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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 30, 2022 16:28:39 GMT -5
I went a little nuts and bought two pairs of cowboy boots. One eel-skin and one python-skin. Excellent deals on both. $209 on the eel and $253 on the Python. And no they aren't prints. I was pretty surprised to get these at that price because the price of boots has skyrocketed in the last couple of years. It looks like rattlesnake is still out of stock everywhere. And stingray seems to be hard to find. Piracuru has gotten ludicrously expensive when you could get them pretty cheap five years ago.
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Post by impulse on Dec 30, 2022 16:48:55 GMT -5
Sorry to beat the dead horse of the Star Wars topic so much. It's a slow week at work, but I have to by the computer in case something comes in. And it's a lot more interesting than work.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2022 17:01:12 GMT -5
Sorry to beat the dead horse of the Star Wars topic so much. It's a slow week at work, but I have to by the computer in case something comes in. And it's a lot more interesting than work. Like several others here, I'm right with you all the way. Many including yourself have already put how I feel into words perfectly. It's like music to me...you don't go back and "re-record" parts of classic albums, like new vocals, etc. Or release it as "bonus content" if you think people actually are interested but don't pull the original recordings. Lucas could have released these and said "hey, I'm really passionate about this project as this is my ultimate vision of the trilogy" and offered them up as an alternative option to watch/purchase, while still keeping the original version fully available (if he hadn't messed up the original masters in the process of course). It was pure unchecked ego to completely ignore all the people who made him as successful as he became, and that on principle alone makes this absolutely unacceptable (much as I detest the actual changes themselves). Again, others made this point really well, I'm probably beating the dead horse as well, but it is what it is.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2022 18:25:30 GMT -5
Even something simple can matter. I quite like the music the Ewoks are playing at the end of ROTJ. The music was different in the modern releases. Now, it’s incidental music, but I associate it with the Rebellion’s victory.
The other changes pissed me off, but even the subtle music change had me pulling my hair out and wishing Lucas would stop tinkering!
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Post by Confessor on Dec 30, 2022 18:37:04 GMT -5
Saw this today at Daily Kos... Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend"The Holmes news specifically also marks the end of a tortured legal debate about how copyright law should treat the character. Several of Doyle’s earlier works were already in the public domain before 2019, but the author’s estate argued this shouldn’t loosen its hold. That led to multiple legal tangles over unauthorized new Sherlock Holmes stories, including a now-settled suit against Netflix for its spinoff Enola Holmes. Now, if you were considering a new interpretation of the world’s greatest detective, there’s never been a better time to do it. Just spare a thought for Canada while you do it — thanks to a law issued earlier this year, it’s about to start its own 20-year freeze." Full story here: www.theverge.com/2022/12/28/23528003/sherlock-holmes-metropolis-to-the-lighthouse-public-domain-day-2023The Mickey Mouse story is much more complicated. This must just be in the U.S., I guess? Because all of the Sherlock Holmes stories fell into the public domain in the 80s and early 90s over here in Britain, I believe.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 30, 2022 20:28:57 GMT -5
Sorry to beat the dead horse of the Star Wars topic so much. It's a slow week at work, but I have to by the computer in case something comes in. And it's a lot more interesting than work. Like several others here, I'm right with you all the way. Many including yourself have already put how I feel into words perfectly. It's like music to me...you don't go back and "re-record" parts of classic albums, like new vocals, etc. Or release it as "bonus content" if you think people actually are interested but don't pull the original recordings. Lucas could have released these and said "hey, I'm really passionate about this project as this is my ultimate vision of the trilogy" and offered them up as an alternative option to watch/purchase, while still keeping the original version fully available (if he hadn't messed up the original masters in the process of course). It was pure unchecked ego to completely ignore all the people who made him as successful as he became, and that on principle alone makes this absolutely unacceptable (much as I detest the actual changes themselves). Again, others made this point really well, I'm probably beating the dead horse as well, but it is what it is. I didn't mean to start a firestorm. Here's my History with Star Wars: I watched the original Star Wars film a year after it came out. it was in the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan for over a year. I thought it was okay. I remember waiting on a long line for the first day of Empire Strikes Back . That's my favorite SW movie and I watched it 15 time in the theater. When I saw Return of the Jedi, I thought out was the worse of the three. I didn't really like it, and to this day it is a big bomb to me. The second trilogy I enjoyed. I saw the first movie of the third trilogy and haven't watched another SW property since. The Force awakens felt like a copy of the Original WS film.
