The Big Damn Glasses Post

When I settled on this pair of frames, they were drastically different from what I've been using for the past few eons. I'm used to huge frames and lenses big enough to pop out and eat from when all your plates are dirty:

To paraphrase Tiny Elvis, "Hey, man! Look at those lenses, man. Those are huuuge!"

You know it, Tiny E.

Now when I needed to get new frames, I started to really think about what the styles popular today are. If you look around, you're seeing that we've moved out of the huge owl frames that were oh so big in more ways than one and we went into a love affiair with the narrower, rectangular style. You know the kind that Tina Fey wears:

After a while, the ginormous horn-rim kind started to come back into fashion amongst the couture as well as the outermost edges of dorkdom that never let them go, and you can see it most clearly in the icons of the dorks themselves:

The president on Battlestar Galactica looks like some kind of sinister school marm. Not surprising, since she was apparently the Secretary of Education until Caprica done got itself blowed up.

The Tenth Doctor just about gave half of England a heart attack when he donned his chunky horn-rims for the first time in his first Doctor Who special, "The Christmas Invasion".

Super dork Cory Doctorow wears frames that dare, outright dare women to not run from him in terror. I'm pretty sure those glasses are better than NuvaRing.

In retrospect, my choice isn't so bad. These are, literally, the first new glasses I've purchased in the 21st century, and I hope they serve me well: