{"id":11640,"date":"2012-07-03T05:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2012-07-08T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:16:40","slug":"high-concept-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/high-concept-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"High Concept (III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a band geek.  She&#8217;s on a band trip somewhere.  She&#8217;s in her hotel room, leaning over her balcony, looking down on the strange city, thinking about the parade tomorrow and not sure she&#8217;s going to be able to eat much tonight she&#8217;s so nervous.  She&#8217;s thinking about the parade, and she&#8217;s got part of her band uniform draped over her shoulder.  Wistful, sexy, with a hint of John Philip Sousa.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Message:  Band chicks are hot.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/bandchicksarehot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/bandchicksarehot.jpg\" width=\"420\" alt=\"Woman with band uniform\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s the concept I take away.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I married a hot band chick who&#8217;s been on a band trip to London.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, the Dorchester Collection is not a clothing line, but a line of high-end hotels in global rich people spots, including one in London.  So I was all set to mock people who might buy a coat like that to wear for thousands of dollars.  Instead, via the tag line, I can see it&#8217;s a some sort of message that the hotels are formal <em>and<\/em> semi-formal.  Visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorchestercollection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">hotel chain&#8217;s Web site<\/a>, one could get the impression that Dorchester hotels are better than surf city: there seem to be 10 women for every man.  But that man dresses better than you do.  Still, 10:1 can make up for a lot of George slacks, brother.<\/p>\n<p>One question I have, though: in the story of the picture, how did the woman attain a Queen&#8217;s Guard jacket in her hotel room?  Is there an enquiry to see if security was somehow breached here?<\/p>\n<p>(Other posts in the line: <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/high-concept\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Concept<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/high-concept-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Concept (II)<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>Thanks for the link, <a href=\"http:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2012\/07\/08\/rule-5-sunday-touch-and-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wombat<\/a>.  If you&#8217;re in IT, check out my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/qahatesyou.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">QA Hates You<\/a>.  Also note that my IT heist novel <em>John Donnelly&#8217;s Gold<\/em> is available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051OZ5SC\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=B0051OZ5SC\" target=\"_blank\">the Kindle at 99 cents<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983212309\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=0983212309\" target=\"_blank\">in paperback<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a band geek. She&#8217;s on a band trip somewhere. She&#8217;s in her hotel room, leaning over her balcony, looking down on the strange city, thinking about the parade tomorrow and not sure she&#8217;s going to be able to eat much tonight she&#8217;s so nervous. She&#8217;s thinking about the parade, and she&#8217;s got part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11640"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11656,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}