Last night I was attending a public hearing about a wonky community issue. I was not planning to testify or speak, but the Chair of the Board holding this hearing was rather annoyed with conflicting testimony being presented, looked at me, and asked,
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Category Archives: Cowboy Boots
More Cowboy Boots Than Motorcycle Boots?
I received an email the other day that struck me funny. It said,
You should change your name from Booted “Harley” dude to Cowboy Booted Dude because you have more cowboy boots than motorcycle boots.
Well, that’s true. Why?
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More Is Not Better
Occasionally I receive questions via email or other means asking about caring and treating boots. I have written about that before, here. This post is to reaffirm that when it comes to using specialized products like exotic skin conditioner, Bick 4, Hubberds shoe grease, plain old paste wax/shoe polish, or other leather cleaning and care products that…
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Rebooted With What I Own
I continue to receive questions along the lines of, “with so many boots in your cowboy boots, motorcycle boots, Frye boots, work boots and dress boots collections, do you really wear them all?
I can understand why I get those kinds of questions. The answer is…
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Flip-Flops and Plantar Fasciitis
Quoting wikipedia:
Plantar fasciitis is a disorder that results in pain in the heel and bottom of the foot. The pain is usually most severe with the first steps of the day or following a period of rest. Pain is also frequently brought on by bending the foot and toes up towards the shin and may be worsened by a tight Achilles tendon.
And in a recent post on Huffington Post:
Men shouldn’t wear flip-flops because they’re dangerous. In fact, nobody should wear them.
So it isn’t just me reviling those ugly, dorky things, it is medical professionals who state that flip-flops are a leading cause…
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Leather and Boot Videos
Mostly between 2007 and 2011, I made a number of videos and posted them here on YouTube. The videos were, at first, displays of my boots, and then I produced several tutorials (lacing firefighter boots or breaking in Dehner boots, for example), or reviews about boots (boots for bikers, boots on a budget, etc.)
Some people have asked me, “why have you stopped making videos?” Answers…
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Black Jack Boot Comfort Over Time
In February 2014, I wrote a post for this blog comparing Black Jack cowboy boots with Lucchese cowboy boots. In that post (at the time), I stated my general endorsement of Black Jack boots over Lucchese boots because in 2014, Lucchese was not allowing discounting from full-price MSRP, and also…
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Swelling, Sneakers, Dress Shoes, and Boot Insteps
Now 22 days out from my Harley crash during my commute to work on 31 May, I am continuing to recover, but have no progress to resolve ankle swelling. I discussed the situation with a physician who specializes in orthopedics, the medical specialty dealing with injuries to the human skeletal system. He examined me and said that…
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Boot Reviews
Over the years, I have purchased, worn, tried, and/or read about many different brands of boots. I have received a number of email messages asking me for opinions on this-or-that brand of boots, or from people who have said that my website or this blog helped them as they did research about boots.
In 2010, while confined at home to recover from an ankle break, I created my boots wiki that I thought could be a collaborative way for guys to contribute knowledge about boots. Well, the “contribution” part didn’t work. But the ability to add, edit, and display information continued.
So today, I have information about hundreds …
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Funny Boot-Related Searches
From time to time, I look at what phrases entered into search engines drove people to visit this blog. Following are some of the most amusing (to me) recent searches I have seen:
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