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He's nobody's problem but the Turks'

By adamg on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 4:33pm
Man with fez on the Number 1 bus

Sam Hammer notes you don't see many people in felt fezes on the 1 bus these days.

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By prof_booty on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 4:44pm.

Fezes are cool.

By dpalomares on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 4:48pm.

Quick Find His Tardis before The Master Does

By john smith on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 4:55pm.

I can't remember the name, but the fez is familiar.

By Jeff F on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 6:18pm.

nice ref, Mr. "Smith"

By anon on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 5:05pm.

As long as he stays out of the labyrinth, away from Dr. Evil, and downtown Watertown he should be a'ok.

By MadMax on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 6:07pm.

You're not going to see that in istanbul. Banned. Guessing north africa transplant.

By Bob Leponge on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 9:53pm.

somewhere in Morocco, like, perhaps ... Fez?

By Chris Rich on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 11:45pm.

The ban was lifted in the 1990s after being partially rescinded in the 1950s.

It was a ban on the Mevlevi.

UNESCO made this http://youtu.be/_umJcGodNb0 and they oughta know.

As you can see, there are some fairly ostentatious fez things.

And here's one made by actual Turks using actual Turkish for the 'About" part.

It is all haunting and beautiful.

http://youtu.be/ipbvzfPP4YM

Rumi invented it but Pir Sultan Abdal and Yunus Emre wrote some cool tunes.

These are also performed fez-less by poet troubadours called asiks playing things called a saz or baglama.

Here's wonderful ancient Asik Ali Izzet doing a tune toward the end of his life.

http://youtu.be/v0gLAFrZ4pE

You all are hilarious whenever you step outside of the Boston bubble and try to make sense of some mysterious foreigners.

Hell, your Ma and Pa Kettle threads ineptly mocking hapless southerners are priceless rube displays.

By Jeff F on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 12:34am.

Way to be both an informative and yet massively patronizing prick in a single post. Glad those internet search skilz are working out for ya, Chris. They make you seem hella smaht.

Fwiw, although I chose to move to New England as an adult, I'll try to remember the contempt you feel for those born here (like my daughter) whenever I read a future post of yours.

By Chris Rich on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 7:02am.

Of course the only reason I looked up some links on Sufi music was so I could insult your daughter.

Because, of course, I was thinking about you..you.. all about you. Always you.

It absolutely wasn't about the goofy stuff people here come up with when some corner of the world outside of their experience ends up in a post.

And it was so totally about New England where traces of my DNA have been in graveyards since Charles II recovered the throne from my asshole Roundhead relatives.. all six states and every living blinking human in every one who was ever born and ever will be.

Your poor high horse has back strain from the weight of these delusions of significance.

Help it out, would ya. A high horse needs skillful husbandry.

By perruptor on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 9:02am.

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By Elmer on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 6:21pm.

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By anon² on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 7:49pm.

IMAGE(http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz151/cjjolly/doctor%20who/gifs/fez01.gif)

By adamg on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 7:53pm.

Whether the guy was really Akbar or Jeff, but kids these days probably wouldn't get that.

By bulgingbuick on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 9:36pm.

Turks. What do they know?

By Finn on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 11:26pm.

It's Morocco Mole!

By Judy on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 7:58am.

Tiny tiny little car must be broken!

By anon on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 8:54am.

It's Istanbul.

By TheGrovehaller on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 9:51am.

of Scirocco Mole.

By merlinmurph on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 12:47pm.

Is the Red Fez even still around?
OK, I'm dating myself.....

By lbb on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 2:49pm.

Is that Akbar or Jeff?