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You want to stop using plastic grocery bags. So, why don't you?
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I'm as wasteful as the next person.
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Je T'Aime Brooklyn tote
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There's no way I can compete in the handbag competition—unless I want to, you know, redirect my rent (and about $200 more) to pick up the same Chanel tote my boss has. Thanks, but no thanks—I'm so much happier going the (independent) designer route with this Je T'Aime Brooklyn bag. Not only does it remind everyone that BK's actually the coolest borough (and my home)—I just spent about $1488 less than my boss on my bag, and—surprise, surprise!—it holds about the same amount of stuff.
Updated Feb 3, 2008
Chapel of Dawn/Eric Elms Colette Tote Bag
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Ever get the feeling Colette just keeps doing whatever it wants and people all over the world just keep paying attention?
Updated Jun 20, 2008
Obama Baggu
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A tidy liberal bundle, this reusable nylon bag features Obama's screen printed face, just in case you plan on wordlessly influencing that stray republican while shopping organically at Whole Foods. Additionally, all profits from the project will go toward Obama's presidential campaign.
Updated Oct 3, 2008
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Day of the Dead Tote
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I really like the print on this tote, informed as it is by DIa de los Muertos. The cut and color kind of feminize it out of usefulness for most guys, but I can't really fault the designer for that. Vintage green lining on the interior, in addition to a zippered pocket, give the bag a nice touch of detail.
Updated Oct 14, 2008
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Enviro-Tote Skullphone American Tote Bag
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This Enviro-Tote bag, featuring an illustration by Skullphone is dying to be unpacked. The graphic is a direct reference to a Jason Lee Bind graphic from the '90s. The subtle changes -- Miller beer swapped for Tecate, Blind-branded cigarettes swapped for American Spirits -- speak to Skullphone's southern California experience, where the cheap beers of choice are increasingly Mexican and even smokers try to engage vice in as healthy a way as possible. There's also a larger swap of the original's television for Skullphone's signature skull-with-cellphone imagery, which places contemporary communication on par with vices like smoking, drinking, violence, and religion. It ultimately all gets a little muddled, but there's an interesting dialogue between Skullphone's vision of iconography that defines America and the more traditionally sardonic reading of what's important to Americans offered by McKee less than two decades earlier. Maybe next time you're drinking and smoking and shooting things, you can text this recommendation to your bible-thumping pals and they can make sense of it.
Updated Oct 17, 2008
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