Proving there’s more to the Abbot Kinney festival than hemp bags, lemonade and Stevie Knicks-inspired knitwear, I Heart Guts will also have a booth, along with local hipster crafters Bughouse, Spicy Brown and Detroit Sprinkles. Come stop by our booth at the Abbot Kinney Street Festival in Venice, CA, this Sunday, September 27, from 10am – 6pm. We’re conveniently located near the festival beer garden near Abbot Kinney and San Juan Avenue, so come say hello and give your ol’ liver a break.
Archive for September, 2009
Guts in Venice
Posted: Friday, September 25th, 2009Liver 2.0
Posted: Friday, September 25th, 2009
Somehow we missed the newsy tidbit that Apple head Steve Jobs had a liver transplant back in April. “As you may know, I had a liver transplant,” Jobs told the audience assembled for Apple’s music event in early September. “So I have the liver of a mid-20s person who died in a car crash, and was generous enough to donate their organs. And I wouldn’t be here without such generosity.” And here this whole time we thought his pancreas was the one giving him trouble. {via Wall Street Journal}
Know the Guts By Heart
Posted: Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Your body is up to all sorts of hijinx all day long — isn’t it time you learned a little something about it? Check out our fun new mini-poster that shows the guts in action and debriefs you on each organ’s main function. Marvel over the intestine as he unloads his dump truck, enjoy the pancreas and gallbladder as they indulge their respective sweet tooths (should I say sweet teeth?).
I Want A Mini-Zoo
Posted: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Do you think health insurance companies are getting a bad rap? Well, check out this protect health insurance PSA by Moveon.org. The video features Will Ferrell along with Olivia Wilde from “House MD” and Donald Faison from “Scrubs.” Because insurance executives need their private planes and mini zoos.
Gutsy Gift Guide
Posted: Friday, September 11th, 2009
I finally reconstructed the I Heart Guts Gift Guide for anyone looking to buy gifts for the cardiopulmonologist with a heart of gold, a great hepatologist, or the esthetician who has it all (but does she have a sebaceous gland pin, we ask you?). Also in the wonderful world of guts shopping (sorry to be so crassly commercial, but alas, that is the life of the gut-monger), we now have the ability to shop by gut or gland, so you can look at all, say, the gallbladder stuff we have on offer. Of course you can always type “parathyroid” into the search box with the same results, but it’s a fun new feature I thought you gut-lovers might enjoy.
I Heart Lawsuits
Posted: Thursday, September 10th, 2009
When life hands you a cease and desist, make t-shirts! Many moons ago we designed a parody shirt of the I Heart NY logo, replacing their heart with ours and NY with GUTS. Not long after I put it up, we got served with a cease and desist notice from New York City Development Corporation asking us to remove the shirt from our site and destroy the remaining stock. Needless to say, this really sucked, especially since we are not the only ones who have aped this design over the years (I know this continuing copying dilutes the copyright, it’s unoriginal, etc., believe me, I get it and I feel bad). Not liking to waste t-shirts, however — organic tees at that — we asked if it would be okay to alter the shirts so that the logo was no longer visible. They said fine. So I got crazy with the RIT dye and Chuva got crazy with the metallic thread stitching and here is the first in our series of limited-edition cease and desist tees, we only made 8! We will be making a few different special designs over the next few months, so if you miss these (or don’t like them) there will be more.
Guts on Vacation
Posted: Thursday, September 10th, 2009
If you were planning on taking your guts on vacation for a little organ tourism, think again. Organ tourism is a lot like sex tourism, though rather than picking up a prostitute or STDs you pick up a nice liver or kidney instead. Last week China formally announced it was ending its policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners and starting a volunteer organ donation program nationwide, thus likely bringing an end to China’s thriving black market for organs. Personally, organ tourism brings to mind visions of livers and kidneys sitting on the beach sipping daiquiris. But we know it’s not quite like that.
Heart Topics
Posted: Thursday, September 10th, 2009
A few guts spruced up the tables at the Transplant Ethics Community Education Event, hosted by California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. The event included a lecture on topics vital to people in the transplant community — who gets an organ and when? How will these organs be obtained? All good stuff, we hope the guts were good listeners. {All photos by Benjamin Robert}
My Darling Liver
Posted: Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
I’ve always loved silly French terms of endearment like mon petit choup (“my little cabbage”) and ma petit crotte (“my little poop”). So imagine my joy when my friend Tarannum told me the affectionate phrase mera kaleja — used by folks of South Asian descent — means “my darling” but literally translates as “my liver”! Why bother giving someone your heart and soul when really the liver does so much of the body’s dirty chemical work? So cute, and so much more fun than sweetheart, honey or baby. Love that liver.
