Sontag aside, I’d like a couple things from you all.
First, please let me know when you receive your package, and pay no attention to the accompanying unidentified white powder. There will be time for the police to identify that later.
Second, please post pictures of how you apply said swag.
I’m thinking of doing another round–this time with refrigerator magnets. Does that idea appeal to anyone? And has anyone come up with different ideas? The “Black Shoes are for Losers” was by far the biggest “seller” this last round, aside from the FK symbol, of which I gave everyone some. Also, if there were ones from the last round that you have since thought, “Damn, I can’t live without that…”, email me and I’ll rectify the situation.
I’m glad you guys are receiving it so quickly (it really speaks well of the USPS that from my shop picked up on Tuesday to CA on Thursday, it’s in your hands) and seem to be genuinely excited and appreciative.
All kidding aside, thanks for letting me be kind. It helps so much more than you’ll ever know.
LB/Russ
I opened comments so people could follow your instructions.
I did not get mine yesterday, but will let you know when I do. Also, I wholeheartedly support the magnet concept (and, more generally, all things free).
FK country-code fridge magnet!
Also, truck flaps.
My swag – wildly appreciated as it was – included no FK ovals.
I SAID I DIDN’T GET ANY FKING FK OVALS DAMMIT!
you didn’t get any little FK logos?
…how many OTHER logos did you get? I may have been petty.
Half a dozen each of the big and little ones – and damn grateful I was till I found out I was missing something!
yeah, I was petty.
Hey gift horse… nice teeth!
Now that you’ve looked it in the mouth, you have to brush his teeth.
You’re so petty, oh so petty, VACANT.
No swag yet, dammit.
Got mine. Thanks stalker.
yw, stalkee.
Even as we speak, my truck sits in the Ashby BART parking lot, generating admiration and envy from passersby with the awesomness of its My City Can Beat Up Your City sticker, and the irresistable inscrutability of the FK oval.
Leo B is a (green and) golden God.
Will try and get photos soon, but next week the great state of TX will have a laptop in it that is showing off a spiffy new FK oval. And if the corp security goons want to tell my I am defacing company property I will just ask them how they will feel when I stick the new magents on it…
Damn I need one of those.
LB, do you have any desire to play fantasy baseball? I am in a ten team league seeking expansion owners. You would enjoy it, I think, if you are into that sort of thing. And you would be a lovely addition.
In any case. Black ovals? I needs it.
Email me your needs and your address.
Mrs doctorK has informed me that we received our swag in the mail today. Your generosity is much appreciated, Bloomie.
Edit: Just got a look at your handiwork – very nice.
The swag has arrived.
yours was just a straight diet of FK. We can amend that if need be.
This is ridiculous. I feel like a little Jewish boy on Christmas, watching everybody else open their gifts.
Won’t be Tuesday at the earliest for me.
Now that’s inscrutable!
8-year-olds, Dude.
Whatever.
I live in the future, and I still haven’t gotten mine.
You live in Japan, no? I have a friend that lives in HK and others in Australia. Here’s my question: When do I wish them Happy birthday? When its their birthday for me or when its their birthday for them?
When it’s for them.
Yeah, what he said.
But that means I will have to do more work. Maybe I should just stop being friends with people across the dateline.
Okay, I guess I’ll drag my fat ass off the couch on my only half-day off, and check the mailbox…
Whew. That was a lot of stairs. I return from my arduous, snowy journey to and from the mailbox to report that I have swag! Glorious swag!
(And that thing I asked you to do that resulted in you calling me a big pain in the ass… no, not that thing… that one, either… the other thing, you know the one… THANKS!)
Magnets appeal to me, too :)
Not like I’m demanding or ungrateful or anything … but we need bumper stickers: REAL MEN EAT KRAUT
In
former soviet unionFSU, Kraut eats real men.LOL
(and fixed)
In former German Democratic Republic, krauts eat realpolitik.
In former German Democratic Republic, our whole economy floats on selling our citizens to West Germany for badly needed food money.
why not skip the middleman and eat your citizens?
Anyone keep reading the word “Palin” in the title?
Yes.
Was on the verge of asking the same question all day long.
