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Image courtesy of Funemployment blog.

A fancy media outlet has asked us to help wrangle people who are on unemployment and “making it work.” Bonus if you’re part of a group of similarly economizing friends or housemates. Oh the demands of lifestyle trend stories! If this is your situation, and you and your brokester commune-mates want to be profiled in a major media feature, send an email to faye [at] brokelyn.com and I’ll put you in touch.

Images courtesy of Irene Block.

It doesn’t quite seem quite right that someone as talented as art director Irina Blok is actually looking for work, but the creator of a clever new “Funemployed” tshirt and button line lives in SF—so maybe things are even worse out there. Despite being a West Coaster she’s the Brokelyn hero of the week for her new custom-printed résumé tshirts ($50 a piece) and lapel pins (just $2) created for “people that still have sense of humor about the situation.” A new mantra for the nouveau poor: “I buy caviar with food stamps.” [via Josh Spear] Read the rest of this entry »