The Kingdom and the World, Redux
Today out on my long walking loop in a very nice part of a town next to mine, I crisscrossed a very nice park and happened to stroll past three teenager-young-adult gentlemen. Each was wearing a white tank-top t-shirt, baggy shorts or khakis, had belts and maybe a chain or two on their hip if I remember. The one in the fedora was telling the other two, "My underwear is designer, my [some other clothing item I don't quite remember] is designer, by t-shirt is designer. Everything is designer, bro." True story. I didn't pay any attention to anything else because I was walking pretty briskly, and I wasn't interested in prying -- they seemed on the whole to be just chillin' there together in the park enjoying one another's company. I thought about this and first considered this a great take on the truth that we are indeed all like that gentleman. We are all exhibitionist of some measure and it's nice to be seen as sporting the most fashionable something-or-...