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Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Amber P. of Gilbert AZ, who's looking sharp in a Born to Roam tee.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

I am a tower structural analyst. I work in the engineering field on wireless communications towers to help ensure that they are safe and meet compliance regulations when carriers do equipment upgrades. I specifically deal with the NorCal market, so we have a lot of seismic requirements and jurisdiction regulations. My dream job would be something along the lines of a conservation biologist. I think it is important to help protect and preserve our environment and its animals. (Ed. note: We couldn't agree more!)

2. What are you proud of?

I am a board member of one of the largest parrot sanctuaries in the country. I am proud to be a part of an amazing team that helps care for almost 800 animals that otherwise do not have a place to call home. (Fun fact: a group of parrots is called a "pandemonium", which is definitely what it sounds like when the feral red-crowned parrots near my house start wilin' out every morning and evening.)  

3. You can curse a nemesis with a minor annoyance; what do you choose?

Endless mosquitoes.

4. Clear up a misconception (about your job, where you're from, or some other topic you know a lot about.)

I live in Arizona. It's not always 110 degrees outside (it just feels that way in the summer.) We do have lakes. It does actually snow here, too.

5. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

On Instagram at either @arizona_parrots or @oasis_sanctuary.

Want to be featured next? Shoot us an email at hello@boredwalk.com and we'll make it happen!

Welp, we made it folks. Another week in the books. And what have we learned?

....

Exactly.

Well, that just won't do at all. Let's edu-tain ourselves, shall we?

On this day (presuming you're reading this post on April 12th) in 1811 the first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, WA. Seriously! The comically-named Cape Disappointment was so-designated by British fur trader John Meares, who had sailed down the Pacific northwest coast looking for trade before turning back a little too soon and missing the mouth of the Columbia River. Not enough stamina, John. SAD.

In 1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow in Tennessee. Fort Pillow? Hardly seems challenging, Nate.

In 1955 Dr. Jonas Salk's discovery of the polio vaccine is announced. Given the recently announced reunion tours of The Measles, Whooping Cough, and other Viral Invasion bands of yesteryear I fully expect The Rolling Polios to make a comeback in 2019, too. Sorry, Jonas! We have the facts and we're (still) voting NO on Science.

In 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit Earth. At least he got to come back down. Poor Laika the space dog! #NeverForget

Anyhoo, despite a hectic start to the week that kept me away from designing, I was still able to squeeze in a couple new ones; scroll up or down to take a gander! There's You Can't Despair With Us up top, and Little Ray Of Moonshine below, along with some other recent additions. Enjoy!

Meredith and I also sat down for the podcast to chat about her recent trip to the dentist, engage in a spoiler-rich takedown of 2018 critical horror darling A Quiet Place (and if you're mad about spoilers and still haven't seen it, well...that's on you my friends. It premiered over a year ago), share a customer review, and I do a deep dive into the textbook definitions of psychopaths versus sociopaths to get a little clarity only to come back up gasping for air and even further away from understanding the differences than I was before researching them. All in a tidy 20 minutes! Give it a listen!

We'll be back next week on Tuesday with a new Boredwalk Community Q&A and design, and then again on Friday with more fun facts, new designs, and a fresh podcast episode featuring a guest! Until then...

Peace, love, and tacos,

Matt

We'll be back next week with more fun new designs, a new podcast episode, and more! And in case you've been absent for the last few weeks (*sniff* how could you?!), take a gander at our other recent additions below — just in time for warm spring weather!

Peace, love, and naps,

Matt

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Rynie E. of Long Beach, California, who's looking sharp in her Someday We'll All Be Dead Tee.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

Currently I am a full-time college student, mom, Veteran Caregiver, burlesque performer, brand ambassador (Electric West, Detention Apparel, and Unpossible Cuts), social media manager for Unpossible Cuts, and recently have been doing product/brand development for Detention Apparel.

My dream job is to revolutionize and change the way the U.S. views and handles addiction, mostly in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system.

2. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?

