Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 492 -- The Amazing Spider-Brain Edition


Day 492 / Hat 492: Handmade skull-spider grotesquerie constructed from a pleated-satin-covered 3 1/2-inch wide headband that tapers at each end to 1/2 inch nubs that have been covered in black grosgrain ribbon. Satin on top of headband is pleated -- though you'd hardly know it thanks to the glitter-covered yellow and orange fabric maple leaves, purple fabric flowers with green leaf detail and the-hairy legged, foam-skull-bodied arachnid smack in the middle. (The legs themselves are made from pipe cleaners, by the way.) 

Obviously an entry that skews more toward the headgear than hat side of the equation, this thing gives me the serious willies. I swear I felt it getting ready to chomp on my brain even for the brief amount of time I was wearing it. 

The Bride snapped this critter up at the 19th Annual Southern Vermont Garlic & Herb Festival  on the 30th of last month (the same day she purchased PC 461), and she intends to wear it while we dole out Halloween candy to the neighborhood kids this year. 

That's if it survives our two cats -- both of whom went into serious crouch mode the minute I donned the freak bonnet.

Related:
PC 292: Rando 
PC 192: Leaning Letter Lid
A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins


Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.



Monday, September 29, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 491 -- Meanwhile, Back at the Batcave Edition


Day 491 / Hat 491: Black rubber Batman cowl with yellow and black oval-shaped Batman insignia on front and raised tone-on-tone lettering on back that reads: "TM and Copyright, DC Comics Inc. 1989, All rights reserved."

Donning the bat cowl brought me much joy today -- for several reasons. First and foremost because it was part of the loaner pack sent by Bill Harrison via his son Zachary. 

Second, when I went over to pick it up from Zachary yesterday (a trip that also resulted in yesterday's "Fat Elvis" installment) I saw exactly how bat-smitten Zach really is -- his living room wall is covered in all manner of bat-merchandise depicting the Dark Knight in all his brooding glory. It was only after I left that I got thinking about how I had been given temporary custody of a cowl that, based on the date must have been merch flowing from the Tim Burton movie of more than two decades ago. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I feel I was entrusted with a near sacred object. 

Third, since I wanted to make sure I was wearing a black shirt I totally grabbed a T-shirt at random from my drawer, realizing only later that the shirt emblazoned with the skull and crossbones (the words read: "I survived scurvy, smallpox  and death at Fort Ticonderoga") gave the old bat-insignia a bit of appropriate Pirate Season flair. (Let's not even get into how eerily similar the whole stately Wayne Manor/Batcave thing is to the house/Garldoge thing ...)

And finally, as I sat here this evening, brooding over plans for a new identity, a bat flew in the window and startled me. 

A hat-tip to the dynamic duo of Zachary and Bill.

And to anyone mewling about Ben Affleck's upcoming turn as the Caped Crusader, take a good hard look at the photo above and realize it could be a whole lot worse ...

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PC 407: My Old Bat Self
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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins


Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 490 -- Elvis & His Appetites Edition



Day 490 / Hat 490: Molded rubbery Elvis headpiece including hair, forehead, ears, sideburns and gold-framed sunglasses with black mesh lenses. 

Loaned to the project by Zachary Harrison by way of his dad Bill Harrison or vice-versa (Bill sent the package, Zachary says they were sourced from his room back home in Ft. Wayne).

Since I'm down to the last 10, I decided I'd try to have a little (more) fun, and when I headed over to Zachary's place to pick this piece of headgear (it's definitely headgear -- not hat -- and thanks to the ears and sunglasses it pushes beyond the sticky wig wicket) he happened to mention a new sandwich shop around the corner called Fat Sal's Deli - and one sandwich in particular that he had eaten there called the "Fat Buffalo."  

The Fat Buffalo, in case you were wondering (I know you were) consists of chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, melted cheddar, french fries, buffalo hot sauce and blue cheese dressing made on an extra-wide hero roll. What you see in the above photo is the half a sandwich that survived the unwrapping process long enough to document.

As I headed out the door to check out this place for myself, Zachary called out after me: "You know what would be funny? Eating a Fat Buffalo while wearing the Elvis!"

You know what? He's right. 

A hat-tip to Bill for the sending the hat and the assist to Zachary for the photo suggestion. I need to go take a nap.


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 489 -- Sneaky Gingerbread Man Edition

Day 489 / Hat 489: Knit, multi-colored, beanie-style cap with black pompom on top and black folded-up edge. 

