Southern Sass: UD | This Is What a Weekend Looks Like

1.17.2013

UD | This Is What a Weekend Looks Like

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01/17/13

Few weekends try for best ever, and this is one of those.

PERK ALERT

33% Off Nice Things for Your Body

First, we’d like you to undress. And then accept a bonus $50 toward clothes from Gant, McNairy and more at the online handsomeness shop Wittmore. Next, pick out some nifty water-and-wind-repellent pants and coats for over 30% off. And for the final touch: slide on these HD-video-camera-equipped sunglasses. There. You’re set.


411:	Dapper apparel and accessories from Wittmore; weather-resistant clothes from Proof; HD-camera-equipped sunglasses from Pivothead

BOTTLE ROCKET

Just a Comically Nice Bottle Opener

You might think you need a bottle opener this weekend. Wrong. What you actually need is this despicably handsome, handmade piece of cap-slaying art cut from a single piece of solid brass. For two reasons. One: only 144 exist in the world. Two: that 1974 vintage High Life ain’t opening itself.


411:	J.L. Lawson & Co. Brass XIV Bottle Opener, show no mercy to your cold ones here

CAN’T REFUSE

You: Driving Sonny Corleone’s Car

If you’re in the market for a four-wheeled cinematic treasure (and who isn’t these days), good news: the 1941 Lincoln Continental Coupe James Caan drove in The Godfather is up for auction today. It still looks just like it did in the tollbooth scene. Yes, they’ve fixed the bullet holes.


411:	Bonhams 1941 Lincoln Continental Coupe auction, raise your virtual bidding stick here

ON POINT

The Sharpest Nonlethal Knife Ever Made

Back in seafaring times, sailors were given knives without points so they couldn’t stab one another. Now in modern times, Best Made is giving you just such a thickly edged knife, mounted on solid rosewood. It’s great if you’ve got some rope to cut. Terrible if you’ve got enemies to shank.


411:	Best Made Rigging Knife, sharpen your pirate skills here

HELLO OPERATOR

Looking Good on the Slopes for 25% Less

When forced to choose between looking more excellent in Vail or possessing slightly more disposable income, there’s only one logical option: Owner Operator’s annual 25%-off-the-whole-damn-store sale. Just peruse their pages of NYC-made skiwear superiority, pay less than normal and proceed to looking 100% more awesome. Hell, maybe even do some skiing.


411:	Owner Operator Winter Sale, use the code “WINTER25” here

WORTH THE WAITS

A Rare Pictorial Ode to Tom Waits

Anton Corbijn: famous for his black-and-white photographs of rock stars. Tom Waits: famous for his looking unspeakably badass in them. And now there’s a whole book of pictures Corbijn took of Waits over the past 30 years. Plus a bunch of other photos Waits took. And no songs Anton sung.