December 2010 – Bureau of Betterment

Me and My Pioneer Rabbit, Ringing in the New Year

We hadn't planned on doing anything big for New Years, but my rabbit wanted to go out. As the evening progressed, however, it was clear that my rabbit's plans had taken a turn for the worse. Some would say he was drowning his sorrows in drink...in reality he was just drowning.

Gulden Draak Vintage Bottle

Gulden Draak Vintage beer. White coated beer bottle with a golden pig/seal/submarine animal catching snowflakes on its tongue.

This summer in Danmark my uncle uncharacteristically pulled out a non-pilsner while we were having happy hour. The moment my eyes spied the bottle the part in my brain devoted to cool design lit up. The whole bottle except for the lip is coated in white and the label has a strange seal/pig/submarine animal wildly catching snowflakes on its tongue.

gulden-draak-bottle-detail — Catching snowflakes with vigor. Deadly vigor.

My dear old dad saw the halo of design joy surrounding this bottle, and took the bottle home with him so that this Christmas, what was waiting for me under the tree? Gulden Draak Vintage! If any a bottle were to get me to drink beer, this would be it. As the Danes would say: skål!

Up and Over It Hand Dancing

This just makes me smile. Check out more of their stuff at www.upandoverit.com.
Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding / Film by Jonny Reed / Music: Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup ft. Cleary & Hardin

Central Oregon Goodbye

Highway 26 from Madras to Portland, traveling over Mt. Hood.

Anaco Pears Placard

Anaco pear card, vintage split-serif type with a single glowing yellow pear.

I went to California recently, and although I visited the area canvassed with strip malls and big box stores, I was able to find a small town general store that had some fun vintage fruit placards. I love pears, so I took this one home with me (and totally got through border control with it!).

Central Oregon Shroud

View of Warm Springs from the top of the plains, driving east from Mt. Hood. — I see settlement.

Agency plains between Warm Springs and Madras.

View over Madras looking east. It's kind of dingy. — Home again, home again: all of Madras, Oregon.

Me and My Pioneer Rabbit, Holiday Shopping

Due to a run in with some flocked moose, my pioneer rabbit and I were a bit late on the game for Christmas present buying. As you can see, we barely made it out of the shopping melee alive.

Outfit No. 35

Me and My Pioneer Rabbit, Marauding on the High Seas

Ever since we'd taken the helm from the last Dread Pirate Rabbit, my pioneer bunny and I had been living large. Swashbuckling, saving princesses, shouting "Shiver me timbers!" from the fore mast. Ahh, life on the high seas.

Detecto Scales

I like to measure things so when I found this old scale I just had to get it. It has a neat font for the face and tells me exactly how much my lunch weighs. If my lunch weighs under 10 pounds, that is. If it weighs more than 10 pounds, I guess I have bigger problems than inaccurately weighing my lunch. Mmmm, lunch. Want a Danish sandwich?