I’m sure they do great work, but just from a marketing standpoint…how about Two Big Men With Regular-Sized Hearts?
Also, dude, why are you moving my piano like a circus strongman??? It’s really not necessary. Just do it normal.
Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more.... More by Lindy West
Howabout no heart- medium or small, but instead a humongous… um, you know…
Cardiomegaly is no joke! Nor are the liability issues associated with having your moving guy’s heart explode when he tries to lift your furniture over his head.
With a heart THAT big he can’t help carry that piano over his head. I just wish he had a handlebar mustache.
@2 beat me to it.
Lindy, it’s weird… I know these guys have been there for months now, but I was finally inspired to take a picture this morning myself. Weird right? From a marketing standpoint, I think these guys are genius. Wonderful job of setting themselves apart from the rest of the movers out there, and I wouldn’t think they are as shyste as other movers.
Use those strap things, for god’s sake …
@ 5 – Yah, there’s some strange Slog wind a-blowin’ with this post.. I just saw these guys for the first time a few days ago, when I moved.. Sadly, I did not use their services for my (excruciating) move, but I noted their name and looked them up online later…
And then.. Lindy posts this, and meks makes a post and insert Twilight Zone theme here…
It’s like ZOMG we are all sloggily connected or some such… Jung was right!!
Slog photography, sworn enemy of White Balance.
Fnarf, I’m guessing that Kelly O’s the only one who carries an actual camera around.
as a professional mover, these guys are hilarious.
I’m guessing Care Bear is right also. Quit yer bitchin’, Fnarf – even professional photographers can only do so much with a cell phone camera.
@9, yes, I understand that they are not professional photographers. Neither am I. I’ve taken more terrible photographs than you could possibly imagine. However, I never posted them to my blog. I also took a whole ten minutes or so to learn how to adjust basic settings in Photoshop. For chrissake, you only have to click once on “Auto Levels”. How hard is that?
whenever i see this place i always chuckle at how obvious it is they let their mom name their business
Do they have those guys in Seattle now? They’ve been here in Vancouver for at least 20 years. DO NOT USE THEM!!! They are the worst moving company in the history of ever. They just hire out of the local day labour place each morning, they do not use pro movers. They will break your stuff, take twice as long as they estimate and charge you for a full hour of travel to and from your place even if you are five minutes away.
@14, it’s funny how sometimes genuine chain operations pick corny, scrappy-independent sort of names. My sister once used “Starving Students” and said it should have been called “Glint-Eyed Parolees”.
@15, a friend of mine calls them “Starving Ex-Cons”. Funny how similar their experiences were.
@11, bullshit. Martin Parr did a series with a Sony Ericsson K750 phone back in 2005 that I can’t find a link to, and there’s this:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/street_came…
we used these guys and they were great, but my wife renamed them “two sketchy guys on speed.”
@15- now I’m really curious to know how many other cities they blight. The one time I used them (it seems like everyone here has used ’em exactly once), I would have LOVED it if they’d been on speed. As it was one of the guys said he needed a break after 15 minutes of work. I could tell he really did, too. I was worried he might collapse under the weight of my coffee maker…