Jesus Loves the Little Children

Especially their livers, with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

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January's Free Shirt Winner

We held our first drawing, and we have a winner! The only problem is, the person hasn't responded to our emails. It's tricky, trying to get messages that say, "YOU WON!!" past people's spam filters.

So if your email begins with "asummers", and you signed up for our monthly drawing, then, well, YOU WON!! Please contact us as soon as possible at mindcontrol at faroutshirts dot com, so we can get that free shirt headed your way.

Monthly drawing entries are only good for one month, so you know what that means: time to sign up for next month's free shirt giveaway!

And if you'd like to see what our shiny new newsletter looks like, which you may optionally subscribe to when you enter the drawing, here's the January newsletter.

We No Like CafePress Today

The over-eager young copyright patrol persons at CafePress have struck again. You may remember last summer, when they robbed the world of the awesome Super Mac design. Only this time, they've targeted our highest selling design of all time, Enterprise Silhouette.



They yanked all seven of our Trekkie silhouette shirts, in fact. No more Klingon Battle Cruisers, no more Romulan Warbirds.

Despite perfectly watertight, bullet-proof and absolutely flame-retardant defense (e.g., "You suck! Kiss our asses!"), CafePress invoked the dread Content Usage Policy.

Unless you have written permission or a license agreement with the various studio, producer or rights holder of the movie or tv show, your use of Star Trek related content gives the impression that you are selling official merchandise of the movie/tv show. This is not permitted nor is it in accordance with our Content Usage Policy.

The bottom line is, under CafePress' rules, they can pretty much yank anything they want, for any reason they want. It's just part of the deal with them. Whether they've gotten heat from Paramount before on this kind of stuff, or not, I have no idea. Our defense was more serious than that (e.g., "trekkie" is not copyrighted, and not copyrightable, and the images are our original art, etc., etc.), but CafePress has to the weigh little bit of money our designs bring in against the possibility of getting their asses sued off by Paramount.

From our standpoint, it just accelerates the next phase of Far Out Shirts, in which we open our own damn store, for real, with our own shirts that we send you ourselves. For real. Stay tuned.