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Post by spoon on Dec 30, 2022 21:17:01 GMT -5
Saw this today at Daily Kos... Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend"The Holmes news specifically also marks the end of a tortured legal debate about how copyright law should treat the character. Several of Doyle’s earlier works were already in the public domain before 2019, but the author’s estate argued this shouldn’t loosen its hold. That led to multiple legal tangles over unauthorized new Sherlock Holmes stories, including a now-settled suit against Netflix for its spinoff Enola Holmes. Now, if you were considering a new interpretation of the world’s greatest detective, there’s never been a better time to do it. Just spare a thought for Canada while you do it — thanks to a law issued earlier this year, it’s about to start its own 20-year freeze." Full story here: www.theverge.com/2022/12/28/23528003/sherlock-holmes-metropolis-to-the-lighthouse-public-domain-day-2023The Mickey Mouse story is much more complicated. This must just be in the U.S., I guess? Because all of the Sherlock Holmes stories fell into the public domain in the 80s and early 90s over here in Britain, I believe. The article states that it's the U.S., and it's regarding Conan Doyle last Sherlock Holmes stories. That makes sense, because most of the stories should've already been in the public domain for a long time. But The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes has stories from the 1920s that would be as young as Mickey Mouse (and all covered by all those amendments over the years that Disney lobbied for to get copyright extended).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2022 21:30:15 GMT -5
I didn't mean to start a firestorm. Here's my History with Star Wars: I watched the original Star Wars film a year after it came out. it was in the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan for over a year. I thought it was okay. I remember waiting on. long line for the first day of Empire Strikes Back . That's my favorite SW movie and I watched it 15 time in the theater. When I saw Return of the Jedi, I thought out was the worse of the three. I didn't really like it, and to this day it is a big bomb to me. The second trilogy I enjoyed. I saw the first movie of the third trilogy and haven't watched another SW property since. The Force awakens felt like a copy of the Original WS film. You definitely didn't start the firestorm, Lucas did lol! But seriously, I think this is one of those topics that a lot of us old school fans are going to be passionate about for the rest of our lives. It reminds me of when I'm on my guitar forums, and the topic of Metallica comes up. It doesn't matter the question or context, at some point it will turn into 20 pages of folks arguing about whether they "sold out" in the 90's or not (every single time). Back on Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back is my favorite as well, those were fun times back in the day when you'd go back a bazillion times to see the same movie in the theater.
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 30, 2022 22:44:41 GMT -5
I went a little nuts and bought two pairs of cowboy boots. One eel-skin and one python-skin. Excellent deals on both. $209 on the eel and $253 on the Python. And no they aren't prints. I was pretty surprised to get these at that price because the price of boots has skyrocketed in the last couple of years. It looks like rattlesnake is still out of stock everywhere. And stingray seems to be hard to find. Piracuru has gotten ludicrously expensive when you could get them pretty cheap five years ago.
Eel skin is one of my favorites... good looking, durable, and not overly expensive for an "exotic" boot. Snakeskin of any type just requires more care to maintain (reduce wear damage), but Python is probably the the toughest of the the snake family. Rattlesnake looks great, but is substanially more fragile.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of either pirarucu or quill-ostrich for purely aesthetic reasons-- just don't care for the look.
Stingray, on the other hand, is a different matter. I've been looking for the "right" pair of stingray boots for almost 5 years now, which is incredibly difficult if you take a W or EE width like myself. All the really good quality stingray boots seem to be Italian-styled produced in "boutique" quantities, and I don't think they don't even know what EE width is. Problem with that is, stingray has to be sized exactly, as it has almost no "give" and will not stretch/relax like other skins during break-in. Apart from stingray, I'm also in the market for a nice pair of caiman boots, and while not as unforgiving as stingray, they also appear to be in short supply lately. If you don't have a pair, I'd also recommend teju lizard, as they tend to be pretty resistant to scuffing, and generally look pretty nice if the banding is done correctly.
