THE SOCIETY OF UGLY NECKWEAR

To some of us, Friday is the holiest day of the week. It is a celebration...a day when the culmination of the pressures & stresses of the workweek spill over & down across our ties like so much baby vomit. Welcome to the Society of Ugly Neckwear. We are Neckrophiliacs. We don’t have sex with dead people. We just really love ugly ties. If you've got something to say about ugly ties, feel free to shoot an email to the editorial board at joecarryon@gmail.com. Be sure to put "NECKROPHILIACS" in the title, & it's okay if you butcher the spelling.
Apr 25
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Honestly, folks, Fridays do not get any better than this. The sheer thrill of rolling out the front door & drawing awed stares at the bus stop in the morning is worth the price of admission & then some.Pete & Carson are back, & they’re ringin’ the bell. When they step up to the mic, all the fly girls yell. Will that song be stuck in your head now? Definitely, & for that I am sorry. For the record, they will also do the Kid N’ Play dance upon request, provided that you will throw nickels at them in return. It’s more entertaining than watching a very small monkey in a fez clash two miniature cymbals together, & both rides will cost you the same.Pete’s tieing the room together with a Lebowski-rug-esque, Fresno Comfort Inn carpet pattern print that’s stranger than the Alps. For the record, it has NOT been peed on (& he’s sorry he even had to note that, but these are the pitfalls of Lebowski rug references). It’s a nice interpretation of a Persian rug, though it was obviously created by someone who has never been to that little exotic corner of the world. Said someone did, however, stay at a Comfort Inn last night (so you know s/he know’s what s/he’s talking about). Meanwhile, to the right (follow the dual pointer-fingers), Carson is cruisin’ for a bruisin in a Darjeeling Limited-edition Moroccan spice rack hipster explosion. In this day & age of World-Music-As-Hipster-Street-Cred, he’s one upped the proverbial Vampire Weekend “Paul Simon Hard-On” ante & is steering the ship more into Qawwali territory. If Nusrat Fateh Ali-Khan were still alive, he’d sign Carson up as the opening act of his next world tour based upon the merits of that tie alone. Carson would be required neither to sing nor play music, but simply to stand front & center & weather the storm of thrown flowers & undergarments.[Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusrat_Fateh_Ali_Khan] It was a close call today (seeing as the pattern & structure of the two respective ties are so similar), but Carson was ultimately declared the victor.Nice work, gentlemen. Nice work.

Honestly, folks, Fridays do not get any better than this. The sheer thrill of rolling out the front door & drawing awed stares at the bus stop in the morning is worth the price of admission & then some.

Pete & Carson are back, & they’re ringin’ the bell. When they step up to the mic, all the fly girls yell. Will that song be stuck in your head now? Definitely, & for that I am sorry. For the record, they will also do the Kid N’ Play dance upon request, provided that you will throw nickels at them in return. It’s more entertaining than watching a very small monkey in a fez clash two miniature cymbals together, & both rides will cost you the same.

Pete’s tieing the room together with a Lebowski-rug-esque, Fresno Comfort Inn carpet pattern print that’s stranger than the Alps. For the record, it has NOT been peed on (& he’s sorry he even had to note that, but these are the pitfalls of Lebowski rug references). It’s a nice interpretation of a Persian rug, though it was obviously created by someone who has never been to that little exotic corner of the world. Said someone did, however, stay at a Comfort Inn last night (so you know s/he know’s what s/he’s talking about).

Meanwhile, to the right (follow the dual pointer-fingers), Carson is cruisin’ for a bruisin in a Darjeeling Limited-edition Moroccan spice rack hipster explosion. In this day & age of World-Music-As-Hipster-Street-Cred, he’s one upped the proverbial Vampire Weekend “Paul Simon Hard-On” ante & is steering the ship more into Qawwali territory. If Nusrat Fateh Ali-Khan were still alive, he’d sign Carson up as the opening act of his next world tour based upon the merits of that tie alone. Carson would be required neither to sing nor play music, but simply to stand front & center & weather the storm of thrown flowers & undergarments.

[Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusrat_Fateh_Ali_Khan]

It was a close call today (seeing as the pattern & structure of the two respective ties are so similar), but Carson was ultimately declared the victor.

Nice work, gentlemen. Nice work.

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