Good taste!
I'm a man of filet mignon taste and a hamburger budget. I like a few fine things in my other wise basic life. I like a good pocket knife. Gotta carry one or else I feel something is missing. It's amazing how many uses I find for a knife in a given day. I just ordered a Ken Onion Chive black on black which was voted the knife of the year. I like a good hat and the one I'm sporting is a Borsalino. I have two actually! One I bought many years ago in a store of 50,000 hats in Nashville, TN. It was the only hat in the store that would fit my big head and of course it was the most expensive in the store. It is being cleaned and blocked. Gotta love that hat that has kept my nogin protected and dry thru wood firings and snow storms. My latest I purchased in Sienna, Italy and it is rather a mafia don kinda hat.
I like real Kentucky bourbon and Woodford- Reserve is what I treat myself to when I'm feeling flush. I have a whiskey bottle in the Brown Foreman Collection down there in Louisville pronounced Low a ville or some such thing.
Here is a shout out to Shane Norrie for being on the winners podium at the Toronto Outdoor Exhibition. A hard show to get into and even harder to end up with the brass ring. Congrats, Shane! Fight big fighter, fight!!!
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I have a Cold Steel Tanto my son gave me for my birthday about 20 years ago that I mostly use to open letters, and a good folding tactical SOG I use in the studio.
But in my pocket I carry a Gerber Ultralite. On my belt, Gerber Multipliers. I prefer the Gerber Multitool over the Leatherman, because you can open the pliers one handed
When I left for Japan in '99, I could take both into the cabin on the plane. When I came back, you couldn't carry toothpaste or shampoo, except in little see thru plastic bottles. I hate the idea that I can't carry my metal pottery tools in the cabin. Whiskey: Shimaoka was delayed a week, getting back from Manhattan. He was there at a show opening when 9/11 happened. He brought home 25 year old Chivas Regal. The old shokunin asked me if it was any good, and I said it was. They sent for a big bottle of Coca Cola and ice to put it in. I was the only one drinking it on the rocks.
Love the hat by the way, I miss my beat up old Stetson that I had in my 20's. That hat saw a lot of weather.