Could be the funniest video ever.
8/21/06
7/22/06
The Damon Affair
Taken from : ESPN.com
BOSTON -- A Red Sox fan angry that Johnny Damon defected to the New York Yankees has fought off an attempt by his high-powered agent to stop her from selling baby bibs with a very grown-up insult.
Tucked among the "I Love My Mommy" bibs and "Pregnant Princess" maternity clothes, Ann Sylvia also offers bibs and onesies adorned with the ballpark epithet "Damon Sucks." Last month, eBay pulled the listings after the Scott Boras Corp. complained that they violated Damon's right of publicity, a legal claim that allows celebrities to control the products they endorse.
Sylvia hadn't sold any of the Damon items at the time, but the complaint threatened to blemish her eBay rating and jeopardize her PowerSeller status.
"I'm just a stay-at-home mom. I just want to raise my children, sell my stuff," said Sylvia, who works part-time at The Standard-Times of New Bedford, which first reported on her struggle. "It's all a little nerve-racking, a little scary."
If so, she didn't show it in her negotiations with Boras' staff. During an hourlong phone call, she pointed out to attorney Ryan Lubner that there are other baseball players named "Damon." How did he know, after all, that she wasn't the world's biggest critic of Tampa Bay's Damon Hollins?
"Then I knew I had him," she gloated. "So I said, 'Let's make a compromise.'"
Lubner agreed to lift his objection -- and clear her eBay record -- if Sylvia agreed not to use "Johnny," "Boston," "Red Sox," "New York," or "Yankees" in the listing.
Now Sylvia's bibs are back on eBay.
"This is one of the more ridiculous cases we've seen arising out of eBay," said Greg Beck, an attorney who helped Sylvia with her case. "If a sports figure could sue for infringement of the right of publicity every time a fan criticized him, we'd have chaos in the court system."
And the ballpark.
Asked about the dispute at Yankee Stadium this week, Damon said he was unaware of it and referred questions to Boras. Calls seeking comment from Lubner were not returned.
"Sports figures like Johnny Damon are important people in our society, and the First Amendment protects the right of the public to freely comment on them," said Beck, who works for the Public Citizen Litigation Group. "Johnny Damon doesn't get to control what people say about him."
Damon's role in Boston's 2004 World Series title made him one of Boston's most popular athletes; that ended when he jilted the Red Sox for a four-year, $52 million contract with the Yankees. Red Sox fans reacted by converting their "Damon" jerseys to "Demon" jerseys and booing him lustily when he returned to Fenway Park in New York's pinstripes.
Sylvia's protest was equally subtle.
"What Damon did is just the ultimate betrayal in baseball," she said in a telephone interview from her home in New Bedford. "I don't see how it could not be considered that."
A mother of two whose online store, "Owen and Emma," is named after her children, Sylvia has operated an online store since 2001 so she can spend more time at home with her kids. She makes more than $1,000 a month from eBay sales.
Though she hadn't sold any "Damon Sucks" merchandise before the controversy, she's sold two items since.
But not everyone is happy.
"Here's the thing," she said slyly. "My husband is a Yankees fan, and his whole family is Yankees fans; my whole family is Red Sox fans. So the whole New York-Boston thing is contentious.
"But we have fun with it."
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We at BurnTees applaud Ann. As t-shirt designers, it seems like everytime we poke fun at something, we are ordered to stop selling the design for some reason. When BurnTees first started we had an "A Rod Swallows Jeter" which we thought was brilliant, but that got taken down pretty quickly. Who knew that by fighting it we could actually win and maybe even receive national press while doing it? Ann stood up for herself and proved once again that David can defeat Goliath.
Make sure to check out Ann's website OwenAndEmma.com to see all the products she sells. In addition, she provides even more detail about the "Damon Affair" on her site showing the emails she received and wrote back...interesting stuff.
And while you're there, make sure to buy some stuff and support our friend Ann.
7/17/06
BurnTees on a toilet?
This isn't a joke, I swear. We won an auction on ebay and won the right to advertise www.BurnTees.com on this guy's toilet. Pretty freakin sweet huh?!
This guy Jon runs a site called BidMySpace.com in which he auctions off the right to advertise on his personal property. He auctions off such things as his toilet, the bumper of his car, a sign in his lawn and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I'm bidding to have www.BurnTees.com tattood on Jon's face.
I just thought I'd post the picture here because I think it's awesome. Now let's see if we get any publicity with it.
