Only in Pittsburgh is sponsoring a contest during the next couple weeks, and the prize is none other than a Wiggin shirt!  Check out the post for the details, but it’s pretty straight forward–get pics or video of your terrible towel with G-20 associated people, places or events, and then there’ll be a vote after the summit for the best one.

Good Luck!

Pittsburgh Magazine is runnign their Best of Pittsburgh feature…which gives us the perfect opportunity to plug Sally for both “Best TV Personality” and “Best News Team or Anchor.”

Just go to http://www.wqed.org/mag/index.php, scroll to the bottom, and click on the Best of Pittsburgh text to take the survey.  It’s a little long, but it’s worth it!

Show your support for Sally!

If you’ve taken a look at our about page, you know that we feel very strongly about being environmentally friendly and socially responsible.  Being part of the garment industry, which is one where terrible practices are common, and for the most part, accepted, makes it even more important to us to try and do the right thing.  We’re still trying to find the best options, but right now we’re doing a number of things to be part of the solution rather than the problem, including:

• We are using a screen printer based in Pittsburgh, Commonwealth Press, whose ideas about the right way to do business mesh with our own. Among other things, they use eco-friendly water-based ink.
• We’re using Anvil t-shirts. Although Avil’s shirts are made in a number of places, they adhere to decent corporate responsibility standards. Our men’s t-shirts are made of recycled materials (PDF) and the women’s t-shirts are 100% organic cotton (PDF).
• We are featuring real people in the pictures of our t-shirts, not anorexic models.
• We are donating 5% of all profits to progressive causes in our community.

The thing I’m curious about, though, is this: Does it make a difference to you as a consumer for companies to take enironmental and social responsibility seriously?  Let your voice be heard on the sidebar poll, and please be truthful!

Last Friday at Blogfest we found out a couple friends of ours have started a new blog, Bricks and Boxes.  Right now it’s a “whatever strikes our fancy” kind of blog that’s written well, run by good people who are fans of Myers-Briggs personality profiles, and so far has been updated daily.  That’s something I admire greatly, although if I tried it I’d last all of three days before I started just typing random words that popped in my head.

Also, keep checking back this week for some big news!

Cynthia over at My Brilliant Mistakes is participating in an interesting meme, as seen below:

Leave a comment and I’ll give you a letter. Post ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter.  Then give a letter to anyone who leaves a comment for you… and the cycle will continue.

I commented, and my letter is V…but for some reason I just keep thinking of funny things that start with that letter instead of things I love.  Viagra, for example.  And along those lines, Viva Viagra, a song inexplicably stuck in my head for about 3 days a few weeks back.  The longest days of my life. Ever.

I’m going to take a shot at this, but for anyone brave enough to comment, I’m going to switch it up a little bit.  Instead of receiving a letter and having to write 10 things you love, you will need to write about 10 Pittsburgh-related things that start with that letter.

For example, for my letter V, I would write “Valentine’s Day–specifically the yearly Valentine’s Day Monster Truck Rally at Mellon Arena.”

Come to think of it, that’s also something I love…score.  Onto the ten things I love that start with the letter V:

1. Valentine’s Day: specifically the yearly Valentine’s Day Monster Truck Rally at Mellon Arena.  One of these years I’ll actually convince Christina to go, and that, my friends, will be a good year.
2. Vaunted Defense: i.e., the Steel Curtain.
3. Value:  When it comes down to it, I’m rather thrify.  Flea markets, beware.  And Wiggin shirts for $14.99?  That’s value.  (If my letter had been S, I would have done “Self Promotion”)
4. Verszyla, Jeff:  Come on folks, show Jeff some love on the poll!
5. Vague explanations for things given by people who obviously don’t know what they’re talking about: Hilarious.
6. Vintage clothing: Eons, you have gotten me through some tough times and clothed me when no other clothing would do.
7. Vans: Not in a dirty way, I swear.
8. Visions: At least they seem like something I’d love, depending on the subject matter.  Maybe one day I’ll be cool enough to have one.
9. Val Kilmer: Can’t explain it.  Must be the rugged good looks.  Did anyone else think he was actually a decent Batman?
10. Vats of Goo: Kind of like a Chuck E. Cheese ballpit, but grosser and more dangerous.  Probably would get old after a while, though.  For example:

 

Remember, if you comment, you’ll owe 10 things about Pittsburgh starting with the fateful letter I give you!