Archive for September, 2006
Drop by the first ever People’s Design Award site and vote for your favorite example of good design. Or nominate a design yourself. Except don’t be an idiot like some people and make a ridiculous nomination like “Decorative Bra Straps,” or “Thong Underwear.”
because then the whole glazed-eye, black-clad design world will be hunched over their Macs, in their toy-infested offices, snickering at you and your use of Comic Sans.
Seriously, go vote for something cool instead… like my beloved Eames chair.
September 27th, 2006
I ran across this headline on IMDB.com…
“Keith Richards ‘Drunk on Pirates of the Caribbean Set”
Well… I never, in all my days! Seriously, this is news to them… how? I’m assuming they knew who he was when they hired him, right? Because we saw in the first movie that they can make very convincing CGI skeletons. Ones who do what the little nerds at the computers tell them to. So if they wanted cooperative dead-looking people, well they could’ve just gone with that. He’s KEITH RICHARDS! Didn’t they assume he’d be drunk? Isn’t that why they hired him?!
Apparently Keith had the same reaction…
The 62-year-old rocker is reported to have remarked, “If you wanted straight, then you got the wrong man.”
really, people, tell us if he shows up stone-cold sober, in a natty-looking suit, speaking coherently — THAT we’d be interested in.
September 26th, 2006
September 19 is Talk Like A Pirate Day!
So, you know, get out there and talk like a pirate. If you don’t know how, get ye scurvy self on over to the Pirate Speak Translator.
Arrrghhhh…
September 19th, 2006
First he had to deal with the whole ‘losing an arm’ thing. And now there’s this shirt from Threadless.
Seriously, this cracks me up every single time I look at it!
September 19th, 2006
I’ve been looking for something to put under our dining room table. Something sturdy enough to be hosed off, if need be. The plan was to use a linoleum remnant as an area “rug” until I discovered it’s almost impossible to find real linoleum these days… forget about anything with a cool, retro pattern.
And then I ran across these Vinyl Tap floor pieces by artist Rob Nadeau. Freaking beautiful! I so, SO want one! Alas, my flooring budget for that room is oh, like maybe $40, so it looks like this might fall into the DIY category.
I’ll keep you posted…
September 13th, 2006
Ok, I hate to go all Gray’s Anatomy on you, but seriously… Seriously?! Look at these Linnaeus booties from Anthropologie. “Booties”? SERIOUSLY?
I’m no shoe maven, but I’m pretty sure grown women shouldn’t be wearing these. Unless they’re grown women elves who work in a button factory and their job is to scoop up all the fallen buttons with their gigantic, ugly-ass boots.
Come on… seriously?
September 11th, 2006
So I’m working on an ad for a kids’ room designer. Fun, funky, WAAAAAY cool stuff. For kids — didja get that part? it’s important…
I’m picking out typefaces for this ad for KIDS’ rooms and the first two I find that I really fall in love with? Bastard and Date Rape!
bwahahahahahahha!
September 10th, 2006
because Jell-O Pudding Pops are back!
Oh, how I’ve longed for pudding pops, ever since The Evil Jell-O Corporation hard-heartedly discontinued them those many years ago. Yes, I tried their ridiculous suggestion to poke sticks in the tops of their individual puddings and freeze. Sorry, TEJC. Not. even. close.
Now, the problem becomes where to find them. Because I’ve searched the two (yes, TWO. @@) places in town that would carry such things, and, so far, nada. So I may have to make the 80 mile round-trip to a real town with real frozen treats.
Hey… you do what you have to do.
September 8th, 2006
a rockin’ shirt from Threadless. I am unable to explain what’s funny about it, and yet it makes me laugh and laugh.
September 6th, 2006
Ack! The barnacle’s gone missing! I looked at my arm last night and it was there, then I looked again half an hour later and it was GONE. You’d think I’d be relieved, but do you know what this means?
it’s somewhere in my house…
September 6th, 2006
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