I got the most amazing email this afternoon from Todd “Spod” Keeney way down in the Bay Area. Turns out Todd was interviewing Mike Watt for an upcoming documentary on college radio and well, a DDC hat I sent down to Todd was laying around. Turns out, Watt was into it. “Oh yeah, he took it. He wanted to keep wearing it (during the interview). I felt bad for making him take it off.” is what Todd had to say regarding my, “Well, did Watt make off with it?” inquiry.

So, we fall asleep tonight with dreams of Watt manning the boat on some hellride to the next gig, with one of our severely limited edition DDC hats on his head, protecting his thinker from the elements and his eyes from the settin’ sun. Real Good�.

More about Todd Keeney: I met Todd way back in the winter of 1995-1996. My first design job, I was his right hand man in the art department at the Nickel Ads. We built ads and logos for a multitude of sketchy car salesman and entrepreneurs. Now, this mentoring situation was shortlived, as the infamous “Nickelgate” went down, whereas many of the good folks I looked up to at the paper moved on to start the Northwest-famous Volcano magazine. I remember sitting through a smoky interview with the boss man and walking out with a lyric along the lines of, “Yeah, I understand yer duties have doubled with the recent changes. Tell you what I’m gonna do: I’m gonna adjust yer hourly rate accordingly.” Motherfucker gave me a 25� raise.