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Ugly sweaters aside for a moment, has the site transformed into "Boing Boing" from "boingboing" recently, or have I been asleep at the wheel?
Now back to ugly sweaters.
Frank, it's always been Boing Boing, or sometimes BoingBoing.net. The 'zine that predated the blog was bOING bOING. : )
Check out my "Ugly Sweater" video.
http://www.vimeo.com/2485202
Thanks,
Jared Foster
Yea that site would be totally cool if all the good ones weren't sold out. :(
Ebay. I think BB had a similar story some time ago about Cosby sweaters, and certainly of that woman who does all the photos of herself.
The next generation of ugly sweaters are the hyphy print hoodies.
If ugly sweaters pique your interest you should avert your attention to Iowa based, internet sensation Leslie Hall aka Leslie and the Ly's. She tours with a mobile gem sweater museum. Here's her site, www.leslieandthelys.com
The company holiday party is on Friday. We're having an "Ugly Christmas Sweater" contest.
I hope we have a good showing . . . Christmas sweaters don't seem to be as popular as they were in the past.
I like to recycle ugly sweaters and make them into braided rugs (cf http://scixual.deviantart.com/ ) -- I am long overdue making a HOWTO video on these. They're fun!
Thank you David!
Of course after I posted, I visited the Internet Archive and saw "Boing Boing" going way back in time. Strange how the mind misses big things while seeing the little.
I found a bitchen place online to buy ugly sweaters. Got mine for cheap! http://buyuglysweaters.com
Looking for Hideously Ugly Christmas Sweaters? Check out www.myuglychristmassweater.com It's the 'Holy Grail of Ugly' !
I attended an Ugly Christmas sweater party last year and it was one of the best parties I've ever been too! Ebay and Goodwill have a large selection of Ugly Christmas Sweaters. Also I found a cool site that has a large selection of ugly Christmas Sweaters...
UglyChristmasSweaters.info