Sweden won the World Junior Championships in overtime tonight for their first gold medal since 1981. The Swedish announcers were very excited. I like sports.
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ATTENTION EVERYONE: I’m selling this hot pair of ski boots and you know you want to buy them. Would be a kickass Christmas present for your girlfriend, your roommate, your mom (no seriously, your mom) or yourself.
Here are two photos, one with bonus me-as-a-toddler-on-Christmas pic in the background, and here are the deets:
- MAKE: Salomon Rush 8.0 boot, the 2006 model.
- 2006 MODEL? AREN’T THOSE SUPER OLD AND THUS BAD?: No way. When I bought them I anticipated they’d be my boots 4 lyfe. I only wore them for one and a half seasons before realizing they were about a half-size too big for me. So I splurged on custom boots on Surefoot (TREAT YO SELF) because I ski a ton every year and it was worth it. But if they hadn’t been too big, I’d still be happily wearing them, no question.
- ALSO: Even if you don’t ski THAT much, owning boots will make a big difference, because unlike rental skis, which are generally pretty decent, there are some BAD rental boots out there. Also most boot bags fit in airplane overheads.
- SIZE: 24, which would most likely be best for women with size 7, 7.5, or small-8 feet. (I have a very small and narrow size 7 foot, and they were just sliiiiightly too big for me which was usually fine and only got annoying when I was skiing more aggressively. I ended up going down to a 23.5 boot, just for reference, but a more regular-size-7-footed person, or a more casual skier, would find they work just fine.) (If someone makes fun of that preceding parenthetical aside I will murder them dead. IT’S CYBER MONDAY AND I’M JUST TRYING TO CYBER HERE.)
- COLOR: Navy-ish. Not flashy but not drab either. You can see a good online photo of them here with further “specs” and more detailed description.
- OTHER: They have an awesome warm and comfortable “CustomFit Sport Liner” that you can, if you want, take to a store and have them heat up and it will mold to your feet.
- COST: Hmm … I dunno, $50-70 bucks, basically best offer? Similar boots on eBay seem to be listed for the $65-70ish range. I honestly just want these to go to a good home because I have warm feelings toward them and am genuinely sorry it didn’t work out between us. I’ve had them stored in a box since Christmas 2008 because I didn’t want to get rid of them. I even moved them across the country! Anyway, just make me an offer and if you seem nice I’ll probably accept it.
- SMALL PRINT: you’ll have to pay shipping regardless but that’s expected, right? If you’re totally unhappy or they totally don’t fit or totally whatever else I’ll refund your whole purchase, including shipping, if you take care of the shipping back to me (so basically you’d just be out one-way shipping) just as long as it’s within, like, I dunno, six weeks and not six months.
Anyway. Someone buy these! They’re great boots and in great shape. I’d be happy to answer any further questions or provide further photos. My email is katiebakes at gmail. Hit me up. Shred on shredding on.
Anonymous asked: where the hell is the page to send you questions for the bake shop!?
Hopefully I’ll be getting a dedicated email address for BAKE SHOP questions sometime soon, but for now you can either send to triangle at grantland dot com (the official way) or to me at katiebakes at gmail dot com (the more direct way, but carries with it the high probability that I’ll lose your email in my completely shambles inbox.)
Wrote three things for Grantland this week:
- My hockey column COLDHEARTED (I’m not even sure if they’re callling it that anymore but I refuse to let the name go) which this week discusses the New York Rangers, the fact that the Islanders’ jersey-creation department is in need of an intervention, the Hall of Fame inductees, the new GOON trailer, and how the Boston Bruins are testing the league, and no one is passing;
- Latest mailbag, the most important subject in which is a comparison between BLACK SWAN and COUNTRY STRONG; and
- Goalies of the Week, one of whom, thanks to an embarrassing point-blank miss by Nashville’s Craig Smith, is “the empty net.”
Anyway, all that pales in comparison to some of the amazing work done this week on Grantland, including Jonathan Abrams’ feature on the murder of Tayshana Murphy, a high school basketball sensation in Harlem; The Art of Fielding author Chad Harbach on the Milwaukee Brewers, and a genius “anti-profile” of Justin Blackmon by Brian Phillips.
And if you haven’t been following the Penn State-related writing of Michael Weinreb, who grew up in State College, PA, you can catch up on it all here. It’s thoughtful, conflicted, and heartbreaking.
A client I was doing a logo for, expressing some subjectivist existentialism. (via clientsfromhell)
Sounds like someone needs a lil visit from THE PAINT WHISPERER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much to David Cho for introducing this to us all. Kind of weirded out by how much the Biebs’ voice has changed since I last heard him in “Baby” but the fantastic key changes here more than make up for it.
Hey Katie, how’s Frisco?
The worst part is, I think I’ll now be flying into DURANGO instead. Suchhhhh a long drive.
I’ve been so blindly consumed by hockey that I’ve kind of been … not IGNORING the NBA lockout, per se, but just not getting all that upset about it at this point. But every time I watched this commercial today (and “every time” added up to a lot of times) I got really, really sad :(