Intarsia knit detail includes a row of green Christmas trees with red ornaments against a white background (toward the top), a row of white, stylized snowflakes against a red background (toward the rolled up edge at the bottom) and a row of smiling gingerbread men in gingerbread brown against a black background with green and red frosting detail. 

Hangtag reads: "Women's, one size, Fashion hats," and indicates the brand as Joe Boxer. A little sleuthing of the interwebs found it to be this "Joe Boxer Women's Ugly Sweater Hat -- Snowflake, Christmas tree & Gingerbread Men."

Stealth-snapped at the nearby Kmart on West Third Street (known within the family as "the Smell of Savings"). I hadn't planned on it but was over in that complex grabbing some lunch at Whole Foods and the spirit simply moved me.(Perhaps it was the invisible hand of the hat gods, I know not.) 

At any rate, since Christmas always has a way of sneaking up on me, I figured turnabout was fair play for once.

And, just in case you were wondering, we're just eighty-eight days out from Christmas 2014.

Consider this a public service message.

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PC 189: Elf Off the Shelf
A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 488 - Spiffy Spartan Helmet Edition


Day 488 / Hat 488: Plastic Spartan warrior helmet with gold and black hammered metal finish. Printing inside reads: "made in China."

This helmet is part of California Costume Collections' "Spartan Warrior" costume ("The fiercest of all of Greece, the Spartan Warrior never retreats," reads the tagline) which was pulled at random from a large orange box that I found sitting at my desk upon my return from New York Fashion Week.

Not the first piece of plastic armor to be featured mind you (that'd be PC 194), this is actually the look one tries to affect by donning the Miller Lite box headgear -- with the handle of the box approximating the look of the nose guard.

This installment of the Project brings me down to the dirty dozen. I wish I could promise some fantastical pieces of Seussian headgear over the next 12 days but given my inability to plan I'm improvising every last hat all the way to the end.

But the hat gods have always smiled upon me in my time of need and I have no doubt that they will continue to do so until I've thrown my very last hat in the ring.

Until that time, I soldier on ...

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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins


Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?


A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 487 -- Beau in a Bow Edition



Day 487 / Hat 487: Black, knit, four-panel, beanie-style cap with white intarsia knit bow in front and white edge detail. Interior tag reads: "Aqua, made in China," on one side and "100% wool, hand wash warm, RN 66349," on the other.

Laid up at home with a nasty cold today, I wasn't sure there were any hats left to grub from the Bride's closet but decide to delve in and see what I could find. I came up with this one relatively and was surprised I had yet to include it in the Project (you know how I love me a bow.)

She's currently far afield so I can't ask her about the provenance of the hat but I think that my original assumption that it was vintage is off base given the product number on the tag and the fact that Aqua is a brand that crops up quite readily on the interwebs with hats available for purchase.

I like to think of this as one of those visual play on words -- the Bride's beau in a bow.

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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 486 - Head Bangora Running Amok with Bone Beads Edition


Day 486 / Hat 486: Woven straw western-style hat with brown faux wear/weathered finish and faux leather hatband detail with X-stitching, bone beads and a metal, five-pointed star. Interior details include label, crown sticker and sweatband lining emblazoned with the words "Run A Muck collection."  Also on the crown sticker are the words: "Bullhide by Montecarlo Hat Co." Tag inside identifies the style as: "Desperado (Brown), Item 2709."

A quick search of the interwebs turns up a description that describes the fabrication as "bangora straw" - which totally makes this a head-bangora, right? (Don't groan, you knew I was headed there.)

Loaned to the Project by Anne Harnagel who tells me -- with unerring specificity -- that this hat was purchased by/for her son (he of PC 480 fame) at an establishment called Duke's Clothing in Kanab, Utah.

And, just so there's no confusion, "Running A Muck" may be how they're spelling this hat style, but when one is referring to a sudden outburst of wilding and violent behavior it's "running amok." 

Also learned with this hat entry? The fact that "amok" is actually a listed disorder listed in the DSM-IV.


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 485 -- The Paper Pirate and the Awkward Apostrophe Edition


Day 485 / Hat 485: Folded paper pirate hat printed in black with black and white printed cord detailing around top and sides. Additional detail includes oval in center that reads: "Pirate's Dinner Adventure, Buena Park, California" accompanied by the phone number and website address of said dinner adventure.

I've had this piece of piratical ephemera kicking around the Garlodge for several years now (I'm going to guess at least five), a souvenir from a Pirate Season birthday-tide voyage behind the Orange Curtain organized by my sister-in-law 'Thleen and involving several friends and co-workers.