7/10/06
7/9/06
6/26/06
It's been a while
I know, it's been quite a while. I mean, I could have just written a bunch of crap but that's just not my style. In the meantime, however, thought I might just fill up this space with some of my favorite stuff right now:
This is the pilot to a show called Nobody's Watching...take a few minutes out of your day and watch...semi funny stuff:
most people have seen this, but in case you haven't, check it out....and teach yourself...it's easy.
Some recent favorite t shirts:
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hm, what else do i wanna show you...
ahhhh:
the video and our shirt:
ok, so i promise that sometime soon i'll write an actual blog and i'll even try to be funny.
oh yea, and don't forget to check us out on myspace and become our friend!!!:
BurnTees on Myspace
5/15/06
Do you Squidoo?
Check out our Squidoo lense or go set up one for yourself! Just click "Do you Squidoo" above. Interesting stuff.
5/8/06
CafeClash - T Shirt Showdown!
Click the banner and vote for "Make Drinks Not War"
The First ever CafeClash is currently taking place and BurnTees needs your help. Unlike most design competitions, this competition is a one on one design contest that had to relate to July 4th. Please click the banner above and vote for our design in the contest - "Make Drinks Not War"
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Thanks for your help,
www.BurnTees.com
5/4/06
A Few Things
First, I want to announce that the annaul summer sale is taking place right now at Threadless.com - make sure you check it out cause there's some awesome stuff there.
Also, not sure if we've told people, but you can check us out on myspace here: BurnTees MySpace profile
Well, I think that's it....so...it's not really a few things...it's just two things.
We'll have more info in the next day or two about the upcoming T Shirt Showdown that we're participating in.
To Catch a Predator
I watched another episode of this last night on Dateline NBC and I'm just shocked everytime I see this. In case you don't know the premise, an online site called Perverted Justice basically goes online posing as underage boys and girls and chats with older men who then engage in conversations with these fake kids. The conversations are pretty dirty and explicit, and in the end, they make arrangements, get an address, and go off to have sex with minors. When they arrive at what they think is the child's house, a Dateline reporter comes out, shocks the hell out of them, and asks why they've come here to solicit sex from a minor. Most don't know right away they're on camera and are more than happy to sit down and chat. When they learn they're on camera, few try and stick around. Oh yea, and most importantly, when they leave, they're arrested.
This show is amazing on so many levels. To begin with, it's absolutly AMAZING how many men show up. Last night's episode was in some small town in Ohio and men were just filing in. One after the other, men were coming from all over the place in the hopes of having sex with a minor. One guy drove 2.5 hours to get there, and he's married with two kids. The volume is so great that Dateline could probably do this every week and have enough material to be on air for the next three years. It's quite scary when you start thinking about how many of these creepy men are out there. I'd say that I hope that I never have a daughter, but some of these men were coming to have sex with underage boys, so that really doesn't help.
The other amazing thing is that a bunch of these guys admit to having seen prior versions of To Catch a Predator on Dateline! If watching this show doesn't deter themto not do something like this, I really don't know what will. Watching this show is one of the most uncomfortable things to do. Part of you almost feels bad for these men because you know that as of that second, their lives are over...completely done. Then you snap back to it and realize...good...these men don't deserve to have lives. But at the same time, it's never easy watching someone's life fall apart in front of you.
When confronted by the reporter, each man says the same thing: "I wasn't going to actually go through with it." One man said that and even showed up with condoms, and then admitted that he doesn't use condoms when having sex with his wife. They come up with all sorts of excuses. On the last episode, some guy said that he was worried because the little girl said that she was home by herself. Another said that he wanted to teach the girl a lesson, that she shouldn't be soliciting sex from older men because it was dangerous. Most show up with beer and wine coolers in hand and still just try to claim that they all they were going to do was watch a movie and hang out. What 40 year old comes with alcohol in hand just to watch a movie with a 13 year old...is that normal?
I always feel a little dirty after watching this show. It's never easy watching someone's life unravel before your eys, wondering what that call to their wife, father, mother, kids must sound like. It's disturbing. You sit and wonder what's happening in our society.....is it falling apart?.....maybe, but I guess watching it happen makes for good TV.
5/3/06
Exactly which one?
So, I just went to make some coffee and I had the option of Sugar, Equal, Splenda, and Sweet n Low. So, someone tell me...exactly which one am I supposed to be using? Lets say I'm not using sugar...I have apparently the following options:
Equal
Sweet N Low
Stevia
Splenda
NutraSweet
Can someone please let me know? thanks
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