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I’m sorry to say that whenever anyone talks about their meat stick sponsor I start giggling. Maybe its too many years as a vegetarian and I’m just not comfortable with those words, or maybe its the sense of humor of a 14 year old, but “meat stick” is funny.

On Transworld BMX’s site today they posted two different meat stick related articles. First a Ball Park Frank bike check and then a press release about the Matador™ by Jack’s Link’s™ Bold Bull Ride™ at the Wendy’s™ Invitational Dew™ Tour. That’s a mouthful of sausages right there! I can only imagine that BMX riders are going to be bouncing around on a gigantic bucking hotdog trying to keep their energy drink sponsor in camera frame. Its a funny time in BMX (for those of me who find meat stick sponsorships so entertaining).

Now granted this event is for charity and its always a good laugh to watch your friends falling off a electric bull. I’m not knocking the fun that will be had. In fact I find it that much more amusing that meat sticks are involved. I don’t think you could say anything relating to the subject at hand without me smirking… “you’re best friend choked to death on a meat stick.”

I was thinking about some other events they might have for charity, like the above hot dog bobbing contest. That would be pretty cool for BMXers as long as they are going to be  dry humping a mechanical bull for wads of processed meat money anyway. I heard about this one game called “hide the sausage” too, but I’m not exactly sure how to play that one.

I was also thinking that some our soon to be patented Fairdale real-live sausage grips might be a good way to really connect with the sponsors and get it out on to the competition course (and most importantly in front of the TV cameras).

And of course its only a matter of time before these hot dog sponsored guys get paid enough to ride in their company’s mascot uniform. Any publicity is good publicity right?

It would be amazing really… front flips look so much like an attempt to bite a weenie anyway… why not add some flair to it and do it dressed in a wiener costume?

I’ve been working on a zine the last few days. Hope to have it finished this weekend.

Can’t say there is a whole lot of point to it, but its fun to make something that is going to be put on paper rather then your computer screen.

Got all this crap to go through and lay out… I’m very interested to see what I can come up with.

I think this is the good thing about working with headphones on… sometimes you hear things. Like this, I could swear I just heard someone in the other office say “Back to Fallopian tubes”. They didn’t say anything even close to that, but gave me a giggle.

And if you do could you please buy me one of these???

I really really want one.

There are many awesome things about this blanket set. First of all the guys foot is blowing off the pedal either in an effort to save a fall, or some blanket maker sewed up this still image a little early and should have waited till he was full tweaked. Second I know this is someone, some magazine photo or some internet photo of some rider… you could make someones day by letting them know they are on a blanket. First clue is pegs on the left side. The recommendation to dry clean is a nice touch for a BMX blanket too.

Buy yours here!

As always Fairdale looks to improve the world through superior design and engineering. Our latest invention achieves this through the often forgotten means of simple laughter. We strongly hold dear the ideal that a good laugh can improve the quality of life for all who share it.

And so, we proudly introduce the remote controlled spring loaded manhole cover.

This simple device is focused around an extremely powerful spring, and can easily replace any normal manhole cover. The spring may be detonated remotely for hours of enjoyment and wholesome fun.

Simply replace any existing manhole cover with the Fairdale Remote Controlled Spring Loaded Manhole Cover and wait for an unsuspecting cyclist to cross over the target zone. Release the spring with the “Launch” button at the right time for a huge laugh everytime!

Works great on pedestrians too! Try it on smaller, lighter children for the ultimate “boost”.

It was suggested to me that I start a T-shirt of the month club based around some of these Fairdale drawings. That might be fun. You could subscribe for one low price and then each month I would just print a new shirt from a new drawing and mail it to you.

I can see some problems with this idea though:

For one thing, what if you sign up for one size T-shirt, but then your weight fluctuates wildly from month to month?

Or what if (as often happens) the Fairdale corporation tries to cut some costs by using inferior shirts that make you break out in a rash?

And perhaps most dangerous is the idea of you trusting my sense of humor. There’s a very real chance I might think something really REALLY dum would be funny to put on a t-shirt. Are you really willing to risk that and subscribe your money away fearlessly and faithfully?

On the other hand, I do know some really awesome artists and it would be cool to have some guest artists do a shirt design or two. You might end up with something really unique and cool. I haven’t actually asked anyone and I’m not quite sure how I would get these “artists” to work for Fairdale, but usually just a million or so dollars convinces anyone. Maybe even some of you are artists. Now that would be a good deal… you do the drawing and then buy the shirt from me!

There is some precedence for this club-of -the-month kind of thing so maybe its not such a stretch:

Pizza of the month club.

Bacon of the month club.

And I know most of you are already enrolled in the Pickle of the month club.

Of course there already is a really awesome T-shirt of the month club too over at Threadless.

About to wreck some shit. Well, I’m actually about to go get lunch. Look out burrito.