stay fresh

i recently had the staff sort through all the fan mail, and the question we get the most is "brian! i love that dog so much! where did you find such an exquisite picture of that gorgeous pup?"

well keep your pants on smelly, because i can't believe i'm about to tell you: the picture was borrowed (without permission) from the vintage vantage website, an online t-shirt company that specializes in manufacturing brand new shirts with the softness and superiority of a rare thrift store find. i guess the process is a bit similar to the making/purchasing of worn-in pre-holed jeans, except that vintage vantage doesn't suck--not in the least.

although their specialty is clearly the shirts, the vv website is worth more than the passing glance. the bichon frise picture is from the "ask heather" portion of the site, which i discovered once when cole and i were seeking outside sources to decide which was girlier to watch, real world/road rules challenge or dawson's creek; the creek won in an estrogen-packed landslide, as i predicted, but it did nothing to quell the creek addiction that cole and kelso suffered last year.

back to vv: check out their shirts, and their auctions. these feel-good camp coolers work in vintage graphic stylings much like michaelangelo worked with paint and marble; freshness is their true medium.


no, seriously