A quickie post for the weekend.

1. If you haven't heard by now, Clamor Magazine (who btw just merged with Altar Magazine) has a great set of articles on American Apparel. After AA read them, they threw Clamor to the lawyers. You can read the pieces right now if you want and you should. You can ALSO subscribe and get Clamor delivered to your home for only $15 if you ack now! And yes, after years of ignoring Clamor (I have enough mags to read!) I caved after reading the AA pieces. I gotta give it up for them.

In the past 3 years I have bought over 500 t-shirts for an organization I work for. About a year ago I decided that I needed to seek out a sweatshop free tee. Well all my vendors could offer was AA. I hemmed and hawed over it. I asked the vendor about the allegations against AA. They waved them off like they were flies. I went with a sweatshop tee. My logic was that if I was going to change the system, I didn't want to support the largest American based company who oh, happens, to also reek of slime.

And yes, I forgive all the progressive companies out there that bought shitload of AA sutom clothing before the allegations came out. If they continue to buy from them, well, then a talk has to happen.

2. The Dixie Chicks just sent an email out saying that they are only one week away from breaking the VH1 record for number of weeks at #1 on their Top 20 countdown. If you want to vote, just head on over and create your own Top 20.

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