The Great Alley Fire Scare!

So early Thursday morning around 1:45 am Xty and I were awoken by frantic banging on our front door gate. We finally heard enough banging to get up to the window and yell out there to see what the deal was and then as I awoke more you could hear walkie talkies and people saying fire, evacuate the building. Naturally we shit, and scrambled around and hid some stuff and then we were out of the house hoping our shit would still be there when we returned.

Once outside with all our neighbors it became clear that another neighbors car had caught fire in the alley and she had parked like 9 inches away from the garage door. Me and her down stairs neighbor have garage on either side of her and we were both lucky enough to have had our cars in the garage that night!

The firefighters were on top of it and the fire was out within 10 minutes and everyone had a smelly house and garage. It was kind of crazy to just be stuck outside of your house with no idea how bad the fire is or anything. After a few minutes they all just started leaving so we sort of assumed it was cool to go back in.

The alley was a mess and the smoldering remains of the car smelled like ass, mainly the rubber tire smell refuses to fade. My garage also smells terrible. Her garage door and frame is completely toasted.

Flannel Grub Strikes Again!

So really it came between Kaws and Mishka this time around and I am happy to say that Mishka won. The Loveless Flannel in Magenta* from Mishka’s Fall 1 installment has a nice tight fit and the colors pop like a muhfug. It is very well put together and all the stitches on it are perfect (I looked at every single one!). Thanks to the kind folks at un|steady for the nice price.

Mishka Loveless Flannel Magenta
Mishka Loveless Flannel Magenta
*Note AMFM has been hard at work trying to figure out what exactly is magenta, why it’s different for everybody and why it is called magenta

Mo Brixton

Got me a Delta hat and a Bowery flannel a few weeks ago (should of got a small!) The Delta is pretty bad ass. It is shorter and wider and I assume it is why the top of the hat is pushed out unlike the Stroll. The Delta sort of rests on your head. It’s made of really soft paper straw and has a nice burgundy silk lining. Me like.

Delta
Delta

The Bowery Flannel is also pretty awesome, it is super soft and was very comforting while I was sick a few weeks back. I kept getting cold and hot and the flannel was very okay with being put on and off multiple times through out the day. It also kind of reminds me of this blue flannel my dad rock around the house. He would always be cold so rather than bump the heater he wore a thick ass flannel. Warm, thin, soft and fits really nicely. Like I said I should of got a small for the ultimate awesome but the medium is just baggy enough to be a bummy day flanny or an evening walk along the beach flanny. Get some.

Bowery Flannel
Bowery Flannel

Undercover Bear Kaws Companion

Ohhh the agony! The working class stiff really can’t be buying this shtuff. But it is a Kaws collaboration that is fooking ill. Like a dope addict I am considering using the old master card.

So yeah… tomorrow… smoke em’ if you got em’ – www.kawsone.com

under cover bear kaws accomplice

A way to import old Outlook emails into gmail

Finally! For me at least. I remember searching a few months back it seemed damn near impossible to get your outlook emails into Gmail. Turns out now it is not so hard.

Read more here: http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/10/24/simplified-guide-to-importing-all-your-archive-email-into-gmail/

This is great for many reasons. Outlook is essentially a giant turd and I’m currently phasing it out of my personal and business work flow to be replaced with Gmail and Thunderbird. Just feels better I dunno. As you already know if you’re a Gmail user it has an exceptional user interface. It took me a little while to fully appreciate Gmail’s approach to organizing email but with the addition of a few Google Labs (multiple inbox, custom colored labels, drag and drop sidebars, google docs, etc) and a custom colored theme I began to take it all in and it felt really nice. If you’re feeling stuck with Outlook give it a try I think you will be most pleased.

Fyxation Pink Tires!

I finally found some pink tires I can dig on. It came between these and some Tufo tubular tires. These were cheaper and I figured I’d be better off not worrying about tires with no inner tubes and gluing them down to the rim and all that good stuff. I think both tires were a similar shade of neon pink. They are a little thicker than my current tires but I figured I should get them now and worry about some new rims and hubs in the near future. I hope they fit as there is very little room in the rear inner of the frame. Getting closer.

fyxation
Fyxation tires