OT: My HTTV personalized autograph fail or why Brian Cook follows instructions better than I do (unfortunately)
LIke many of you when our fearless leader asked for financial support to get this year's edition of HTTV off the ground I was happy to help. And at some point during the many emails I traded with the good folks at Underground Press I was asked (allegedly) to provide the verbiage I wished Brian to inscribe my book with when he autographed my copy. Unfortunately I thought I was being asked to provide a pithy little sentence or two that would actually appear in the magazine itself so I worded my response accordingly.
So yesterday my copy finally arrived (thank you Lacey at Underground Press for chasing it down for me) and after reading the Blockhams cartoon (I skim back to front when I get a new book for some reason) I noticed that I didn't exactly give Brian the best autograph wording but to his credit he wrote exactly what I requested as this is on the inside front cover of my copy and then added a little editorial comment for posterity:
MGrowold wishes all his friends on MGoBlog a great 2012 season. See you in Dallas AND Ann Arbor.
Brian CookPS: Did you enter this right?
Haha that's a funny story. Brian Cook's signature looks like it says "Blue Cock" in mine.
transforms into a super-hero at night with his cape and hood he is known as "The Blue Cock"
Blue Cock. He's the hero MGoBlog deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
With a name like Hugh Jass, are you his sidekick?
That gif is going to give someone a seizure.
But you gotta love the woman in the third row headbanging.
I like to think that they're at a heavy metal concert.
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Tuesday, been enjoying it since!
That... is excellent. At least it made it into your copy?
As if HTTV wasn't already excellent, that plus an autograph with a postscript questioning the wording makes your copy a blog classic.
You could even reply to it in next year's edition with a large enough donation, I sure - "To answer Brian's question, apparently not."
You didn't tell me what to write, So: Space! ~ Brian Cook
Anthony Carter!
followed by Brian's name. I keep hoping AC doesn't show up at the door looking for his magazine.
Mine says "Steve Breaston!"
I sense a theme.
Mine says "Go Blue!" I think the theme may be Michigan, but I could be way off base here...
I was thinking about starting a thread to see how everyone else's copies arrived. I just got mine yesterday and neither were personalized as requested and I was left off the sponsor list in the mag. Both are bent and dog-eared, so I can't frame them. I will enjoy reading, but am very disappointed.
my copy on Friday and UPS beat the shit out of it. B-holes!
Yeah, the top of the binding on mine ended up bent and kinda cracked, so the top inside of all of the pages is a little deformed. Obviously it's not Brian's fault, but the postman can suck it.
Mine still hasn't arrived. How much longer before I should do something about it ?
You should send an email to the address given in the email Brian sent out last week. I hadn't received mine either so I emailed and they promptly responded, informing me that it was on its way. Sho nuff, they arrived last week with my special request T-shirt.
Email address:
if I still haven't received it. The week's not up yet. But since they didn't tell me it was on its way... Patience, patience.
I think that a few minor changes might solve some issues.
1. A lighter cover and page stock would make it lighter and more pliable.
2. Saddle-stitch and trim binding would be less likely to "break."
3. Steps 1 & 2 would save on mailing costs and increase mailing durability.
4. USPS bulk mail may be less expensive and gentler than media-mail.
Was wondering if I missed a MGO inside joke but guess I forgot to tell him to write something..
Mine says:
Tacopants wants you for his army Byn CockI will be buried with this on my tombstone.
We moved to Shanghai since I ordered so I had mine shipped to my 75 year old parents. My Dad called and told me there was a problem and wanted to know what he should do. Several bad things went through my head and then he said. "There is a problem with the shirt. I can't tell what some idiot put on the shirt but it looks like some sick joke."
I explained to him the best I could and then asked him to wear it for me this season since I can't make it back and he is going to a couple of games with my tickets. There is no way he'll wear it but I can probably talk Moms into it,
He spelled my son's name wrong, but he's 8 and thought that was cool...
that you named your son Son't.