It’s time once again for our annual Holiday Grab Bag Sale. Customers are expected to receive more than double what they paid for retail value in every box.
• $50 Grab Bags can expect up to $150 in retail value.
• $100 Grab Bags can expect up to $300 in retail value.
• $200 Grab Bags can expect up to $500 in retail value.
We’ll also be offering a limited amount of Denim/Pants Grab Bags this time around. For $150 dollars you’ll get three pairs of denim or pants of our choice. If the prices have been a bit out of range, now is your chance to get our denim at a heavy discount. Requests are not accepted, but you never know…if you add the denim your looking for in the notes section, they just may find their way to your doorstep.
Please note:Include you hat and waist size in the comments section of your order, this is of utmost importance. Also please note that there are no requests, returns, refunds, exchanges or complaints accepted with regards to the sale. It’s luck of the draw so take a chance, you won’t be sorry.
Orders Will Not Begin Shipping Until Tuesday, December 29th at the Earliest and We Will be Closed From January 1st – 3rd.
Those of you who are less daring can still enjoy a discount of 15-30% off Holiday 09 product in our online shop during the duration of the sale!
All you Bay Area heads in California: Listen (or read) up!
Cut Division out of San Francisco, is throwing a party December 26th at The Who House in Oakland, CA that we’re happy to be a part of. The show will feature the indie goodness of Ty Segall, St. Mawr, The Egads & Slow Loris.
Most of these bands don’t play too frequently in the Bay Area, so get out and see ‘em while you can. Ty Segall will be playing one-man-band style for the first time in quite some time. Ty originally stepped up on the scene as a solo act, but recently he’s been playing with a trio.
Come and check out The Bay Area’s newest (and trampoline equipped?) venue, The Who House. First 40 people to the show get a free Cut Division Black Metal Tee.
Saturday, December 26th 8pm The Who House
3134 San Pablo Ave
Oakland, CA
Merry happy and all’a that to everyone in the Mishkaverse! Take time this weekend to reflect on the joyous moments of the past year, like the time me, Doc Dino, and Mike Jones watched Road House until I got tired and cranky and went to bed. New Years weekend is traditionally the time to reflect, but I usually black out so whatevs.
Telli & Jah Jah (possible candidates for Hipser of the decade) from Ninjasonik dropped by earlier this week to scoop some gear from our warehouse sale and brought by an old friend we had not seen for a minute. Spankrock! The guys just played last night in Baltimore along with Amanda Blank and The Death Set. We hear it was a pretty wild night, including a brawl outside the club! We hope you’re OK Telli.
Here’s a photo from last night’s show courtesy of Chrissy Abbot’s flickr set. head over there for a slew more.
2010 was the first full decade of memes, internet inside jokes, internet phenomenons and internet WTFs. To cap off 10 years of time wasted LOL-ing, we’ve not-meticulously-at-all compiled the definitive list of internet memes. Feel free to argue otherwise. At which point you are a bigger losser than I.
But enough about that, lets get down to the LULz
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10) 2 Girls 1 Cup (2007)
The viral video so notorious Newsweek acknowledged it in their 2010 Memes list. Yecch. Even better than the poop eating was the bounty of reaction clips. And, it’s worth nothing that for some us more grizzled internet trailblazers, this tape wasn’t really even the worst out there. Oh, and the score. Unforgettable.
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9) LemonParty.Org (mid-to-late 2000s)
The inside joke that Wikipedia says made it pretty far. Old guys know how to party down. As simple of an image as this is, each time you go back you totally see something different. Like, the first time is gross, then the second time it’s funny, then the third time it’s sad and then it’s funny again, and so on. Maybe that’s why, out of all the shock sites, this one really captured the world’s imagination.
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8) Little Superstar (2006)
Another web sensation with legs. Little, little legs. I especially appreciate this video for putting me on to MC Miker G and DJ Sven’s “Holiday Rap.” Two more awesome guys I wish I could party with.
