when you let monkeys dress your window...

...you get sh*t like this happening:

big black friday

Yeah. We all sorta "phoned in" the design of this flyer.

Passed it around... everybody got their chance to ass it up a little.

If we were a highly leveraged VC-capitalized web startup, we would have high-fived one another, yelled "Great Job" and done some ritualized tribal chant that built Team Effin Integrity.

Instead, we just shuffled off back to our more important individual tasks - nose to the grindstone et al.



It makes the point: Black Friday a-comin'.

IMPORTANT NOTE: sale prices apply to in-store purchases only. So COME ON DOWN! WE'RE CRAZY! (you know the drill)

Events!! What's New!!

It's that time of year again... when the temperature drops, the leaves change, and you gear up for a good old fashioned feast. But before you gather 'round the turkey to lay down a verse of Kumbaya, think of all the preparatory yoga you could be doing to make a little extra room (not to mention it's very therapeutic, increases flexibility, stamina, and grace)!



What a coincidence that you're thinking about yoga now... The incredibly talented Felecia Maria (doing the one-handed hand stand up there) will be hosting a class here at Everbrite Mercantile (351 Van Brunt street | Brooklyn, NY) on Wednesday November 17th from 7:30-8:30pm! Just when you thought it couldn't get any more awesome, there's no set fee--the class is by donation only!

It would be in your best interest to wear the most comfortable clothing, but if you can pull off a warrior pose in platforms and skinny jeans, that's just talent... and if you don't know what a warrior pose is, that's all the more reason for you to be here. The class is open level--beginners, amateurs, experts, come one, come all! Remember to bring a yoga mat or something equivalent because doing yoga directly on a hardwood floor for an hour might not be the most comfortable experience.



In case you were wondering (and if you weren't, you probably are now), Felecia has studied yoga since 2001 and received her certification in 2008 from Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in NYC. Before that she earned her BFA from the University of Montana in Dance and Choreography. She believes that yoga is a fantastic physical practice and a wonderful form of exercise, and has also found a spiritual outlet though the practice.

The Sack-Meister and the growing army of EBMERC mascots

Everyone loves Loggy. Unlike that Rude Boy, yellow PacMan-looking bastard Thompkins, Loggy is universally appealing with his pathetic saccharin visage of permanent haplessness.

He has taken to guarding the store at night: posted at the front door, an ever vigilant shamanic warrior.


This guy - you've seen him here before. He was supposed to look like the John Cusack character Lloyd Dobler in "Say Anything" but ended up looking like Tom Cruise.



Eventually his name morphed to "Crusack". Then to "The Sack".

Now he's currently referred to as "The Sack-Meister". It changes day by day.

So I installed The Sack-Meister on the wall. Mollie immediately began merchandising him - Sack-Meister has been completely sold out to commercial interests.

new store hours... holiday hours for November

Starting next week, we'll be switching our store schedule to:

Wednesday thru Sunday, 11am - 7pm

We are now closed on both Monday and Tuesday which frees up time for us to go out and hunt for more stuff to replace the other old stuff that people keep buying.

Everyone keeps buying the cool old stuff.

Also we'll be closed on Thanksgiving week (Monday thru Thursday) opening again on Friday with our "Shlomo and Malka's Big Long Black Friday Sale".

Follow the twitter feeds of @EBMERC and/or @andfriend for further info.

Hot Rod Drag Racing Asian Hasidic Gangsta Thugs

They're invading Red Hook.

Call the Marines... or the National Guard.



I hear they call themselves the Red Hook Rippers

that's what I heard