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Party Dress on Flickr.A beautiful picture of my first-born taken by the always impressive Mrs. Musser.

putthison:

Q and Answer: What’s Wrong with a Black Suit?
Aliotsy writes to ask: I was wondering: what’s wrong with black suits?
There are times and places for black suits, but they aren’t what some men think they are: an all-purpose basic. In fact, they’re one of the less-useful suits. A few reasons:
They look bad on almost anyone. Better on people with high-contrast coloring (black hair, light skin), but even then they tend to make the skin look sallow.
Black is a color for evening. That’s why tuxedos are black. Most men are buying basic suits for daytime wear.
Black is the color of mourning. Unless you have a black suit-specific job, you would only wear black during the day if you were going to a funeral.
You will look like A) a waiter, B) a priest, C) an undertaker, D) a dork trying to look like a Quentin Tarantino character or E) some mix of the above (undertaker dork?).
Black is not complimentary to almost any other color and is thus quite difficult to wear.
The real key: almost anything that you can do in a black suit, you can do in a dark gray suit, and that suit will have none of the problems listed above.
Our friend Trey Kirby wrote that he’s in a wedding party where the dress code is “black suit,” and wondered what he can do with a black suit, now that he’ll have to buy one.
Black suits are perfectly suitable for going out in the evening. The high-contrast looks (usually black/white/gray) that they lead to are suitable for dimmer lighting. Feel free to wear a black suit to a club or an art opening. In the evening, black is just fine.
Also, from what I understand: business in Asia. I’m no expert on that, though.

one of my favorite pictures from one of my favorite places

A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. — G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

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Decided to do something different this year. This is our jack-“O”-lantern.

how ‘bout we fill a pop tart with nasty meat! — Jim Gaffigan on the invention of the Hot Pocket

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my niece having a little trouble in the bouncy toy…

Joy plays on her mat

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Making a Skype call to the new grandparents in Hong Kong