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^In all fairness, I over simplified some of that equation. There is also the issue of material scarcity. It is far more difficult to source horse hide these days. My shoe repair guy bitches non stop about how expensive leather soles are. So, yea, some of the stuff is harder to source and more expensive due to the prevalence of cheap, non-welted shoes (not all Asian produced either, a lot of Italian-made shoes are glued-up poly-soled jobs these days).

Engineer boots from Japan are NOT work boots. They just look like work boots. They are NOT made with the intention of selling them to the working class. These are made for clothing fetishists. More or less, this explains the price difference in equivalent dollars.

Dang, looks like I may need to do some ROY x Cone accessory-shopping. Given that every day I'm fairly well surrounded by AK-47s, rusting shotguns and what appear to be WWII-era bolt action rifles. Pretty sure about 50% of these are non-functioning, but it'll still look good and that's what's important, right?

As for the Kalashnikov, assume that MoFo is working. Those guns are particularly difficult to break. The barrel and chamber are chromed, the gun is very, very simple in it's design. There are 100 million in the world -- replacement parts are cheap and easy to come by. All of this means it can kick around the bush with very little maintenance for a long time before the thing fails. A very, very deadly weapon at close range (almost impossible to hit what you aim for down range, though, due to the short barrel and mid-powered round). If you want to nerd out on the AK, read The Gunby CJ Chivers.

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RE: Sloan: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

I suspect a big Utah trade before deadline.

Did I mention, Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

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^Of all the things, the photographer in England, 1943, blurred Riff's face...

Crap, grooveholmes, you exposed me. Rnr left his Wayback machine unattended for a few minutes, and I took the opportunity to step back in time. It looks all innocent in this photo, but not long after it was taken I absconded with past rnr, came back to the future, left past rnr at rnr's house, and destroyed the time machine.

I figured, what better punishment for all of his crowing than having to contend with himself?

You can see past rnr in rnr's last batch of photos, being passed off as his own son.

That's the problem with time machines. You can't destroy them. Someone using it in the past can always just show up with it after you destroyed it -- ensuring its existence well past its destruction. It's some pretty heady Time X Space stuff. BTW I'm on her Yay List, too.

^Napoleon Dynamite skates. Cheap skate GIFs saved my life....

^But you can't get $13,000 a bike selling singles to college kids. The new sportster line is pretty cool, though. Too bad about BUELL -- IMO that was the best thing attached to HD since the Heritage line, which was their look back to the archives and saved the company for a nearly 20 years. Shit, I'm showing my age.

^There are the hardcore guys, but the RUBs (rich urban bikes) have really knocked the shine off of HD. (or, rather, HD's marketing knocked the shine off of HD -- I mean it's just a bike, not a lifestyle, so neg me for acting like some doctor playing biker is worse than me playing longshoreman).

^ A knucklehead, a shovelhead or a panhead is cooler than a Gold Wing. But I respect Gold Wing riders more than the typical RUB EVO rider -- jus' sayin'.

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The ROYs went to a Sundance Film Festival after party and drank a lot of Bob Redford's booze. Went home to find the wife sick. Spent the night taking care of her and pretending to be far less intoxicated than I was.

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Grand County High School T (am I in trouble because I didn't serve in the Navy or attend GCHS?)

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^Plus, bi-weave knits are a must on a G-1. The details make a G-1s (obviously). The goat skin is also a really nuanced hide.

^Yes, mine is mid '60s. It is missing the tag, so I can only date it by detail. Not sure what your pull looks like, but that piece of rusty brass sealed the deal on my jacket. I had to really save up for that one too, $18, if I remember right.

Paul T, don't buy it (10).

A little loom chatter.

The Pima puffed up like a marshmallow in the soak(s).

^What shoes?

And, today, I had a meeting in the city, so I hit a surplus/western/hardware store on my way.

My wife found a skin grafting machine there. It was used and had an instruction book complete with illustrations. Such a great store. I was thinking the Utah meetup should have fit pics in the yard with all the surplus bomb shells.

Can anyone sense MF fans trying to convince themselves that the new collection is somehow OK?

My take, not that it's worth anything: Mister Freedom has always been a mixed bag. There have always been a handful of pieces that everyone gets behind, a lot of pieces a niche gets behind and a few pieces that only a handful embrace. This collection will be no different. I see a lot of people (relatively speaking) getting on board with the shirts. There is going to be some outerwear at some point, and I suspect these will be universally well received. The pants are probably only going to appeal to a few people.

Historically speaking, only a few posters ever adopted complete brand synergy with any Mister Freedom collection, anyway. I suspect the same will hold true for this collection.

^Doc is emerging as the dark horse of this contest. I look forward to the evolution.

That red coupe is a honey. Are you fisheyeing the pictures though? everyones rear axle looks bent.

No fisheye. I probably took pictures of 5-6 trucks that day and the two I choose seem to have axle trouble. The green truck is probably bent -- it's been parked there for the five years I've lived in the neighborhood. The red coupe's rear end looks to be just a coincidental visual anomaly. The guy who owns the coupe uses it as a daily driver, at least in the summer.

^ I ate it with some Spanish rice and a Malbec. It was delicious -- the leftovers the next day were a little gamey, though.

Not really WAYJDT, but this isn't WAYJDT: Assortments of photos from my camera taken since my last photo post.

I started collecting photos of trucks covered with snow. Getting a nice little collection, here are some of the latest.

Some local cuisine -- shot here (by a buddy, not me)

This is unsoaked, I can't bear to get them wet, they look so sharp raw.

p.s. It's in the lower 40's in SF. If you can't make out what I'm saying in the photo, it is:

"Fuck."

"Fuck fuck fuck!!!"

"Goddamnit."

Roy, once you get the feeling back in your toes and scrotum, soak those shorts, I'm getting all sort of great turquoise hues in mine.

Haps, Dkats. I owe you a beer.