Sunday Overnight Open Thread - October 4, 2026

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

What an incredible story

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Begun, the Flock drone wars have

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Nice move, Gilligan

Bob Denver Refused to Let the Professor and Mary Ann Be “The Rest”

If you watched the first season of Gilligan’s Island, you may remember something odd about the theme song.

After naming Gilligan, the Skipper, the millionaire and his wife, and the movie star, it ended the roll call with:
“And the rest.”

“The rest” were Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells — the Professor and Mary Ann.

There was a reason. Tina Louise, who played Ginger, had a contractual billing arrangement that put her at the end of the opening credits. Johnson and Wells had signed later and wound up in the closing credits instead. So when the theme song was written, their characters were simply bundled together as “the rest.”

But before Season 2, Bob Denver decided that wasn't right.

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Years later, Dawn Wells said she hadn't even known the full story at the time. She remembered Denver as the one who went to bat for them.

Bob Denver didn't make a big production out of it.

He just refused to let two of his fellow castaways be treated like “the rest.”

Read the whole thing here

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Kewl stuff

'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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What Paris is telling us to wear next

Spring/Summer 2027 week opened on September 28 and closes Tuesday with Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton. The useful takeaway is not the spectacle. It is which ideas already translate: metallic shine, tailoring stripped of structure, color used as the whole outfit, and jackets that cinch instead of swamp.

Saint Laurent went all in on gold, and I am not mad at it.

Anthony Vaccarello staged the collection under the Eiffel Tower, beneath oversized chandeliers, in what was widely read as a possible farewell after a decade at the house. Almost everything was gold: crinkled metallic sahariennes and trenches, gilt brocade jackets and trousers, metallic lace cocktail dresses, broken up by classic Saint Laurent black.

The wearable version is not a head-to-toe lamé suit. It is one metallic or brocade jacket with denim and flat shoes, or a gold scarf against black. That is opulence a normal person can leave the house in. The rest is theater, and theater is fine, as long as you understand you will be the one paying for the chandelier.

Dior made the New Look weightless

At the Tuileries, Jonathan Anderson rebuilt Dior’s Bar jacket and full skirts in chiffon, silk mousseline, Chantilly lace, and gauze, with pinstripe and tweed effects printed onto sheer fabric. Tiny layered circle skirts, ribbon tailoring, pastel florals, striped shirting, and pajama pieces sat next to gardening clogs, which is a sentence I did not expect to type about Dior.

The idea to steal is the one I would actually wear. A soft jacket. A skirt that moves. One decorative thing, not twelve. Sometimes safe and pretty is exactly right. This is that, with the bones still visible.

Balenciaga answered with color and craft

A year into the job, Pierpaolo Piccioli is still pulling Balenciaga away from the joke this house became. The Summer 2027 show leaned on colorful tailoring, acid-bright City bags, oversized cummerbunds, capes, and dense stitching that turned a white shirt into a fitted waist and peplum.

Elsewhere, Stella McCartney built an ocean collection with floaty fabrics, bubble hems, wave motifs, and dolphin prints. Victoria Beckham went for liberation via sheer georgette dresses, open-arm volumes, and oversized suits with wide trousers. Hermès, under Nadège Vanhée, closed the weekend with airy knits and slit skirts.

Outside the tents

Paris has been warm, high 20s Celsius, so the pavements skipped heavy coats. What showed up anyway is the October wardrobe: blouson jackets with a cinched waist, balloon and cargo pants, dark-rinse denim, animal print, pinstripes, and red layered over pastels.

Five formulas worth copying before the week ends:
• A blouson or leather bomber over a sweater, with cargo pants and heels.
• Balloon pants, a white tee, an oversized jacket, ballet flats.
• Head-to-toe plaid, kept sleek rather than costume.
• One animal-print coat as the whole outfit.
• A cropped jacket with high-rise trousers, so the proportion stays balanced.

What will actually stick

Gold and brocade as a single statement piece. Sheer or fluid tailoring instead of rigid power dressing. Color worn loudly, not as an accent. And the blouson as the jacket of the season, sportier than a barn coat and easier than a bomber.

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Thanks, Piper!

DJ Doof - Random Stuff Edition

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