Tapirs Poop Stuff

Psst, psst, hey you. Yeah you. Come here. I got some great stuff here that I know you'll wanna buy. Cheap too. Check it out. I got Rolex. I got Louis Vuitton. I got Tapirs Poop!

That's right, the Tapirs Poop Online Store is up and running with all sorts of stuff featuring my amateurish attempts at design. Now go on, splurge! We're almost out of milk.

Back to school shopping season

As we so often do, the boys and I stopped into Siji Kids while out for a casual stroll through our hood. They seem to be ready for fall with a second mortgage worth of sweet looking duds for the kids. They have a boat load of new stuff from monster republic, one of my favorite kids labels. We talked to Kyle, co-owner with his wife Macy, who showed us a rockin' robot shirt with some old school Space Invaders on the back. This reminded me of Blik. Or at least the kick ass wall decals they have. I forgot the actual Blik name.

Kyle seemed pretty interested in the decals so I jogged my memory and found them online again. Then I went to sijikids.com to get a contact email to forward him a link to blik. While in search of an email address I discovered that Kyle's photo studio, Siji Studios, has one of the coolest and fun to just play with websites I've been to in a while. As if they're not busy enough, the Siji Empire also appears to includes graphic and web design. And to tie all this together, The Siji Blog.

We're so excited and we just can't hide it.....

NBC Olympics

Old School Olympics tshirts

Feed Me!

I think we could go for a hiatus on buying clothes for the boys for a while but this shirt I found at babesta.com is really bad ass. Orange, lion, and graffiti font, the trifecta of cool in this house.

Concentrate Daniel-san

As I type this Q is in the other room trying to catch the dust floating in the sunshine coming through the window. Like Mr. Miyagi said, "Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything."

Anyway, I wanted to post about Siji Kids the great kids clothing store that recently moved from Snelling, blocks away from our house, to Grand, just a few more blocks away from our house. It's hard not stopping in whenever we walk past while out on a walk and I'm glad we did the other day because we found what I believe could be the coolest kids shirt ever:

Green Babies

For those of you that are looking for ways to become more environmentally friendly, you know, for the kids, and have stockpiles of cash that you saved by selling your Hummer and biking to work everyday. Check out Tiny Decor and they will tell you where to go for those $200 organic cotton print shades you just have to have for the nursery. Or you can wait for them to open their online "boutique" sometime this summer. (Sorry, the last shred of manliness I have forces me to put words like "boutique" in quotes.)

I know I can buy carbon offsets....

...but where can I get sissy offsets. I need to build something or play some tackle football. Maybe I should pick up smoking cigars again. That's manly.

This arrived in my email the other day....


...and I briefly considered going. I think K8 will be going in my stead. If you decide to go too, make sure to say hi to her. She should be easy to find. She'll be the most beautiful woman in the room (aaahhh) and she will be talking about how she has the best husband in the whole wide world ;)

I'll be getting plenty of "girl talk" tomorrow night at Bar Abeline with my mom friends for another well deserved "Moms' Night Out" I can already taste the margaritas... um, I mean beer. I am continuously amazed how this group of stay at home moms are willing to put up with this stay at home dad. I really am lucky I managed to find such great friends willing to look past my manly veneer... eroded as it may be.

I may not be cool, but my kids will be.

I try and convince myself that I drive around in a beat up old Nissan Altima is part of my attempt to live a more sustainable, environmentally friendly life. In reality it has more to do with our addiction to cool clothes for the boys preventing the coffers from filling enough to invest in a newer vehicle. Oh well, driving a beater is a small price to pay for kids clothes this kick-ass!

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