Those memories are hazy and every time I play them forward and back in my head I feel a little bit more of them disappear forever like a slowly demagnetizing VHS tape. If I recall correctly there are a few photos out there (and at least one piece of video) that captured the assorted buckling of swash and hauling of keel. I really ought to try to locate them. 

One thing that's impossible to forget about the experience is that super-awkward apostrophe. While I suppose it could technically be correct (one guy -- let's call him "Pirate" having a dinner adventure) the actual adventure, as it unfolded, involved many, many pirates. It feels like someone really got hung up on the whole idea of a possessive but generic pirate experience. (To see what I mean just swab [I meant that] in any particular name-brand buccaneer: "Graybeard's Dinner Adventure," "Stumpy Joe's Dinner Adventure," "Harry Hook Hand's Dinner Adventure" all work just fine.)

Or maybe I'm just looking at it through the wrong eye patch. Perhaps Pirate dangles that apostrophe out there as a kind of scar or a badge of [dis]honor to strike fear into the hearts of grammarians everywhere. 

If that interpretation turned out to be true, it would make me one very jolly roger indeed. 


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Monday, September 22, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 484 - Dutch Masters of Rejection Edition


Day 484 / Hat 484: Child-sized woven fedora with brown and tan grosgrain hatband detail. interior label gives the fabrication of said fedora as 80% paper and 20% acrylic, puts the size at 54 cm and lists the country of origin as China.

Despite its genesis in the Far East, to me this hat will always be about the Dutch -- for two reasons. Chiefly that the hat was purchased back in January at Flicka (on Larchmont Blvd.) as a possible accessory for a children's "Dutch Masters" photo shoot for George (George is the Bride's godson, the purchaser of the hat was his mother) at his preschool.

Heather (George's mom) says that the woven fedora was ultimately rejected for the Dutch Masters
themed photo shoot. But the school's loss was my gain (the photos in the resulting book were hilarious by the way) as I got a chance to wear George's rejected fedora atop my own head.

The second reason (I said "two reasons," remember?) is that, as of this writing, the Bride is winging her way to Paris via Amsterdam. After her Air France flight was canceled (due to a strike) she was rebooked on KLM. After some minor friction with her seatmates, she and the Flying Dutchmen are headed east. With any luck they're all currently sawing the Dutch equivalent of logs.

A hat-tip to Heather, an assist to young master George, and a polite, cursory nod to the Dutch.


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins


Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 483 -- Daisy-Sprouting Bowler Edition


Day 483 / Hat 483: Red felt bowler with rainbow hatband detail and fabric daisy with green-and-white-striped fuzzy pipe cleaner stem sprouting from top of crown.

The second of two hats loaned to the Project by Amy Novak and her daughter (the first was PC 481) and Amy say this was sent to girl child as a "an early birthday present from her grandparents." 

Which makes it a more than appropriate hat to close out one of my own years and welcome another. 

Here's hoping everything sprouts as joyfully as a cartoon daisy in the year ahead!

A sincere hat-tip to Amy and daughter. Thanks for the loan - your hats will be enroute back to you shortly.

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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins



Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 482 - Deep End of the Pool Edition


Day 482 / Hat 482: Black fabric three-panel swim cap with Speedo name and logo in white. Interior tag reads: "Speedo, RN#54934, 82% nylon, 18% Lycra Elastane." Reverse side of tag hincludes som trademark-related gibbersih and "Speedo America, a division of Warnaco Swimwear Inc., made in China." 

Sourced from the Bride's headgear vault and accessorized with a pair of her blue Speedo swim goggles. If you're a keen follower of the Project you might think I've dropped the ball or flipped my lid or accidentally duped (as in duplicated) myself -- remembering as you do PC 248. Yes, 'twas indeed a Speedo swim cap - black even - but that was latex number and this one is a nylon/elastane blend. Rules are rules ...

I did not choose this wholly at random either as the last few days have left me feeling very out-to-sea / underwater / in-over-my-head /stuck in the deep end of a very deep pool. I know in my heart of hearts that if I can keep my head in this game for 500 consecutive days - as it appears at this point that I almost certainly will - there's no reason why I can't buckle down and tackle the rest with a similar intestinal fortitude. 

Just gotta breathe deep and plunge right in -- with any luck I'll come up arcing gracefully, toes pointing skyward just like they do in the dive I perfected at All Pine over the summer. (If you were there you know exactly what I mean ...)  


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 481 -- Patience, Young Grasshopper Edition


Day 481 / Hat 481: Green velvet grasshopper hat with bendable green antennae, bulging white velvet eyes with brown, hard plastic irises and brown fabric eyelids (such detail!). Interior label reads: "Little Daydreamers by Elope," on one side and: handmade in China,  RN #91951, spot clean only." Fabrication tag reads: "55% cotton, 45% polyester."

