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TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
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I’m sure Carmy and Sydney are good chefs, but there’s no way that the sandwich coming out of their restaurant’s back window isn’t, at worst, the fourth best dish they serve.
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That's a good one.
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Sure, we could lump it into the DSA crossover campaign font arc, 2016-2025.
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So, this is a story about how Donald Trump re-branding an incredibly unfashionable hat style in 2015 set off a chain of events that leads to Paige Bueckers putting on a hat that looks a lot like it at the 2025 WNBA draft. This post is my Miranda Priestley "Cerulean" monologue.
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Anyway, it struck me as an essentially unremarked, yet blatantly obvious, phenomenon that the biggest trend in men's headwear over the past decade bears really substantial similarities to the most famous political chapeau since Abe Lincoln's stove-pipe.
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It's been bizarre to me, how so many of the think-pieces about MAGA hats that have proliferated over the past decade ignore (or even misdescribe) the actual form of this hat. You don't have to be Menswear Guy to think that an object this iconic communicates in more ways than one.
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- Draft Tre Johnson at #7;
- Trade up from #23 using second-round picks to get Collin Murray-Boyles in the mid-teens.
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Yeah, that seems right.
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I mean, I would guess a long time. I associate it, honestly, with the kinds of hats that small businesses print for their employees. My grandpa had a bunch of hats in this style with gas station logos, and I had one when I was a kid that was from my cousin’s electric repair and installation co.
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I have never had screeners for this, despite much pleading, but my favorite was that they agreed to send screeners to my EDITOR for s2, but she was not allowed to share them with me, the reviewer.
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I appreciate it. This is the kind of feedback I was hoping for. (Also, not for nothing, but the 19TWENTY they just dropped for the NBA draft is kind of a futuristic golfer too.)
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I don’t get the sense that it’s strategic — it feels like a vanity thing — but I wonder if there’s any sense that, because it isn’t serialized, this at least forces the coverage to stretch out through the week after premiere rather than all dropping in one day.
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You think the demographic of parents who are redshirting their boys at kindergarten and hiring private tutors to help their three-year-olds ace the Gifted and Talented entrance exams are going to be hyped up about paying $30k every year for their children to take Latin with Ask Jeeves?