Southern Sass: UD | This Weekend Involves Steve Martin. And Jerky.

6.06.2013

UD | This Weekend Involves Steve Martin. And Jerky.

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06/06/13

This is the weekend your parents warned you about.

PERK ALERT

Leather. Paul McCartney. Perks.

For Dad: 1) Exclusive, mantel-worthy leather baseballs, basketballs and footballs. 2) Vintage-style artwork of his favorite pastimes, framed and 50% off. 3) VIP tickets to Paul McCartney’s sold-out show at Fenway. Actually, this could all be for you, too...


411:	Leather Head Sports gear; framed art from Americanflat; VIP tickets to Paul McCartney at Fenway Park

JERK STORE

This Jerky Will Blow Your Mind

Cows in Japan have it great. Wide-open pastures. Belly massages every day. A steady diet of beer (seriously). What they don’t have: the ability to eat some curiously spiced Kobe beef jerky. Because that’s cannibalism. And cows can’t use Kickstarter.


411:	Kobe Red Jerky, Kickstart your Kobe jerky obsession here

SPONSORED MESSAGE

OF BULLS AND BEARS

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411:	The Economist, get your first 12 weeks for $15 here

DRY HARD

What’s Big in Beach Towels...

According to a recent fake survey, the most important beachside accessories are 1) cold beer, 2) sunscreen and 3) a mind-blowingly soft and absorbent towel made of 100% linen from Outlier. Here’s how you get #3.


411:	Outlier Grid Linen Towel, don’t forget your towel here

FLASK JEEVES

A Perfect Flask for Dad. Or You.

There’s a copper-smithing operation in Indiana called Jacob Bromwell. There’s a leather-crafting workshop in Denver called Winter Session. And there’s a reason we’re telling you this. Because they’ve joined forces to make one unreasonably perfect, pure-copper hip flask swaddled in leather. And because you enjoy drinking, presumably.


411:	Jacob Bromwell x Winter Session Flask, drink with handsome covertness here

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Opening Ceremony. Big Sale. Very Big.

Those guys at Opening Ceremony. Always ahead of the style curve. And apparently, what’s in style next is giving you up to 50% off the likes of Gitman Bros., Band of Outsiders, Pendleton, Alexander Wang and other pillars of textile enhancement that rarely go on sale. This is what’s known as a “good idea.”


411:	Opening Ceremony Sale, discover what this “sale” trend is all about here

MY FAVORITE MARTIN

Buying Steve Martin’s Villa

Steve Martin. Damn good actor. Especially in everything but Sgt. Bilko. Damn good taste, too—take his cliffside villa in St. Barts, for instance. No, really—take it. Oceanfront infinity pool, Balinese-style gazebo and all. Because it’s now for sale. Presumably to finance The Pink Panther 3. Genius.