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27 December 2006

I just saw a dude wearing yellow-tinted sunglasses. What the hell is he thinking? Must be like looking at the world through a bowlful of pee.
post by: jonmc at: 13:40 | 30 comments
No idea on the glasses, but I actually smoked a bowlful of powdered shaman pee once.
posted by danostuporstar 27 December | 13:48
Well, they probably stretched the definition of 'shaman' to include 'drunk who occasionally turns an interesting phrase,' but hey, whatever works.

(and yes, my lunch was mostly liquid)
posted by jonmc 27 December | 13:51
Makes everyday a sunny day. I prefer a grey tint myself.

(dano, I believe they call that Squirt)
posted by Pips 27 December | 13:54
(oh... powdered Squirt?)
posted by Pips 27 December | 13:55
No idea on the glasses, but I actually smoked a bowlful of powdered shaman pee once.


What book is that from? Naked Lunch? Something else? I can't remember, and it's totally going to bug me.
posted by brina 27 December | 13:57
Maybe he is wearing them because blue light eats your eyes.
posted by bigblueroom 27 December | 14:03
Hmm, brina, I thought it came from my head, but now that you mention it, it does seem familiar to me too. I have read a lot of Burroughs but that was 15 years and 1000s of bowls ago.
posted by danostuporstar 27 December | 14:03
Actually, jon, it looks like the world has been colored with a yellow hilighter. It's fun!
posted by pieisexactlythree 27 December | 14:05
Maybe he's trying to look like Paul Newman in The Color of Money.

Actually, your eyes more or less adjust. I used to have red-tinted sunglasses. Things look darker more than they look any particular color.
posted by bingo 27 December | 14:07
i used to wear yellow at night or in rain or snow to bike...they're actually really practical!
posted by Mrs.Pants 27 December | 14:31
Didn't Bono go through a period of wearing yellow-tinted glasses? All the time. Even when he was inside.
posted by TheDonF 27 December | 14:33
Don't yellow-tinted sunglasses allegedly improve contrast, especially in a field of green? I feel like I've seen hunters and fisherfolk and so forth wearing 'em for this reason.
posted by box 27 December | 14:40
Still, they're pee-colored, dude. That can't be a good tint to see the world through. And this guy was just walking down Spring Street, not slaloming down a mountain.
posted by jonmc 27 December | 14:42
I bought red-tinted sunglasses a few months ago, and whenever I wore them, everything looked like it was soaked in blood. It was pretty much the worst thing I've ever bought.
posted by iconomy 27 December | 14:46
No idea on the glasses, but I actually smoked a bowlful of powdered shaman pee once.

Reads like Tom Robbins to me.
posted by getoffmylawn 27 December | 14:49
Those are shooting glasses Jon. For shooting.
posted by Divine_Wino 27 December | 15:17
Wino, this guy guy didn't look like he shot anything other than the occasional glass of Goldschlager, so I assume he thought he looked good.
posted by jonmc 27 December | 15:20
Yeah, but if you're shooting in today's urban crime environment, you might be better off with a different tint.

When Cutty and Slim Charles went to go shoot Fruit, was Cutty wearing blue-tinted glasses?
posted by box 27 December | 15:22
A girl I know wears pinkish colored eyeglasses. She literally looks at the world through rose colored glasses, which I find hilarious.
posted by King of Prontopia 27 December | 15:27
Yellow glasses make it so when you take them off, everything looks all purple!
posted by interrobang 27 December | 17:22
He must've thought he'd attract the likes of Angelina Goldie.
posted by rob511 27 December | 18:07
I thought it came from my head, but now that you mention it, it does seem familiar to me too. I have read a lot of Burroughs but that was 15 years and 1000s of bowls ago.


Maybe it was just a particularly Burroughs-esque thought from your head.
posted by brina 27 December | 19:29
When Cutty and Slim Charles went to go shoot Fruit, was Cutty wearing blue-tinted glasses?

No. And look how that turned out.
posted by mlis 27 December | 19:49
Cutty killed Fruit? I thought Cutty was out of the game by the time Fruit died.
posted by bingo 27 December | 20:08
Cutty went to go shoot Fruit.

Are you sure he wasn't wearing blue-lensed glasses, though? I seem to recall some kind of black-hat, black-fingerless-glove, blue-tinted-glasses ensemble, and, frankly, I hope I'm not making the whole thing up.
posted by box 27 December | 20:34
So this must have been last season then, right? For some reason I thought Fruit died in season 3. Maybe I was thinking of Lex.
posted by bingo 27 December | 21:03
Yeah, Cutty went to shoot Fruit toward the end of season 3. Shortly after, he decided that the game just wasn't in him. Fruit eventually got shot in the beginning of season 4.
posted by box 27 December | 21:47
≡ Click to see image ≡
Blue?
posted by box 27 December | 22:18
Oh, shit! And I thought we were going to have to summon mullacc to settle this.

Still I have no independent recall of Cutty wearing glasses.
posted by mlis 27 December | 23:14
I remember the scene pretty vividly (though I had to be reminded that the Kangol-hat guy was named Fruit). Anyway, those lenses look gray to me.
posted by mullacc 27 December | 23:59
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