OC Fair!

People in Southern California are always trying to associate themselves with Los Angeles. Even if they live 45 minutes away they wanna say LA this, and LA that and rightfully so. Los Angeles is the home of many great things from the Lakers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and even the LA Lakers. However here in Orange County we too have something that is untouchable by the folks in LA county, and that is the Orange County Fair. Whether its deep fried Twinkies, the worlds largest horse, or rides that are on the verge of breaking at any moment, you will be hard to find a dull moment when you are there.

Now, the best part about the fair has to be the stupid carnival games. It is widely accepted that these are the most rigged and fixed contests you could possibly be a part of, but that machismo/heterosexuality in all of us men makes us think that we can somehow beat the odds. With a little dumb luck and a plastic card with “tickets” on it you can try and walk out of the place with a stuffed animal that only cost you $140.00 to win, when in reality you wouldn’t pay $20.00 for it in any store or gift shop.

It’s not even about the stuffed animal, it’s about walking around with this giant dead deer hanging over your shoulders. As men we are there hunting, the stuffed animal represent the food we are bringing back to our women, showing them our ability to provide and take care of them. It’s all a sham though, and somehow I got caught up in it.

Ok, now seriously, look at that form….. rigged or not, no hoop can stop me.

The dead carcass I’m taking home to my woman!

After I showed my dominance in basketball, the boys started talking about going on some rides. The fair has rides that make you sick just from watching them. I personally wouldn’t get on half of the shit they have there for almost any amount of money. Ken felt the same way, he said “hell no!” to almost every ride we walked by. The thing was Calvin or Vincent or someone had free ride passes, so you just can’t throw away free ride passes can you??? Never being one to stray away from prop bets, (ex. Thomas and the buffalo wing experiment) I quickly began to probe Ken as to how much it would take to ride the Starship 2000 immediately after tanking a large beer. We agreed on $100.00 and headed over to the ride.

As we walked up to the ride, a debate was growing amongst us about what was the craziest ride in the park. After it seemed like no one could agree, I walked up to the guy who was working the Starship and told him about the bet and what we were looking for, he immediately pointed to what looked like a 500 foot tall crane that just plummeted in circles for what seemed like 5 minutes. We all agreed and walked to Ken’s ride.

The ride operator, yeah real assuring smile there buddy…..

I wish you could see how fast the thing went…..

Winner!!!!

Joe

“FRSH”

Online Sale Has Begun!

The online sale is now up, and product is moving. So if there is something in particular you want, make sure you get it before someone else does. Just like our new fish friends, this deal WONT last!!!!

Hurry, if not for us, then for the few fish we have left that are surely doomed.

Joe

“FRSH”

Happy B-Day LuLu! 30% Off Everything Online!!

Today is my daughter’s 7th birthday. Aw! But to celebrate we will be showering all of YOU with gifts!

Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 23rd, FOR ONE DAY ONLY, we will be discounting EVERYTHING in our entire online store. EVERYTHING! That means our Limited Edition Fafa Hats, our new Summer Shorts which just came in and are already OUTRAGEOUSLY cheap to begin with, our ENTIRE Summer Line which is still in shops as we speak! EVERYTHING WILL BE ON SALE!!

The sale will begin tomorrow morning (Wednesday July 23rd) at 11AM Pacific Standard Time and will last for 24 Hours, ending at 11AM PST on Thursday July 24th. All you have to do is go to our our Online Store at http://francoshade.bigcartel.com/ and enter the coupon code QUITTERS before you complete your checkout and you will receive a 30% discount on EVERYTHING. It’s that easy!

DON’T SLEEP! THIS SALE IS FOR ONE DAY ONLY!!

Happy Birthday LuLu! And YOU’RE WELCOME to all you GREEDY MOTHERFUCKERS!!

Arlo

“FRSH”

Crosscheck Hoodie / Return of Sea Life

One of our premiere pieces for Fall came in a bit early today. We won’t be shipping our Fall 08 production until Mid August, but I figured we might as well give you a look at the Crosscheck Hoodie.

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Bird Feed Shorts ON SALE!!!!

It’s funny, we have had some cool feedback since our history post yesterday but a couple of things were brought to my attention. One being that our own Matt Andrews was left out of the entire history, maybe it was because of the “Drew Matthews vs Matt Andrews” post from a few days ago or just me being really jealous of Matt’s infomercial abs, I somehow forgot. I will get to Matt next week, but for now to the skinny vegan kid complaining in our comment section about being left out. Well Nicholas, we did NAME these shorts after you and your vegan ways.

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Welcome Derek / Not So Brief History of Franco Shade

We brought in a new intern today, Derek. He wants to be a doctor, more specifically a psychologist. As Arlo told Derek when he first came in for an interview, “there are plenty of heads to shrink around here”.

As Tui started to give Derek the introduction we give all new people who come to Franco, I looked over at Thomas (our original intern) and I started to think about all the different people who have been around and where the brand has come from.

People always ask me about the history, and the truth is I don’t have the time to really get in depth today, but I did dig up some photos to assemble an impromptu Franco Shade family tree.

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Just Another Day, Visits from Rachard and Daveee!

Rachard and Nicole came by. Unfortunately almost all of Summer is sold out already. We have a couple of refills coming in this week so Rachard asked if anymore product comes in to “PLEASE” set aside anything in his size. Will do.

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Congrats Charles Dolan!

So it is has been a while since I have made a blog, I mean Arlo is doing a great job and he’s really motivated to keep it updated with new content daily. To know why, you have to know a little bit about Arlo. The truth is we can’t go a day without Arlo and his face appearing in every blog update, wether it’s him riding horses in Texas posing like a cowboy or at Detroit for the 154th week in a row trying to fit in with all the girls almost 17 years younger than him, the truth is we have all been seeing A LOT of Arlo D. Eisenberg, and he would have it no other way.

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So Gay!

I’m working on new T Shirt graphics. In an ideal world I would be doing this a lot more often, but in a small company you have to wear a lot of hats. So instead of whiling away my days drawing smiling penises and masturbating monkeys I end up spending a lot of my time reviewing purchase orders and calling vendors instead.

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Happy iPhone Day!

To keep up with the ever changing times, I’ve gone and made a nice little webclip icon for francoshade.com. Whats a webclip you ask?  Well my child it’s a nice little icon for your shiny new iPhone. How do I get and use the webclip icon? Its simple really, get yourself an iPhone and hop on over to this here website. When its done loading on your superfast 3g iphone hit the + button in the bottom menu of the screen, then choose to “add to home screen”. Then just click the Add button in the top right of the next screen and you should be taken out of your browser to your springboard and see your fancy new webclip icon. BTW you should see a nice little favicon in your browser too.

Drew

“FRSH”