FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART: Special goddamned thanks to Ben in Montana for sending the Stockman’s Cafe Bar image shown above. What a beauty. I’d last about 10 minutes in there, and would make a quick exit, hopefully with all of my teeth.

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HOW WE DO IT IN NOVEMBER: One catalog down. One just starting up. No rest for the wicked.

Today we cracked into the production of Union Binding Company catalog. Up to this point we’ve been shooting, clipping, thinking up this and that, fighting the good fights, choosing fonts, color correcting,

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ON THE PLAYER TODAY: Girls Against Boys’ “Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby”

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FROM OUR BROTHER CHAD HILTON, WHO WAS TRAVELING THROUGH NYC: Yer favorite wookiee, out of Legos.

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STILL JAZZED UP OVER THAT GUY: A monster pile of Obama buttons. Tons. Get in there and feel good about history. Here’s the one that caught our lazy eye the most. (Heck yeah, Derek.)

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SOMETHING MR. BAKER SENT, THAT GOT ME GOING PRETTY GOOD: A Haberule “10” Type Gauge.

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LIKE I HAVE TIME TO READ: John Hodgman, former Literary Agent, is at is again with another book: More Information Than You Require. Good stuff. All over it.

And sure, this one on fieldnotesbrand.com, but man, we gotta post it again. Had too: Hodgman gets it on with some graph paper.