tacky tie twins

Today was the first Thursday of the 2009 school year, and hence the first blooming of the Tacky Tie.

Yesterday, I notified my student teacher about the custom, inviting him to partake of my collection and join in the fun each Tuesday and Thursday during his ten-week stint. He said it was a fine idea, and wore the floral print below. (His shirt was pumpkin, which matched perfectly, which is to say, even more hideously.)



During our prep period, as we strode out of the copy room, a passing faculty member called us the "Blues Brothers."

go Mariners!

Junior's back, and so are the Mariners. In celebration of the first homestand of the season, I wore the only non-tacky tie in my whole collection. Will it bring victory? Through five innings, the answer is yes...

luck of the... something

It's got green on it. That's good enough for today.

ties are the constant

No matter what the weather brings, the ties persist. From the last two weeks, three repeats in two photos. Enjoy.

truly back to normal

Since I missed the Tuesday before Winter Break--which turned out to be the last day before the snow struck. Thus, it's been over a month since the appearance of Tacky Tie Tuesday or Thursday.

Yikes.

catching up

Two for last week; none for the present, since I didn't teach today.

sure it does.

"As one of your choices, link Macbeth to an event or situation in the "real world," I offered.

"Does 'Star Trek' count as the 'real world?'" she asked.

polka dotty

Wednesday of last week. (It's a long story.)


Today.

I didn't realize I had concatenated polka dot ties until I went to post these photos.

Good for me!

think green

Although a polyester tie can be green only in the chromatic sense.

going places

From Tacky Ties 10 24 08

Thursday's tie is a little late, thanks to a debate tournament that chewed up my weekend.

The origin: Daniel Grimm. The destination: fashion immortality.

From Mr. A's world of tacky ties

The tie that preceded it, weekwise, is a classic: the red and blue eye-popper on the left.

git along, little neckties

From Nov 8, 2008

Another Guilfoil donation, worthy of John Wayne. Well, almost: "UNION MADE in U.S.A."


A repeat, and a doozy at that.

déjà vu

A little over two years ago, I wore these ties on a Tuesday and Thursday in the exact same order as this past week. Coincidence, or spooky Halloween omen?

tiny photos of big ties

Tuesday and Thursday. (I'll get a non-blurred photo of the gear tie one of these days.)

calm in a storm

World economic collapse got you down? Go to your floral neckwear happy place and watch your troubles waft away on a sweet-scented breeze.

the autumn leaves

They're technically flowers, but close enough. Tuesday's, two days late.

order in the court

Spirit Week: "Do Work" day means dress for success in a desired, or desirable, career. I chose the law, since, as an English teacher and debate coach, I live at the intersection of hermeneutics and judicature.

And that is a fun sentence to say out loud.

the circle of life

Know where this one came from? Dad's closet, in an approved tacky-tie raid, a couple years ago.

Know where he got it?

His kids.

It might've even been from me.

going green

A year and four days later, this one cycles back through. Beautiful shimmery green, like an algae-covered trout.

the color and the smell

This year, my tacky ties have met an overall lukewarm reception. Something in the water, or air, maybe, dulling the senses of our nation's youth.

Until today. Take a good whiff of the polyester equivalent of smelling salts.

I swear

I swear it's tacky, yet students--who haven't had enough time to be inured to the collection--insist it isn't.

Blue, orange, and brown, in their weird aesthetic universe, go together. I know. I've seen the t-shirts.

But I still don't understand.