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Closed every Wednesday to March 2nd

Temporary schedule change.

Our normal store hours are Wednesday thru Sundays, 11am - 7pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

But for the next 3 weeks we'll also be closed Wednesdays.

Even though the store is closed during the day, we'll still be having YOGA WEDNESDAY NIGHTS with Felecia Maria.


We're back to the normal Wednesday store hours the second week of March.

someone stole my stretch limo

The big open top bling-ey white limo...so I had to add another big cat to "Battle of Monkey Skull Mountain" making it a man v. beast riff.

golden hour in The Hook

tomorrow and friday in Red Hook Brooklyn

Back in the 17th century when the Dutch were knee-deep in goo feeling for clams and oysters with their toes in the Roode Hoek mud flats, I'm sure the last thing on their minds was Yoga and Art.

but that's what we got lined up for you monkeys this week, so there.

Felecia Maria is back for Wednesday Yoga by donation,
and an opening reception for Jenna Kole's interactive paper sculpture on friday.

WEDNESDAY (all Wednesdays in December)


FRIDAY... this Friday, the 10th of December

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.

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

land o' unicorns

In the Magical Mystery land o' Everbrite Mercantile-ville, you can experience Hasidic Filipinos gifting you with chocolate and gumdrops...

and 3-foot-tall hot dogs bowl the night away.



No peyote required.

yellow cab

root beer boy

The New face of crime

Red Hook in the old days: it was drugs n' guns - the realm of ultraviolence.

Today it's a young mellow trustafarian-looking couple. They'll drink your wine. They'll kiss one another to cover their moves.

They'll ask you for a restaurant recommendation, then walk out with their prize.

Very young cute white couples are the new crime wave.

Okay, one couple doesn't make a crime wave.

But you see where I'm going.

Anyone want to see the security cam footage?

Store opens monday

tomorrow... Columbus Day.

Y'know. In case you haven't heard yet.

morning to do list

1. eat a package of little chocolate donuts.

2. say hi to Ben from Good Fork. Remark on the baby strapped to his chest.

3. check out neighborhood sidewalk sale. See the tiniest dog ever next to the tiniest cupcakes.

4. install window display.

adapt and overcome

from the ratty to the mundane to the marginally tacky

things turned into other things. black paint seems to find its way everywhere.

garbage into something. jurassic technology preserved. stuff.


"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes

the worst ad EVER

I pride myself on being one of the worst graphic designers on earth, and also a poor excuse for a copywriter. So when Mollie asked me to make an image to go in an email announcement for the store opening, this is what I submitted:



Of course it got a fail for poor taste. The Yellow Ennui Face (now known as "Thompkins") is my alter ego, so he has to be socially inept and uncouth... just like me.

Mollie cleaned up the copy for normal human consumption and released it:


A true hack is never appreciated in his time.

Huzzah

on days like these...

...basement apartments are good.

Seconds after walking into our apartment, the sky turned green and the rain arrived.

All sideways, tearing big branches off the tree in the back yard, taking them god-knows where.

Someone up the hill captured it all.





A half hour later I was back at the store installing ceiling fans, cuz that's how I roll.

by the pricking of my thumbs

somehing bitchen this way comes.

asphalt lot watermelon

So, a couple days ago we went to the neighborhood Farmers Market, which is also an actual farm, and they sell stuff they grew on site plus stuff from other local farms (Hudson Valley and/or Jersey I believe.)

They piled up their soil right on top of an asphalt lot to avoid contact with any potential existing contamination in the dirt below.

It's a freekin' farm. Right across the street from Ikea.



 - andfriend