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Well, if it’s Friday, this must be the Friday Five:

1. What’s your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own? I own two very comfortable pairs of shoes, as well as a silky-smooth green buttoned shirt from Geoffrey Beene that I particularly like.

2. What piece of clothing do you most want to acquire? I absolutely hate shopping for clothes. There’s nothing I want to acquire. For awhile I desperately needed new shoes, and I keep thinking a terrycloth robe would be nice, but, for now, I’m good.

3. What piece of clothing can you not bring yourself to get rid of? Why? I own a lot of plaid, but I’ve been trying not to wear it as often since, with the beard, it tends to foster shouts of “Hey! It’s Al from Tool Time!” Which is maybe funny, but only the first time you hear it. In particular, I have this hideously plaid shirt, lumberjack-red with yellow stripes that you really can’t focus your eyes on too long without getting a headache, which I keep only in the hope that someday I’ll get to use it to inflict terror on unsuspecting masses or wear it as a costume in one of the Monty Python Society’s parades or performances. It really is an ugly shirt, though.

4. What piece of clothing do you look your best in? Beats me. Maybe that green shirt. I wear it often enough.

5. What has been your biggest fashion accident? I’m a heterosexual white male. I don’t think we get to have fashion accidents or emergencies. For the most part, under normal workaday conditions, I think we just wear clothes.

You learn something new every day. From Snopes.com: “Hence, pumpernickel is the ‘devil’s fart,’ allegedly a reference to the bread’s indigestible qualities and hence the effect it produced on those who consumed it.”

Yesterday, as I was pulling out of the parking lot at work, I saw a license plate on a truck in front of me that said “IFORNI”. It took me a couple of seconds to figure that out. I must remember never to cut this truck off in traffic.

According to Science Fiction Weekly’s News of the Week, CBS has recently “wrapped production on a new television movie that reunites the stars of the campy ’60s Batman TV series”. Adam West and Burt Ward will apparently play themselves, reenacting “behind-the-scenes drama of the Batman production”. I guess CBS realized that a reunion special would attract viewers, whereas the spectacle of West and Ward back in their multicolored tights would most definitely not.