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Another year begins - so (despite being a day late) we thought what better to celebrate than with a bit of music! As Leslie said the other day the shop has grown and as a result we have a revised set of opening hours Monday      9-6pm Tuesday      9-6pm Wednesday 9-6pm Thursday     9-7pm Friday         9-6pm Saturday     9-6pm Sunday       11-6pm And of course we are still open 24/7 on our website Fat Buddha Store Fraser

Today, we released version 6 of the Fat Buddha Store website, bit cleaner, colours toned down and better use of socila icons. View the site HERE .

Business is resumed, the pesky culprits came from china-land, they managed to infect a few servers, ours were clean, but precautionary measures meant we got closed down. So, today im in a chinese-web-hacker hate mood, shame on them, anyway, normal business is resumed, along with email support.

Hey, the site will be down for most of this morning at least, the web server got hacked and as a precaution everything has been shut down. UPDATE , system scanned, clean, restarted and reinfected, so looks like it will be tonight at least, sorry. When all files have been scanned and verified as safe the site will go live again, sorry for the inconveniance. also, should have added the mail server is down aswell, so no email, so you can get me on shop telephone number 0141 332 2208

Big Al over at Big Al TV , has got himself a rather snazzy picture and a good take on a logo. Pop over and heck his blog out.

Stole this classic clip from Marks blog, someone that hates palin more than Mark seems to be this man, great clip. Also, visit Marks blog on http://www.markbuckland.org/ , hes funny, political and it makes good reading, unfortunately hes a card carrying SNP man, tut tut MArk

This is one great site, www.sneakerthings.com , 160 styles of 1/6 scale mini sneakers, Jason Marxx cleaning stuff to keep your sneakers in tip top shape. The sneakers are all 1/6 scale replicas of all your fave kicks, from Adidas, to Nike, to New Balance, all the best Nike SB's are there, from Tiffany to Stussy dunk, including the soon to be released pigeon dunk. They deliver almost next day and carry a huge range of stock, pop by the website and try them out at www.sneakerthings.com .

Hey, Big thanks to the johnny riot at http://www.riot-ink.co.uk/ for his use of the Fat Buddha image, check out his website, to see what hes all about.

Thats us now up to average 150 readers a day, so apart from you there are another 149 folk popping by today. I wondered where the visitors came from, where they all from Glasgow and people who found the blog via the website www.fatbuddhastore.com , checked the site stats and thought id show you the visitor map from yesterday, so the fat buddha readers are worldwide. 75% of traffic comes from outwith the website with Dinosauria , duncan cumming , Mark Bukland and myspace being great contributors to the website, also google searches make up great traffic numbers. We seem to be attrating 20% more readers every month and hope we offer an interesting read with something new every day, hopefully !!!! we will have some more guest posters, just need to get them onboard. Well thanks for being one of the 150 today and please fill in the survey or leave a comment. leslie

Thought id take the time and start to share some of my fave blogs and websites, i reviewed cotton petal a while ago, now its time for DJBigAlTV.com . Good blog from Al who Dj's down at Karbon at the weekend, had a look at the website http://www.karbonuk.co.uk/ , seems to be filled with the beautiful folk indeed, dont think id get in. Als Blog deals with films and his latest purchases, Nike Airmax Infrared (bas***d), i love those shoes, you can see an old skool theme in his film choices, from Ghostbusters to Waynes World. Als trusty companion is the lovely Lena, Hi to Lena, Lena is a firm believer in Daiquiri's, she once used one to end third world poverty. She also believes that children are the future and she wants to treat them well and let them lead the way, she wants to show them all the beauty they possess inside. So ad http://www.djbigalltv.com/ to your faves list and check back for regular updates.

Zoo York was the surprise hit for the store this summer, 95% sell through at full price, great stuff when you compare it with Addict 26% & MHI 15%, indeed quite a difference. Price is obviously a key seperator, Zoo York T's all come in at £20 against £30/£40 but the prints on Zoo York T's were really strong. Just been to see the range for next summer and its the best range ive seen out of all the brands we have coming in, not just T's, Sweats, Zippers, Hoodies, Shirts, Jackets & Hats. We have a limited drop of Zoo York coming into us in August so when it drops do not sleep on it as we only have 1 of a size coming in. It began in the early '70s in the undisputed center of the universe, New York City. Championed by a tight-knit crew of progressive minds who lived and breathed NYC's raw creative energy, a unique social movement began to take root that was strongly influenced by NYC's unforgiving streets and colorful weave of global flavors. The Soul Artist...