At any rate, I prefer my boots to be either Mexican or USA-made, and most Asian import boots are terrible when it comes to properly locating the arch in the footbed, and I as a result I haven't owned a pair of Asian boots for over 20 years, which eliminates roughly 60-65% of off-the-shelf boot choices from the get-go.
Judging from the pics, it looks like you share my general preference for a western/riding heel and a snip toe... my favorite style of western boot. I can tolerate round-toe and "roachkiller" pointed toes, but I will pass on square-toe western boots almost every time.
Regardless, just give me good quality cowhide for daily wear, and make sure the arch is in the right place! I'm a big fan of Abilene/Sage boots for daily wear. I've got a pair on right now that's been re-soled three times, and they're still going strong.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 30, 2022 23:06:36 GMT -5
I went a little nuts and bought two pairs of cowboy boots. One eel-skin and one python-skin. Excellent deals on both. $209 on the eel and $253 on the Python. And no they aren't prints. I was pretty surprised to get these at that price because the price of boots has skyrocketed in the last couple of years. It looks like rattlesnake is still out of stock everywhere. And stingray seems to be hard to find. Piracuru has gotten ludicrously expensive when you could get them pretty cheap five years ago.
Eel skin is one of my favorites... good looking, durable, and not overly expensive for an "exotic" boot. Snakeskin of any type just requires more care to maintain (reduce wear damage), but Python is probably the the toughest of the the snake family. Rattlesnake looks great, but is substanially more fragile.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of either pirarucu or ostrich for purely aesthetic reasons-- just don't care for the look.
Stingray, on the other hand, is a different matter. I've been looking for the "right" pair of stingray boots for almost 5 years now, which is incredibly difficult if you take a W or EE width like myself. All the really good quality stingray boots seem to be Italian-styled produced in "boutique" quantities, and I don't think they don't even know what EE width is. Problem with that is, stingray has to be sized exactly, as it has almost no "give" and will not stretch/relax like other skins during break-in. Apart from stingray, I'm also in the market for a nice pair of caiman boots, and while not as unforgiving as stingray, they also appear to be in short supply lately. If you don't have a pair, I'd also recommend teju lizard, as they tend to be pretty resistant to scuffing, and generally look pretty nice if the banding is done correctly.
At any rate, I prefer my boots to be either Mexican or USA-made, and most Asian import boots are terrible when it comes to properly locating the arch in the footbed.
Judging from the pics, it looks like you share my general preference for a western/riding heel and a snip toe... my favorite style of western boot. I can tolerate round-toe and "roachkiller" pointed toes, but I will pass on square-toe western boots almost every time.
Regardless, just give me good quality cowhide for daily wear, and make sure the arch is in the right place!
I wear an 11 EE so I feel your pain. Both pairs are Mexican made. And are J-toe, which is my preference. Snip toes are second. I abhor square-toed boots. I love Teju boots and they’re probably next on the list. I had a cordovan pair for about 15 years and finally wore a hole in them that I couldn’t hide. I like ostrich, but I honestly prefer ostrich leg to quill. The current pair I have are wingtips with quill on the toe and heel and leg in between. I’ve got one old beat-up pair of cowhide boots and one bull hide that I wear for kicking around. The latter is at least 25 years old. The bull is about 16. They aren’t Court worthy though.
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Post by commond on Dec 31, 2022 17:40:35 GMT -5
Happy New Year from the future.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 18:01:17 GMT -5
Soylent Green was set in 2022 but we made it through without turning to a new food source. Zardoz is set in 2023.... can we make it through the year without adopting Sean Connery's fashion sense? Happy New Year all! -M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 31, 2022 18:21:14 GMT -5
Happy New Year from the future. Oh, yeah? It's the future where I am now, too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 19:06:11 GMT -5
Happy New Year to all time zones!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2022 19:36:32 GMT -5
Soylent Green was set in 2022 but we made it through without turning to a new food source. Zardoz is set in 2023.... can we make it through the year without adopting Sean Connery's fashion sense? Happy New Year all! -M Soylent Green is currently on backorder, due to supply chain issues.
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