We’re about a week behind on all things entertainment (mom came out for her first west coast visit), but please forgive us for not shouting from the rooftops in celebration of Broad City‘s season three premiere last week.

There’s a lot of great TV out there right now, but I nonetheless stand by the opinion that this is the best, smartest, funniest comedy on television. The season premiere started out with one the best stand-alone intros to date, showing a montage of bathroom hilarity. You can see it below, and head to Broad City’s Comedy Central page to see more clips, full episodes, and a behind the scenes clip from the intro.

A shout-out to El Matador State Beach in Malibu, our go-to beach when we want to impress east coast guests.

We’ll add this to our portfolio proper in the near future, but wanted to share the new brochure we did for Yosemite-based Balanced Rock. They’re a great client with a touching backstory (which we wrote up a while back).

Find out more about them and book a visit on their site.

Shooting our store the other day for general social media promotion and couldn’t resist sharing this shot of our (new) store cat, Maki, endorsing some vegan bags from Canadian company, Matt & Nat.

I have a rule that I can’t start using a new work notebook until I somehow decorate the title page.

Happily just broke this new, bright yellow Moleskin in.

Just got the cutest of cards from one of our favorite illustrators and letterpress mavens Jane Buck at Brooklyn’s Foxy + Winston.

You can see more of Jane’s work and shop her cards, textiles, and other adorable gifts via F+W’s site.

Some awesome branding and brand new logo pins from our favorite coffee shop in Los Angeles, Woodcat.

Woodcat—an old slang term used for ‘rabbit’ when speakers didn’t wish to bring about the bad luck associated with saying the animal’s proper name (weird)—is located in Echo Park and run by an old friend of ours from my touring days, Saadat Awan and his wife, Janine, a talented artist and graphic designer and the one responsible for the shop’s branding. And this awesome new pin they now sell.

Woodcat serves Wrecking Ball Coffee outta SF and they hands-down make the best soy latte in town. Give em a go.

Untitled, 2010 by Italian/American artist Rudolf Stingel, a 132 x 180 3/4 in. piece which can’t accurately be captured photographically—you need to experience its presence in person. Stengel painted this Alpine scene and then left the massive canvas on the floor of his studio for months as he and others walked across the surface of it before declaring it finished.

Untitled, 2010 is on view nowat The Broad.

Wall-jumping outtake from a photoshoot we ran yesterday.

Once, in a happily naive time not long ago, I sung the praises of a certain soap far and wide. That soap—Grandpa’s Pine Tar Soap—is a deep, rich brown and something about its smokey, pine-rich musk just fundamentally soothes me. I can’t explain it exactly, but for years, it was my must-have soap, to the point of bringing it with me on weekend trips so as not to be without it.

Then, I realized that the primary ingredient in Grandpa’s Pine Tar Soap is derived from palm oil; tropical-forest razing, orangutan-killing palm oil. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, ask this panda bear for more details, but, basically, the flourishing palm oil industry is very directly linked to massive deforestation, tropical habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty, indigenous rights abuses in the (now many) countries in which it’s produced. Many people, myself included, think that even supposedly ethically sourced palm oil is troublesome due to both lack of oversight and demand on non-ethical, mainstream palm oil generated by the ethical streams.

So. It’s bad.

I’d long avoiding it in foods (including in vegan butter), but hadn’t ever considered it might be in other products. Like my beloved soap. So it’s been a long, sad time since I’ve experienced that pine-tar-induced euphoria.  Thanks to Katie, I’ve got a new fix, man.

Los Angeles-based, Texas-inspired lighting specialists and apothecary Jones County Road makes, among other things, a Campfire Hand and Body Bar that matches if not exceeds that euphoric shower experience I so missed. And the small-batch, hand-crafted soap is totally palm oil free. As they put it:

“The Jones County Road mission is simple: to provide an alternative to the overly manufactured merchandise of our time by bringing handcrafted and expertly designed products into the everyday home. Mixing cues from its headquarters in Los Angeles with its roots in small-town Texas, the Jones County Road aesthetic is both classic and modern as well as functional and unique. Everything at Jones County Road is carefully crafted by hand with top-quality materials.”

Which makes perfect sense in my case—JCR gave me both a wonderful alternative to a mass-produced favorite and the opportunity to support a small, local business.

You can order the company’s products via their site or find their soaps at General Quarters on La Brea, one of my favorite menswear shops in town.

More importantly, you can sign the pledge to stop buying palm oil and find out more at saynotopalmoil.com.