I Am A Cartoon Logo

First and foremost, I know I haven’t posted enough. Having started ‘cross season last weekend at the CCCX #4 at Manzanita park, I really have no “lack of material” excuses. Hopefully after today’s Bay Area SuperPrestige race at Candlestick Park, I’ll start writing again.

As if to motivate me to get back into the game, I arrived home late last night to find a box outside my door with the following hastily scribbled on the side in Sharpie.

Inside this nondescript box was exactly that: the first custom Clean Bottles EVER!!!.

These are the first green/yellow Clean Bottles the world has ever seen and, even better, they are emblazoned with a cartoon caricature of me on a bike riding next to my blog URL!

If you recall, my long term sponsor Clean Bottle — maker of the world’s first water bottle that unscrews at both ends for ease of cleaning — has been collaborating with internet cartoon artist and CX Comicbook extraordinaire Lee “Slonie” Slone to generate these custom bottles and I am extremely grateful to both of them for their work.

It all began as a notebook sketch by Lee shortly after he found my blog.

Now, ten months later, it’s been digitized and turned into “merch” for my blog! My blog has “MERCH!”

Now, as Dr. Malcom said emphatically in Jurassic Park, “…before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and you packaged it, and you slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now [slams hand down on table] you’re selling it!”

I suppose to avoid being ripped in half by a T-rex while on the porta potty as a consequence of my transgressions, I will avoid that last part about “selling.” That’s right, pretty soon, I’ll be distributing these bottles free of charge; in fact, you may end up getting one even if you don’t want it!

As of right now, I have only four of my custom Counterattacking Reality Clean Bottles; the first one goes to Slonie because he designed the whole thing, the second one goes to my friend Yukie because she requested it mere minutes after she heard the idea, and the third one is for me so that I have a nondescript place to hide my my adult “recovery beverages.” The fourth one may or may not be spoken for already. However, according to Clean Bottle, there is an entire case of 200 bottles en route!

If you want one, let me know!

Now if I can just get him to make a custom Counterattacking Reality Bottle Boy outfit to wear at the Tour de France…that would launch the blog to new heights!

See y’all at the Bay Area SuperPrestige ‘cross race in a few hours! I’ll be racing at 1:30pm, so come heckle me!