This article is about 2 years too late but if you had a feeling that every teenage boy has the same damn haircut these days, you are not wrong. This has been especially true with athletes - you could see this as far back as 2018 with Michigan Basketball and Jordan Poole, you still see it with college quarterbacks like Drew Allar of Penn State, and your boy Mahomes has been rocking this for years.

Just guys being dudes…being alpacas.

NPR

Us neither. Forbes just wrote how their new Chief Brand Officer (formerly of Puma) is looking to build on that history and introduce their brand to new golfers.

Forbes

We like this new release from ALD on the New Balance 475.

Aime Leon Dore

GQ has officially announced the Gorpcore is dead. May it (and your $600 Arcteryx jacket) rest in peace.

A snippet from the article:

“Trend deaths are hard.

At first there will be denial: No way, man, gorpcore is an eternal vibe.

Then comes anger: Fuck GQ. Elitist snobs.

Bargaining: Fine, but I’m not giving up my Gramiccis!

Depression: Life without technical apparel is a meaningless slog.

And, finally, acceptance: Gorpcore wasn’t really for me, anyway. I’m afraid of nature.”

GQ

Perhaps it was the falling leaves and football that made us think of Thanksgiving… and the annual Black Wednesday shows that DJ Lee Foss plays at Spybar in his hometown of Chicago. We went back to the archive and have been using this as our soundtrack all week. This is from 2022 but after seeing him Columbus recently, we can assure you he’s still got it, and always has.

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