Each species needs a sex that's fated to be highly decorated

[sovay]

This has been a much better day than expected. I'm burned out, but in a far more pleasant way than I have been for the last couple of weeks.

Late this morning, my brother and I set out into the wilds of Cambridge to see if we could find him a frock coat. And we did, at Keezer's; but he turned out to prefer a black morning coat from 1938 that we shall pick up on Tuesday, when he gets off work. I will have to take photographs. With a good shirt on and his hands leisurely in his pockets, he looks like the lead from an Oscar Wilde play.

In the course of this quest, the power of the apotropaic umbrella was proven once more,* I was tempted by a many-pocketed leather jacket at the Garment District,** and we had an excellent lunch at Legal Sea Foods. I don't usually order drinks, but this one was made out of rum and ginger beer, with a slice of lime and a stick of sugar cane stuck in it. It was awesome.***

And we returned home, and collapsed on the couch, and watched The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Which I liked, particularly Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent and the bits of the Guide as narrated by Stephen Fry. And Bill Nighy, because. He's gone on my list.

I think I should be able to sleep tonight.

*We were half-drowned crossing the street from the subway station, but the thunderstorm stopped as soon as we bought an umbrella from the MIT Coop. It hasn't started up again, either. But it is lowering hot.

**I might return for it, but if I'm to spend money on clothes I don't strictly need, I'd rather they were more anachronistic. Besides, I can fit half a dozen clementines into my current coat's pockets; that takes care of all my basic winter needs.

***It was duly noted why the rum was gone.

Comments

[kraada.livejournal.com]

I actually quite liked Marvin. Especially with the Point-Of-View gun . . . oh and the whale. But then, that was great in the book, too.

Also: You would almost certainly look very good in a multipocketed leather jacket. For whatever that's worth.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

How did you get out of Keezer's without assorted "Top Hats, Derbies, and Fedoras"?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Now, see, the reason that your music was When First I Came to Caledonia is that, what, a few hours before you wrote this, I was watching/listening to Martin Simpson singing it.

And thinking, as usual, that this is the most amazingly opaque song, and that one of these days I will write a post about all the things I don't understand about it...

[eredien]

The drink, called a "Dark and Stormy," is apparently the Jamacian national drink, and also my favorite.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Besides, I can fit half a dozen clementines into my current coat's pockets

Both jackets sound great--I love pockets. I inherited a long winter coat that allows your arms to be straight with your hands in the pockets, and your hands plenty of swishing space. I recently bought a short fall jacket because it had a soldier look to it, with these gold clasps instead of buttons. But it has no pockets! I think I'd like that many-pocketed jacket you found. But, probably a clementine in each pocket wouldn't have the same effect as one big pocketful!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I really thought it was the narrations by Fry (and accompanying BritMinimalist animations) that made the film. But it did indeed rule to an unexpected degree.
And ah, multi-pocketed coats scented with citrus! They become a part of you: hence why I still have the same second-hand coat after twelve years and a couple of rips. (OK, the fact that it's Kashmir helps)