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We Are The Dave’s

January 29, 2012

Alongside today being the birthdays of, oh, W.C. Fields and Tom Selleck, the Investigations Unit of this blog has discovered an all-important calendar even. Today is the 27th anniversary of the recording of “We Are The World.” This is notable in that it brought together the unlikely combinations of musicians who, if you ask us, [...]

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Football and Clothes: A Good Bet

January 22, 2012

Football, you bet. Super Bowl dreams dancing in our heads. As of this writing, neither Ravens nor Patriots, and neither 49ers nor Giants, have won their chance for this year’s king of the pigskin world status. Yeah, it seems a bit odd, this being the Internet of instant information and all that jazz, for us [...]

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Covering Up for All the Right Reasons

January 19, 2012

So yesterday Wikipedia went dark. And Google had a black rectangle over its logo, with just a hint of the “g’s” blue tail peeking out from below. Protest stuff, making a statement over an issue. And it got us thinking about how we cover ourselves, too…with clothes. We’re not Adam and Eve—unless your name is [...]

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Your Own Private, Moveable Virgin Islands

January 16, 2012

Tomorrow in history: On January 17th, 1917, the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million. Adjusted for inflation, and factoring in some depreciation, not to mention some creative bookkeeping by this blog’s accounting department, that price is only just slightly higher than what you’ll pay for a quality garment from Dave’s [...]

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Ring in the New Year

December 31, 2011

Okay. The stroke of midnight tonight is all relative, depending on where in the world you are. In Rio, you’ve got fireworks on the beach. If you happen to be in Samoa, consider hopping across the international dateline and literally being able to celebrate 2012 twice, and in real time. In Minnesota, all the shopping [...]

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Cotton: An Appreciation

December 28, 2011

As a public service, and because we wear so much of it in so many ways, we figured that an appreciation of cotton was in order. First of all, cotton is a plant; it grows as a shrub in the tropics and subtropics. Its fiber is harvested and spun into thread, and from that thread [...]

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How to Prevent Gridlock

December 19, 2011

This blog’s public service department has requested space to caution you about the ongoing holiday gridlock alert. No, not cars-blocking-the-intersection gridlock. We’re speaking now of the “I’m walkin’ here” Ratso Rizzo (look it up) phenomenon you see at department stores in the chaos leading up to the night before Christmas. As in: during the gridlocking [...]

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Ten Days to Shop…Until You Shop Some More

December 16, 2011

Only 10 more shopping days until the second busiest shopping day of the year. Yes, the day after Christmas…when we’re so satisfied with our gifts and the spirit of family that we flee first thing next morning to the mall to exchange everything for something else. S’alright. It’s the hustle and bustle of commerce. It’s [...]

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Quality Here…No Matter What You Call It

November 20, 2011

Today’s birthdays include Joseph Fidler Walsh, Mary Cathleen Collins and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr…Otherwise known as Joe Walsh, Bo Derek and Vice President Joe Biden. We have musician, actress, politician. We have different names for the same people. It happens. If Allen Stewart Konigsberg hadn’t changed his name, would he have made the same quality [...]

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No Clowing Around

November 18, 2011

There’s no gentle way to put this: on a corner of our favorite secret alleyway in Lower Manhattan, we stumbled upon a glassed-in corner room, painted orange. In this room, around a table, sat six clowns. And they were playing poker. A crowd had gathered to watch. Was this an art installation? Or had we [...]

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