Blog o’ Gnosis

Well there I was, cordoned off from polite society for a week, chained to my desk in order to meet a ridiculous self-imposed writing deadline. In such circumstances, the mind is incredibly adept at finding amusements to pass the time in lieu of working on one’s appointed task. Mine certainly rose to the occasion, as I kept thinking about the saying my friends and I had come up with for a Pantheacon ribbon for next year.

Eventually I found myself soaring on the euphoric streams of wireless internet over to a site called zazzle.com, where you can create swag—t-shirts, aprons, calendars, that sort of thing—with a wide range of styles, colors, and fonts to play with. Here is the t-shirt design I came up with. Is that, or is that not, the cutest baby suit you have ever seen?

And the fun didn’t stop there. Zazzle has a pretty good selection of t-shirt styles and models to choose from, so I was able to try out my new logo on a couple different faceless torsos. Here is my original design, in the trendy pink-on-brown color combo.

When we were yukking it up on Saturday night at the con, we bumped into Dominic Elemirion and told him about our brainstorm. He responded, “but I’m a gay male!” I’m not sure whether he was trying to protect himself from a possible oncoming feminist ragestorm, or claiming that this disqualified from feeling such a thing and therefore he would never wear our ribbon.

Mindful of this massive delusion, I have helpfully enlisted this handsome model to show just how needless Dominic’s defensiveness was. You see? Doesn’t that just work on all sorts of levels?

I did eventually get back to my writing project—after sending out email announcements to friends, listing my t-shirt in the “Inspirational/Truth” category on their site, and other fun diversions. So be the first one on your block, etc, etc. I plan to order one just as soon as I complete a couple more unpleasant tasks on my to-do list. I can’t imagine a finer “job well done” present for myself!

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