Itadakimasu

The way the word “dextromethorphan” moves one’s mouth.

Doswell, VA

Doswell, VA, near the former location of my great grandmother's house
Doswell, VA, near the former location of my great grandmother’s house
Doswell, VA, near the former location of my great grandmother's house
Doswell, VA, near the former location of my great grandmother’s house

John Sugar's Suits

I just finished the first season of Sugar, so I am behind. Colin Farrell wears one outfit: dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, suspenders that make an occasional appearance. I literally paused it and noted to self: “get a good suit.”

Roberto Revilla, a London tailor, wrote a deep dive on what exactly the suit is: a uniform and not a costume. It was cut for a man who runs and fights in it, not one who stands still for photos.

The costume designer is Christie Wittenborn. She told MovieMaker some more details about their choices, but this Reddit thread where somebody who knows Wittenborn relayed questions to her has one key piece of info I didn’t notice. The suits go black, then midnight blue, then lighter blue as the show approaches the reveal of what Sugar actually is. The suspenders go black to navy. Mohair shows up late for the sheen.

I made an appointment with a tailor.

Needs Washed

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project explains why I’ve heard “needs washed” more in the past five years than in the forty-five before them.

The construction is need — or want, or like — followed straight by a passive participle. “The car needs washed.” “This needs replaced.” No to be, no -ing, nothing in between. Its home is the Midlands: Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsylvania at the core, thinning out through Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. YGDP traces it to Scotland and Northern Ireland, carried over by Scots-Irish settlers and held in place by nothing more than inertia ever since.

I’m from the mid-Atlantic and never heard it before watching YouTube channels like Project Farm and Elkskin’s Mower Junkyard.