Here it also servers as my ecomonic plan…google it.
1. Sigh, there has to be more to it?
2. I think I am going to make the Future futures write to all the teams.
3. I am with Charlie
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NOTICE ME! NOTICE ME!
email me.
Thanks, and go As.
What is this, opposite day?!?!
Don’t email me.
exactly
perfect
1. So if they’re using our infield clay…does that mean our territory now extends into San Francisco? Just saying.
1. NO. NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Why the FK are we helping those douches
Thanks, and go As.
At least get a quid-pro-quo: We give you some dirt from Oakland, you give us some dirt from, say, around Diridon Station.
My big announcement: I will immediately give a check for $5 to the
political action committeecharity of Bud Selig’s choice if will give me the report of the Blue Ribbon Committee no later than 5 p.m. on October 31.My big announcement: I’m too broke to give money to charities and/or politicians.
Thanks, and go As.
I wish these FKing stupid birther nut-cases would remember the Barry’s mom was an American citizen, rendering the question about where he was born irrelevant (and yes, he was born in the US State of Hawaii). Also, I actually remember seeing him on the Punahou High School basketball team in 1979, so he’s no Manchurian candidate. (BTW – our future president had a solid grip on the bottom of the bench).
Meh – never let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.
The birther people are nutjobs, no doubt, but what you say about Citizen Mom making question irrelevent is not accurate. Even American citizens born outside the US are not eligble to be President.
I’m pretty sure docK is right.
That’s the official answer, but it is fair to say that the question is not settled.
Of course, no one was bothered by John McCain’s eligibility, for example.
Quite a few presidents wouldn’t have been eligible either.
Elvis Presley!
Interesting. I thought the official posture was more restrictive than that, but obviously I am wrong. Though as you say, not settled law.
I wasn’t paying attention to the issue in 2008, but wasn’t there a bill passed adressing McCain’s Panamanian birth? Not trumping the constitution, of course, but wasn’t foreign born to american citizens addressed there?
I could be mistaken (usually am, in fact), but I believe McCain was born in Panama in a US Navy hospital, which would (or could) easily be taken for US soil, making him a “natural born” citizen.
Yes, being born to Americans at an American Naval Base in an area that was under American control would make him American.
Well that covers what, two thirds of the world, then
You are correct, but for some reason there was legislation in 2008 that said it again, to make sure nobody secretary of a state elections board did not certify a nominee of am major american political party on some perceived problem with their birthplace.
The constitution says “natural-born citizen” which is not really clear, but George Romney ran.
It should pretty obviously be read to mean “citizen at birth,” i.e. an non naturalized citizen. The Congressional Research Service agrees. I would wholeheartedly support a constitutional amendment to repeal the requirement anyway because it is stupid and un-American.
Yeah, but then you’d set up the scenario from Demolition Man. I don’t want Arnold as our president.
I think he’s probably out of the running anyway for having diddled the nanny.
A few new movies and I don’t really want the possibility of a rebound.
My sanity might actually be better served with Arnold as president than with Arnold as “actor.”
The ghost of Abraham Lincoln: “Stop that you, morons! I was there. I saw him emerge from the birth canal! Is that good enough for you?”
Reply: “Get lost, you ghoul! If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with.”
Ok, I dont like to admit this, but I am simply aweful at fixing stuff and honey-do’s. That being said I have just installed a control board and created refrigeration where there was none this morning. The ice cream is SAVED!
woohoo!
High. Five.
I will do fix-its as long as I think I have a good chance at success. For example, I can’t open my garage door because the torsion spring is broken. I did some on-line research about how to replace these things, saw a bunch of warnings about possible maiming and death, then picked up the phone and called a garage door repair place.
My standard is usually “how expensive would it be if I try and fail?” For instance, doing the clutch replacement on my truck is no big deal, because if I screw it up, it’s still a car with a blue book value of less than $2K. However, I wouldn’t pull the tranny on our 2011 van. Way higher cost for failure.
WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM WITH TRANNIES?!?
High cost of failure.
Trannies do tend to be high-maintenance.
Youtube has motivated me to be more of a handy man than I ever thought I could be. Being able to go on and see at least an idea of how it is supposed to be done makes it much easier to determine if it is feasible and also help make sure I dont flip a part, etc. Mrs. Aces laughs because if there is a way to have a space recognition with a part I ALWAYS will. But when I can see the big pointy side goes on the left I can eliminate an hour of me yelling at the appliance.
