Buffalo:
When I made the black Pork Pie Hat, I was aiming for something else, like Adam Cartwright's hat in BONANZA. Then my sister, a BREAKING BAD fan, said "It's a Heisenberg Hat", which made me think of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle because I dated a Physics major in college, rather than the character Heisenberg. Isn't that the theory?--the one where you can't know where something is and how fast it's moving at the same time? Many car accidents happen this way. Naturally, then I thought of Schrödinger's cat (which my sister said was like the "if a tree falls in the forest" theory). Frankly, I think the uncertainty is what a cat is likely to do. Though my experience with them is that they will be extremely pissed off at being trapped in a box and would claw their way out and spray the first thing they came upon, which alas, is Heisenberg's Hat.  It's a work in progress while we argue about what to call it.

Lisa:
It all started with Heisenberg's hat.  You know, Walter White's alter ego's hat on BREAKING BAD.  But Buffalo wasn't satisfied with a plain black hat.  She had to accessorize it.  With Schrödinger's cat.  Which is both dead and alive.  So she made a box, a live cat and a cat skeleton and attached them all to the hat, with Heisenberg's formula painted on the hat band.  Note that the live cat is pissing on the hat (as cats do).

Buffalo:
I wanted a zombie cat. But Lisa said I was mixing metaphors... again.

The Heisenberg Hat (with Schrödinger's Cat) is available in the Etsy store.

Buffalo made a hat this week that was meant to be an Out of Africa hat, but because every hat she makes is unique and sometimes the same patterns produce radically different results, she ended up with something that looks more like Heisenberg's hat from BREAKING BAD. The Out of Africa Hat is tall and wide, meant to be worn either as a top hat or pulled down low over one's hair. A pork pie hat is entirely different. Wikipedia has a nice history of the hat style, which was worn by women in the 19th century and by men in the 20th. It's iconic. Everybody from Buster Keaton to Fozzie Bear has worn this hat. Frank Lloyd Wright wore one. So did J. Robert Oppenheimer. Art Carney wore one on THE HONEYMOONERS and Duckie (Jon Cryer) in PRETTY IN PINK.  Lots of ska bands wore them (Madness, The Specials) and the hepcat from Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Top Cat.

Buffalo's new hat isn't quite a pork pie. The sides angle in and the crown isn't flat. The brim is a bit wider than a traditional pork pie. But it isn't quite a fedora either. She struggled to come up with a name for it. She settled on the Cartwright hat, for Adam Cartwright on BONANZA. Or maybe Little Joe. Definitely not Hoss though. For sale on Etsy.