State Of The Bloop Address – Feedback Wanted
First of all, I would like to say how extraordinarily thankful I am to have Owl of Parliament, Tim Magus and the Destuctor Bros. providing content for Bloop.
It’s taken about a year but I finally have a solid core of weirdo contributors and I couldn’t be more proud of each and every one of them.
That said, I will be re-designing Julius Bloop in the months to come. Although this website design has been decent – it doesn’t serve to aid newcomers and it can be difficult to peruse the archives.
I wish to streamline all of that and make it more user-friendly for those unfamiliar with what we do here.
What do we do here? Pump out consistent, weirdo comedy. Week after week.
I’m contemplating getting some T-shirts printed up and selling them as I sold the calendars. I’m talking about high-quality, nicely printed T’s from a local place in Portland. My question to you is – what do you want on it? There are a bevy of characters and jokes to choose from and I can really only afford to do one right now so I want to open the floor and hear your thoughts on the matter.
Lastly, I would love to feature a weekly podcast on the site – so if anyone knows of a funny, underground podcast that needs some publicity, please let me know. I think it’s the one thing Bloop lacks right now in providing well-rounded entertainment for weirdos.
That’s all for now – I really need your feedback. I greatly appreciate your comments. Your input means everything to me.
Thanks for being a weirdo.
~Bloop
You can make up some really official looking “jerry” headbands; this might be a bit much but maybe you could do a shirt pattern with lots of individual potato trash characters thrown together in an orderly fashion; oh yeah, or you could do up a top hat that says “10ยข,” on it; you could do up some stationary or stickers and such. Or just do something small like stickers or something, and just throw one or two in when someone orders a shirt or something over a certain amount.
I think the archives are fine, if you know what you’re looking for. You just need a random preview system or something to snare in newcomers. But if I want to read Creek of Consciousness, it’s just a click away.
What do you mean by a random preview system? Can you elaborate a little?
p.s. The sticker idea is brilliant. I hadn’t thought of that.
You could go with what worked for you before and make a Floating Together tee, or you could add more variety to your bloopy sundries by making one with Paulie in his meat song getup.
Spud needs his due, man.
A webfeed is an option. You could take advantage of it and make fake-out headings that lead people to strange non-articles should it tickle your fancy.
The perpetual thought machine image you use is a pretty strong graphic. You could pair that with a favorite quote or two and it’d fit in well in the t-shirt market.
I’m definitely thinking of a Potato Trash shirt. But perhaps the meat rap outfit is too…out there?
Or just out there enough?
Would anyone actually WEAR such a shirt?
Thoughts!?
I’d wear eleven of them at the same time.
If you think it’d be too big a leap to have that on the first tater trash shirt, you could always balance it out by adding a couple more spud people looking as braindead as they normally are.
That’s a good idea.
I think I’ll go with a few Potato Trash characters and the words “Julius Bloop” somewhere on there.
Also, maybe I’ll get some buttons printed up for you hipsters and your bags.
What do you think?