January 20, 2007


See a Flocker Flocking

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Obviously not what I look like normally, but this was a pic from my recent trip i didn’t post. This town, ouarzazate where all the men wore these blue cover wrap-arounds, and i complimented some guy on his so of course he had to wrap me up.

posted by Derek White in Meet the Flockers, fashion 

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14 Responses to “See a Flocker Flocking”

  1. Deron Bauman on January 20th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    wow, that’s beautiful fabric. Amy will be impressed.

  2. Brandon Hobson on January 20th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    You’re starting to remind me of my old traveling pal Bill T. Vollmann. Hope you’re writing about your travels.

  3. Derek on January 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    I wish I would’ve brought some back. Did bring some other fabrics and rugs back. Incidentally, I just saw Babel, and I must say it captured Morocco pretty well.

  4. Daniel Lestarjette on January 20th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    I’m a bit jealous, Derek. I wanna go to Morocco.

    My partner works for Southwest—another Dallas/Clusterflock connection—so there’s really no reason not to be going places…

    Deron’s right: that is beautiful fabric.

  5. Sheila Ryan on January 21st, 2007 at 9:51 am

    Okay, somebody get started now on the film treatment. We cast Derek as Richard Burton (as in Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, he who explored and adventured and translated the Kama Sutra and the Arabian Nights and ventured disguised into Medina and Mecca).

  6. Deron Bauman on January 21st, 2007 at 10:53 am

    Sheila, get Mark Jones on it!

  7. Cooper on January 21st, 2007 at 11:25 am

    I’m with Sheila on the film. And it occurs to me that Derek himself might want to play John Cale in the biopic.

  8. Daryl Scroggins on January 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Great pictures, Derek — thanks for posting them. Where are you going next?

    And Brandon: Have you really gone traveling with William T. Vollmann? Wow, what a ride that must be!

  9. Derek on January 21st, 2007 at 11:57 am

    I dunno, but wherever it is I’m going by train or boat, i’m tired of planes. Antartica anyone?

  10. Ann Pizer on January 21st, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    Funny, I just started reading The Worst Journey in the World. I haven’t made it through the 100+ page preface yet, but it already seems like a bad trip.

  11. Daniel Lestarjette on January 21st, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    Derek, Anarctica sounds great. Have you read Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness?

  12. Derek on January 21st, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    haven’t read At the Mountains of Madness, but what about Land of the Snow Men?

  13. Daniel Lestarjette on January 21st, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    No, I haven’t read that one yet, but going by the cover—and I do to judge books by their coverson Amazon, I’m going to see if we have it when I’m at work next.

  14. Derek on January 21st, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    Thanks, I actually made the cover! But the inside is even better…