Hi, Decided to try a few pieces of Puma footwear, not entirely convinced its as good as it was a few years back but the cabana racer & RS100 are good looking shoes, next years range is pretty top stuff, good use of materials and some nice variations of the Clyde shoe. So watch this space and pop into store to see the puma shoes.  Right thought id treat you to a lil bit of Puma info, brought to from the site that is Wikepedia , now that is some resource, so much info all in the one place, fab. History Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik Christoph Dassler was a worker in Big Dogs shoe factory, while his wife Pauline ran a small laundry in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach , 20 kilometres from the city of Nuremberg . Their son Rudolf Dassler after leaving school joined his father at the shoe factory, and was then called up to fight in World War I . On his return from the front, Rudolf took a management position at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather wholesale business in Nure...

Hi, Noticed that since we started posting this blog regularly we have had 920 hits in 6 weeks as opposed to 405 in the first 5 months. To conitinue on this theme i have enlisted the help of more of the Fat Buddha crew to keep the content regular and the topice diverse. Tuesday - Our Blogger will be our favourite sponsored toy customiser Dinosauria (thomas), what Thomas does not know about toys and Customising aint worth kowing, hell be telling you about new releases and his work in progress, visit him at http://www.dinosauria.co.uk/ . Thursday - Mark Buckland, Writer, club night promoter, publisher, Fat Buddha worker and all round nice guy will be imparting his pearls of wisdom to you, his writing is sharp and his political comentries can draw blood. Saturday - Young Calum Gilmartin, Sunday Boy will for the day stop chasing all the underage girls of ayrshire, stop his Graffiti and post a few of his favourite things, word from the street, ha. Sunday - Janice, my older sister and the pe...

New Era Hats are the original fitted cap, made from wool and made the same way they always have been, we stock them in FB and they sell well, we have more in store than online, so feel free to pop by.

Just a message to all out loyal web customers, you now provide 25% of all our business, we ship 98% of orders same day and deliver 95% of orders next day. We get on average 700 unique visitors every day and around 30 people a day read this blog, the numbets continue to grow. We are introducing a loyalty programme, linked in with your orders where you will start getting discounts and money of future purchases, this should start to happen within 3 months. On the rarer releases like Kikstyo & Kid Robot we will be keeping stock by specifically for websales, so hopefully all the loyal web customers will get a chance to purchase the good shit. Fat Buddha is now 21 months old and be will be doing some really good sale prices next week to celebrate this event, kiss the girl, shes a woman now. So, big thank you to y'all and keep on shopping like theres no credit crunch.

Here is the launch of www.cottonpetal.co.uk , michelle has a passion for art and loves working with fabrics, adores rampaging through charity shops on the hunt for bargains. Michelle got her other half to build her website, and didn't he do a good job, the plush seems to be having somewhat of a resurgence these days, and please visit the site and checkout the rest of the images.

For all you people who love toys, Thomas Aka Dinosauria has redone his website, all hand drawn buttons and images were used, if you love Dino's toy customs then y are in for a treat as we now get to witbness some of his sketches for the first time and they do not disappoint. Taking over the Dino theme the sketches are cute but mix Diuno's love of zombie horror flicks, goto http://www.dinosauria.co.uk/ to check out his work. Taken from the website is this lil piece of info Welcome to the webhome of Dinosauria. I'm a craftsperson based mainly in the urban/vinyl toy scene though I do still do the odd canvas when I have the time. My background is in graphic design and fine art. I decided to take a break from art after university and on my return to painting I discovered the Munny and Dunny and I've not looked back since. I'm available for private, corporate and whimsical commission work. Drop me an email if there's anything you need help with. The Legend of Dinosa...

Well, this week has seen us become victim to a nefarious SQL injection attack, those pesky folk hacking websites, brought our site down. My web guy asked me had i pissed anyone off or had any enemies that would want to bring the site down. Well, it was easier to work out who my friends were rather than enemies. So site is back, re-coded it, changed data input, stuck on some padlocks for good measure and we are back in action. http://www.experts-exchange.com/ , this is one heck of a site, the knowledge level here is pretty high and provided us with a starting point to fixing the site, but to be fair Brian at http://www.brianwatson.co.uk/ came up with his own take on hte matter and fixed the thing