February 14, 2011

• I was at South Coast Plaza for a Lunar New Year party on Friday, moseyed on into the Adidas store and stumbled upon these. 

  

   

  I was sort of speechless.  I’m a sneakerhead, but haven’t bought anything major for four years, other than pairs I can actually wear.  I gave up on it because I already have all the first run retro Jordans and all the re-releases of those are shoddy quality.  I bought them because I loved the shoes, not necessarily to make a buck.  My all time fave is the Jordan XI’s, at one point I had 20 pairs of my size in various colors.  I still hold quite a bit of those.  Of all those colors, my heart melts for the all white highs with tinge of columbia blue XI “whites” or back in 1996 they were known as the “all star game” edition. 

  Anyhow, the Adidas clerk was clearly excited, telling me how they were already going for gobs of money on ebay and that they only received one pair of each size, how a girl from China was there in the morning and she was a women’s size 6 but they only had men’s 7 1/2 in pink so she bought those.  At 8:30 p.m., they had 5 pairs left and they had my size.  I tried them on and they fit perfectly.  What the hey, I got them in brown.

  They also have some glow-in-the-dark wings shoes that make your feet look like Hermes, messenger for Zeus.  Those are pretty dope.  They are sneakers with a wing flap that you can flip up.  The whole sneaker glows in the dark, other than the sole. 

  Adidas Jeremy Scott ObyO JS Bears 

  

   

  I know, they are pretty crazy.  I saw them and my first thought was, “Who the hell would buy those?”  But seconds later the fun side of me was thinking, “They are pretty sweet… why am I still looking and touching them?”   Man… they are sort of growing on me.  They are so crazy that I’m starting to think they’re cool.  The only place I could ever wear them to would be a bad ass Hollywood house party, but I’ve never been invited to one of those, so that means I’d never get to sport them.  I imagine it’s the type of shoe that if I wore them to the mall, all the guys would give me lame looks and all the girls would stop me and comment on them… “Soooo cute!!!” 

  What do you think, should I keep or sell them?   Are they rad or stupid?  Be honest.   I hear they are releasing pandas next month!

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