Whoops. Maybe you should vet these people.
Ha. Ben Stein is a very interesting guy.
Every American should be required to watch that clip.
Psh. RINO.
Sheffield says he’d visit owner Bud Selig’s office every day, asking for a trade. Selig wouldn’t do anything.
I’m sure Selig told him it was on the front burner. (Great article on Gary Sheffield.)
Definitely great article
WOW
yeah, he is,…yeah.
Makes me wonder how many women he’s knocked up over the years.
RFTA, doc:
Or, you know, stop sleeping around with women if you’re unwilling to deal with the consequences.
Condoms are pretty cheap, especially considering the alternative.
Condoms are not cheap. A non awful condom cost about $1. I spend about $180 bucks a year on condoms.
I’m trying to see if I can deduce how much sex you have annually from this comment. Hang on…doing the math…
thats pro-rating not with a girl who Im using other means of BC to a yearly basis.
Hell of a lot cheaper than the pill or Plan B.
all of it should be free. Also on my insurance both the pill and plan b would be free. Condoms not covered.
Agreed that all of it should be free. Alas, not all of us are on your insurance plan, unless you really want to share. And does it cover ALL forms of the pill? Mine will only cover generic, which leaves plenty of women SOL if their particular brand doesn’t have a generic formulation.
Paying $50 a month AND paying for insurance bites.
Im pretty sure that new Obamacare regs will make this not a problem.
If maybe you decided to stop hating me for like thirty seconds, theoretically I you could either A marry me or B i think legally in CA i can ask for it for my partner.
Marriage is a tool of the patriarchy.
Yes it is until we gay it up.
Also in communal property states, I wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to that notion.
From a legal standpoint, maybe. From a social standpoint, it absolutely still is, community property or not.
Agreed.
I kinda also think that non-anal penetrative sex is a tool of the patriarchy.
Except, uh, it feels good
Thanks, and go As.
I would argue that anal sex is probably more of a tool of the patriarchy
I realize my statement was somewhat absurd, but I fully believe that women should own their sexuality and reproductive rights at all times, and male coercion is a threat against female reproductive rights and responsibilities.
If heterosexual males over the next couple of generations can be socially conditioned/metrosexualized to become hetero-dominant pansexual males, society will be much happier. Horny men won’t be saddled with years worth of reinforcement of boob and butt fetish, or years worth of negative reinforcement of male homosexuality. The way I see it, if female demand for sexuality is x, and male demand is 3x, the world would be a better place if the males would share the 3x amongst themselves, rather than repressing it or channeling it into violence, frustration, or NFL football fandom.
I FK’d that up…
I mean share the excess demand amongst themselves and don’t burden women with coercion tactics.
Im pretty sure that from a ev psych perspective that isn’t possible.
Does your “ev psych” perspective account for transhumanism or the brainwashing effects of mass media?
Yes. Since upwards of 95% of what we do is evolutionarily conditioned
So don’t assume evo psych as the required perspective, then.
You think you can just behaviorally teach people to become pansexual?
Im pretty sure they outlawed conversion therapy in CA. I didn’t think that you and Michele Bachman would have so much in common.
I was under the impression that conversion therapy was more focused on subtracting homosexual impulses rather than adding heterosexual impulses.
I kind of agree with you though. I think sexual preferences are largely immutable and you can’t change them through therapy or training. However, I also think that sexual preference is much more of a spectrum than people generally admit.
The idea that you can add or subtract true base sexual desires is ridiculous. The suggestion that we should just teach people to fake it is abhorrent.
Of course people can be behaviorally taught to be pansexual, if they’re not actively harboring taboos against the practice. If they’re passively harboring culturally acquired taboos, those can be conditioned out.
I think most heterosexual males and many heterosexual females actively harbor taboos against bi/pan-sexuality. I don’t think this will necessarily be the case in two generations, unless we’re living in a male dominant culturally rightist dystopia.
I strongly reject this notion and it pretty dangerous implications.
Yes many people hid parts of their sexuality because of social taboos. But the idea that teaching people to be pansexual is both possible and good essentially means that your ok with antigay conversion therapy, which I, every non nutjob psychologist, and the State of California are against.
