There were two big fights over the weekend. One in a ring, one in a cage. (Also, Leo’s latest and an extremely fast car…)
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We don’t usually choose our ties based on boxing matches…but there’s a first time for everything.
WBO Welterweight World Champion Manny Pacquaio is coming up for his third bout against Juan Manuel Marquez this Saturday, and in certain circles, it’s a very big deal. Enough of a big deal that Italophile tie-maker Vittorio J is commemorating the occasion with a limited-edition necktie. The pattern’s modeled after the flag of the Phillipines, where Pacquaio was born, but it’s safe to say the only people who’ll get the reference will already be fans.
That makes it one of the more dignified ways to show your allegiance to a fighter—at least compared to screaming from the front row. Let’s just hope the trend slows down before Ochocinco gets involved.
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via WBEBehind the Window: The latest behind-the-scenes style blog comes out swinging with an insider analysis of Paul Stuart’s latest bloggy moves. [The Coe Journal]
Mickey Returns: Mickey Rourke gives a touching tribute to Brad Renfro, without going so far as to remember Brad Renfro’s name. [GQ]
O Snap: The world’s most expensive photograph sold for $4.3 million at Christie’s last night. Strangely, there is no nudity. [The Atlantic Wire]
The Boxer: George Foreman opens up about our most recent Icon, Joe Frazier. [Deadspin]
Life is hard for the underdog.
Imagine, for example, a world-class boxer who spends his whole career—his whole life, even—in the shadow of one of the most flamboyantly gifted individuals in the history of organized sport.
But now that the dust has settled on the taunts and the hype and the politics, we’re ready to join the chorus saying it: Joe Frazier was a fascinating guy.
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It’s Monday morning, and once again you’ve spent an entire weekend worrying about Rick Ross, the gentleman hacker who liberated Scarlett Johansson’s nude photos and the apocalypse. Luckily, we’ve got a few updates for you.
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via LIFESafety First: Using a safety pin on your precious knit tie: an underrated sartorial power move. [A Suitable Wardrobe]
Rocket Man: Celebrating Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. If you can get around the whole Cold War thing, there’s a lot to like. [T Magazine]
Bikes of Glory: A rundown of famous men and their motorcycles. Buddy Holly’s looking pretty good. [Art of Manliness]
Dropping Fools: Antenna’s ten favorite knockouts. It’s not a good day to be George Foreman. [Antenna]
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via The Wages of Sin: A con artist bilked Best Buy out of $3 million and spent it all on supercars. Maybe he was hoping to escape? [Jalopnik]
Stitch By Stitch: Meeting the man behind Taylor Stitch. [All Plaid Out]
Going Hard: Perhaps you would be tougher if you worked out by punching refrigerators in a makeshift gym below an overpass. [Reuters]
A Guide to Talking on the Phone: Mostly, it’s a little troubling that we’ve reached a point where such a guide is necessary. [Jezebel]
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via BlackBookThe Lost Simpsons Episodes: A former Simpsons showrunner spills notes and jokes for a raft of episodes that never saw the light of day. [Splitsider]
I’m the Goddamn Batman: The Bruce Wayne school of parenting, as revealed by Adam Rogers. [The Atlantic]
Qaddafi Chic: Touring the private jets of African dictators. [Creative Review]
Sweet Like Sugar: Sugar Ray Robinson may finally get a much-deserved biopic. [/Film]
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via Put It On Wax: Another entry in the long, proud history of rewaxing guides. This one has pictures, which helps more than you might think. [Archival Clothing]
Vintage Brawlers: A peek into the world of bare-knuckle boxing in the 1890s. [New Republic]
Holiday Snaps: Julian Schnabel takes stunningly beautiful polaroids, as you might expect. [The Moment]
Norgay For Life!: A few vintage snaps of Tenzing Norgay on Everest with some British guy. Well-dressed chaps, both. [A Continuous Lean]
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via Fashion CopiousYour Job is to Knock This Fellow to the Ground: Hamilton Nolan waxes poetic on the staged brutality of boxing. [The Awl]
The Uniform: Esquire nails down the etiquette for first-date style. File this one away. [Esquire]
We Demand Debauchery: A week of trawling Craigslist’s Casual Encounters board leads to considerably less sex than you might have hoped for. [Mashable]
The Wisdom of Shark Week: In case you forgot, it’s shark week, which means it’s time to learn how to survive a shark attack with as many limbs as possible. [Gawker.TV]
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Unless you’ve got an unusually thorough sports calendar, you may have missed one of the most important boxing anniversaries on the books. 35 years ago today, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman converged on Zaire for the Rumble in the Jungle—cementing Ali’s legend and unleashing Don King on a more or less unsuspecting public.
In honor of the occasion, New York’s No Mas is taking a break from their usual diet of vintage-styled tees to produce a trio of animated shorts about the Rumble, including a spirited faceoff between Ali and a jumpsuited James Brown. Using live radio transcripts, audio collage and oil paints, it might be as close to the feeling of the real thing as we can get…at least on the internet.
Foxy Boxing: Adriana Lima, Doutzen Kroes and,
sigh, Karolina Kurkova have been practicing the sweet science
at a local gym. We kind of like the fact that they could beat the snot
out of us. [Observer]
“Women Love You in Pink Shirts”: We have personal,
experiential evidence that this is true. [
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Barney and Friends: The appearences of Michel Gondry,
Timo and Panama-hat wearing ping-pong champs at Matthew Barney’s
National Arts Club dinner add up to the first party report that
actually made us jealous. [
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One Step at a Time: Just like everything else there,
shoemaking in Iraq is a study in tragedy and persistence. [
Neighborhood Watch: How could we have missed this
one? Not only has our beloved Style Guy returned from the
on CBGB’s, but he also waxes nostalgic (in his own unsentimental way)
about causing a minor riot with his “socialist-realist rock band.”
Awesome. [GQ]
Acne Treatment: What? You still haven’t hit
Acne? [Paper]
