just one of the nicest guys, this guy.

this guy sets up shows and stuff in boston. ha!

our pal li’l breeze made these boss t-shirts with his brother on them. it’s cute, right? li’l breeze is the best- you might know him as butters, or just daniel, but anyway he’s a great guy, he shreds, he likes GG, and you see him crossing the street all the time. what up, butters?

yes! the first episode of the snow ghost community show is filmed and online! snow ghost and his sidekick mike benedetti are great friends of the store, and we are delighted to be the official sponsors of the show. you can watch it online at WCCA or at archive.org. their guest is famous worcester pacifist and three stooges enthusiast scott shaeffer-duffy. oh, and our pal sam gas can made the opening animation.

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

the germs on wikipedia

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.

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?

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!

jess was our first employee of the month, elected as such unanimously having only come in the store once, but bringing with her really perfect garbage, made by herself and her friend lori– relabeled 7″ records with beautiful collage covers, snow globes with so much glitter that the object is obliterated, cans of strange food with new labels (”mystery can! the food tolerance racing game!”), and letters written and sealed that you write someone else’s address and your own return address on and mail unopened. jess is a brilliant dresser, an avid conversationalist, a casual student (of firefighting), and i a fine citizen of a very strange world.

jess, make more stuff!

jess van winkle- priceless!