A Pirate Looks At 40 (but it's blurry)

It started with a few nights of watching the words blur during my late-night reading. 'Just over-tired', I figured. Then it progressed to watching the words blur almost all the time, but magically clear as I moved the book six inches further from my face. 'It's nothing', I assured myself. "What did you expect? You're turning 40 this year!" the eye doctor scoffed. 'Smart-&%$', I thought to myself! The verdict is: I need glasses.

John Lennon, for instance. Would I look cool with the perfectly round lenses? They apparently helped John to see while he wrote some of the most lasting classics in rock-n-roll. But, they didn't help him with the ladies. (Yep, that's a Yoko dig!) And, I don't guess they helped his peripheral vision on that fateful December night in 1980.

What about the Rick Nielsen look? Cool with the checkerboard pattern thing going on. Matching glasses with the rest of my wardrobe might be the way to go. You can't see it so well in this small version of the picture, but even his in-ear monitor is dressed in checkerboard. Way cool. 'Mama's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird..."

How about a Buddy Holly look? He made the 'wood-shop safety glasses' look cool. Hmmm. Sharp objects? Better not.

Some Bono's? His specs help him see the needy of the world with great compassion. They also help him see that talk is cheap, and action costs dearly. There's something to be said for those lenses!

'Sir-Eltons'! These frames are fit for a Knight. Elton said that he wore crazy glasses as a young performer to mask his stage fright. Then he hit 40. Now he wears them to mask his aging eyesight. I wonder if it's the glasses that have magnified that huge cross on his chest? Elton: Got Jesus?

Then there's Elvis. Elvis Costello, that is. Elvis makes the frames look cool, doesn't he? Veronica liked them.

Now, these are some glasses! They are BB's. B.B. King's lenses allow him to sing the blues, but always to have an infectious smile and a laughter about him. I think more people ought to get some of these glasses. I want to see the world this way.

Michael once sang, "I'm looking at the man in the mirror". Apparently his glasses are of the wrong prescription.

Bob Dylan went with the most affordable frames.

Maybe I could go 'Super Freak' like the late Rick James. Problems with these lenses though included his mistaking his wife for a punching bag, his dog for a soccer ball, and amphetamines for vitamins.

A good pair of David Crowder glasses could work. His lenses allow him to see God and then paint beautiful pictures in song to help the rest of us see God. Then again, David Crowder could make any pair of glasses look good, eh?

A good pair of glassed like Pete Townshend wears might be cool. I found out last week that he is a serious blogger. Check his blog here. Hmmm. Perhaps if I went with lenses like Pete my blog would get more daily hits? The glasses also also give him a 'kinder-gentler-Pete' kind of look. Does this look like a man who became famous smashing guitars at the end of shows?

Alas! I've decided to go with a pair of glasses similar to the Ken Block (of Sister Hazel) model. Ken sees the world like a poet and puts it to song for the rest of us. His lenses let him see the world in shades of 'sunrise to indigo' and back again.