I Has a New Shoes

Warning: this will not be the most exciting blog post you ever read.
Cal instructed me to blog about my new shoes. I have new shoes. They are black Rockport WT Classics, good for the walking, and they fill a significant gap in the shoe arsenal. It is weird that I have a shoe arsenal. Now I can wear shoes that are appropriate to different kinds of clothing or situation! How splendidly bourgeois.
Last shoe purchase was in Feb ’03.* To repeat the key quote from that blog post: “Brian J once told me “Never skimp on shoes. Make sure you buy good ones, even if they cost a lot of money.” This may be the only thing he ever said that qualifies as wisdom.” I did spend a fair chunk of change on these shoes, but I don’t regret it at all. (At least, I didn’t until googling just now and discovering that I can buy these shoes over the net for half the price I paid… Blimey. Oh well, at least I got to support the nice little Kilbirnie shoe store.)
* I still have those shoes and they are still doing the business. These ones I expect to last even longer.
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Rumpus countdown continues… Saturday is creeping closer and closer…

6 thoughts on “I Has a New Shoes”

  1. shoes are good. i channel Imelda Marcos at various times in my life. in particular though I enjoy “functional” shoes like walkey ones.
    Has you links to pictures as well as shoesies?

  2. Dude, you’re talking about shoes! How excited am I?!
    Have yet to find that perfect sporty yet casual shoe that will survive the beating I will give them and not kill my feet. One day, one day that magic shoe will appear and it will be glorious!

  4. OK, I’ll bite. What are these old shoes of yours that are still doing the biz? I’m quite hard on shoes myself (though I’ve got a decade and counting out of my one pair of work shoes – Hush Puppies are surprisingly robust), so I’m always interested to get other recommendations.

  5. The other shoes that still live are And 1 basketball boots that I only wear for indoor sports (and for walking to and from indoor sports). Might not be what you’re looking for…

  6. If you’ve found a pair of b’ball boots which don’t look garish and naff, I suggest you hold onto them and cherish them, since I cannot find a pair like that to save myself.

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