Perhaps the one article of clothing that stirs the most imagination is the tight white T-shirt. I need not explain why, but it occurs to me that we hear far fewer raves about the sheer white cotton or linen slacks. Yet the potential here is obvious -- and indeed, it is greater than the potential delights that await the hot girl in a white T-shirt. You see, many women don't realize (or maybe they do?) that even "workplace appropriate" white summerweight slacks allow us men to see what kind of underwear they're wearing. And since white cotton panties are considered gauche, what women often wear to work (at least in the Financial District) are nice, lacy, dark colored panties. Thongs (no VPL, you see.) So with the advent of summer, especially since white is in this year, my walk to work is highlighted by sight after sight of lacy thong, and ah, if it happens to rain -- so much more revealing than the white T-shirt.
What's the impetus for this posting? This morning, a lovely girl wearing such slacks dropped her checkbook in front of me. Of course I looked. And as she bent over, I realized that this time, I could discern her ... shaving habits. And she was quite the fastidious girl. Know what I mean?
Ah, summer in the City.
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You know what residents of New York City, Chicago and Boston have in common? They all get screwed by their respective state governments. I think these cities should secede from their respective states. In each case, city residents pay the bulk of the state's income tax revenues -- far more than their fare share, yet get far less than their per capita share of state services. Yet without Chicago, Illinois would just be Indiana, New York State would just be New Jersey (maybe less smelly) and Massachusetts would just be Maine (all the redneck incest-loving hicks, but without the access to the ocean and fresh lobster). These cities don't need their respective states, and it's high time someone realized it.
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My obsession with watches is lessening to a slow simmer. I recently bought what for me is the ideal watch, at least until we get above the $1,000 price range. My new purchase is the Marathon "SAR" watch. It has all the features I want in a watch:- Toughness. The case is carved from a single block of surgical grade steel, the bracelet is solid steel (and not folded or hollow), and it features an extra-thick sapphire crystal for top-notch scratch resistance and shatter-resistance. Plus, its rated safe at depths of up to 300 meters.
- Practicality. In addition to being a tough divers watch, the dial is simple and unadorned in true military style for maximum legibility. Night luminescence is almost as good as that of my Seiko Black Monster, the standard bearer in that department. And the bezel is derived from the Ruhla design, a divers watch used by the East German military.
- Collectibility. The Marathon SAR was the official issued watch of the Canadian Coast Guards Search and Rescue Dive team, as well as NASA divers. As such, a limited number (200) were made each year from 2001 to 2005, and only the surplus could be sold to us civilians. (Both groups have since switch to an updated Marathon watch that features the same construction but the tritium gas tube luminescence system that is more commonly seen on the Luminox line of Navy SEAL watches.)
- COSC levels of accuracy. Considered the de facto standard of quality for a mechanical watch, this one easily exceeds those standards, average about +3 seconds a day.
All this for one fifth the price of a fucking Rolex. A better, rarer, tougher, more attractive watch at 20 percent of the price.
The next time I buy myself a watch, it will be the UTS Munchen 3,000 meter PVD diver. Like this one, only in matte black. But at $3,400, that won't be for years to come.
