When Mr. Gibson was in Austin in September to sign Zero History, I brought him my Buzz Ricksons M-65 field jacket and a laundry marker. This was the result. Today was the first morning of the fall where it was cold enough for me to finally start wearing it again.
The inside of the field jacket has a big black patch with seemingly cryptic text (the meaning of which will be clear to any sufficiently retentive reader of Pattern Recognition). Mr Gibson told me that he’d devised the text for the people at Buzz, and it was developed with a conscious attempt to channel the sort of oddball English you find on a lot of Japanese clothing:
Soul-Delay
Cayce Pollard Unit
F.F.F.
“Secure the Perimeter”