It only has dangerous implications because the right hates sexuality and the left hasn’t fully embraced it yet. If there was no low anti-sex right and center to placate, the LGBTQ community wouldn’t have to hold on to the lie that everything about sexual orientation is determined at birth, which exists to keep the conservatives and moderates from oppressing us as deviants or sinners.
Another thing…
I believe that most people are born with heterosexual tendencies, and some people are born with homosexual tendencies. However, I don’t believe that people are born with natural aversions to sexualities counter to their natural tendencies. I think the aversions are cultural constructs of rigid gender and sexuality reinforcement that come from family, institution, and the media.
Eh. We’ll see. My plan rolls over in ’13 so I gotta wait til then — and thinking about it, I think I got my current insurance before the grandfathering date. I should check that. Fuck.
Though looking at it, apparently insurance companies retain the “flexibility” (fuckoffanddiiiiiie) to continue to charge for brand names if a generic is available. Will be interesting to see if they interpret that for BC as “generic of any pill vaguely in that family” and not “generic of this specific formulation of the pill”. I have not had good luck with them about that in my experience of phoneraging at my company, but I suppose I shall have to call again in January and see.
$180 per year vs >$1000 per month (child support alone). No contest.
Im not saying that it isn’t cheaper. But cheaper =/= cheap
Well we all know that their bodies can shut down if they don’t want the kid #toddakin
But having Sheffield’s kid is a gift from god so it cancels out. #Mourdock
asvd
Hmm…
The subdemographic of heterosexual male that would avoid legitimate employment because half his income would go to support his child most likely highly correlates with the demographic of heterosexual male that would cajole/plead/demand/insist on having unprotected sex because condoms significantly diminish the sensation of the act of genital penetrative sex for the male.
Sheffield’s idea of mothers being 100% responsible for care and protection of children leads down three main paths for the absentee/non-responsible father. One would be abortion, which Sheffield and other males of his ilk would seem to tacitly support, significantly because the decision would lie 100% in the mother’s hands, thus absolving the male. Another would be that the mother keeps and willingly takes full responsibility for the child, which allows the male to dabble in fatherhood if the mother/courts allow(s). The third path is that the mother wants to abort or give away the child, but the male’s ego insecurities and/or desire to have progeny to prove his sexual prowess & potency cause him to lie and/or make threats against the mother. This coercion/manipulation in effect forces the woman to have the child and take responsibility for it, significantly against her will.
Gene Tenace posted his memories of the ’72 Series.
Some good stories in there. Gino, tell ’em how easy it is to play 1B.
very very cool
That’s awesome.
That was the best thing I read in a while
I know people here don’t like the NBA much, but this is pretty cool nonetheless.
Video of the play here:
neat. But just watching the clip reminds me of why basketball, the NBA more so than college, is a terrible past time.
Incidentally, I can’t imagine watching anything without the score permanently affixed to the screen. I wonder if the modern day line score has made me dumber.
I understand. You either enjoy it or you don’t.
Regarding the lack of the score box, I think it aided my arithmetic skills as a kid. I watched a lot of basketball and got very good at keeping the score in my head. I used to go to games and force myself not to look up at the scoreboard to test myself. I was very nerdy.
Growing up in SoCal, I listen to a lot of chick hern and the showtime lakers as a kid. I enjoyed it then, but can’t seem to care now. It doesn’t help that I have no team affiliation I suppose.
Box scores in the paper and having to figure out players up to the minute batting averages during games helped me with my math. Also, reading the morning paper about baseball help my reading and eventual interest in reading the entire paper. I have yet to convince SLF that an interest in baseball is good for the future futures’ education.
This. I would get up at 6:25 and basically race my dad to get the Mercury to look at box scores and stories. When the strike happened in 1981, I took an interest in my father’s stock market investments so that I had some numbers to ponder.
Kluwe is knocking it out of the park…er or whatever it is he does.
Killing it inside the 10?
Nailing it from the backfield.
Through the uprights from mid-field.
He’s well hung-time.
I FKing love him.
ESPN classic is playing game 6 of the 87 series. Tom Brunansky popped up to Ozzie smith woth one out and the bases loaded in the 6th.
