Comments on: Hats and Heads, Part Dos

By: darkshines

darkshines — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:48:36 +0000

Well the degree is called Gothic Studies, its a three prong Masters made up of equal parts science, literature and history, mainly from the Victorian era, but some is later and some is a little earlier. My main focus is the science part, and although I am writing about mesmerism (which is almost precisely how you envisaged it, haha), I am considering doing my PhD on the role of animals in Victorian gothic fiction (think of Poe’s works- The Raven, The Black Cat, Murders in Rue Morgue, and others, Hound of the Baskervilles, Island of Dr Moreau and so on). Cryptozoology has always been a passion of mine, I took my first USO photo at the tender age of 5 years old at Lake Windemere and never looked back

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:08:10 +0000

Darkshines:

You’re majoring in “Victorian Mesmerism?”

Cool. Sounds very Dickensian. Almost Sherlockian. I can almost see gentlemen in smoking jackets sitting around a parlor trying to “mesmerize” someone.

What will “they” think of next?

And Loren DOES rock in that hat.
The guy in the commercial has nothing on you, my friend.
(And I AM being serious, BTW.)

By: wisaaka

wisaaka — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:18:54 +0000

Now as a potentially budding cryptozoologist, any suggestions for the future direction of Crypto-hat styling.

By: darkshines

darkshines — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:47:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys! My boyfriend and I have spent a lot of time recently underground, exploring abandoned mine and cave systems, so good stout boots and a hard hat are essential! He lives in the Forest of Dean, which has stories of faeries, Alien Big Cats and most interestingly a “Bird Man” like creature which I can find very little information on. We are spending this Autumn (after my Masters dissertation on Victorian Mesmerism is handed in in September) looking for ABC’s around the Forest of Dean and Gloucester, so if we find anything, Cryptomundo will be the first to know

By: CryptoInformant 2.0

CryptoInformant 2.0 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:29:43 +0000

No, no, I have something quite like that (it’s light brown, and doesn’t have the band around it… ended up quite floppy as a result) and it’s not catching on at all. I think we’d have better luck with Beanies if we wanted to make a fashion statement.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:34:13 +0000

I hereby predict that the fashion trend for cryptozoologists in 2010 will be: Panama hats! :)

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:18:44 +0000

cryptidsrus- Although I was wrong to say monkeys. I wouldn’t want to offend the bonobos by calling them monkeys, since they are apes. It just sounded funny at the time. Speaking of bonobos, I wonder if they look good in hats too?

kentmcmanigal- I could be in denial about my inability to pull off a hat, but evidence suggests otherwise. For me, the best hat for any occasion is no hat at all. Don’t get me wrong, I love the headgear, it just doesn’t suit me very well. That being said, I can rock a pair of sunglasses like nobodies business.

Anyway, regarding the link generator, I think yours has become sentient in this case, Loren, and it does have a sense of humor.

By: CryptoInformant 2.0

CryptoInformant 2.0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:24:43 +0000

…More proof that science does have a sense of humor.

I have recently found another hat, though I’m not sure I don’t look like a complete idiot in it – it’s an all-black cold-weather wool cap with a baseball cap-like bill in front and material that folds up all around the hat, for use in the optional pulling-down of the hat about the ears.

No, no, scratch that – I do know that I look like an idiot in it. Now I just need to find the right occasion to look like an idiot…

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:58:56 +0000

Darkshines’s get-up is awesome, I must say.

Very “sexy.”

Mystery_Man:
I also was wondering about the Bonobo Monkey link at the end!!!
Glad to see I was not the only one.

Herman Reguster and Karl Shuker are brilliant “Crypto” people and they don’t apparently wear hats—

So the idea that the way a person dresses his/herself determines a person’s “legitimacy” in a particular field is not right, I must say.
Though it IS fun to speculate ANYWAY…

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:10:37 +0000

I don’t have a Fedora… so I guess I’ll have to start drinking more beer

Now, If you’ll excuse me, I have to go practice my sexy Latin accent