Pub n' Grub T-Shirt

Desteenation Shirt Co. continues to impress me with their new t-shirts. I'm a regular at Smith, up on Capitol Hill's 15th Ave., and I'm psyched to head down to the Desteenation store this weekend and pick up one of these cool Smith tees. I guess the Desteenation guys must have made a deal with Linda what's-her-name because Smith is owned by the same woman who owns two of their other new t-shirt establishments: Linda's Tavern (good for hangover brunch) and King's Hardware (skeeball!, 'nuff said). I think she also owns the Viceroy, but that place is definitely not my scene.

The Smith tees are printed on American Apparel tri-blend tees, which fit long and skinny, just the way I like 'em. Oh yeah, and Desteenation is having a 25% off sale right now, on every t-shirt in the store!

Fallout Records: Immortalized

When I first moved to Seattle back in school, Fallout Records was the ultimate. It was killer, man. It was the epitome of what the movies try to create when they want the cool, independent record store with the misunderstood loner who knows like every track in the store. When they went under and closed their doors, it was an eye-opening experience for me as far as the struggle of the independents in the big box world.

The fact that one of my favorite businesses ever is selling the Fallout t-shirt, and giving a percentage back to the old owners, has to be one of the coolest things I've seen in this big, ugly world in a long time.