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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Genius Dressing Right for the Genius Awards Party

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM

Yes, we will be there to celebrate great local artists (Megan Griffiths, Drew Christie, THEESatisfaction, Amanda Manitach, Keri Healey, Ellen Forney, Kary Wayson—to name some of the Genius nominees), but we will also be there to look our best. Seattle is not, sadly, known as a fashion town; it is known for casual wear, wild hair, fleece, birkenstocks, vibram fivefingers (they are going for 100 bucks at REI!). The way we look at home is the way we look at work, and the way we look at work is the way look at the restaurant or bar. The Genius event (the tickets of which can be purchased here) breaks with this numbing sameness. When we go to this party, we dress up and look like Paris. As for me, I'll be stepping out in this...

As we say in Zimbabwe, hokoyo!

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I was kind of hoping you'd wear a gold sequinned dress too.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 18, 2012 at 2:10 PM

You're wearing both of those? One on top of the other? You're sure to be the most dazzling at the prom. Make sure Kelly O. provides pictures!

Posted by crone on September 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM

Hey, Charles, have you ever heard the song "Hokoyo" by eighties pop geniuses Orange Juice? They had a Zimbabwean drummer for a while, Zeke Manyika, and he got to write a song. It's pretty good for what it is -- Afropop played by mostly white synth ravers. Words in Shona (I think) which you didn't hear on English pop records too often, then or now. Hokoyo shamwari!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59WTyZ6d4…

Posted by Fnarf

on September 18, 2012 at 3:18 PM

LOL you are wearing a dress, and the worst part about it is you wont admit to wearing a dress.

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on September 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM

Also how come Africans always have fabric clothing that they call "traditional." Yet they never knew of fabric until they became involved with evil Caucasian traders and colonialist.

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on September 18, 2012 at 3:41 PM

@5:

WTFAYTA? Egyptians practically INVENTED fabric (they can claim the title commensurately with India and China).

Posted by COMTE

on September 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM

@5

My advise: Try fact checking next time.

Posted by Revenge! on September 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM

@6
Egyptians =/= Sub-Saharan Africans

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on September 18, 2012 at 5:14 PM

@8
You only meant Sub-Saharan Africa, not Africa the continent. Thank you for that after-the-fact distinction.

If you look up the word "tradition" on both Google and in general desktop dictionaries, you will find it means a handing down of customs from generation to generation (Webster's 1979 edition, for example). So I don't know what time frame you're using to support your raci--I mean--ideas of tradition, but I know it's more likely than not that clothing traditions have indeed existed for more than one generation.

Posted by Revenge! on September 18, 2012 at 7:46 PM