Thursday, 1/11

Okay. I WILL write about how computers are stupid, and I'll write about it soon. Really, I will. But I want to address two things about clothing today, if that's okay.

This is prompted by the episode of “High School Bowl” I taped yesterday, the first game in our “Cerebral 16” round. Right before the holidaze I dragged Loraine to Kohl's so I could pick out a couple of new ties. You know me & ties—usually, the more colorful, the better. While there, I found a really great pink & gray tie in a geometric pattern. Loraine, scouting through other parts of the men's department for me, found a pink shirt with blue lines that matched the tie, at least color-wise, perfectly. She remembered something Carson Cressley once said on “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” about mixing your patterns, suggested I wear them together, and voila. You get this--

As an aside, ever notice how weird my neck is? Anyway, that's the ensemble, something I really like. I usually wear solid shirts with a colorful, contrasting tie, but in this case I'll make an exception. So thanks for noticing the shirt, Loraine!

After I got done taping the show Loraine wondered how the outfit looked, so I wandered across the street to show her. Her co-workers liked it, too, especially how the all colors went together, although one of them (and I don't remember who) also noticed, and I quote--

“Not only do the colors go with each other, but they go with your gray hair, too”.

Uhm...thanks?? I mean, they weren't wrong. The gray in my hair kind of matches the gray in my jacket, so I guess that means the shirt & tie combo would match it, too. But, you know...

You know?

The other thing Loraine's co-workers commented on was something I thought was an open secret. While, in the picture, you don't see me below the waist, I'm wearing jeans. That's what I always do when on TV. Loraine's co-workers apparently don't realize that when you host a TV show and you're behind a podium viewers only see you from the waist up. I could be wearing shorts—heck, I could be wearing nothing at all—and you wouldn't be able to tell.

Maybe I should try that someday; the shorts, that is, not the “nothing at all”. I can just imagine the looks I'd get THEN from people who wanna check out my ensemble for the week.

That's something to think about for the future. As is the blog I keep promising about why computers are stupid. Heck; maybe we'll even get to it tomorrow.

We'll see...

(jim@wmqt.com)

(ps—the show we shot airs February 10^th if you wanna check it out for yourself)