i really though that tricia would buy this cool wide-necked shirt but all her best clothes are from italy and i guess she wants to keep things that way. mary wilson almost bought it but she only wears jeans and white t-shirts and generally dresses like a skin. i was like, mary, we’ve known each other for 15 years, i know you used to wear XL tshirts, soccer shorts and gazelles, it worked then, it’s still gonna work. no sale- some arms you just can’t twist. today’s model is our customer lindsey. lindsey pairs this bold print with a cool new-wave helmet. hi lindsey!
watermelon shirt - $5
hey, just a quick heads-up– we will be closed this thursday and friday, for thanksgiving and buy nothing day, respectfully. yes, buy nothing day even applies to weird hole-in-the-wall bric-a-brac-eterias like ours! returning to full splendor (and hopefully with full heat) next week. OKAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
oh, also, we’re printing up a new batch of “paris of the eighties” t-shirts (some of which i’ll be selling online) and i’m sick of red- what new colors should i make? here are the options:
i’m also making a fresh run of HBML shirts in a new messy multi-color design– any color scheme wishes?
buy nothing day on wikipedia
list of colors on wikipedia
last man on earth on archive.org
collection of trading cards with hand-drawn elements and sticker.
yes, these are repackaged trading cards from a variety of trading card serieses, some desert storm, some dinosaur attacks, some american gladiators, some back to the future 2, many others, all meticulously assembled to construct a new story in every pack. how’s your pattern recognition? is it secret agent / delusional mathematician good? time to find out.
field report- $.50
william s burroughs mp3s on ubuweb
sometime back in june a nice lady came in and put $5 down on this tortured painting by little andrew (priced at $15). it’s still here but i can’t be mad at the lady because she’s got it all figured out. when you put (and keep) something on layaway, you pay a fraction of the price and whatever it is is yours forever in perfect condition- no matter how fussy your baby is, creamed corn will never mar this fine painting’s faraway surface. it’s a ballsy and peculiar move, but whatever works, lady!
painting by little andrew - $5 quasi-ownership
mike’s grandma veronica used to cut quite the rug in the square dancing circle, and sewed all her own dresses for the dances as well. we inherited the dresses when she hung up her dance heels, and now the whole collection’s here. well, the whole collection minus one particular blue dress which both mike and his father wore- his dad when he was a st pauli’s girl for halloween one year, mike when his band “the terribles” played a drag show at a local boozeteria. modeling this red example (with matching sports headgear) is our customer pam. hi pam!
square dancing dress - $15 history that you wear
today a reporter and photographer from worcester magazine (the local free weekly) came in to do an article on the place. the photographer had a hard time finding any one thing to take a picture of and then had to leave the store because the sheer quantity of things to look at was giving him a headache. i hope that gets into the article! i sent them a bunch of stuff from the old mission statement and FAQ, but i think it’s all just going to add up to me looking like a full madman. in other words, quite the part. look for it next week, immediately preceding my store getting banned by the PTA (just like hoverboards!).
charlene, don’t write about the bad stuff box!
wikipedia: horror vacui
the best new flickr tag: jacobberendespunchingacustomer
right? this great raspy ex-deathrocker dude came in, inexplicably exasperated, and donated a huge laundrybag full of boots and party heels. he said “don’t ask me where these came from!”. i was like, “honey, nobody’s asking”. all the boots are too small for everyone that’s psyched on them- the only person any of them fit so far was flo, and she had to be talked into it even. so if you want the boots to fit, be aloof about it.
boots $5 - 20
UPDATE: erin the comic book lady came in yesterday and i traded her some really nice motorcycle boots for a huge mess of godzilla toys (which are going into the private collection, sucka!).
dan cashman and the aforementioned george w myers are longtime roommates / platonic life partners. they are in a number of totally crazy bands, including greyskull and defneg, and, what can i say, i love ‘em! gotta catch ‘em all! dan makes these intense wordless collages that i labeled “cyberkrunk”, totally abstract, totally brill. this picture doesn’t do justice, can anyone come through with a USB scanner?
dan cashman posters- $5 for the little guys, $10 for size large.
bert is a fifth grade kid that lives next door. he comes in about every day we’re open, walking a shitty little dog that barks at me and bites me if i try to pet it. one day he asked me “what would you pay me if i worked here?”. i told him i would pay him nothing and he accepted. now every two or three weeks i let him hang out all afternoon drawing caricatures of people that come in. he charges a dollar and it’s well worth it. for no extra charge he will color in your approximate eye color with crayons. it’s cool but when he’s not drawing someone he’s tearing around the store breaking stuff.
caricature by bert $1
no matter how you do it- if you cover your jacket in them and stud up all the negative space, pin five of them on to your fannypack, use them to sew up actual holes in your pants, or whatever, sewing tons of patches to your clothes is really the way to go. it makes all your clothes look crazy, it’s more environmentally sound than getting another t-shirt (and it’s cheaper), shit, it just rules! moreoever it gets you more comfortable with sewing, which is a very valuable skill to have, if you wear clothes. the best patch we have right now is from ryan brigade’s band MESOTHELIOMA. i tried to explain to him how “mesothelioma” has the highest payout of any of the google adwords, but cold getting into a discussion of page rank with a patches punk is like, i don’t know, getting into a canoe with an ostrich. anyway that particular patch comes already bloodstained but i don’t know from whom. oh, if your clothes ever wear out, take the patches off and either sew them onto new clothes or sew them onto a blanket, alongside relevant areas of favorite unwearable t-shirts.
patches $1