I would like to go to Disney World/Disney Tokyo with my daughter.

3. What's your biggest pet peeve?

People snoring and chewing with their mouth open. I know some people have to for medical reasons, and the chewing can sometimes be a cultural thing, but I just cannot deal. Sorry! Haha!

4. What keeps you up at night?

Can ghosts have sex with each other?!?!?! What if they are doing it in my room RIGHT. NOW. Next to my bed. Or even in my bed. (Ed. note: Thanks for the terrifying dreams, Rynie...) 😰

5. What's a life pro tip the Boredwalk community needs to know?

Someday we'll all be dead, so make every day count.

Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

You can follow me on Instagram @ryniewreckless

Want to be featured next? Shoot us an email at hello@boredwalk.com and we'll make it happen!

Phew! Another week in the books. One week closer to our respective inevitable demises. Thank goodness, amirite you guys?

This week was pretty hectic around Boredwalk HQ thanks to some epic fails on the part of one of our main suppliers. Silver lining? We documented their ineptitude on Twitter.

That didn't stop us from delivering the goods, though! I still made time to crank out not just one, but TWO new designs: the refreshingly feminist counterbalance to Netflix's new Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt you see above, and the delightfully glum paean to springtime blues below:

Meredith and I also squeezed in a fun interview with *EMMY NOMINATED* comedy writer Chase Mitchell! You may know his writing from any one of the following esteemed programs: MTV's Nikki & Sarah Live, NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, NBC's The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, and Netflix's The Fix, among others. He's, uh, kind of a big deal...or at the very least big deal-adjacent.

We chat with Chase about how he got into comedy, first as a fan and then professionally, how comedy writing is a lot more like copy writing for marketing than comedy pros might care to admit, what exactly he did to get his Twitter account suspended for a day (hint: it involved the former Speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives, a necktie, and a humorous, not-at-all-literal suggestion of what the former Speaker should do with it), and how Disneyland broke him (in a good way), among many other topics! Listen below!  

And hey, if you've been enjoying the podcast — or even if you haven't! — please consider taking some time out of your busy lives and subscribing to it on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play, or leaving us a review. Tell us what you like or don't like. Try to be constructive; we're fragile artistic types that already drink too much (thanks, internet trolls.) 😒

We hope you've had a fantastic week, and if you haven't, that your weekend at least provides some respite from the storminess of the previous five days. If you can, try to take a few minutes for yourself — you could probably use it.

We'll be back next week with a new Boredwalk community spotlight, new designs, a new podcast episode, and more! Until then, stay safe, love — or at least tolerate — your fellow human (even if he/she/they are being an asshole and definitely don't deserve it), and as always...

Peace, love, and tacos,

Matt

p.s. - If you haven't yet, there's still time for you to enter to win the Treat Yourself giveaway! No more entries will be accepted after March 31st, so head over here to get yours in now! The prize package is worth $500 and includes:

• $100 gift card from Boredwalk

• $100 gift card from Plum Deluxe (delicious teas!)

• $100 gift card from Olga's Organics  (fabulous beauty and self-care products!)

• $200 worth of cool scented geometric candles from Embla!

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Connor F. of Philadelphia PA, looking sharp in a Hell Is Other People Tee.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

Considering I had my last day of my part-time job *today*, I can answer this pretty easily. I’ve worked retail for the past ten years, but now that’s just part-time. My full-time job is my dream job; I’m a tour manager, merchandiser, and photographer for touring bands. I’m making my way around the country starting in just a few days! (Ed. note: Congrats, Connor! That's awesome! Also: earplugs are your friends. Future-Connor will appreciate you for using them.)

2. If you could have any superpower what would it be and why?

I really think I’d like to be able to teleport. Having friends and family across the country and not being able to see them gets me down in the dumps sometimes, so I’d like to fix that.

3. You can curse a nemesis with a minor annoyance; what do you choose?

Hangnails. Eternal hangnails. Not too painful, but painful enough to be endlessly annoying.

4. What's a life pro tip the Boredwalk community needs to know?

Your best is good enough and so are you.

