It is time to start searching closets for the ankle-length parkas and enormous boots, giving up any semblance of fashion.
There's a very good chance that people will be having more fun — throwing more devil horns, whipping more hair, stomping more enormous boots — at Rocklahoma than at any other festival this summer.
In concert, though, it became clear that "Middle Eastern" is just one way of capturing an implausibly big and eerie song that wanders through a spooky fog in enormous boots and could just as easily be about settling on the moon or diving to the bottom of the ocean.
This isn't merely a question of who makes sure the headquarters at Cowley Street has enough photocopy toner: the new chief exec will have to fill the enormous boots of Lord Rennard, who has dominated the party's campaign strategy for the best part of 20 years.
"You know," he said, "I just want to stomp on his head!" From this came the game's gratuitously fatal coup de grâce: the "curb stomp," whereby a player crushes his opponent's skull beneath the anvil of an enormous metal boot.
As Asia's hospitals fill up with young women with bleached hair, deep tans, and enormous platform boots still strapped to their shattered ankles, anxious parents want to know more about this strange and dangerous footwear.
Suddenly, a magnificent man wearing enormous combat boots and a denim vest steps in, trying to calm the tensions.
At a UB40 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon I saw something I had never seen before: an enormous heap of Dr Martens boots at the entrance.
He wears an enormous pair of tan work boots, with blue jeans.
