Sunday, November 1, 2009

Don't Leave Home Without It - Especially the Shirt

So I had this Thursday as a planned vacation from my day job. As you might well imagine, I had visions in my head of sleeping late, maybe watching a lot of Eastbound and Down and Flight of the Conchords, and generally doing nothing. Our curator would have none of that. She had me up bright and early, meeting to discuss credit and debit card processing. Apparently one of the ways they pay for all those "pre-screened qualifying offers" that are sent to your house is to charge merchants a flat fee per swipe, on top of taking a percentage of each transaction total. I also learned that each company charges different rates, and American Express is the most expensive. So, unless there's a gigantic uproar from people after reading this, we'll probably start out not taking the Amex or Diner's Club. Telly Savalas is rolling over in his grave.

After attending that meeting, we went to pick up our first batch of t-shirts. That's right, you too can wear what the stars, or maybe just our immediate families, wear. We've initiated production with the unisex (stop snickering because I wrote sex) version for now. It's available in three colors - grass, teal, and silver. For you men, that's green, blue, and grey. One of our family members has graciously agreed to model it for our readers.

The left side is the front, and the right side shows the back
(No dogs were harmed in the taking of this picture, just humiliated)

Pretty snazzy, huh? Here's the first of what I hope will be many more giveaways here on the blog - a t-shirt. You have until Tuesday at midnight to send an email to info at aperturecinema dot com with the correct answer to the following question:

In what local eating establishment did they film a date between Larry Burrows and Ellen in the movie Mr. Destiny?

Hint: The establishment in question has red and white tablecloths. If we get multiple correct answers, Nigel our t-shirt model will randomly pick a winner. Good luck.

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