Make the most prominant black man in the world... your pet

This website, which was running ads on Facebook and probably still is, highlights why I will never get ahead in this world. I have decency. Yet I also WANT what these shameless hucksters are shilling. Gosh I should have gone into marketing. There is too much for me to spew about my hatred and sick admiration for ideas such as these, and late at night after a large dark frothy beverage keeps my argument from being as strong as I would prefer, so I'll let the "company" and its product speak for itself.

My Pet Barock

www.mypetbarock.com

You can *win* your very own piece of 1980s kitsch, and celebrate current events at the same time.

My favorite designs?

Novelty shirts

While Joe astutely noted the scam in the idea behind "winning" for items you actually still pay (and probably overpay) for, my package came today. And it is a representation of another popular scheme: novelty shirts. You can put whatever you want on a shirt. Any color. Any design. Any type of shirt. Anything. And Facebook ads always seem to direct me to these novelty shirt sites. And I love the humorous designs. No matter how juvenile or self-referential or politically incorrect, I love the designs. I have very few photos of myself, so I substitute a real photo of myself on Facebook with random shirt designs. Part of this is knowing that $20 for a funny shirt plus shipping is dumb, because it takes $5-10 for a company to buy a blank shirt and iron on their design which will immediately deteriorate the moment I put this shirt in my washing machine. Yet the other thing holding me back is knowing that I should be too old to publicly wear such shirts, especially in public where even outside of school I guess I'm expected to have some degree of mature professionalism about me.

So with those two considerations, after some research, I found a shirt that was practical (I need a new sweatshirt, and this had a hood and nice warm fleece on the inside), I found a cheap deal, and I found a humorous design that I wouldn't be embarrassed (I'm actually quite proud) to wear out in public, or even put over my dress shirt in class on a school day when the building is freezing. So, I now have a new shirt, and coincidentally, the photo I took to share with you all is so utterly ridiculous, that it will become my new Facebook photo as well.