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7) Pedo Bear (2003)
Originally 2Chan’s Safety Bear, he quickly became 4Chan’s PedoBear. Sorry kids. Pedo Bear made his way onto the news in Oregon when someone put him on a poster for the Oregon Children’s Theatre costume sale. Large ups to that guy.
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6) Grape Lady (early 2000s)
This was one of those great and rare Stern show/Internet crossovers. Of course, we all know everyone on the Stern show is otherwise retarded about the internet.
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5) G.I. Joe PSAs (2000s)
Created by Eric Fensler in the late ’90s, these videos have 10 years of LOLs behind them. Fensler went on to work with Tim & Eric and have his work ripped off by the advertising industry like everyone else.
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4) Icy Hot Stunnas (2001)
Icy Hot Stunnas pulled up the skirt of wigger culture. From the Midwest down to the everglades, out to San Diego, the ’90s and ’00s were peak decades for wiggerdom. Post 2008 it’s fine to be a wigger on the low, because (1) hip-hop mellowed out and (2) it’s all the same pop culture now, but for a good 15-20 years there lots of white kids had a good time pretending they were Spice 1. All said and done, the Stunnas were one of the first en mass e-mockeries as well.
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3) I’m The Juggernaut, Bitch! (2003)
The line made it into one of those X-Men movies they made. I prefer “I’m a part-time stripper… and I do hair.” Really wish they would have put that line in the movie. Oh, or “my chest, my bloody chest!” that would have been good too.
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2) All Your Base (2002)
The king of all flash videos. ‘Nuff said. As time has gone on, have people gotten lazier about making funny stuff online? Take this from 2002, to now when you’ve got slapdash material like LOL Cats. Bring back the FLVs, son.
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1) Tie: Lee Hotti & Friends (2006) // Advice Dog (2006)
Lee Hotti paved the way for today’s douche onslaught and the show Jersey Shore on MTV. Advice Dog paved the way for a half dozen other memes in the same format, and they are all pretty hilariouz. They are both true WinRars!
So by now I guess it’s pretty apparent that I’m addicted to books. No, not just the kind you read…actually, I’m addicted to those less than I am the kind you look at. The kind of book you look at mostly and read only sort of. Comics KIND OF fit that bill, but mostly I’m thinking of the ubiquitous art book. The Coffee Table book, if you will.
So far, my book recommending on this blog has been largely focused on the kind of books one reads because, well, that seems the most worthwhile for all involved. There have been afewexceptions I guess, but for the most part, it’s been about words on a page that make you think in pictures. But!
As I have tons and tons of awesome books that really have no ‘sit down and read it’ value that I think would be right up this blog’s alley, I’m toying with the idea of posting one or two a week here on the Bloglin as part of a new series in the new year. My main fear is that I’m going to say I’m going to do it and then it will be a ‘series’ of posts with exactly one or two posts in it. I hate that. But here’s hoping. Coffee Table Stable. Or something better if I can think of it.
For now, though, check out Taschen’s amazing and affordable Men’s Adventure Magazines. It is very much in the vein of everything I’m looking for from a pretty-to-look-at-and-get-ideas-from art book. Tons of awesome reference from a wide range of pulp magazine covers from the heyday, a little bit of history and essay-writing, and, well, really smart pulls. Good editing and fantastic printing always make for a quick, breezy, and ultimately entertaining flip through a book like this, and not to plug, but Taschen always delivers that sort of experience (for me) and does it insanely cheaply, to boot. Hats off.
More photos after the jump. Happy Holidays to all. Also: Weasels ripped my Flesh; I sailed the undersea patrol. (more…)
Unsupervised Teen: “Just sippin on a squishee with my lysergic demon dogg, brah. Don’t touch my face.” Slush Puppie: “You know that stuff stays in your spinal fluid forever and you’re gonna have cherry-flavored flashbacks and ice-cold brain damage right?” Unsupervised Teen: “Whatevvvs.”
