It has been semi-collectively decided that on this blog those who wish to do so will wear hakamas. These are unisex, and you can buy them here.
I cannot buy mine until April as I have already spent all my March clothing money and more. But I will let you know when I have it, and y’all do the same, y’heah?
Axé.
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1. While writing here is an excellent exercise for my English style and for writing as such, it is bad for my style in Spanish. Therefore some posts may be in languages other than English.
2. Corybantic, rather anarchical and possibly Liangian, this blog is opposed to everything I find mean. It may criticize things you hold dear. It resists authoritarianism and has little truck with received ideas.
3. This blog is a codex you have found. It speaks to one and all. But it also holds secrets and hides its face, for I who now perform the ancient text must adapt its words for modernity. I am a sculpted skull on a stela at Copán.
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15 Comments
March 10, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Wow. Now everyone will live in fear of me.
March 10, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Grand. My birthday is coming up…
March 10, 2008 at 3:33 pm
well thanks! i now know what to tell everyone to get me for MY birthday! what a great idea…especially if we can get guys to wear them also..smile
March 10, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I will — but I’m getting mine in cotton blend.
March 10, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Where’s the cotton blend link?
March 10, 2008 at 8:29 pm
and what to wear on top?
March 10, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I haven’t found the cotton blend link yet. On top, I think some sort of tank top? Or a very well cut and well fit T-shirt?
Living in fear - that’s the idea. All too many people live in fear of me already, for no good reason at all (it’s because I know how to do too many things, and I know how things are done elsewhere, and it is not in just one other way but in several other ways, and all this is just frightening). That is the reason I like the idea of the jiu-jitsu outfit, it will give them something concrete to attach their fears to instead of fearing what should in my view be non-scary.
March 10, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Well here are some alternatives
I’m not sure that this is a jujitsu outfit — it is used for swordplay — kendo and iaido, I think.
March 10, 2008 at 10:09 pm
more specifically, here
March 10, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Ai ai, I am *out* of it … of *course* it is for swordplay, I should know this if only from Kurosawa movies !!! Alternatives = excellent.
March 10, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Well I would like something like this on top.
March 11, 2008 at 9:38 am
They will know us by our garb!
March 14, 2008 at 12:33 am
oof, cero,
y’all are in my head. only a week or so ago, i was searching ebay for formal hakamas. my mother told me she had gotten her father’s hakama (he was of samurai stock). but after she died, i looked through all her kimonos and couldn’t find it. so i’m in a semi search for them. but, not martial arts ones. *real* ones. you know, made of silk and stuff. anyway. if you’re already in my head, can you please tell me the end of the short story i’m writing right now?
kt
March 14, 2008 at 5:30 am
Oh, dear, ktshorb, now you’re making me want a *silk* hakama and I am liable to go on a semi-search for them, too.
At random: The story ends in a traditional Japanese house where the thin wood of the furniture is dark, and in some cases painted black. The tatami and walls are of course light, and the silks are in a mixture of white, peach, and red. The house sits on a small rise in the country, near the coast, and the March sun shines. As you stroll down the rise, the sea comes into view.
May 2, 2008 at 9:58 am
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