Converse Inc.

We just had to make sure that everything was blacked out.

So that's where the all-black Converse, the all-black fans, the all-black Air Maxes came in.

You know what I mean? Like that was the thing back then.

So we weren't polishing them, thank God.

Really? I have, like, three pairs of shoes, maybe.

I have a pair of Converse.

I have a pair of, like, these generic sneakers.

And I have dress shoes.

Yeah.

For sure.

It was just Converse, really.

Those are the only shoes that I really, really loved.

He was always the guy people relaxed around, offering a dry joke, a couch to crash on.

Witty but never showy, his old friends still razz him for wearing Converse until his first promotion.

Our social circle overlaps like a Venn diagram you can sketch by memory.

Friends from my lit crowd, his architecture firm, Folks, shared favorites from the city's endless drift of happy hours and gallery openers, mostly mine, initially.

But I think there's a lot of teams out there that could use a catcher and could possibly give the A's a really good trade package in return.

at elephant 2024 cannot understand why there seem to be more injuries than ever before in baseball these athletes are much better conditioned than in previous eras yet the level of injuries has increased exponentially um yeah i don't know i mean it's kind of like the whole thing with like the load management in basketball right i mean it's like I mean, it's like, what are we doing? Like, load management used to never be a thing, and guys are playing in Converse.

Now, I understand that that's not a complete way of looking at it because, obviously, they're playing harder and they're playing faster than ever before.

But, yeah, I mean, it's an interesting topic.

Frigg In safety mayest thou go, in safety return, in safety on thy journeyings be.

May thy wit avail thee, when thou father of men shalt hold converse with the Jotun.

Then went Odin, the lore to prove of that all-wise Jotun.

To the hall he came which Im's father owned.

A foolish man who among his people comes had best be silent, for no one knows that he knows nothing unless he talks too much.

He who previously knew nothing will still know nothing, talk he ever so much.

He thinks himself wise who can ask questions in converse also.

Conceal his ignorance no one can because it circulates among men.

Like, I even looked up shoes.

All they were using was just Converse back in the day.

Like, nobody had any idea of, like, to make a shoe that looked remotely like that whatsoever.

Logan, that's why it was

It is almost like we've traveled back in time 40 years when we meet these characters.

They are dressed head to toe in leather and just like Converse sneakers.

I...

If any of them said it was a costume party, all of this would make sense.

They're so cute.

And Biru is wearing a blue polo shirt with white shorts and blue and white Adidas Converse.

Whatever.

Adidas?

And I remember seeing it and looking at the main character, the one who sings Can I Be Shy, the princess.

And like, she was wearing Converse shoes.

Cause she's like an unorthodox princess and she's special.

And I was like, this is the coolest thing ever.