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Archive for August, 2010

Popping Pills

Posted: Monday, August 9th, 2010

These pill heads could pass for pharmaceutical swag, but they are actually collectible figurines called Zee, made by Swiss artist PIX in conjunction with URFabulous and Character Station. Just slap “Merck” or “Hoffman-LaRoche” on it and you’re done. We haven’t been able to determine if these things actually serve as containers for pills, but that sure would be swell.

Kicking Cancer

Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Some photos from the Grab Your Gonads event near Houston, Texas, which raised money to help a fellow with stage 3 testicular cancer pay for the aggressive treatment not covered by insurance. We helped design custom shirts especially for the event, which raised $6,000 for Matt!
Looks like everyone had a great time, despite the seriousness of the event, and more than a few people donned a testicle pin or two. Thanks to Kandice McBride for the photos and for setting up the fundraiser and thanks to everyone who banded together to help.

Comic Con Scene

Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Some photographic highlights from Comic Con: As you may or may not know, San Diego Comic Con International is something like a geek Halloween, where everyone dresses up as their favorite characters. We loved this cute manga-esque nurse with pink hair (we forget the name of the actual character — anyone?); a dude dressed up as a Transformer by scrawling “Optimus Prime” on a box and tossing it onto his body; and this scary doctor figure who threatened to tear our hearts out (also not sure who this character is…).
Also on hand at the Con were lots and lots of cute things, like these new plushes from So So Happy; my baby daughter sleeping atop the I Heart Guts t-shirt table, (okay, I am a little biased, of course, about her cuteness), who was a real trooper in the booth; and of course the colorful Ugly Dolls booth!
And of course there were guts! The DKE Toys booth showed off prototypes of our new Huge Heart (see the liver next to it to see the scale), I met the pimpingest Darth Vader and Boba Fett ever, and there’s our display of plushes on the right. I was lucky enough to have help in the booth from some of my dearest friends, Shelayna, Chuva and Pollyanna, so we had a grand ol’ time talking to people, selling guts, and handing around the baby. The Chronicle Books booth honored our Spill Your Guts journal and mix and match stationery set by placing it between their awesome unicorn journal and Porn for Women. We were also flattered to be called “the coolest booth at Comic Con” by G4 TVs Alison Haislip. Yay!

Soft Hearted

Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

My spies at Bergdorf Goodman in New York spotted this heartfelt sweater from Marlon Gobel’s fall 2010 collection in the men’s department. {Thanks, Scotti!}

 
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