Southern Sass: UD | This Weekend: Pinups, Ghost Peppers and a Ridiculously Nice Dog Whistle

2.23.2012

UD | This Weekend: Pinups, Ghost Peppers and a Ridiculously Nice Dog Whistle

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02/23/12

The weekend hates losing even more than it wants to win.

PERK ALERT

Badass Stationery, Guitars and Jeans

You want to send the right message—when passing along your card or imparting a few four-letter bons mots—so we're hooking you up with 30% off smartly engraved cards from Terrapin Stationers. Plus, 55% off big-name guitars and 30% off selvage jeans from Nashville.


411:	Terrapin Stationers; Hello Music; Imogene + Willie

CENTERFOLD

Vintage Pinups. On Your Walls.

Behold: $20 million worth of vintage pinups. Okay, it's not all vintage pinups—this auction also includes work from the likes of Norman Rockwell—but still: original paintings and drawings from classic Playboy illustrators Gil Elvgren and Alberto Vargas. Your walls deserve this.


411:	Illustration Art Signature Auction, get pinned up here

PLAYING WITH FIRE

The Hottest Cookbook of All Time

Fact: it's not real food if it can't make you cry. Hence this 100-page e-cookbook devoted to foods with the ultrahot ghost pepper. We're talking wings fried in ghost pepper oil, chocolate truffles infused with ghost chili, that kind of thing. You might want to stock up on milk.


411:	Cooking with Napalm, set yourself on fire here

MY LEFF FOOT

Just a Ton of Handsome Shoes

You don't need a reason to up your wingtip arsenal, but here's one anyway: NYC's expert shoemakers Leffot just launched an online shop. You can pick up some handmade loafers, saddle shoes, Wolverine boots and maybe a nice leather belt to match. Beats going barefoot.


411:	Leffot, get some sole here

STAMPED

Something Else for Your Wall

For any leftover wall space after your massive pinup acquisition: this rotating online gallery of limited-edition prints from painters, illustrators for magazines, etc. It works like this: each artist is featured for about two months. You buy something you like. You hang it on your wall. You accept compliments graciously.


411:	Stampa, curate your home museum here

BLOWHARD

Maybe the Nicest Dog Whistle on Earth

We'll come right out and say it: you will never, ever need this. And yet... kind of amazing. A dog whistle modeled after the kind used by British shepherds, who fashioned their originals out of tobacco tins. Border collie sadly not included.