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19 July 2005

Shopping the MeChat shop idea: so the kids and cats and farts among us want a store to call our own. I wanted to talk to PsychoKitty about her cottage industries as well-- so let's all talk shop: Meh O'Clocks? Shirts? Mugs? Candles? Dream it and we'll make it come--
post by: ethylene at: 17:29 | 44 comments
dirty!
posted by ethylene 19 July | 17:29
PsychoKitty, q'est que c'est?

(I just never get tired of that joke. Fa fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa fa fa.)
posted by mudpuppie 19 July | 17:36
Sure, why not?
posted by me3dia 19 July | 17:37
plush bunnies!
posted by muddgirl 19 July | 17:46
With plush pancakes on their heads.
posted by carter 19 July | 17:50
plush oolong slippers to sleep in!
posted by muddgirl 19 July | 18:03
Skimpy spaghetti-string tank tops.
posted by Specklet 19 July | 18:23
what if the pancakes are removeable?
posted by ethylene 19 July | 18:40
lingerie
posted by matteo 19 July | 18:41
tell ya kids what
i'll do some mock up sketches while i corspe and put 'em somewhere for later
should be good for laughs if nothing else
posted by ethylene 19 July | 18:44
keep your thinking caps on
listen to some mechamixes
wonder at the corspes you want on a shirt
while i go embalm
*back later, stinking of fry*
posted by ethylene 19 July | 18:48
meh watches, definitely : >
posted by amberglow 19 July | 18:55
another website where I miss all the in-jokes. At least I got in on the ground floor.
posted by puke & cry 19 July | 19:21
I want a glittery pink t-shirt with a bunny on it. And maybe a rainbow.
posted by gaspode 19 July | 19:21
Cocktail bitters. Orange bitters. Quinine bitters. Our own brand.
posted by warbaby 19 July | 19:22
How about bitter misanthropy? With bunnies?
posted by mudpuppie 19 July | 19:26
How about bitter misanthropy? With bunnies?

I've got a brand of this all my own, but I might be willing to co-brand it.
posted by omiewise 19 July | 19:31
All of the above.
posted by matildaben 19 July | 19:42
Warbaby is right fucking on!

Bitters don't even count as alcohol for the purposes of selling, as they're required to be so bitter you can't drink them straight.
posted by kenko 19 July | 19:53
no cigarettes with special insignia?
has no one read atlas shrugged?
heh.
meh.
posted by ethylene 19 July | 20:21
i've spent the last ten years or so trying to forget about atlas shrugged, ethylene. thanks for that.

oh, and i just lost the game, damn it.

also, i make bitters. it's very good. especially in sazeracs.
posted by soi-disant 19 July | 20:41
soi-disant--recipe? any specific variety? (I thought Peychaud's bitters were de rigueur in sazeracs?)
posted by kenko 19 July | 20:47
hah, soi, it's part burned in my brain from a mew york summer laundry room, trapped by flaming gas dryers
posted by ethylene 19 July | 21:12
kenko -- i've done a couple of different styles, most recently orange bitters. approximate recipe is:

alcohol (i've been using a polish spirit, but any grain alcohol will do)
orange rind
star anise
cardamom pods
caraway seeds
coriander seeds
cinnamon sticks

steep stir strain etc.

and yeah you are supposed to use peychaud's in sazeracs. i'm just naughty and i like to experiment.

i'm also looking into making absinthe right now. i'll let you know how it goes. maybe i'll label it metachabsinthe. enough wormwood will probably make me see bunnies anyway.
posted by soi-disant 19 July | 21:17
dingle™ whiskey
posted by me3dia 19 July | 21:47
ah, i think we found our practical chemist
eggggsseellentttt
we will have the most fortifying food of any island nation
posted by ethylene 19 July | 21:51
food? what is this "food" of which you speak?
posted by soi-disant 19 July | 23:25
huh?
meh.

it grows or dies or lives
and we eat it
*spreads spores for shade garden*
posted by ethylene 19 July | 23:28
sssshh!
you will be contacted by a small cat with a silver collar, follow the instruction exactly two weeks and seven hours after contact is made--
posted by ethylene 19 July | 23:34
SO, i'm thinking shirts and mugs first.
Cafepress is cool for being easy in a lot of ways but the mark up sucks.
posted by ethylene 19 July | 23:35
Um, who me? I make soap...we could see about having a custom mold made, or a stamp with a MeCharacter on it. ;) I'm sure I could find a bunny mold, there's bound to be some out there.

I could make Dead Sea "Slinging Mud" for everyone. (Hee.)

Or "Stinging Retort" Bath Salts.

"I got your back" massage oil?

A peroxide "Brain Scrub" when exposed to icky things?

Hee.
posted by PsychoKitty 20 July | 00:04
heh, i'd love to know some of your candle recipes.
i'm trying some different herbal blends
and i like how some candles heat particles in the wax so it's like a subtle sparkly thing in the molten wax
obviously for that step before full blown pyro
posted by ethylene 20 July | 00:07
rowr?
≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by ethylene 20 July | 03:39
I think I may have found something better than CafePress.

There's Spreadshirt who have outlets in Europe and America so we can set a store up in both countries selling the same goods and therefore reducing shipping. And they can print on colours other than white! Yay!

Here's the UK shop:
http://www.spreadshirt.net/

And here's the US one:
http://www.spreadshirt.com/

The selections seem to be slightly different but I'm sure we can work around that.
posted by dodgygeezer 20 July | 05:59
MetaChat™ Organic Carrots™
posted by AlexReynolds 20 July | 07:10
Dame Panties. I would so buy a pair.
posted by rainbaby 20 July | 08:21
Bitters recipes (Word .DOC file)
posted by warbaby 20 July | 09:57
Thongs.
posted by jonmc 20 July | 09:58
* looks at cafepress *

* sees they print books *

* has curious idea for metachat *
posted by dodgygeezer 20 July | 10:23
* has curious idea for metachat *

And not four weeks later, The Wit and Wisdom of Mechanics is at the top of the NY Times bestseller list!
posted by kenko 20 July | 10:34
* looks at cafepress *

* sees they print books *

* has curious idea for metachat *


Actually, Lulu is better for books. But I see where you're going, and I like it.
posted by me3dia 20 July | 11:29
Lulu is the best we've found for books. If anybody knows a better, I'd really like to hear it.

*scribbles*
posted by warbaby 20 July | 12:11
and i thought i was getting ahead of myself

*thinks about the breaks but trusts in the downhill highway truck embankments*
posted by ethylene 20 July | 13:25
heh, i'd love to know some of your candle recipes.


Oh, I don't make candles. Insurance companies get very hostile towards home based businesses where flame is part of the operating plan. ;) I buy my candles from a local candlemaker.
posted by PsychoKitty 20 July | 23:27
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