Saturday 8 November 2014

T-shirts

There have been a few minor and very boring changes to the website, which are:

1. There is a new Other Writings page for a couple of old projects and a new collaborative blog called Write This for Me
2. The floating RSS links box is gone, it was annoying and no-one really subscribes to RSS feeds anyway. There is now just one link in the little icon box on the top right to an RSS page with a frame.

But the most important news is:
I have some T-shirts!

Quite a few years ago when I first had this web address, I created a custom spreadshirt shop to sell items with corndogs printed on them, I thought that maybe if someone wanted an apron or a thong with a corndog on it, they could but it from me and I could make back about 50p of my biennial domain renewal fee.

Business has been... lets not try and sugar-coat this, I have sold a grand total of nothing.

I guess I never really believed that anyone would buy anything, the only people that visit my website are people I know and I feel as though the only reason any of them would buy a piece of corndog merchandise is as a gift to the one person they know that is apparently obsessed with corndogs. In case you haven't guessed, that person is me and their lovely surprise gift would be sort of ruined if I got a notification from spreadshirt telling me that I had made a sale. I have to make an assumption that spreadshirt notifies you of these things, as I said, I've never sold anything.

I'm not even going to embarrass myself by putting a link to it, its not linked to my main website or anything these days, if you want to find it, I'm sure I have given you enough clues to locate it with any semi-decent search engine.

The event I am completely failing to tell you about (because in all likelihood you already know) is that I decided that I should own some of my own branded stuff, so I visited my very own shop, perused the selections I had made available many years ago, decided that they were all crap and designed a couple of new T-shirts, completely failed to add either of them to my existing spreadshirt shop, then paid to have them sent to my house, which you can see above being modelled by a couple of members of the band.

So rather than allowing me to claw back some of the (admittedly very little) money I spend on this website, it has now cost me the additional price of 2 t-shirts. But hey, who doesn't want t-shirts with corndogs on? Oh right, that would be everyone.

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