This hat arrived in yesterday's mail (with another hat which you will see very soon, I assure you) and it was graciously loaned to the Project by someone who, with the exception of immediate family, has probably known me longer than any other loaner/donor to Project Cubbins. Her name is Amy Novak, she hails from Fairfax, Vermont, and we went to Rock Point summer camp together on the shores of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont, back in the mid 1970s. (My last summer there was the summer of '79 so we've known each other for at least 35 years -- probably more like 38.)

I haven't actually seen Amy since college, but thanks to the marvel that is Facebook we've kept in touch. She actually lives out here in Southern California (down Fullerton way) and the loan of this hat has extra-special significance for two reasons.

First, she's been an ardent fan and supporter of my whimsical quest since way back when I was was wearing single-digit lids. Second, and perhaps most importantly, early on she provided some extremely important motivation for me to make sure I followed this Project through to the 500th hat.

Having shown one of my very, very early installments (perhaps the very first one, I don't recall exactly) to her young daughter, she comments to me via Facebook something to the effect of: "The girl child doesn't think you're gonna make it."

As a result, in those few and far between times where sourcing a hat has been particularly challenging or on occasions where the non-hat-related life circumstances surrounding me have been so daunting and so overwhelming that it seems pointless to continue throwing hats in the ring, I think about that little girl I've never met and how she doubted me big time. 

As I type this I realize I don't even know really know her name. Nonetheless, it's "the girl child" who gets the hat-tip on this one, with the assist to her mom.

As Master Po might say in the "Kung Fu" TV series that was most likely on the air the years Amy and I were at camp, "It takes patience, young Grasshopper, patience." 


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins


Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 480 -- Brown Cube Farm Wrangler Edition


Day 480/ Hat 480: Brown felt cowboy hat with upturned four-inch brim and a five-inch creased crown. Additional detail includes aftermarket red bandanna folded and tied around base of crown and a seven-inch-long species indeterminate feather tucked into the right side of the bandanna. Interior tag reads: "One sze fits most, spot clean only, RN #17730, made in China, Target, 06/13," which makes me think it was made for - and sold by -- Target roughly 15 months ago.

Graciously loaned to the Project by fellow cube farmer Anne "the armor maker" Harnagel who says of its provenance: "It belongs to my [now 19-year-old] son. He got it when he went to go work at a wrangler camp." That would be the Tom Sawyer Camps, btw, and while I don't see a program at the website labeled "wrangler," I see several horse- and outdoorsy-flavored programs that would probably fall under that general heading. (To be clear they are NOT wrangling campers ...)

Harnagel likes to kind of play possum with the hats she loans. This was one of two sitting on my desk when I arrived this morning and it wasn't until well after lunch that she made it known that she was the source. (She famously kept mum on the millinery back at PC 160 as well.)

Circle gets the square and Harnagel gets the hat-tip.

With this hat in the bullpen I'm 480 down and 20 at-bats left -- how do you like that wranglin'?

I'm ready to rope 'em, throw 'em, and brand 'em.

Yippee ki-yay! 

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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 479 - USC Trojan Visor Edition


Day 479 / Hat 479: Gold-colored cotton visor with "USC" embroidered on front in cardinal red edged in white embroidery. Additional detail includes Velcro-closure adjustable strap with the word "Trojans" embroidered in all-capital letters over top and interior label that reads: "Heritage, 100% cotton, made in China."

The final lid plucked from the recent Josie Witte BOH, is, indeed, a visor -- though from the angle of the photo it sure seems like a full-on hat.

In putting together this post I found that the University of Southern California has some real detailed information out there on the interwebs about its school colors. For example, this little blurb from its website (it pertains to printed material in particular, but you get the idea):

"USC’s official colors are Pantone 201C and Pantone 123C. These colors, designated as USC Cardinal and USC Gold, are equal in importance in identifying the university. All printed materials, whether printed on coated or uncoated stock, should match color to the coated Pantone chips."

I think I'll take my coated (or uncoated) stock and call it a night -- with the final hat-tip and deep bow of gratitude to Josie.

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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins




Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 478 - A Short Eighth Note Edition


Day 478 / Hat 478: Black, baseball-style cap with adjustable Velcro closure in back and red (and a tiny bit of accent orange embroidery on front of a musical note. Additional embroidery on back reads: "Music City" in white script with same musical note (albeit in a much smaller size) between the two words in red embroidery. 