The Palin of swag:
I wish I read the thread about how to edit image size…
better?
yeah.
Isn’t “th’ palin’ o’ th’ swag” some obscure Irish holiday tradition?
I hear FSU rocks this tie.
In FSU, this tie rocks… FSU?
lol
Usually once a year, on opening day. And I have, incredibly, even assembled an outfit with which the tie’s colors fit.
Still looks pretty hideous, though.
Pain and Palin are inseparable for me.
me too… that’s why I taped a picture of her on the back of my spankin’ paddle!
This is dumber than the time Mulder was supposed to pitch for the Dutch team.
Wasn’t that Haren?
Mulder was eligible to pitch for the Dutch because he actually had Dutch ancestors in the last 3 generations (or whatever the rules were. Plus he’s from South Holland, IL.). Haren was also listed as eligible, and said he had no idea why. My theory was that it was either because he had been traded for Mulder, or because he had spent some time in Amsterdam coffeehouses.
Per the linked story, it’s probably because he’s been to Nebraska.
I thought it was because all 5 of the letters in his last name can be found in “Netherlands” making him 100% Dutch. Guess that makes me only 80% Dutch.
I thought it was because he never like picking up anyone’s tab.
Crap. I’m more Neverland than Netherland.
So you’re stuck playing for the Pirates? I’m so sorry dude.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to
Sparkle MotionGeorgian pairs skatingYou guys wanna see how I spent work today?
Needs more FK stickers.
the goth monkey I had working was not really into the A’s. She is/was a huge Orioles fan. She’s from Bawlmer.
It’s strange to me that the goth kids now like Star Wars.
Job well done.
why thank you, stranger.
It’s preeety.
Good Luck Wendy?
It’s a Peter Pan/Star Wars mashup.
Best thing to come out of Peter Pan, if you ask me.
I actually love the name.
The whole thing read, “Good Luck, Wendy. You’re our only hope.”
the goth monkey’s name was Wendy. Probably still is, unless she’s changed it in the last five hours.
Have you checked on her air holes recently?
your thinly veiled attempts to paint me as a stalker have utterly failed, monkey.
Besides, I have her chained to the radiator, not buried.
If she’s Goth, she may have.
Weyendixx
Windy Felix?
gc.
That’s neat. Is it the same kind of wrap-around clear sticker material that they use for those full-length bus ads?
same concept, yeah.
I love it when Oakland’s positive aspects get attention. For instance, here’s the fabulous Lake Merritt, featured today in a Trib story picked up across the nation. Sure, it’s because an apparently crazy former D-I hoops player stole two womens’ purses and swam naked across the lake, but still…it looks lovely.
that is peaceful.
Shrinkage!
a wee bit.
I didn’t know the acidity was that bad. It really is a beautiful area, though. The fact that Oakland is a very beautiful city is not acknowledged often enough.
agreed, Oaklandite.
Can I conversely say that the vapidity and baretoothed ugliness of Sarasota is hardly ever discussed?
Used to work in an office overlooking that victorian house. Its really nice.
I am officially be-swagged. Enormous props to LB, who both is awesome and has access to awesomely-sticky magnets.
Since Mrs. N is away, the fridge is already loudly proclaiming that Moneyball does not mean what you think it means and that black shoes are for losers. Also, that FK started at Saags.
Any unfortunate jokes about fisting have been well and truly appreciated.
(you’re the only one who got magnets, so be quiet about it, you fool!)
post pics.
(oh, shit. Didn’t realize. Sorry.)
I will, but the communal camera is in OK/TX taking gigabytes of baby pictures.
feh. unimportant things, then.
No airholes for you — one year!
FF just made a positive contribution to my life. I’m rewatching this.
I got that. I love Eddie Izzard.
Here ya go, LB:
bubbles.
I knew I should’ve sent all of you instructions!
If those don’t go down in the sun in a couple days, take a pin or a thumbtack, poke a small hole in them and force the air through the hole–you should be able to use your finger, but if not, use your penis.
It looks good, though. AND it matches the one I’ve got on my car!
Sadly, I am incompetent when it comes to the application of high-tech things like stickers.
It’s actually a little harder when they’re real vinyl and not cheap knockoff wannabe vinyl.