Al Michaels: It was deep enough that the infield fly was not in effect
BREAKING NEWS ON THE BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE!!
I’m holding on to my $5.
heh
The worst thing that could happen from Selig/MLB perspective is to OK San Jose, force a t-rights accommodation, then have the SJ deal fall apart. The fact that he continues to dither speaks volumes about the viability of the SJ financial package.
So, never.
Status quo = no risk for Selig
That’s a bit of a stretch. I’m not saying that wouldn’t be the worst case scenario but the delay doesn’t mean anything about that. It’s only one of many issues/possibilities.
Sorry, but you’re wrong. This would have been resolved two years ago in San Jose’s favor if Selig felt their deal was assured.
Where’s the evidence for that?
Baltimore/Expos
Interesting. I wonder, though, if the simple difference is that Angelos (perhaps stupidly) negotiated, whereas the Giants have learned that so long as their answer to “How much?” is “FK off,” Selig will never force the issue. I’ll admit that I need to read up on how exactly they rolled Angelos to see whether my theory is correct.
Interesting conjecture, nonetheless…
The situation is significantly more complicated than “Can a stadium be built there and pay for.” You’re deluding yourself if you think it’s that simple.
Actually I think you’re deluding yourself if you think Selig/MLB would turn down SJ if they thought it was a money maker. But I think we’ve reached an impasse here, unsurprisingly.
That’s why the answer hasn’t been “No” and why they’ve spent so much time trying to make it work.
I agree with this.
Selig’s answers are the same as what mine would be if I were just hired and brought into a situation without having any idea what was going on.
I found this interesting. Why don’t people in Hawaii vote?
Incidentally, I remember seeing volunteers holding candidates’ signs and waving/giving the shaka sign during campaign season while riding the bus to school. I never realized they did this due to a billboard ban. Elections were always unique out there for this reason.
I also remember that my mom, whenever one of her listings sold, was required by the state take the sign down because of a law that prohibited undue or excessive advertising. In retrospect, it must’ve been very confusing to neighbors or other potential buyers to see that the sign was gone – did it sell, or did the seller pull the house off the market?
Yeah, that was fascinating. And the author only touches on the divisions within those turnout rates…if you’re poor and/or of Polynesian descent, you’re about a tenth as likely to vote as the non-poor/non-Polynesians.
exxon mobil ad has an equation on a blackboard in a school that reads “v=4pir^3/3.”
I assume that somebody in the ad agency put that in there as a gag because its English translation is”Buy more solar.” right?
Actually, I read that as the volume of a sphere.
yep. I don’t understand Ed’s gag comment?
bad gag, that’s all
It’s nice to see from Twitter comments that players hate McCarver as much as the rest of us.
Aw FK it’s gonna be Pandamania.
So is Verlander shitting the bed, or what? I’m not watching.
It seems odd that he’s throwing his off-speed stuff so much. Maybe he should take a lesson from Bartolo Colon. Having said that, though, both of Sandoval’s HRs were on 95 mph.
He couldn’t do this in Game 5 of the ALDS? Asshole.
Im going on a date with a girl who I used this pick up line on
Good one.
it was an awful date.
She fell for that pick-up line… what did you expect?
her not to talk about the weird kid from elementary school (she didn’t go there)
her to be employed
her to not live at home
Come on Tigers. This is Barry Zito. Barry FKing Zito.
So, it’s almost college basketball season! My Tar Heels should be decent…not like last year’s team, but strong…and the ACC looks to be returning to form. But man oh man, the Big 10 is loaded.
Ranked below ‘cuse. I like that
Indiana is the Preseason #1? What year is this?
The past is being expunged, at least as far as Bobby Knight is concerned.
::Flings chair::
Fuck you Verlander. And your Tigers too.
WTF?
And now Zito can hit too. Of course.
I hate everything.
Anybody who bet on Verlander for World Series MVP can tear up the ticket.
Make sure to cast your vote in the World Series of Weed!
FK you Verlander
LOVE
He is not wrong.
Sadly.
Awesome!
Ahahahahaha.
Didn’t Jeff Weaver also outpitch Verlander in game 1 of the world series?
They are never, ever going to stop wearing those hats.
Well, regardless of who did it, a 4.000 SLG after 3 ABs is pretty much amazing.
