Tons of love to Annie Shepard--one of our first ever customers and first ever volunteers--for keeping in touch from NY, NY, and for sharing some of our April 2011 Lookbook images on her blog project, Neon Mamacita. Check out Annie's great style here:

If you've got a blog, please share the wonder and strangeness that is Golden Rule with your readers (and let us know when you have so we can send you some behind the scenes love)! We need all the exposure we can get to keep on keeping on. Xo!

Amazing photographer Lisa Warninger, the woman behind Portland's Urban Weeds street style blog, gave us mad props in this Willamette Week Q&A session! We're feeling supremely honored to be listed as one of her favorite places to shop in town! If you haven't had a chance to check out Urban Weeds, please do, and if you've got great style, get in touch with Lisa!

Tons of thanks to Lisa for this shout out, and, particularly for letting us know about the shout out. In spite of our diligent efforts to scan Google Analytics and to program Google Alerts to keep track of our press, with a name as common as Golden Rule, it's been getting pretty hard to catch everything. If you're a member of the blog or print press who's covered us, let us know!

Tedd Nash Pomaski, whose work you may remember from Golden Rule's January showing, has received a huge honor! His show at Bose Pacia in Brooklyn, New York was recently featured in Artforum! Congratulations to Tedd!

Golden Rule is fortunate enough to have a number of Tedd Nash Pomaski holdings in our collection, so please forward all purchase inquiries to Wynde Dyer by email: info@goldenruleportland.com or by telephone: (503) 477-5125.

Tons of love and thanks to Vivian Hua and Redefine Magazine for the AMAZING feature on An Invitation to Sleep! RAD!

If you want to spend the night, please come in SOON and fill out a sleep request form! Space is filling up fast, so get here fast!

Tons of thanks to Ultra Arts Portland and PORT for sneaking in listings about our An Invitation to Sleep at the very last minute.

Megan Driscoll and Michelle Weidman, we are hugely appreciative of your support of our show and our gallery! Thanks again!

Huge thanks to The Portland Mercury, Ultra Arts Portland, PORT and ms.ms.pdx for including Tedd Nash Pomaski's opening in their First Friday picks for January. Hope to see everyone tonight at the opening from 7-10 p.m.

This show is heavy on process and on product. Come out tonight at meet the artist, Brooklyn-based Tedd Nash Pomaski. He'll be in town until Sunday, if you have any questions about his work at Golden Rule or his concurrent show at Bose Pacia.

We are really just awful when it comes to letting the press know about our monthly showcases and monthly sales. We kind of just sit back here and do our thing and wait for people to stumble in and maybe take advantage of it. Good thing Eden Dawn, who writes the Shop Talk Blog for Portland Monthly Magazine was one of the folks who stumbled in during our $5 pile!

Eden's coverage of our $5 pile had a SERIOUS impact on the size of that pile, which has shrunk and grown over the course of December (yes, it's still there, yes, there's new stuff in it daily). We've had our best month of sales yet, and I'm pretty sure at least some of those customers came in with intention based on the Shop Talk blog coverage. Note to self: send press releases.

Our friend (yes, she's a friend--more on this later) Anne Adams at the Portland Monthly has done it again, that thing she does where she somehow knows what we're up to before we can even send off a press release and then somehow gives us event coverage all fast like (maybe someone should tell me about this RSS feed stuff, I think it might have something to do with that). If you haven't checked out Culturephile, please do so. In person she is perhaps the wittiest person I know. Like, everything she says sounds like it should be on a snarky sitcom. Like, "Did you practice that?" In writing she's even better. Maybe because she can practice it? Anyway, if you're doing something in the arts/music/culture world, I send your press releases to her. She's rad. And by rad I mean as a person and also as a journalist who gives coverage based on worthiness as opposed to coolness.

As a former journalist myself, I actively try to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest in coverage, you know. But Anne's got a good way to draw the ethical line in the sand. She says something like (of course she says it better because she is really good with words), "I ask myself, 'Is this an important going-on that's worthy of coverage? Would it still be an important going-on that would be worthy of coverage if I wasn't friends with this person? Will people find out about this important going on if I don't cover it? Should Culturephile be the first to cover this important going on we have inside information on?" The relationship between these answers is, I guess, how Anne decides what to cover and what not to cover. And I suspect with Portland being such a small town and having been here as many years as she's been here, she probably has to ask those questions a lot.

If you haven't checked out the Portland Mercury yet this week, we were really honored to get a huge shout out from art writer Matt Stangel in his, "Between Two Escalators," piece about the Pioneer Place Mall Occupation we're participating in.

With all the incredible art featured in this exhibit (in particular, please see Emily Nachinson's piece at Place, and Insa Evans piece “Untitled (Lost Time)” at Store) it's really super awesome that my piece, "I Knew You Pt. 1 (Dear James)" got mentioned.

We keep getting referrals from some blog called The New Age. Today we found this. We're very curious who's blog this is!

These are Ronit's photos of Catherine wearing clothes made by Project Grow's artist Tess Bidelspach. But who's blog is it?