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I real­ize I never men­tioned the con­cept of “This Weeks 50% Off” on the blog…
Every week, on Sunday approx­i­mately, we choose three objects which we offer at 50% off for the week. It’s a game, the selec­tion is random and the com­bi­na­tion of objects gen­er­ally tell some sort of an odd story. This week is the alma hair­pins, geisha cards and kitchen knife. I see some sort of a woman in curlers with the hair­pins hold­ing them, play­ing cards with the kitchen knife on her lap and a murder and the end but that is me. Let me know if you come up with a good tale.

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Just a quick note — I’m in Stock­holm right now, and my nice silent morn­ing got inter­rupted by the noise of thou­sands of glass bot­tles being dumped in a truck [[ the monthly recy­cling pickup ]]. Relieved of recy­cling hap­pen­ing, but annoyed with the sound, I stuck my head out the window to see the recy­clers dig­ging through the pile of glass to sort out wrongly recy­cled items. Here, you don’t dump recy­clables in a bin, but you sep­a­rate clear glass, dark glass, metal, carton, paper, hard plas­tic etc.  Wish NY could do that too.

Just as I was think­ing I need to write a post Jiyoni sent me this beau­ti­ful snap­shot of our Mex­i­can Dish­brushes and some plas­tic bags she screened with Jason’s KIOSK logo. So inspir­ing I had to pass it on, pretty much sums up what we are all about. Thanks for the inspi­ra­tion! Nice !

On-​Line Now! Pouches that Jason Rosen­berg did during the Plas­tic Bag Hap­pen­ing. These bags are just great to stuff with stuff. After some use, if you end up get­ting a hole on it, they mend per­fectly with tape (and that looks really good).

Marché aux Pouches is HERE>>>

This is a link to a video of a cyclist being assaulted by a cop

From BoingBoing:

” Although a judge ruled in 2006 that the monthly Crit­i­cal Mass bicy­cle rides could pro­ceed with­out a permit, the NYPD’s stance remains some­what adver­sar­ial. Though the city has not been enforc­ing the con­tro­ver­sial parade permit law when it comes to Crit­i­cal Mass, police have been tick­et­ing cyclists during the ride for such infrac­tions as not having the required lights.
A rep­re­sen­ta­tive for TIMES UP! tells us that the cyclist in this video was arrested, held for 26 hours, and charged with attempted assault and resist­ing arrest.”

Will be look­ing into this one…
any com­ments from the Bloomberg crew?

On July 2 we went to the annual, week long Kutz­town Fes­ti­val in search of Amer­i­can things. Although it is billed as a PA Dutch fair there were many people call­ing them­selves PA German. What is the dif­fer­ence? I found out it is the same, check it out on the Wiki, a fas­ci­nat­ing story. We ate quite well and had a really fun time. In terms of KIOSK research it was not so great, the stan­dard of craft is not what it used to be (sorry) but in terms of a good, relax­ing and inter­est­ing day out in a totally for­eign cul­ture 3 hours from Man­hat­tan, it was incred­i­ble. At one point Yuki remarked on how every­one was really happy and having a fun time, wow! dif­fer­ent from New York! Here are some pic­tures of lol­lipops, local root beer, hand­made pret­zels, tra­di­tional straw­berry short­cake and kids hors­ing around in a sand­box filled with dried corn. With the price of corn going up like mad these days I hope they kept it for next year! Thank you Yuki for some of the images and Janna, our friend who very wisely moved to Kutz­town, for the visit.

How beau­ti­ful is this moving truck? Spot­ted all over Boston, Casey & Hayes. If KIOSK ever owns trucks I have our inspi­ra­tion, damn it is hyp­notic. Just when you are in the dumps about moving, around the corner comes the gold let­ter­ing. It sparkles, it shines, it cries out “Your goods are worth their weight in gold to us!” and “Don’t forget about the Circus!” in case you are ready to run away and leave all your crap behind with the movers. And I thought Boston was con­ser­v­a­tive! Lux! Shit, I can’t stop look­ing at it! Be sure to view it large.

Not your aver­age coffee shop, Zibetto! Founded by one of the owners of our favorite coffee bar in Stock­holm, Sosta, is it run in the tra­di­tion of an Ital­ian coffee bar, no tables, walk in, remain stand­ing, have a really good coffee and go. No Amer­i­can coffee is served here and def­i­nitely it is con­trary to the Amer­i­can style coffee hang-​out for hours sce­nario. Their coffee is one of the best, if not the best, in town. It’s a little out of the way but we traipsed up there on Sunday. Just near the MOMA which is a good thing…don’t let the semi-​posh look throw you.

Zibetto
1385 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
www.​zibet​toe​spres​so​bar.com

Does this look like your 4th of July week­end at the beach? We all suc­cumb to the fried jazz (not music) while at the seashore. How­ever, I was sur­prised we fell for it while in the hills of Mass­a­chu­setts. If you head up to Mass­Moca, as many do, stop by Pedrin’s, home of the fish fry! (See pic­ture, that is the fish fry on the right) I can say I have had better but why not! They are located just south of Adams, MA. Happy beach week­end if you are at the beach, if not, do not fear fried fish dishes can be found in the hills as well.

We spent the morn­ing recy­cling. Not all morning….