“Here’s Fielder. (erratic pitch) Smothered by Posey at the plate.”
Well, that would’ve been worth watching.
As any japanese culture afficianato, I see you have an appreciation of snuff films
Of course Verlander falls apart against these orange clad goons.
Makes sense. Giants relieve their highest paid player with ther second highest paid player.
BTW those two account for $37million
dollarsthis year*edit: I have the power, so I used it
At first I thought “beef” referred to actual meat.
Me too. And I was wondering way meat was dating.
I’d totally go on a beef date.
No I wouldn’t. I’d have to take it to a vegetarian place.
Leland is a VERY interested observer? Ya think? He’s only managing one of the teams playing. I’m surprised he isn’t watching porn in the clubhouse.
Crushed by pagan?
It was a 200 foot humpback line drive
Given the right handed bats in the Giants lineup, I cannot believe the Tigers are seemingly heading into this series with Coke-head as their closer.
Dave wrote about this
FK this. FK all of this.
so, safe to say valverde hasn’t fixed anything?
His only out was a 6 pitch stikeout of lincicum
Given that the game was out of hand I don’t mind terribly that Valverde got pounded.
That said…*click*.
Why the FK was Valverde even on the WS roster?
I am so pissed off.
infield in?
8-1?
Really?
Two grand slams gives them a win.
My Cards-fan coworker’s theory is that the Giants are the NL equivalent of the Red Sox. She made valid points, and her hatred equaling mine made my day less obnoxious.
BART this morning was FULL of ugly hats getting on at East Bay stations. I think that territorial rights should be enforced stringently. By me. With a sword.
I’ve been saying this for three years.
I’d accept that.
Yup, I can see that.
You’ve got my vote.
Perversely, it’s almost easier living in SF during all this, since I expect and accept seeing people all gaga for the giants here, whereas if I saw that elsewhere, I would be glarey and stabby.
Yeah, I would love for Bud and the Blue Ribbon Panel to have seen the number of Giants fans on BART back to the East Bay last night, just to demonstrate the sheer absurdity of the whole territorial rights issue.
The A’s gave Trights away when they were trying to capture the SF market, they just have done a worse job.
Let’s see, shared television markets, shared radio markets, shared marketing regions, overlapping fan base regions… I don’t see how these aren’t strict and fully separate territories.
There aren’t overlapping fanbase regions. The Giants own the whole bay. They have more fans in A’s area’s than the A’s.
Just like the Yankees have more fans in Florida than Tampa or the Marlins combined.
I now have this image of Kyli going all Kill Bill on a bunch of Panda-hat-wearing Gnat-bandwagoners.
Adding some green trim to the yellow jumpsuit to the mental image…
I’m gonna start with the Giants Dugout Store in Walnut Creek.
I blame Walnut Creek for a lot of things.
wait, there is a dougout store in WC? what do territorial rights mean again?
For a while there was a big ad for it on that electronic billboard you see as you leave the Bay Bridge heading toward Oakland. It angries up the blood.
They only apply to where the stadium building is located. But it’s another example of why the concept is silly and the whole Bay Area should be shared territory.
The Giants should just move to St. Petersburg where they belong.
Preferably the Russia version.
Also, if the A’s weren’t such marketing dumbasses they’d open their own store in San Jose. This organization does not understand the concept of a loss-leader.
Also, if the A’s weren’t such marketing dumbasses they’d open their own store
in San Jose.Fixed for broader application of point.
Also, if the A’s weren’t such marketing dumbasses they’d open their own
store in San Jose.marketing department.Further fixed
Nailed it.
it’d be nice if someone with access to billy beane would ask questions about this
A. We’re not selling baseball here.
Hee!
Preposterous. There’s barely enough time to ask him the essentials like “just how great was it to see the team succeed” as it is.
This is where my mind went as well.
“Skyfall?”
I guess the random action movie name generator is coming to an end of the words in the database
I heard that Adele song a few days ago and thought, “That sounds like something out of a Bond movie.” I’m not smart.
I don’t know what “that Adele song” means
“Skyfall”
adele is a band or artist then?
She’s a Rubenesque English pop singer with a decent voice, and she’s taking some time off for motherhood and people call her all sorts of horrid names on twitter.
Good summary.
I think that’s the first Adele song I’ve ever heard. I like it.
