that a few times this fall.

what's your favorite season?

mentally crazy? or just generally insane?

so i met up with a friend to get some coffee and some afternoon lunchdinner. as i was riding my bike back to my car i heard someone yelling. not screaming for help, or hollering out gibberish obscenities like just another tweaked homeless dude. the guy was was wearing a nice looking white collared shirt and looked like he had some type of job to help keep his generally clean, consistently bland appearance.

he was very well articulate and had a decent vocabulary. his favorite words were "they/them," "suppress," "false," and "acuse". this guy was loud. i could hear him rambling from a good 75 yrds away.

i started to wonder what this guy's deal was. could he have blown a fuse during another stressful day under florescent lights in his office? did he just get laid off and decide to take out his frustration on the ears of the sidewalk-ers of Monroe-Center? was he ranting about the police, a parking ticket, jennifer granholm, barack obama? who knows. the guy was just pissed and decided to yell his gray-matter out at the empty bench in front of him.

not going to say what skin color he was because it doesn't matter. the dude just pissed me off, put me in a bad mood.

thanks guy. hope you figure it out.

what will radio play 20 years from now be like?

i hope that when my kids turn on the radio and listen to classic rock it isn't full of bands like nickleback, breaking benjamin, or tres dias grace. it would be an embarrassing way to represent our generation. it could be worse if they just played kanye, kris brown, or little wayne. what will our children think of us? will they think their parents were a bunch of shallow tools who think only of drinking alcohol out of glittery chalices, beating women, and driving cars with wheels that look like they're moving when the car isn't?

is this the face you want to represent your generation?

not saying that classic rock from our parents generation is great. in fact i think most of it is boring and not worth my time (a few exceptions exist). but atleast they were real musicians and wrote songs the right way.

(right way: getting fucked and writing whatever gibberish pours out of your mouth.

e.g. "ina goda davida", "hotel california", "the immigrant song" )

let's hope that future radio will just pass over the 2000-2010 mainstream music era for good. think it would be best.

but who knows, maybe their music will be worse. could it get worse?

could you live with your children thinking Creed was your source inspiration while you were growing up?

rock back to school

how do you feel about this new trend among tweens?

Kmart calls it rockstare. the look you get when you dress like a "rock star". is this cool? maybe if these kid/teens want to look like "rock stars" they should do some coke and trash a hotel room. I could see wal-mart marketing coke to tweens.

based on the commercial, the rock stars that these kids are trying to emulate are the molly cyrus, zach efron, and possibly hillary duff (if she hadn't fallen off the social radar) crowd. how did these kids become "rockstars"? Isn't hi-scool musical just about the furthest away from being a "rock star" you can get?

Finished

the product of a few hours of work, research, moments of minor frustration, and some cash

we say we don't, but we do

everyone cares. some say they don't, but everyone does.

the way we look.

i care.... so do you.

we shouldn't but it's just about impossible not to.

the hipsters that are searching for the newest trends often flowing over from azia. the mnstrm kids with the mall bought image. the punks who have to wear band tshirts to show off just how brutal they are. whoever, we all belong to something.

guess it's important to look different than other people, or the same as other people (depending on what you're going for). but wouldn't you rather just be different than everybody else by your actions?

when you get dressed in the morning what are you hoping people think when they look at you?

do you get agro when you spill catchup on your good white tshirt or do you continue your day without it affecting your mood?