An amazingly packaged envelope arrived in the mail yesterday from the Levi Strauss & Co. archive. I opened it up and there is a photo with a blue bandanna tied with string. On the bandanna it said. “Who was Grayson Ozias IV and where is his fortune?” Huh? I’m confused, so I hit google with “Grayson Ozias” and it returns some cryptic results like a Twitter profile, a Craigslist posting and then some PR related stuff. It seems the folks at Levi’s buried $100,000 somewhere in America and you can have a chance at discovering it via their website. After some digging (pun intended), this Ozias guy and the whole buried treasure seems to be a big ole scavenger hunt. But who couldn’t use 100K right now? Sure will buy you a lot of LVC…

Recruitment for Her Majesty’s Army is being packaged and sold as if being in the military is like playing a video game, interesting.

Part of what makes living in New York City tolerable is the fact that everyone comes through for one reason or another. This week I was lucky to hang out with one half of the Freeman Transport team, Mr. Benjamin Ferencz. We met up for lunch at Cafe Select to shoot the shit. It is especially cool to meet Ben (for the first time), since we have been emailing and talking between New York and Montana for the better part of a year. Look out for big things from Ben (who’s a fellow Selectism columnist and a helluva nice guy) and Freeman Transport in the near future.

Ever wonder what the guy that runs Selectism does on the weekends? Without comment, I offer photographic proof…