Interior label reads: "Otto Collection, 18-686, 100% cotton, one size fits most, made in China, RN129002."

As I'm not musically inclined, I had to look up what kind of note it is -- based on my cursory search of the interwebs it is called an eighth note (in the U.S. and Canada) known as a "quaver" in other English-speaking countries. 

As the very definition of an eighth note is one held for one-eighth the duration of a whole note, dubbing this entry to the Project a "Short Eighth" might seem out of place. Not so!

You see, this hat as handed to me just yesterday by my boss of bosses -- whose name happens to be Alice Short. (Don't take my word for it -- take a look at the masthead of today's - or any day's -- Los Angeles Times.)

Ms. Short procured said lid during a recent business trip to Nashville, Tennessee, which, as I'm sure you're figuring out by now, goes by the nickname "Music City" (the city's nickname - not Alice's).She hand-delivered to my desk yesterday for inclusion in the Project.

Which, therefore makes it a high note of sorts too. You see, over the past 477 hats I've had co-workers, loved ones and strangers hand me hats. And, while my direct up-line bosses have clearly tolerated my enthusiastically Seussian side endeavour, I never thought in all my (nearly) 500 hats one of them would throw their hat in my ring.

It goes without saying -- but I'll say it anyway - today's hat -tip goes to Alice Short. 

Thanks, boss!


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins


Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 477 -- Pappy & Harriet's Piglet Editon


Day 477 / Hat 477: Trucker-style cap with brown mesh back and beige foam front with brown screen print on front of an adorable piglet with a tattoo of a winged heart on its left hindquarter that says"PH," all above a scroll-like banner that reads: "Pappy & Harriet's." Additional detail includes brown braided cord where brim meets crown. Interior label reads: "Otto Collection, 32-468, 100% polyester 100% nylon [which makes this hat 200%, apparently], one size fits most, made in China, RN129002."

Stealth-snapped from frequent hat contributor Noelle Carter's desk the very second I returned to the Cube Farm after nearly a month in the field. (I'm sure she'd want it that way so it's hardly stealth in that respect.)

Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace is a honkytonk barbecue joint out near Joshua Tree National Park in a town called, you guessed it, Pioneertown. I've actually been there once but didn't walk away with a sweet lid like Noelle clearly did.

She also walks away with today's unwitting hat-tip as I get back to the grind here in the Cube Farm.

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PC 277: Lax Helmet
 Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins 

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 476 -- Gray Knitty Kitty Edition


Day 476 / Hat 476: Gray knit beanie-style cap with gray stylized cat applique on front with yellow accent thread. Interior tag reads: "60% lambswool, 20% angora rabbit fur, 20% nylon, made in Philippines, dry clean only, RN  68299."

Loaned to the Project by Josie Witte, if you ask me there's a while lot of animal representin' in that hat -- lambs, rabbits and kittens.

Oh my!


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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins
Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Project Cubbins: Hat 475 -- The Smokin' Tigers of Columbus Circle Edition


Day 475 / Hat 475: Forest green buckle back baseball style cap with a crouching yellow, black and white tiger logo on back and the ords: "Davidoff Columbus Circle" on back in yellow embroidery. Interior label reads: "Alternative Apparel, 100% cotton, made in China."

Loaned t the Project by Josie Witte, it was among those in a bag awaiting my return home from New York City. Which is ironic considering that, based on my sleuthing, it references a cigar club/store/lounge Davidoff of Geneva that is located in the shops at Columbus Circle -- right around where I was stomping my feet and hanging my many hats for the run of New York Fashion Week.

What's a tiger got to do with cigar bars? It certainly makes one paws. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) I couldn't find any information about that in my cursory search of the interwebs, but I did find a limited-edition Davidoff cigar humidor with a laser-etched tiger on the lid that refers to: "[t]he chosen image of the Tiger -- the symbol of strength and grace ..." So there's that.

Is it just me or does the Smokin' Tigers sound like the perfect name for a Triple A baseball team made up of cigar aficionados that tries to defect to Cuba in a fictitious Garry Marshall movie from the '80s? (Yeah, it's probably just me.)

At any rate, the hat-tip to Josie for the smokin' lid.

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A Year Ago Today in Project Cubbins

Q: OK, nice hat -- but what exactly is Project Cubbins, anyway?

A: One man's homage to Dr. Seuss and his second book, "The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins," which celebrated the 75th anniversary of its publication in 2013, Project Cubbins is an attempt to document the wearing of a different hat or piece of headgear every day for 500 consecutive days. No do-aheads, no banking of hats, no retroactive entries. PC started on May 27, 2013 with Hat 1