{"id":20118,"date":"2017-02-26T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20118"},"modified":"2017-02-26T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T20:30:55","slug":"please-refrain-from-wearing-blue-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20118","title":{"rendered":"Please Refrain from Wearing Blue Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re going to the annual volunteer appreciation dinner at the air museum this week. Yesterday the organizer sent\u00a0a list of last-minute instructions. One item stood out, and not in a good way: “This is a nice dinner, so please refrain from wearing blue jeans, shorts and such.”<\/p>\n

It was a crappy thing to say, and it reminded me of something even crappier:<\/p>\n

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That’s a Reuters photo, taken in the Oval Office on the 28th of January. Note\u00a0the guy on the right, Senior Presidential Advisor Steve Bannon, and what he’s wearing.<\/p>\n

Now I wouldn’t dream of\u00a0meeting the president at the White House in anything less than full Men-in-Black attire. I’m not saying I want to meet this particular president, mind you, but love him or hate him, jeans are just fucking inappropriate. Trump in particular, we’re told, is a stickler for appearance and dress: he evaluated cabinet post candidates on their appearance<\/a>; he made regular cracks<\/a> about his rivals’ looks during the campaign; he was reportedly dissatisfied with Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s appearance at the first post-inauguration press conference, asking “Doesn\u2019t the guy own a dark suit?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

There’s a message in that photo. The message is that Bannon can wear what he wants\u00a0and Trump doesn’t have a choice in the matter. Think about Putin for a minute. Trump never criticizes Putin, and nearly everyone by now realizes the meaning of that: Putin has something on Trump. I say ditto Bannon: there’s a reason he wears dirty jeans in the Oval Office, and it has everything to do with power. It’s plain as day: Trump is owned.<\/p>\n

God, I can’t wait until it all falls apart and we learn the piggy-dirties! It’s gonna be even juicier than Watergate!<\/p>\n

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I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s post that I\u00a0didn’t have to help Polly move\u00a0after all. She and her current boyfriend were able to cram\u00a0everything she’d left behind at her ex-boyfriend’s house into a\u00a0U-Haul, and for the first time in over two years, Polly\u00a0has her own apartment and all her stuff again.<\/p>\n

Honestly, though, I was disappointed not to be needed. I wanted to help,\u00a0and not just because I was psyched after spending a couple of hours on Friday getting myself, the truck, and the trailer ready for the job; my relationship with Polly has been strained lately, and I hoped working together would go some way toward patching things up. Oh, well … I’m proud of her for taking care of business and getting back on her feet again, and I think she believed me when I told her that.<\/p>\n

It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m waiting to hear from Donna, who should be on the road from Palm Springs to Tucson with her sister Robin. At Robin’s request I’m making dry-rubbed spareribs<\/a>.\u00a0Donna’s going to have a heart attack when she sees the Safeway receipt, though: that one rack of pork spareribs cost $33! When did ribs get so expensive, or is it just Safeway? You didn’t ask, but there’ll be corn on the cob and baked beans as well, and a night in front of the TV watching the Oscars.<\/p>\n

And I’ll be wearing dirty jeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re going to the annual volunteer appreciation dinner at the air museum this week. Yesterday the organizer sent\u00a0a list of last-minute instructions. One item stood out, and not in a good way: “This is a nice dinner, so please refrain from wearing blue jeans, shorts and such.” It was a crappy thing to say, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,2,8],"tags":[2233,2245,2244,2024],"class_list":["post-20118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-current-events","category-personal","category-politics","tag-bannon","tag-power","tag-putin","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20129,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions\/20129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}