Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

So I was looking at the new Porsche ad, and at first it struck me as bourgeois and classist, as if flaunting its financial value to those who couldn't afford it was part of the worth, or making fun of the poor, unhappy sods who were short of the loot required to achieve bliss. See what I mean:

But then I thought about what it's like to drive a Porsche (or similar high-end car/bike/quad/sled/whatever), and I'm sure it sounds silly to anyone who hasn't, but it really is incredibly fun and really is almost automatic happiness a la sex or great food or other carnal acts. I really miss my old car and am looking forward to putting it back on the road. It's been sitting on the same new tires, but undriven, for almost three years so they may be messed up from it… I told Rachel she could do donuts on them until they catch on fire for some movie if they have to be replaced (it's being painted anyway).

She'd better not destroy it because I've told other people I'd use it to teach them to drive (and I'm going crazy to drive it myself). Anyway, I just wanted to publicly (but anonymously of course) thank the person who sent me the postcard below, it really cheered me up.

Well, I'm going to post a little to ModBlog and go to bed.

PS. Shannon Larratt, 2545A Dundas St. West, Toronto ON, M6P1X6 (address valid until at least December 31, 2006).

If I remember right it's a spider scaring a dog while a second spider steals his drink. As with the previous one I've posted, it's drawn by Nefarious and then I filled it in with paint.

(Click to view at full quality)

There's a bug somewhere in the events engine so the shirt requests are not recording correctly… I'll do a broadcast about this also to everyone who's signed up, but if you want a shirt, which also guarantees access to the afterparty/mainparty (depending on the way you look at it), please message Ryan and tell him your size. They'll probably be $25 Canadian, which will go to cover the space rental costs, entertainment (organized by the great ORBAX), fireworks, and so on… Here's the front of the shirt, and on the back will be the list of performers, bands, event details, and all that…

Edit: As a point of trivia, the pentagram is 6.66″ across.

Oh yeah, and this is real. We wanted to make sure that the name wasn't misused, and I wanted to play with the system since so many people use it and try and build a cross-posting system like with WordPress (but their setup is so weird that I'm not sure it'll be possible).