Let's Try this Again

This post aims to serve two purposes. First, I am happy to present this week’s auction, Nice Guys Finish Third.

Some of you might recognize this unfortunate fellow from our recent post about the Nice Guys Finish Third t-shirt, the t-shirt that could have been. The t-shirt that still might be, if only.

Let’s look at it again, people. Isn’t it magnificent?

As a refresher, we posted last week suggesting that we were trying a new approach to t-shirt design and distribution. Using an honor-based system, we pledged to produce this shirt if only 11 of you would agree in advance to buy it. The proceeds from those 11 sales would enable us to break even. So far, four of you have bought into this unlikely dream. Four of you. It is disheartening to be on the leading edge of a failed movement. It makes us feel like cross-eyed zebras, homely and underachieving.

Still, in a democracy, the citizen gets to vote. We have heard your opinion, and we will live with the results. Unless…

…unless seven of you are freshly inspired and decide that you want a Nice Guys Finish Third t-shirt after all. If you are feeling flush and in need of new threads, just write me an email, and I’ll reserve one for you.

We’ll keep the tally going for a while, refusing to accept defeat in spite of all evidence to the contrary.

Or, if you are perhaps more interested in art that hangs on your wall, this zebra can be yours via this week’s auction. It’s a nice piece. Vintage Robbi.

It’s a portrait of me, I think.