another entry in the carnival mirror category, this fine number was made in-shop to commemorate the LA punk band the germs (”GI” stands for “germs incognito”). there’s a movie coming out about the germs, and they even “reunited”, with the actor playing darby crash (the lead singer) as the lead singer. this sucks, but the actual band still rules.
the lady in the mirror pictured here is kickball katy. hi, katy!
germs mirror- $3
to borges, the tiger was a fascinating but ungraspable animal, pure sensuality, and no language. the blue tiger, as an image or device, is even worse, like a tiger that has been tigered- double obscurity and exponential obsession. colors only seen in dreams, uncountable stones, a belief which has as its fuel the desire for an impossible refutation of the belief. this best way to describe the blue tiger pictured above, however, is “appropriately false”– a strategically flawed reminder that a living tiger is an infinite amount of unknowable features, none of which are herein represented.
blue tiger- $3
xander marro is a pal of ours from providence who makes these great movies, plus silkscreen posters and zines and stuff. the silkscreen scene in providence is pretty epic with one-upsmanship, at first, xander would only make prints that had moving parts, now all her shit is fuzzy like a black light poster. anyway these movies are both moving and fuzzy. people ask me all the time what they are and i tell them that they were made by a woman who is a total package, and if they like the art on the box they’ll like the movie. when further pressured i would say (with total respect and complete admiration) that her style is like a cross between a twisted victorian child and a wasted old lady. these rasputin dolls pictured have real hair, and holes where the legs are that you can poke your fingers through for the illusion that he is dancing. see, fuzzy + moving!
xander videos and dvds - in the $5 range
watch movies by xander (aka “lady long arms”) and others on some-pig.net.
someone had to buy this one-piece pajama thing, and it was this guy. then these other guys wanted to be in the picture too. this guy (in the pajamas) came with a whole group of friends and one of them had a water bottle half-full of yellow liquid, and he left it behind. mike picked it up and it was warm and i made him smell it but it was only tea. this was, i don’t need to tell you, an enormous relief.
pajamas- you can’t buy them now, this guy already bought them.
we got these boss shirts direct from internet artist claire chanel, a reaction to boston’s banning of the “stop snitching” t-shirts. they are available in both sizes- XL and XXL.
stop stop stop snitching t-shirt - $10
homegirl’s website from which you can order direct.
stop snitching on wikipedia.
quint didn’t know it, but he was our employee of the month for last november. he comes in every week to sift and aerate the matchbox cars while his dad spouts aphorisms like “if you don’t know a knot, tie a lot” and “you should always get the right tool for the job, but any tool is potentially a hammer”. hey matt, can you get me a picture for the wall?
pshaw is one of my favorite working comic artists right now (he drew “mr fat day” amongst other things), and he sent us a bunch of awesome comics to give away, warning us that we were not allowed to sell them! recently i found this plastic piece of another toy that looks a lot like a pshaw drawing, so i’m selling it to dan nadel for $30. actually, i’m just putting it next to all my other action figures. i think it’s a piece from a play-doh accessory.
we have a few of these now, really heavy, really chalky. do like snow ghost- put one in your freezer, then get people to look in your freezer in the hopes that they’ll ask about it, then when they ask about it, tell them you like to keep a cool head. then tell me this six times. this fellow of infinite jest is here displayed by our customer mary. hi mary!
plaster skulls - $13
i actually had to refuse to sell this shirt to a couple folks before i could let dooley here get it. everyone else was getting it because they liked the movie “the goonies”, when the shirt actually commemorates the band “the goonies”, who were quite a force in central mass. my reasoning was that anyone psyched about the band would be a million times more psyched about this shirt that someone who was psyched about the shirt because they were psyched about the movie. right? anyway, you can see it in his face right here- PSYCHED!
the goonies were a brace of seriously bold kids who grew up to be champion adults still up to seriously crazy hijinx. for more see the goonies archive, and bonezone (which consists of three ex-goonies).
goonies shirt - $5
and yes, this is the same dooley who made the awesome suicidal shirt. looking good, hurricane!
the countess is this great lady who likes cute stuff, and is going to be hosting a weird + cute snack event at the store in february. she’s on tour right now with her band “frenching action”. countess, i don’t know if you saw this darling little ceramic junebug, but i’m putting it aside for you, because you really want it.
cute shit - on hold for the countess in exchange for snacks
