Scarlet Begonias >> Fire on the Mountain by the Grateful Dead
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Story time.
About two years ago, Jack and I were watching Pinky and the Brain. There is an episode where the Brain creates a Chia Earth, right next to real Earth, which is exactly like Earth in every way. His plan it to convince people to move there, and leave real earth behind. His idea to convince people to move was to give them free t-shirts that read “I <3 Chia Earth.” The rational behind this was that everyone loves free tshirts, which is obviously true. One of us remarked that we’d like to get free t-shirts every so often, like a magazine subscription. The problem was that such a service didn’t exist, and even if it did, if you had to pay for a subscription they would no longer be free shirts. The obvious way to make it work was to make the shirts pay for themselves, with advertising. And since the shirts wouldn’t give themselves away, we started our own company.
Now myself and four friends are working hard at getting this business rolling. And it is just about there. Our website is up (landsharkshirts.com) and open to anyone who would like to subscribe. All we have left to do is to contact businesses in CT and convince them our service is valuable to them (which shouldn’t be hard, because it’s true).
And that’s the business.