Merry Christmas!

special thanks to harrison budd for getting us into the studio and photographing us for the card.

best ad ever

i saw this in baltimore on saturday. two baltimore icons together at last. although, it doesn't look good for mr. boh. that utz girl looks more interested in her chips than that rock he's holding out.

reefer madness

this is one of my favorite pieces of graffiti i have ever seen in the city. it appears at the high street subway station in brooklyn heights, on the A/C line. sure, it's a pretty simple joke. the simplest pun imaginable for the word high, and i love stupid pun jokes. but that's only half the reason i like it so much. this tile appears on the other side of the tracks from the platform, and that's what makes it so good. someone risked their life, facing the possibility of electrocution or being hit by a train, to make a stupid stoner joke. and it was so worth it.

two great tastes that taste great together

this past sunday adri and i were riding the G, finishing up our car-train-subway ride home from upstate. at the greenpoint ave stop this guy steps on pulling a cart full of soft coolers, like the ones you get free at baseball games. on top of the coolers is an almost empty crate box with two pint containers visible. of course adri and i perk up immediately trying to determine the contents through the fogged plastic covering. the guy instantly asks, "do you guys like wine?". "yes!" adrianne replies eagerly. "do you like sorbet?", he asks. "of course." i say. "are you close to home?" "we're the next stop." finally, he reaches into the box and pulls out a pint of sangria sorbet and hands it to us telling us all about this new dessert. it's wine, that's a sorbet! it tastes just like wine, only cold, ice cold. it's very refreshing! look for it and try some.

winecellarsorbets.com

man...this blog is boring

sorry you guys (all three of you). moving into a new place is hellish. it seems there's never time to relax and when there is i'm certainly not doing anything worth writing about. so sorry again. i hope this picture of harrison and i rocking on this air guitar at daniel's party last weekend will help you forgive me.

things should be settling down now so hopefully, if you're still there, i can give you something to read between fresh gawker posts.

olympic logo

the london olympic organizing committee released the official logo for the 2012 olympics today. when somebody in my office showed it to me i thought, "i can do better than that." so i created my own logo.

the logo is based on the map of the london subway system. the overall shape represents the bouquet the winners receive with their medals during the medal ceremony. london is placed at the bottom as a label for the stop where all the lines, representing the people of the world, come together, just as everyone will come together for the olympic games. i chose a type face that uses a circular "O" to reflect the shape of the symbol representing where lines and people intersect.

tell me what you think.

rock, rock, rockaway beach

saturday morning adrianne, harrison, iliana and i hitched a ride with andy down to rockaway beach. it took a little while to wind our way through queens but we got there and quickly set up our spot on the beach. we brought along plenty to entertain ourselves with. while the girls read, harrison and i threw a football, imitated pitchers, juggled, played one-man badminton and watched crazy drunk girls run around the beach; all the things one hopes to do on the beach. andy, in the meantime, was on a conference call. eventually andy joined us with enough time for some touch football.

it was a lot of fun. was it better than long beach? hard to say, but i was glad to get out there, if only for the new york experience and as an excuse to endlessly listen to the ramones' song.