The holidays are over. Must be home/office organization season—you know, the one retailers made up to fill the floor space that Christmas occupied and that Lawn and Garden will soon move into.

I love to organize, but this season I’m going to skip the hall linen closet and head right to my office at work. To make some space, I’m recycling my boring white paperboard magazine holders and gifting my black Nappa leather planner to the guy in accounting. Gift Shop magazine’s “Trends in Home Office and Desk Accessories” for 2009 is helping me get started on the rest.

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First, I need to say that I am a huge Burton fan. Here comes the but, and I mean that literally. I am pretty disappointed that they felt the need to produce a line of mens snowboards with designs of naked Playboy centerfolds on them.

The Burton Love Series of snowboards is a collaboration with Playboy that will hit the slopes this winter. As a designer, I think I have an open mind. And I get that, design can/should push the boundaries.

Seriously though, naked women on snowboards? Is this really necessary? Have you hit the slopes lately?

They’re filled with kids. And, check out all the girls riding. Maybe snowboarding has become too mainstream, and this was Burton’s way of shaking it up. I’m sure the controversy over these boards is going to help Burton more than hurts it. I don’t think you can say the same for the dude who’s riding on one. I doubt he’ll be getting much LOVE from the chics.