snoburbia, the blog

snobby nascar

 

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My friend is going to Montreal, a city I have always wanted to visit. She is going to a Formula 1 race with her husband, who used to race cars. This surprised me:

Me: You like racing??

She: It's Formula 1.

Me: You like racing??

She: It's Formula 1.

Me: What is that, like, NASCAR?

She: No! [Laugh] It's not NASCAR!

Then she gave me a list of names of some of the drivers I may have heard of through the years. They have names like Alain, Alberto, Fernando and Sebastian.*

Me: So it's snobby NASCAR.

She: [Laugh, eye roll]

Probably has better concession stands.

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* NASCAR drivers have names like Jimmie Johnson.

t-shirts no more

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My son was wearing his snoburbia OBX t-shirt a couple of months ago, and another kid said, "OBX sucks!" Upon closer look, he realized it said, "OBX," in the shape of the iconic bumper sticker - but with "obnoxious" where "Outer Banks" usually is. He liked it so he looked at the snoburbia.com website at some of the t-shirts. When he saw the "Followster" shirt, he laughed but said, "What is this, 2008? Nobody wears Hollister anymore."

Ouch. I did come up with that design in 2008, about the last time anyone in snoburbia wore Hollister. So that leads me to why I shut down my t-shirt site last week. I felt the static t-shirts page was bringing down the overall site. Although I have lots of new and fresh t-shirt ideas, actually getting them onto shirts and onto the site is very expensive. I have to pay for graphic design, programming, high-quality shirt blanks, shipping, screenprinting, plus web-hosting, site maintenance, bookkeeping and taxes. (And with my civic activism, I don't have time to keep up with it all.)

I have several hundred shirts in boxes in my house, but I feel a sense of relief. (Any ideas of what to do with them? Message me.)

I will continue to do the blog, because I constantly get ideas from just living in this interesting place. People here just crack me up, especially when they don't know it.

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