{"id":2863,"date":"2005-05-20T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/20\/2863.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:03","slug":"hit-sign-win-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/20\/hit-sign-win-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"hit sign win suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK, how about this: Tom “English Cut” Mahon is giving away an old suit<\/a>. No, not the shiny one, the blue one. It is, let me emphasize this, a lovely suit, and it would immediately become the favorite suit in my closet, no question. And he’s my size<\/I>. Oh, not exactly, but the measurements are surprisingly close to those of Your Humble Blogger.\n

But ... it’s just not my style. He prefers his jackets straight, I like mine crooked<\/a>. I like a little something in the shoulders (to give me the illusion of three dimensions); he doesn’t. The suit is blue; I never wear blue jackets (and have only one pair of blue trousers).\n

So if, unlikely as it is, I won his little essay contest and he gave me the suit, every time I wore it (which would be often and often) I would think ‘what a lovely suit, only ...’ Don’t get me wrong—I would love wearing it. And barring some change of financial circumstance not foreseeable at this juncture, I ain’t never buying a better suit. And I love suits.\n

You know how, when the lottery gets up into nine figures, and the lure of all that dead money gets too much, and you figure you can spend a few bucks on a dream, and then in order to get your money’s worth, you map out exactly how you would spend fifteen million a year? You know, this much put away in the savings, this much as seed money for the foundation, this much to pay off the debts, this much to buy a damn’ house already, this much for a racehorse for my father, this much for traveling, this much for a whole fucking closetful of suits. And, um, that last figure is ... well, let’s just say a fellah would be excused for mistaking it for the figure for the house.\n

Now, that’s never going to happen. I enjoy the little fantasy, and that’s what the dollar is for, but the truth is, I don’t want them enough to go out and work for the money to buy them. It turns out I’d rather spend my time with my Best Reader and my Perfect Non-Reader, and with you, Gentle Readers all, and with my library books and my mp3s, all the while wearing slightly irregular trousers, picked up for ten dollars at the Jos. A. Banks outlet.\n

But, really, do you think if I send him this note, he’ll give me a suit?\n

chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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