Louisville KY Kilt Night, January 24th

[bikeolounger]

There is a band that is a spin-off of Drop Kick Murphy coming to Louisville March 3rd, too. My birthday is that following weekend, which offers yet another option.

And the Custom Car Show is in February--four of us went last year (two couples, both men kilted), and enjoyed people-watching.

[Andy HPADC]

I'll be there for the show and for bike's B-day:

THE STREET DOGS, The Ashers, FLATFOOT 56.
2126 S. Preston St.
Louisville, KY

March 3rd. $10.00

For those who may not know, Flatfoot 56 has an excellent bagpiper.
The Street Dogs was formed by the original (and better in my opinion) Dropkick Murphy's singer.
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"I received an e-mail from the lead singer of The Street Dogs, Mike, asking me to rally support for their show in Louisville, KY on March 3rd. Yes, it's a Tuesday at 7:30 PM EST... but let's make sure they don't drive from Boston for nothing. For those who do not know The Street Dogs: Mike McColgan was the original Dropkick Murphy's singer, who left the band to be a Boston firefighter. He is still a firefighter who is on extended leave for this band. Mike is also an Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He was rescently featured in Marine Corps publications for his song "Final Transmisson" which immortalizes a yongster who died in Baghdad with only six months of service, and who wanted to be a school teacher after the war. They are also known for their song "Back to the World", which is about veterans.

The show is $10.00 at Uncle Pleasants in Louisville. After work, come on down and stay two hours and help make this a good show and give a warm welcome... please."

[hospitaller]

Well I am finally able to syat connected long enough to comment and post on this, what with the storm and all.

It was great to meet you all, i'm sorry I couldn't stay longer but I was serving wife nurse duty for the night.

Now, my camera (the one with the super flash) somehow failed and every single picture was blurry and without flash, even though the flash fired, the timing must have been off obviously.

Looking at the pictures, it is amazing how the self image we all have sometimes differ with the actual image, and I must say, I am shocked at how bad I look. Not sure of it is the angle or it is simply my body shape, but I look short, I look like a pear (narrow top and massive bottom) and the kilt looks so incredibly shorter than the others.

I'll have to figure out what happened because, yikes, if that's what I look like kilted...it looks nothing like the guy I see in the mirror daily before going out in the streets.

Good times and maybe next time we can actually use the BBC's stage and sing something.

[Rex_Tremende]

I'll have to figure out what happened because, yikes, if that's what I look like kilted...it looks nothing like the guy I see in the mirror daily before going out in the streets.

You mean like this:

The New York Times featured an article a few months ago on the phenomenon of what we see in the mirror. It was noted:

In a report titled “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Enhancement in Self-Recognition,” which appears online in The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Erin Whitchurch described experiments in which people were asked to identify pictures of themselves amid a lineup of distracter faces. Participants identified their personal portraits significantly quicker when their faces were computer enhanced to be 20 percent more attractive. They were also likelier, when presented with images of themselves made prettier, homelier or left untouched, to call the enhanced image their genuine, unairbrushed face. Such internalized photoshoppery is not simply the result of an all-purpose preference for prettiness: when asked to identify images of strangers in subsequent rounds of testing, participants were best at spotting the unenhanced faces.

How can we be so self-delusional when the truth stares back at us? “Although we do indeed see ourselves in the mirror every day, we don’t look exactly the same every time,” explained Dr. Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. There is the scruffy-morning you, the assembled-for-work you, the dressed-for-an-elegant-dinner you. “Which image is you?” he said. “Our research shows that people, on average, resolve that ambiguity in their favor, forming a representation of their image that is more attractive than they actually are.”

Regards,
Rex.