A Rogues Gallery

We are discovered. Flee immediately.

[handsomedogs]

Watchful Icelandic Sheepdog by Carl Remmin

[earthstory]

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Evening fog bands drift out over San Francisco Bay

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9 Ways to Fold a Pocket Square Infographic

Ahhh - pocket squares. One of my favorite accessories, they have come back into fashion after decades of being "gone". Which if you know me and writings.... ......is a bit of a joke as in my opinion pocket squares are timeless. They never go out of style, and are the perfect way to top o

I’ve become a big fan of the pocket square. It’s an easy way to add a dash of personality to your wardrobe whether at the office or a more formal social occasion.

The “presidential”, “one” and “two-point” fold, puff, and scallop folds should see you through any situation.

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The Ticket Pocket: What is It, and Why Do You Need One for Your Jacket? - Garrison Bespoke

You might have seen it already and wondered about it. On the other hand, you might be already sporting it with a mysterious dandy air. Either way, the tick

The minor touches matter.

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Cap toe oxfords may be the staple of the traditionalist, but if you’re looking to spice things up, try a pair of double monk-straps.

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A classic camelhair overcoat is an elegant necessity.

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Three years later, law school is finished.

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I’m super into tweed and herringbone recently. Presently wondering just how sartorial I can get away with being at work.

[kateoplis]

You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

Amanda Palmer (via kateoplis)

[theverge]

SCARLETT JOHANSSON’S GHOST IN THE SHELL CASTING IS EVEN WORSE THAN IT SEEMS

Paramount and DreamWorks would like you to believe that Scarlett Johansson was the right choice because she has the chops to play the part. That very well may be. But it mattered more that she could be seen as the face of an American blockbuster. And in America, the universally recognized movie star will more often than not be white. Whiteness, for all intents and purposes, has been America’s default portrayal of itself since its founding. It shouldn’t shock anyone that whiteness serves as the foundation for what the studio is attempting.

Johansson would make the studios money. It’s this particular form of blinkered, appropriative thinking that leads Hollywood to cast white actors for roles that can and should go to people of color. Ghost in the Shell is supposed to be about, among so many other things, asking what comes after we transcend our bodies. Giving the lead role to a white woman reinforces the idea that one embodied point of view is more important than all others. And Hollywood would sooner consider putting white actors in VFX-assisted yellowface than deign to cast an Asian lead.

— KWAME OPAM FOR THE VERGE

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How Trump Has Proved the Founders Right

The Founding Fathers feared demagogues for a reason. Restore the Electoral College to its purpose! By H.W. BRANDS

Donald Trump is the guy our fathers warned us about. Our Founding Fathers, that is. The drafters of the Constitution distrusted the opportunist who played on popular emotions in the quest for political power. They created a republic, a system in which authority was rooted in the people, but they were leery about letting the people actually exercise power.

To the founders, the preservation of freedom meant they had to be wary of popular rule, or pure democracy, which they saw as an invitation to despotism. The fiercest enemies of the republic, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 1, were those men who begin “by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” John Adams declared of popular rule: “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

The founders thus fashioned a series of checks and filters to keep the people—and the demagogues who might sway them—at bay. Voting was reserved to property owners and permanent residents; the riff-raff had no place at the table. Lawmaking was done by senators and representatives, who would be better educated and more temperate than the masses. The president was chosen by electors, who themselves were chosen, in many cases, by state legislatures (as, in all cases, were the federal senators). At every step of the political process, the passions of the people were hedged and blunted.

But the checks broke down one by one. Voting became democratic as the states, competing for residents, lowered the property and residency requirements. The new voters—still only white males, for the most part—demanded to choose presidential electors themselves, and the state legislators, dependent on these new voters, yielded. The new voters made Andrew Jackson the first “people’s president,” to the dismay of surviving members of the founding generation.

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We spoke with @christianward about his surreal sci-fi art:

“As soon as I could conceptualise being anything, I wanted to be a comic artist. I would draw comics at primary school that I’d photocopy and sell in the playground. It was having school teachers and tutors at uni who did all they could to steer me away from comics that introduced me to contemporary illustration and fine art. I’ve circled illustration and comic art ever since.”

Read the full interview

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“Pleasing people is a huge drive. Any artist who tells you otherwise is either selfish or autistic. Art is a communication, and it’s not incompatible with your integrity to desire an audience. A public performance is a miracle. You never know who’s watching, but you feel a communion between yourself, the audience, and the composer who wrote the notes two hundred years ago. But fuck the notes. The notes are not important. They were the composer’s only means of communicating. The important thing is what’s between the notes and behind the notes. My job as a pianist is to interpret. Why did the composer put that note there? I need to understand the moment preceding the note. And when that happens– when I can reach back two hundred years and connect to a composer’s humanity, even if I’m completely alone, it’s the same feeling of communion as when I perform in front of an audience.”

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The West Wing Predicted the Controversy Around Scalia’s Replacement in Eerie Detail

“A conservative anchor just died. A . . . brilliant thinker who brought the right out of the closet and championed a whole conservative revival. You ...

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NASA’S NEW SPACE TOURISM POSTERS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD

[mattfrith]

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THE PEOPLE VS. O.J. SIMPSON DOES THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY JUSTICE

Extra praise must be given to Sarah Paulson for her brilliant and occasionally emotionally devastating portrayal of Marcia Clark. Clark isn’t someone I expected to feel sympathy for but throughout the series, it’s impossible not to. The People v. O.J. Simpson depicts a complicated and frustrated prosecutor, one who wants justice just as bad as she wants to go home and hang out with her children. The media destroyed the real-life Clark, harping on her looks and “bitchy” demeanor (the way most strong, outspoken women are destroyed), her ex-husband publicly attacked her, and her nude photos were leaked. The People v. O.J. Simpson deals with this delicately, never painting her as the “Can a womanreally have it all?” LawyerMom we see in most TV dramas, and instead letting Paulson’s reactions do the talking: the attempt to keep her voice from wavering, the professional friendship with Darden, the quiet breakdown into a coffee cup, the disbelieving glare at a cashier who rings up her tampons and jokes that the defense is in for a tough week.

— PILOT VIRUET FOR THE VERGE