watch this amazing footage shot in Honolulu on August 14, 1945. Greatest generation was also the coolest generation and they didn’t even know it.
Maybe that is one of the main reasons they were so cool.

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

Zooey Deschanel’s voice is like butter. mmmm.

I have always liked an old series Landy.

It helps that the godfather of all things American cool had one.
I’d take one like this right here.

This is not my Christmas list. I have not been this good.

My Grandpa Branham had a truck like this I don’t know if his was a 65 or a 66 but I am pretty sure I need one. That relaxed sense of self awareness just goes with a vehicle like this. It is not for commuting in or driving in the city.
It is for topping out at 60mph and pulling on the hard shoulder to let people pass.

30stick humidor that is a water tight otter box. Win win, and when you decide cigars are bogus, you have a cool hand gun case and when you get your gun rights swiped, even though you said “Swipper no swiping” you have a cool humidor again.

Grandpa also had a hat like this. Yeah I want one. I am a grandpa kick.

I have been trying to stop drinking coffee and soda. I almost kicked the habit and then we got these sweet looking plain white paper cups at my work. I was compelled first had a coffee in one and then a Dr Pepper. I love the simple white cup. I am sitting here at my desk and I realize that I did not even want coffee or soda I just think the cup is cool.
What is wrong with me.
I enjoy certain things and the way they look. I should have gone into marketing or something. I don’t know who I would have marketed to exactly but I think that would be a fun field of work. Yes I did dvr “mad men” but I never got around to watching it and it started erasing itself.
Today I decided that boots and jeans would be a cool look for me. It is a fun way to go to a show or to kick around in for a little while, but to work, and then to a meeting after work? Yeah, pretty darn ill advised. My shirt is just a smidge too small and it is not just small in the tummy where I can’t stop growing it is small under the arms, my jeans, the ones La Mex loves on me and I don’t know why other than they are kind of tight in the arese, the boots I rescued from Uncle Jerry my ultimate hero who got them at a yard sale for a dollar. They are old and broken in and scream ultimate cool. I look pretty cool the image is there but I am uncomfortable, and I don’t need the sugar in the Dr. Pepper I am drinking just now either but the white paper cup, it called to me. I feel cool with it in my hand. Steve McQueen cool. Old Mercedes convertible driving south on California’s hwy 1 cool. Simple and elegant.
I love the look, I live for the cool but naturally I go back to comfortable.
I should have had water in my unassuming white paper cup and I should have worn my James Dean khaki pants and comfy worn slip-ons. Cool and comfortable could have come together.
I am trying way too hard. Trying to make this post make since and trying to achieve the next level of cool. But lets face it this is a ramble on and I am only as cool as feel, and I fell so uncomfortable that I am not cool at all. This Dr. Pepper is way too sweet for my tastes. I am growing out of it just as I am this shirt.
Happy Tuesday.

If I could be as cool as any one person it would hands down be JFK.