Merlin Mann on the Seersucker Suit

"Seersucker suits are like handguns. They look cool, chicks dig 'em, and once you own one, you're ALWAYS looking for an excuse to use it."

http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/statuses/5620015568

Thanks, JBJ!

This is just funny and SOOO on target!

a personal weblog,
or “blog,”
by Merlin Mann

June 28

Still-sparkling

BET Awards celebrate Michael Jackson - CNN.com

Like a well worn but still-sparkling glove, BET slid easily into Michael Jackson mode Sunday as the network’s annual awards show began.

Ok. Wait. Let me get a pencil and a nice Xanax.

1. This glove sparkles. Still sparkles. Despite being “well-worn.” I’m struggling to reconcile that. But, no matter.
2. The inexplicable glove simile is used to modify BET, right? Read the sentence again. Ok, why not? BET is a glove. That still-sparkles. And is well-worn. Sure. Moving on.
3. So, what is it that’s sliding into this glove? Aha! Exactly! Nothing. It is the glove that is sliding into something else. Got it? BET is a glove. That still-sparkles. And is well-worn. And is—contrary to a more traditional application of the metaphor—sliding into something else. But, what will this glove slide into, you ask?
4. A “mode.” The glove is sliding into a “mode.” While still-sparkling.
5. The “mode” is “Michael Jackson mode.” And now it has a glove in it.

Later, awards will be distributed.

Recent Brushes with Greatness

Merlin Mann, web guru, visits "Frank, Gil, and Friends" on 4/28/09, the day that he gave three seminars at CCSU.

(Photo Jason B. Jones)








CNN franchise Anderson Cooper at the annual Vance Lecture at CCSU on 5/1/09.

(Photo Maryellen Fillo)