Admiral Cod

AN ESSAY IN ATTITUDES

24 November 2008

Arcadia Of My Youth

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"I fight for no one's sake...only for something deep in my heart."
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12 November 2008

Russian Gulag Tattoos

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British Style Genius- The Street Look (BBC)

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11 November 2008

c'est par-delà la mort

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"Le combat de la vie, le fardeau de l'individualité. A l'opposé, l'indivis et ses tourbillons toujours plus profonds. Aux i...
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10 November 2008

Undying WASPs

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Joseph Palmi: " We Italians have family. The Jews have tradition. What do you people have ?" Edward Wilson: " We have the U...
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05 November 2008

Born To Lose (Johnny Thunders)

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27 October 2008

Southwick Suit and Alden Tassel Loafers

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This morning I met with a local chap to discuss the market. He makes infrequent appearances on CNBC. In the rare candid photo (above), I am ...
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22 October 2008

The Last Days of South Africa, With Pints of Bitter at Kavanagh's Afterwards

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Following my career as a quasi-mercenary in South Africa in the late 1990s (about which I will write more later), I ended up back in London,...
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10 October 2008

Alden Tassel Loafer

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09 October 2008

contre le monde moderne

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Tassel Loafers: Shoes of the Counter-Revolution

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"In France, the tasseled loafer makes its own peculiar political statement. John Vinocur, the executive editor of The International Her...
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06 October 2008

Inner Emigration

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"Whenever you experience mental vacillation, cast your mind back to the Greco-Roman mentality as it was before the second century....
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03 October 2008

Platform Tennis Hall of Famers

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01 October 2008

The Chronicles of Argyle

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The day is late and the storm clouds gather, but it is imperative we persist in style. This is no time to lower standards. In these cooler d...
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Austrian Nationalist Style

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Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPO), which recently received over 18% of the vote in the Austrian elec...
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29 September 2008

Credo (Arvo Pärt)

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26 September 2008

Interview: Trevor Myburgh

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Trevor Myburgh is author of the forthcoming The Hotchkiss Quandary (Castelmann, 2017) and a co-founder of the Tradpunk literary movement. H...
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25 September 2008

On Sideburns

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Never trust a man with sideburns. It is a motto by which I have lived my life, and I think you should too. I think sideburns are repulsive a...
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24 September 2008

Confessions of a Beach Banker

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I used to work for a European-based private bank in Southern California. My clients were successful, educated professionals looking for inve...
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23 September 2008

Optimism is Cowardice

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"Faced as we are with this destiny, there is only one world-outlook that is worthy of us, that which has already been mentioned as the ...
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22 September 2008

Classic American Club

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I have long thought that certain people, like certain dog breeds, should come with a training manual. Success in a friendship requires one t...
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19 September 2008

contre le monde moderne

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contre le monde moderne

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Inimitable Moments

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Last Saturday night, as the storm clouds gathered on the horizon and I lit a Montecristo No. 2 cigar, I was seized by a mild panic. Should a...
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11 September 2008

Tolkien in Tweed

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Tolkien in Tweed may be redundant. Did the man wear anything else? Judging by the photographic record, evidently not. Which makes him even m...
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10 September 2008

Leather Bush Pilot Jacket

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The recent receipt of an Orvis Bush Pilot Jacket as a present has shifted my thinking on leather jackets. The new jacket from Orvis is mad...
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09 September 2008

Count Tolstoy in Tweed

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As you may well have noticed, the season of Tweed is almost upon us. I have therefore decided, in keeping with the times, to publish on an ...
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Chicken Tikka Masala Manifesto

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If the way to a chap is through his stomach, then I must be thoroughly beaten. I admit it: I am mad for masala. Chicken tikka masala, to be...
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08 September 2008

Wedding Suit

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*Single-breasted, two-button, twin-vented charcoal Brooks Brothers MTM (Martin Greenfield) suit (with pink lining) *Brooks Brothers shirt wi...
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Fleming Nationalist Style 2: Marie-Rose Morel

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A snapshot of Marie-Rose Morel, a member of the Flemish parliament for the Vlaams Belang party in Belgium. As we have seen, bitter controver...
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