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Cowboy Boots
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
While I've now been back in Australia for almost a decade, I'm only now realising the extent to which my Texas-isms are surfacing.
When I lived in Dallas all those years ago, I was determined to keep the Australian in me even though I truthfully had no idea what it was.
It seems like only yesterday that I left that place. I can still remember where I lived, the long and wide Greenville Avenue and how crossing it in the summer meant certain death or a new cd at Blockbuster Music. I remember where the school bus stopped in Freshman year and how it meant walking back along the Tom Thumb Trail, a path alongside The Village apartments that let me bypass everything until I crossed Southwestern Boulevard back into the place we lived in.
Sammy, my beloved Cocker Spaniel, excited as always and waiting to sniff me, lick me, and then molest me like any overly horny male dog in his prime would. I miss Sammy.
When I lived in Texas, I was proud of my "g'day" though truthfully it's a word I rarely use. Everyone would use the word "ya'll", another contraction that I wasn't sure about so never used it. It was decidedly Texan and that wasn't me at the time.
So the first time I stepped off of the plane back in Australia, can you guess what was in the smattering of first words?
Ya'll.
These days I've more or less come to accept that it doesn't matter what my vocabulary is. I use all sorts of words from all sorts of places. I literally follow a random habit of ways of saying hello using a combination of "howdy", "aloha", "hi", and "g'day".
It didn't take long to be back in Australia before a Texan accent I didn't even know I had to start asserting itself into my speech patterns. Now I alternate at random times. I can control it but choose not to.
And so I come to the latest Texan body part that's deciding to spring up on my body without even the faintest of warnings: cowboy boots.
A couple of months ago, I had a strange craving for cowboy boots. I wanted to wear them out with a ten gallon hat and put my thumbs into my pockets like all good cowboys do.
I was to be Shane. I was John Wayne. I was going to be that guy who rode out on the horse at the end of a gunfight only my horse would be a Sydney bus, about the same speed as a bus but easier to ride home drunk on.
And then I looked for boots. And looked and looked and found some but somehow couldn't justify over $300 for a pair of boots I'd never tried and would have to be purchased over the Internet.
Last weekend, however, fortune favoured the Freak as my Mum's boyfriend Brad dug through his closet and found a pair of cowboy boots he didn't want anymore so rather than throw them out, he gave them to me.
I've put in some new interior soles and I'm wearing them now. All I need now is a ten gallon hat. 
Tags: clothing, shoes
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Trilby Hunter
Monday, July 16th, 2007
By now, you've probably noticed that I've updated my original South Park me to the new South Park me.
What I mean by this — in case you have no idea what I'm talking about — is that the logo in the corner there of a South Park me in a trilby hat is the new logo for me whereas the old one was this:
I still wear my "Freak" hat from time to time, but my Stitch hat gets worn more often and I pretty much only wear my Trilby hat.
The Trilby hat is an icon … but it seems to be an icon people constantly want to try to steal off of me.
So, to make it easier for me to not worry as much about the arrogant asses of the world constantly trying to steal my hat AND to give me more choice, I'm becoming a trilby hunter… and I'm drafting you!
Now shut up… you don't get any choice about this. Okay, you do, but this is what I want you to do:
If you live in Sydney and you see a trilby in a store, write down the store name or remember it and post it in a comment for this blog entry. I must have more trilby's! I simply must!
Sure, I could buy from eBay … but then I wouldn't get to try it on…
Hey, I'm actually tempted to make a fedora out of Fedora.
Tags: clothing, hats
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