I am stunned that anyone, no matter how cool or hermit-like, has avoided Adele in the last year. She had like five #1 hits off one damn album! Not a diss, just shocked. Also, her voice is really beautiful.
I like Adele…my wife got me into her.
So she’s having your baby?
If so that’s going to be one blonde headed pale little bastard.
i may have heard, but pay no attention to.
also, i have no recollection of the song call me maybe. it doesn’t get stuck in my head. i also don’t know who the artist is
You are the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
I’ve never heard it either that I know of. Same with that “Friday” song.
Well, I’m with Ed… don’t know who the FK she is. If I’ve heard any of her songs, I wasn’t aware of them/her. I’m not cool, just hermit-like and don’t listen to music on radio much. iPod or Pandora.
The guy who rented us his Jeep in Mongolia kept playing “Someone like you” over and over. I really like that song, though
About a week ago, James Geier’s Any Given Day came on. So I went to your Mongolia pictures post. Turns out they go pretty well together.
I wouldn’t be able to name an Adele song if I heard it
Thanks, and go As.
Someone Like You
Rolling in the Deep
Set Fire to the Rain
All hit #1 in the US last year, off the album titled “21” which was the #1 album, netting her the #1 artist Grammy. I’m no pop music maven, but I found these to be completely inescapable. elcroata heard ’em in Mongolia!
I’m currently listing to a Ministry cover of “Radar Love”
Thanks, and go As.
I’ve been driving all night my hand’s wet on the wheel
There’s a voice in my head that drives my heel.
Wow, that could be interesting. Might have to look for that.
Complicated series of tubes!
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Thanks, and go As.
Fantastic – major improvement on the original.
While I have certainly heard of her, and have probably heard one or all of those songs, I wouldn’t recognize them as being by her unless told.
Quantum of Solace was so lame, that it has effectively killed my interest for the upcoming film. I only saw it once, but if I recall, Bond did not even get laid?
Quantum of solace?
God.Damn.
“we thank the who for allowing us to use the music”
Uh, its called Cash joe. You already thanked them with cash
Joe does get fooled again.
I went to the grocery store here on the Peninsula this afternoon, and about 90% of the patrons were wearing some form of Giants gear. A lot of people loading up their carts with beer and snacks for their parties, black and orange balloons, a guy at the sandwich counter getting food to take to the park. (Cheap FKer, but if you paid $400 for a ticket I suppose you’d like to save a few bucks somewhere.) The man at the deli counter asked me if I was ready for the game.
“I’m an A’s fan, so I don’t care about it.” “Well, it’s not our fault you couldn’t beat the Tigers!”
I thought, this must be what it’s like to be a liberal in a red state, constantly being told you should be excited about something that disgusts you, not able to buy a bag of kitty litter and a carton of milk without being told you don’t belong, knowing that the seemingly nice, pleasant people around you are woefully deluded.
Don’t talk politics in the supermarket, and when somebody comes down the beer aisle ranting to the shelf-stocker and the customers “Obama has ruined this country!” (this happened about a week ago in Raley’s) just smile and let him go on his merry way.
Hmm…
Wouldn’t the correct answer be “Hell, Bwah, this country was ruined by the Founding Fathers! Buncha pot-smoking faggots they were!”
Pretty much. But you forgot about the frustration of knowing that there is absolutely no way to reason with them.
Hmm… Frankly, if anyone needs to be reasoned with, it’s baseball fans of all teams. We all spend an inordinately large amount of time on an activity that does not produce a commensurate amount of social value. The money almost all funnels to 1%ers (MLB owners & players), highly underpaid outsourced laborers, and highly underpaid minor leaguers and staff (who need the money, but when we support the system, we support their exploitation).
It’s what it’s like to be an introverted intellectual iconoclast in a world of drone bee conformists who only feel strong in numbers within a set of socially accepted parameters.
The more I think about this, I think disgust is one of the emotions I have trouble processing/don’t process, and when it’s called for, I shunt it off to the frustration and exasperation circuits instead.
I’ll see your panda hat and raise you these actually fucking awesome animal hats.
I was alarmed until I saw that the masthead says “feltmaker.”
Oh my goodness the photo of the “Grumpy Beast” really just opened my eyes to the lack of creativity in my own pajama product shots.