Saturday, May 07, 2005

A Great Mother's Day Present!

A while back when I was driving home from work I had a near-miss with some jackass who cut me off. Said jackass looked back and me in his rearview mirror and shrugged.
The jackass was older and didn't appear to know what he was doing or where he was going and I was the person who almost had to pay for his ignorance.
When I saw him shrugging, seemingly apologeticaly, I said, though I knew he couldn't hear me, "It's not my fault you suck."
It occurred to me then that I had just stumbled upon a good slogan.
So with that in mind, I created the following:



If you go to www.zazzle.com you can purchase a shirt featuring this pearl of wisdom.
You can customize it by changing the color and type of the shirt.
Best of all, if you buy one (or, you know, a hundred), a portion of the profits go to me! And you want me to get profits, don't you?
To be on the safe side I put the shirt into the "PG-13" category, so in order to buy it you'd have to create a Zazzle account (for free) and set your age limit high enough. Then you can just do a search for "suck," which seems like an oddly appropriate way to find me...
In any case, once you do you'll see that I have other products available (mostly prints) featuring some of my artwork.
I'll be the first to admit that the art featured there isn't my best work, but some of it's okay.
The main problem is that my best work tends to be my celebrity portraiture (Britney, Jessica, etc.), which brings up the question of legality if I try selling them.
In fact, at one point I decided to take my chances and post some of my Britney pics as products, figuring that, at worst, I'd get a "cease and desist" letter, at which point I'd take them down.
I never actually received any notification or anything, but Zazzle just pulled the Britney stuff, so I guess that answered the question of whether or not I could get away with trying to sell them via Zazzle...
In any case, I may start creating some more original products.
Besides buying my products and making me some money you can actually use Zazzle for printing your own photos on shirts, posters, cups, etc. Their prices are reasonable and the quality is very good, so that could make it worth creating an account anyway.
In any case, I need to do some stuff, but I will be back later.

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