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Published 11/29/2006 07:11:00 PM
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That's a nice picture, but where are the nudes?
No nudes is good nudes!
'specially if you're talking about nude gingrich.
Good evening, Father Tyme.
Not so fast there. I'm thinking of working on a month-by-month 2007 calendar with each page having its own graphic. That calendar would be more expensive than this one (probably on the order of $25 or so), of course, because there would be 13 images (12 months plus the cover). I'd have to customize the formatting of 12 graphics I've published here over the years. For one of the months, I might use some version of that half-nude I did for The Dark Wraith He-Chest Challenge last year.
Whether or not I go to the effort of creating such a calendar depends upon what happens as far as sales go with this one. I honestly have no idea whether a "boutique" blog calendar has any market whatsoever, considering the overall theme would be familiar to very few (in a marketing sense) other than the purchasers. That's a serious deterrent to sales of more than a handful, as many people who've done such "house" calendars have found out.
We'll see.
The Dark Wraith is entrepreneurial, but only to the extent that entrepreneurialism has more than a snowball's chance in Hades of generating revenue.
Good evening, Mr. Goat.
To put a nude Newt Gingrich on a calendar would be almost as bad as putting a nude George W. Bush or Dick Cheney on the calendar. (And, no, Condoleeza Rice and Laura Bush wouldn't be any better.)
In any of those exhibitionist excesses, I would run the risk of having many of the world's nations issue warrants for my arrest on a charge of bad art.
The Dark Wraith does not want to go before a firing squad for publishing bad art.
Good Evening Dark Wraith: I'll be back home fridayish (i'm on indin time which according to my mother "starts when you get there and ends when you leave." I'll be purchasing my calendar then.
i have often dreamed of being named "minister of culture" for some tropical dictatorship (preferably islandish type) and there would be only two offenses that would require the death penalty from my ton-ton macoutes. 1. painting on black velvet
2. recording a cover version of a beegees song.
Would the latter be because they were so good that copying them is sacrilege, or so bad that any playing of their music constitutes an unforgiveable offense?
- oddjob (who is "just curious")
Minstrel Boy,
Eliminating the "Black Velvet Painting" might cause a great degree of consternation in the south! Be prepared!
Thank you, Thank you very much!
Good Morning Dark Wraith:
a quick response before i drive my mother 200 miles for a doctor visit (trust me, even on the rez you don't want her driving)
oddjob: because the beegees suck out loud. meaningless lyrics sung in unnaturally high voices. you can get better harmonies from both the osmonds and the early jackson 5 (plus little michael's james brown moves were priceless, i likes me some little michael)
papa tiempo: fuck the south, that's why i took the goddamn job on the island. if the painting on black velvet is of elvis or a tiger i would decree special circumstances and order the death by torture to a beegees soundtrack.
Good morning, Dark Wraith.
Good idea to put out the calendar. I haven't gotten any for the new year, so I'll rush right out (to the cafe press) and get one. Next calendar, you might also want to add a picture of that cute little Gabriel. (I've been known to hang calendars containing pictures of kitties).
"if the painting on black velvet is of elvis or a tiger i would decree special circumstances and order the death by torture to a beegees soundtrack."
MusicMan, Wraith, how 'bout a calendar with a series of photos with
Britney Crotch Shots which at the moment seem to be all the rage?
Good morning, Peter of Lone Tree.
I thought you were linking to some kind of funny gag site.
The Dark Wraith did, indeed, gag.