new store…”ie”…gastown…dropping mid-Sept.
magic 8-ball, is this related to the crew at livestock?
“it is certain”
magic 8-ball, is it worth waiting for?
“without a doubt”
magic 8-ball, will they carry nom de guerre?
“cannot predict now”
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
wait for it
the empire
another new store dropping soon at the corner of 4th and burrard…could it be another venture of the comor group? what does the magic 8-ball say? “all signs point to yes”
wish list
one of my neighbours works for a local BMW dealership. therefore she gets to drive whatever the hell she wants. lucky. she’s now rolling around in one of these. its a 07 BMW M Coupe. i want one. anybody got a spare $70k lying around?
note: see the previous post for income point of reference.
what’s happening to me??!?!?!
due to that damn wonderful girlfriend of mine, i’ve developed an addiction to project runway. i downloaded all the eps to date of season 3 and we’ve been catching up over the past few days.
its kinda scary ’cause i’m at the point now where i have a reasonably good grasp of good and bad fashion design. i know a lot of the different construction techniques and names. combine that with the fact that i’ve been using her fashion mags as bathroom reading material i can now occasionally tell at a glance what season/designer an outfit is from. it got so bad that the other day, having lunch with an equally fashion-savvy co-worker out in richmond, i commented on how a passer-by’s outfit would look so much better with a pair of flats. oeuf.
but back to project runway. just finished up episode six last night. that hippy freak angela needs to go…and like stat. laura is the zoolander of fashion (can you say ‘one look’). vincent is also a freak and should hook up with angela and go live on a commune somewhere. robert looks like an ultimate fighter and should design wrestling outfits.micheal’s got some cool shit but i was sad to see allison go, cause she seems like a sweetheart. now that she’s gone i don’t know who to root for.
seattle find
if you’re down in seattle looking for guys clothes check out blackbird. fun, funky store in the ballard neighbourhood. carrying lines like modern amusement, apc, uppercut, rvca, trovata, surface 2 air and my new favorite, new york industries (stainless steel thread! what!). and apparently will be carrying nom de guerre for ss07. can’t wait!
if you’re a girl, they’re closely related to impulse in freemont. great little boutique with a super friendly owner and great girls’ stuff.
home of the despot pt. 3
well the saga continues. actually now i’m starting to feel bad for home depot.
so the original blinds that were backordered that were supposed to be cancelled in favor of instocks? well they didn’t get cancelled.
the new ones are here and the temporary ones are on the way back when i find some time. so after i pickup my new ones, home depot will be stuck with 16 sets of blinds they have to liquidate. poor babies…
english as a foreign language
i never realized the diversity of the english language until today. sure i mean we all know how badly foreigners can butcher english and we can still understand them. but to have a fluent english speaker speak english and to be able to barely understand them? that’s talent.
check the video for yourself. i wouldn’t have minded so much that i didn’t understand him if i wasn’t so desperately needing to figure out what the fuck he was saying.
it all worked out in the end. i got a great deal on some hardwood bamboo flooring, huffing it all up 3 flights of stairs… that’s another story…
how nike conquered skateboarding
great article on adbusters. from the article:
And the surveillance paid off. Within two years, Nike reissued the Dunk, a 1985 basketball shoe that executives discovered had been co-opted by skaters. And it kept on reissuing it