Votin' Time

The 2009 Gummie Awards Ballot is online.

Get your bootie over there and vote. A certain blog is up for an award, but just to let you know I voted for a Dingedifferent Cornertestant. Not trying to sway yer vote or nothin', just telling you not to vote for me. I've already won a Gummie, it's time to share the wealth.*

As long as you're in a voting mood, Go vote for the best Pirate Card creator up in the corner. There's no prize, only glory. I'm in the process of sending out hard copy sets to the creators, Beardy and Stale Gum have been sent theirs and I'm working on gcrl's set now. The other creators need to send me an address so I can get one out to you. These take a while to print, cut and customize so the process will take a couple of months assuming I don't burn through all my ink. Thanks for contributing to the set!



*note how just I cleverly used reverse psychology to win the teabagger vote. No socialist voting for them!

National Collect Like A Pirate Day

No, not these pirates.

Not even these Pirates.

These pirates.

Tired of spending time and hard earned money building a Topps base set only to find there's an impossible super short print keeping you from completing your goal? Sick of pre-ordering a case of Heritage only to find that there's a pile of cards that you'll only get if you buy a case of cases? Are your OCD tendencies causing you to break out in hives every time a new base set comes out with some stupid gimmick preventing you from being the completist your neurotic nature demands?

WELL SCREW IT

DEATH TO SUPER SHORT PRINTS

KEELHAUL THE CHASE CARDS

GARROTTE THE GIMMICKS

FILL THAT HOLE IN YOUR SET WITH A HOMEBREW

PRESENTING:

2009 PIRATE CARDS

2006 Alex Gordon ain't just for Olbermann anymore!

Gobble up that Ratty gimmick!

The card companies are mercenary, you should be too!

Get a little Cap'n in your binder!

Now the point of interweb card piracy is to share. Share those impossible cards with your fellow collectors. Now, I've started off with 4 here. Make your own Pirateized cards, I'll link 'em here and we can all fill in those gimmicked up base sets with cards we made aaaaarrrrselves. I'll pick the best and put them into an official 2009 Pirate Card Set.

Not enough incentive to crack open MSPaint and defy copyright law by exercising your right to *gasp* Fair Use? I'm going to print out some sets on some cardstock I bought. The creators of the top five cards as chosen by poll will get a printed set from me. Everyone who makes a piratey entry will be sent a document of the cards that you can print out yourself.

Is this stupid? Yes!

Will I get sued? Probably!

Is it fun? Definitely!

Now post some entries in the comments! I still owe Chris Harris a factory set!