When I was about ten years old, I found a super cool button on the street. On it was a picture of a smiling balloon surrounded by hearts. It didn’t make a lot of sense to me, but not much back then did anyway (it was the late ’80s). Despite this, I decided to pin it on my jean jacket and wear it around town. It wasn’t until about five days later – days in which I had gone to school, grocery shopping and to the mall, and attended a friend’s piano recital – that my mom finally noticed what was adorning my jacket. And just like that, my button of the friendly balloon – which turned out to actually be a smiling condom with the caption “No Glove, No Love!” beneath it – was yanked from my jacket and whisked out of my life forever. [click to continue…]
gloves
Because I am Nerdy Von Nerdstein, when I saw the Foxgloves Gardening Gauntlet, my first thought wasn’t about how great they’d be for tackling rose bushes and prickly weeds. It was how awesome they’d be for a costume at a renaissance fair, Comic Con or if you had a part time job as the hawk tamer at Medieval Times. (Random Trivia: The hawk at my local Medieval Times is named “Lady Guinevere”. Bonus Trivia: I’m only slightly ashamed that I know that info.)
Even if you’re not the type who dreams of slapping a gauntlet across someone’s face and challenging them to a sword duel (and I feel sad for your lack of nerdy imagination), the Foxgloves Gardening Gauntlet has many uses for you. I guess. [click to continue…]
Fastcap Skins Gloves are my new favorite pair of gloves. And not just because FastCap is one of our new sponsors for 2010! Up until recently, I often reached for the rubber/cotton blue gloves you can find at big box stores everywhere. The only problem is, the rubber on those gloves is super thick. Like many men who practice safe gardening, when I wear anything with rubber, I like it thin, otherwise you lose all that great gardening sensation. See where I’m going with this? [click to continue…]
There’s a lot of trial and error in the land of home renovations, improvement and all-around handyman-ness. Because of that, it’s important to be as safe as possible – nobody wants those errors to result in a bodily injury that could affect your ability to give someone the finger. If you don’t already have a good pair of gloves, allow us to recommend the Youngstown Cut-Resistant Kevlar-Lined (Kevlar!) Work Gloves.
It needs to be said in big capital shouty letters – these gloves are cut-resistant, NOT CUT PROOF. Don’t test this by purposely putting your hand on the moving blade of the Milwaukee Sawzall or into a Blendtec (“Will It Blend?” Yes, yes it will) or, for frak’s sake, shooting yourself in the hand. Don’t do it.
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