half price moving sale- happy spring!!

good news for your and for us today. first of all, the good news for us- our print shop is moving to a new, better location which will have a small storefront. we're really looking forward to it! unfortunately, moving costs a lot of money. and that's where the good news for you comes in: i've marked ALL shirts down by a full HALF PRICE until april 14th to help pay for the move. it's spring time, kids! the sun is shining, and a cool new zbq t-shirt is just what the doc ordered! so help fund our move and get some cheap duds in the process. and remember, shipping is always free!!

so say we all

so- it's really all over. hard to believe. i have to say, the final episode of battlestar galactica, by far my favorite tv show over the last few years, was a little disappointing. not a lot, just a little. maybe i've just come to expect a constant struggle- neverending conflict, pain, pathos and misery- from bsg. in that regard, the first half of the episode certainly didn't disappoint. but then the second half was all about resolution, joy, life and finding destiny- boooring. don't get me wrong, i'm very glad things ended the way they did. i just felt it was a little clumsy, there were still many unanswered questions (what they hell was kara? i guess we'll never know) and many of the questions that were answered were done so i felt in a very haphazard way. but overall the producers did an admirable job of tying the whole 4 years together, and i thought the way they brought in the subtle commentary at the end about the direction of our modern world was well done as well. i guess i just.....frakk it, i just wish it wasn't over. i'm going to go cry in my ambrosia now.

inches of pleasure

do you like 1 inch buttons? well so do we. we've been making 1 inch ZBQ buttons for a few years now, but up until now there was no way to get one except by buying a shirt and hoping we remembered to toss a free one in the package. well, i've just created a new page where you can purchase some of these wonderful li'l buttons for only 1 dollar each- shipping included! the buttons will be released in series of 35 every few weeks, and you have the option of purchasing the complete series for only $20 as well (saving you money and making you look 35 times as cool). so press the panic button already!!!

i'm caught up with BSG now and there's nothing left to do but wait for the end tomorrow. i can't believe they're going to actually wrap up this whole frakkin' series in only 2 hours, but i sure am looking forward to it. so what if my life will be completely devoid of meaning after tomorrow night? well, at least until season 3 of madmen starts, anyway.....

mr. dandy interviewee

i'm a raging egomaniac, so i love getting interviewed. it gives me something to read when i need to remind myself how truly great i am. once in a while other people notice. this week it's alan from one of my favorite t-shirt blogs, the t-shirt review. he sent me some really interesting questions, and i answered those questions with mind-numbing verve and vigour. to read the interview and bask in my glory click here.

seriously though, i'm generally a pretty humble guy. in fact, i'm great at being humble- much better than you, i'm sure.

krystle!!


so i've been wrestling all week with this bloody shitbox of a computer, but in the last 2 days i finally 1) got my printer working again and 2) got the sound working (though it took buying another sound card). consequently, i'm finally able to get caught up on the last 2 weeks of battlestar galactica before the big series finale on friday. actually, i only have one more episode to watch, which i plan on doing right after i post this blog. excited but sad to see the series go. however, it's good to end things on a high note- how long could they have realistically dragged the storyline on for? friday should be a doozy.

and no, i haven't seen watchmen yet- hoping to tomorrow- but yesterday i finally got out to see the 3-d version of coraline, which is just a superb movie in every way imaginable. you should see it while it's still in theatres if you have any appreciation for excellence. i was pretty impressed with the 3-d too- it's the first of the "new 3-d" movies i've seen, and it was very well done.

new shirts! hot damn.

i always get a little excited when i post brand new shirt designs. this shirt in particular, however, i am quite worked up about: it was created by one of halifax's most well-known and productive graffitti artists, deza, and is kind of a landmark print for us. fast times is the widest print we've ever done on a t-shirt- in fact, in order to print it, we actually had to physically cut the shirts, print them, then get a tailor to sew them back together. the result is a freakshow print that wraps from the front to the back and must be seen to be believed:







much props to mr. dezzy-dez for such a sick piece of artwork, and here's hoping we see more from him in the not-too-distant future!


as if that weren't enough excitement for one day, i also found time to post some new deadphones shirts in prep school. being well-dressed was never so much fun:








so my computer shit the bed on the weekend- not sure if it was a virus or what, but it suddenly decided to stop booting up. after much wrangling and wrestling, i was forced to reinstall windows and consequently lost all of my e-mail from the last several months (soooo awesome). as a result, if you had written me recently there's a good chance i wasn't able to get back to you, and that's precisely why. specifically there was one guy that wrote me about featuring zbq in a california-based magazine: if you're out there, please write me back!!!

haven't seen the last BSG yet as my computer woes took up most of my time & energy this weekend, and i haven't seen the watchmen yet either. heading to the imax at some point this week to check that out for sure!! i'll report back on both when i get a chance. happy daylight savings day and keep it real kids!

you're dead, phones

just topped up stock in deadphones- there are now a ton of tan t-shirts (including some 2x and 3x), some black tees and one (yes, one) white/navy baseball shirt.



the above photo of a deadphones-wearing cardboard box was submitted by zb superfan alex chittock on our facebook group. you know how easy it is to post pictures on facebook, right? well, mr. chittock took 2 seconds out of his day to put a couple on our small but growing group, and now he's freakin' famous! so yeah, you should totally join and put some photos on there- then you could be famous too. maybe even wind up with your own tv special, like cheryl tiegs or tiny tim.

coming in the next day or 2: new polo shirts in prepschool and a BRAND SPANKIN' NEW zbq shirt none of you have ever seen before (unless you're one of the dudes from the print shop, and you guys don't count). as pinhead liked to say, "i have such sights to show you..."

alternative press is go!

hello to everyone finding this site for the first time via the article which appears in the brand new issue of alternative press. if you haven't checked out AP, you really should: it's a cool magazine and the latest issue features "100 bands you need to know." the article on ZB appears on page 51 in the "AP style" section and features my glorious ugly mug in living color. it's a great interview, but i think i may have alienated a good 2/3rds of the readership when i dissed "emo haircuts" and "douchebag shirts"- when i opened the magazine all i saw were emo haircuts and douchebag shirts! ah well. if you're too lazy to go to the magazine store, click on the pic below for a full sized scan:



and in all seriousness, you should check out alternative press when you get a chance, it's a great mag. happy tuesday!

monday musings

more ms. krystle....



so that last BSG was pretty intense- that's more what i'm talkin' about! betrayal, lust, greed, violence, mental breakdown- you know, all the great things we've come to expect from the best science fiction show in history. of course, i'm pretty disappointed in boomer, but she's let everyone down before. i guess she's just following her prime directive or whatever. and what up with madame president? is she dead or what? this is heating up now folks! can't wait for friday!

of course, now i'm getting super excited for the watchmen movie, which will be released in the states this week but not sure about up here in canada. there's an imax version too, and i'm all over that. my expectations are so incredibly high that it's almost bound to disappoint on some level, but from all the trailers and clips i've seen, it looks pretty freakin' amazing. stokedefied!!