5. Clear up a misconception (about your job, where you are from, some other topic you know a lot about).

I’m from Philadelphia and a common misconception regarding this city is that everyone is mean. You have to do some digging, but there are plenty of diamonds in the rough!  

Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

You can follow me and my work on Instagram @cpfeimster and you can watch me complain on Twitter @cpfeimster!

Want to be featured next? Shoot us an email at hello@boredwalk.com and we'll make it happen!

Happy Spring, everybody!

It's been a bit of a frantic week here at Boredwalk HQ, but we're hoping we can catch our breath a little this weekend. If you've had a hectic few days yourself, here's hoping you can enjoy a breather, too. If you're just here for the podcast, scroll on down to the bottom! If you'd like to kill a little more time, read on...

As you can see above, I still had time to work on a new design inspired — both visually and thematically — by "the personal is political" slogan popularized by the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s. It's pretty groovy, and very fitting as we continue celebrating Women's History Month!

I wish we had some rad historical tidbits to share from previous incarnations of March 22nd, but the "best" I could come up with was that on this day in 1972 the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment...which to this day has not been ratified. 

I won't get into the particulars of the proposed amendment itself, but I did learn some pretty interesting things about its stalled ratification:

• 37 of the 50 states have ratified the amendment. To be enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, amendments must be ratified by 3/4 of the states. What is 3/4 of 50? 37.5. So close, right?! Not so fast...

• Two of those 37 states waited until after the March 22nd 1979 deadline to ratify it — Nevada in 2017, and Illinois in 2018. Even if a 38th state comes on board, you can bet there will be a legal fight over the validity of Nevada, Illinois, and #38 triggering Constitutional ratification.

• Legislation was enacted to extend the 1979 ratification deadline to June 30th 1982, but not all states recognized this extension, and some of the states that had previous ratified had done so with the understanding that if Constitutional ratification failed by the original deadline they would fall off the list of ratifying states (looking at you, South Dakota.)

• Four of the 35 states that ratified the amendment before the deadline passed legislation later on to rescind their ratification: Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, and Kentucky. There's debate as to whether that's something that has legal standing, but until a 38th state comes on board it's kind of moot. Speaking of potential 38's...

• Seven other states have passed legislation in one of their two houses ratifying the ERA, but not in both. Depending on your point of view, this is one of the problems with bi-cameral legislatures. To learn about how the other 1/50th lives, re-listen to our interview with Nebraska state senator Megan Hunt to hear all about Nebraska's uni-cameral legislature! 

So even if a 38th state joins up and pushes the ERA over the 3/4 precipice, it may actually only be considered the 33rd if the (almost 100% guaranteed to happen) ensuing legal fight determines that Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Tennessee were all within their legal rights to rescind their initial ratifications.

Legislation is weird, wild stuff!

Moving on, in this week's podcast we chat with comedian Darren Carter! We talk to Darren about his career in comedy, his creative process, how he's using his YouTube channel and his own Pocket Party podcast to reach new fans, how the time of day can really make certain musical instruments sound terrifying, and he and Meredith geek out about their mutual love of boxing. It's fun! You'll love it!

We'll be back next week with fresh designs, a new podcast episode, and in case you missed it in Tuesday's email, we'll be a LOT closer to the drawing of this month's giveaway winner! If you'd like a chance to win, go enter here!

The prize package includes:

• $100 gift card from Boredwalk (that's us!)

• $100 gift card from Plum Deluxe (they make awesome teas, and their founder Andy is a swell dude! Meredith and I are partial to their Peaches & Cream Oolong, Sugar Plum, and Apple Cinnamon Warmth blends!)

• $100 gift card from Olga's Organics (Olga makes all-natural, organic, animal-friendly beauty products for guilt-free pampering!)

• $200 worth of stunningly designed and naturally-scented candles from Embla! 

We hope you have a wonderful weekend! Let us know how you're spending it — we'd love to hear from you! Until next time...

Peace, love, and tacos,

Matt