In a message dated 12/10/2004 5:49:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> writes: > Well, if you're serious about all this, some random opinions: > > Expect about 25% of the people who think something is a good > idea to actually pony up when it comes down to paying real > cash for it. Take this into consideration when deciding on > methods of production that require advance payment and/or > minimum quantities. Heh, you're more optimistic than I am. And just for the record, I'll be in the majority. All my extra money goes to books. > To be truly effective, tee-shirt slogans should be based on > some sort of wit that a non-Brust reader could appreciate. The > "knife between the shoulderblades" quote is a good example, > because Tolkein's original is reasonably well-known, > especially after the popularity of the films. "Got Morganti?" > is an amusing in-joke and might even garner a few appreciative > nods at a con, but it's something that that no-one outside of > the Brust-reading community would "get". The former would have > a greater chance of making the viewer smile and possibly go to > dreamcafe.com to learn more about it. It serves the double > purpose of selling more tee-shirts and introducing new readers > to Brust/Dragaera, whereas the second only caters to the > inside knowledge of its wearer. Yeah, I wouldn't want to try to explain to a random stranger what Morganti means. A few ideas I had since my previous post: "I *am* cute." [see about using this image: http://stephenhickman.com/jhereg3.jpg ] Jhereg: "Ask me about my /work/." jhereg: "Will /work/ for carrion." "Memory is like a whatchacallit." a Yendi shirt should be glossy black on matte black, or glow in the dark white on white (someone has already mentioned that the former isn't available; what about the latter?) --KG
