Gucci Sneakers

Wow, these Gucci sneakers were over the top!


Thick, thick soles and built up sides. 


A strap adorning the sneaker with colored-stones (faux gems). 


Very heavy with a durable kick-a*s feel. 


All for $1,590 at Bloomingdale’s.


As we joke as kids with a eastern European “old country” droll, “It’s a bargain!” 😉


(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Does Color Make The Man?

Thought these were some mighty bold and colorful Men’s shoes. 


I personally like color and making a little bit of a a statement.


In a sense, color makes the man happy, exciting, alive, and uplifting. 


With these shoes, I suppose if your going dancing or a splendid night out on the town these may work.


So there is a time and place for everything. 


Day-to-day, these shoes are a little out there, and more than a little scary, and too much for my sense of tasteful design.  😉


(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

The Divided States Of America

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So the way the alt-left are fighting it out with President Trump…with violent protests, riots, marches, insults, beatings, fires, broken windows, and sheer contempt,  you’d think we were in a third world country under a brutal dictator, or worse.  


Gone is the respect, decency, compromise, and diplomacy among valid differences of opinion and points of view. 


Talking it out and working it out…forget about it. 


Aside from taking up arms, it’s almost like this country is in a second civil war


The United States has become the divided states. 


Hitler, Nazis, Stalin, Commies!


California wants to secede (like Texas wanted to previously). 


Lawsuits against the President.


Screams, posters and groups of “Not my President.”


Celebrities threatening to pack up and leave the country. 


Refusals to carry out the laws of the land. 


People joining the resistance and underground. 


Secret communications in agencies


Plotting and threats for a military overthrow of the Presidency


Calls for blowing up the White House.


Tweets calling for assassination and pics posted of what it would look like. 


Yet there are no death camps, no razor sharp wire, no attack dogs ripping the flesh off people, no forced labor, no death marches, no brutal beatings, no starvation of prisoners, no poison gas showers, no crematoria, no firing squads, no mass graves, no gruesome experiments on twins, no vicious assaults, no sexual abuse and rapes, no Star of David patches to be worn, no threats to exterminate. 


While of course, we need to ensure “Never Again” for all of us– even the slightest inkling of it–is there really a bona-fide “again” or “inkling” here in the first place? 


(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)