So i was going to share with everyone the wonderful vanilla bean waffle i had today…….

but i ate it before i could get a picture

but damn it was good

So last night Jesse and I had a conversation about my ability to come up with creative placeholder copy when designing websites. Usually I just try to think of something clever, or something Shane might get a kick out of when he starts building the site out. They often end up on the live site, but are mostly just there for layout purposes and are always reviewed by several members of the team before it goes live. I thought it was pretty fitting that I ran across this today. Hard to fathom how this one made it past the editors..

Greetings from the bottom of the tool box…. Salutations from the business end of a broom….A fine how-do-ya-do from the wide lonely aisles of Costco to the bulging, endless shelves of Home Depot. It’s a pleasure to make your aquaintance.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Gaff Stinger, and I am the only one qualified for any and all building maintenance issues at this here little operation. Due to a severe overbite and a somewhat greasy disposition that i can’t seem to shrug off, I am forbidden contact with all the fine employees at 323 East as well as the beautiful, well-spoken folk who frequent the premises who just can’t live without a fuzzy rat doll or a DanRock or a Gramma Whyte Honeycomb Special. Well, smelling purty and knowing that tennis shoes are “kicks” ain’t everything in life, so I have made myself useful in the grimier and less glamorous areas of art and fashion dispersal.

Join me for a quick photographic tutorial in the ways of the “backroom”, the sordid underbelly that is hidden from the modern “boutiquer”:

This here’s our new toilet seat. For about a month and a half, our head Niner-Manipulator was complaining that the old toilet seat wouldn’t stay up when he had to pass all that Vitamin Energy and Mountain Dew, providing for a somewhat uncomfortable and possibly unsanitary situation. Well, when old Gaff sees a problem, he gets out his aquisition forms and his greaseboard and his sliderule and he get to workin’! I walked 100 yards to the ACO and purchased this for about 11 bucks. What does Niner-Manipulator say now? ” I can finally enjoy this animal function once again!”

On occasion, a mishap of unmanageable technical ferocity will befall the 323 crew when old Gaff ain’t around. When this occurs, it’s a study in bloodcurdling panic and caos. Here we see marketing genius and former International House of Pancakes DJ, “Gutshot Flush”, attempt to repair a chair that has lost a wheel by smashing the rest of the chair with a hammer. Sure. It doesn’t make sense. But these are creative types, and it’s not for us to question their inscrutable ways.

Now, if you’re not into the finer points of pneumatic, copper-fluxed, chilly bulbosity like I am (or my brethren in the stationary engineering trades) you may just want to skip the following love letter to the Arctic Chrystalizer Oxbox 4000, the latest edition to the countless luxury items that make our employees more comfortable than any human beings should be allowed to be. One of the thousands of mottos we adhere to at 323 East is “Hot is Hot, But Cold Is Cool!”, and we back it up with the sexy little unit you see below. It’s totally encased in 80 carat faux Asian ivory, trimmed out in a very tasteful baba ghanoush tinted off-green. It is only one of 53 known to have been made by Bloody Eskimo Enterprises, and we spent HOURS online nailing this bad boy down. Don’t EVEN call it an air-conditioner! That’d be like calling a Payday Bar a mere salted nut log! Come on back to the office
sometime, and shiver your sexy timbers art lovers.

We packed up shop this past weekend to motor on down to the Gratiot Cruise. Although it was not our target audience, we made the best of it. There are many things that can be said about the city of Eastpointe. All of our citizens have most of their teeth….. is not one of them.

We did find some potential leads in the advertising department.

Peanut is a cruisin’ animal. His owner trucked him around via remote control monster truck.

Starbucks had a tent right next to ours.

We also found that we have some competition in the Kwame department, but they can’t fade this…. You know we got the real deal up in here.

Big ups to Carmillo Pardo comin through with his shiny Ford Gt he designed. This dude actually designed this automobile. He has a lot of great work at the bankle building as well if you are ever invited into his studio.

There were some looky loos givin our booth the eye……. but I knew it was gonna be a long day when a gentleman would not pony up for a $1 kwame sticker. It was the definition of a recession.

Cityfest here we come.

After a long discussion around the office, it was determined that only fictitious characters rock the monocle.

We had thought that Teddy Roosevelt had worn the one lenser but those were most definitely bifocals on a string.

In my mind, the monocle is a symbol of sophistication. It is a definitive accessory that gives a lesson to all in full player status.

I came upon this while browsing the U-line catalog.

The new and wacky gallery called 323 East has been painted an eye-catching lime green, which is a good thing because otherwise you might miss it and that would be a shame.

The long and narrow building is not on one of Royal Oak’s most traveled streets. Situated next to a vacant storefront and up the street from a very good hardware store, it’s at 323 E. Fourth.

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MacKool arrives 45 minuets late!

“I didnt have time to take a shower this morning so I just put on the Freshness”

When you push the up arrow your avatar will push the up arrow.

‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’

Whatever Erno wants….. Erno gets….

We’ve added a new blog to the site.

People looking for creativity will find plenty of it at 323 E. Fourth St.

The building in downtown Royal Oak is the new home for the 323East art gallery on the ground floor…


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