Our Best Sales Day Ever Leads to the First Ever Brazen Path Designs Contest! Hooray!

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CONTEST!!! 

Okay, eagle eye readers, get ready for the first ever Brazen Path Designs contest! Here's the scoop. The "Mutts for Obama" dog T-shirt line has become one of the most successful of the fledgling lines. Seeing as how we will be celebrating President Barack Obama for four more years (make that four more centuries!), we'd like to start collecting photos of our happy satisfied customers wearing their own pet gear.  

So bust out your cameras, proud pet parents, and take your picture wearing any one of the "Mutts for Obama" line. Send it to blaise@brazenpathdesign.com. If your photo is selected and displayed on the website, you will receive a free dog shirt of your choice. Any size, any design. Just a quick thank you from your friends at Brazen Path Designs. So whip out those cameras, people, and make your dog famous. After all, we've got four years of Obama. Now how good does that sound?

Winner of the Four Sport Showdown? For 2009, it's all basketball, baby.

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Ah, sports. It's a good time to be a sports fan, as the three sport trinity of NFL, NBA, and NFL are causing thumb-wrestling for rabid sports viewers every weekend. But which to choose to follow? What sport shall one study to become the best of the barstool masters, educated in all players and schemes and individual team flaws? What sport will thrive the most in 2009?

We'll leave baseball out of this equation, not just because it's recently concluded season but also because of a notorious weak World Series ratings. But this winter, which sport will rule the airwaves?

Football will forever have a stranglehold on College Gameday Saturdays and fantasy players, and hockey saw a pleasant upsurge from an otherwise pitiful Palin campaign. Hockey mom brought some fun to the rinks, at least for a little while. Anyone remember Manny Legace tripping on Palin's carpet?

But the true victor emerged on Novemeber 4th, 2008. Yes, Barack Obama reached the White House, and yes, it was historic. But the real victor? The NBA.

Avid basketball fan Barack will do for the game of roundball more than the chubby jiggle known as the Clinton jog did for running. Or, for that matter, what clumsy Dubya did for mountain biking, or Dick Triggerfinger Cheney did for hunting. no, smooth, slick shooting Barack is going to bring a regimen that included a daily session of jump shots and friendly one-on-ones.

Image, our future leader working out the deficit while running down the lane or pondering Putin's latest move at the free throw line. David Stern wanted to go international, and President Obama sure is helping the cause. We got next? No, the good ol' US dropped the ball before. It's 2008 now, and the ball's in our court. The world got next.

No on Prop 8...The Civil Rights Movement Continues

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Today, Proposition 8 was approved in California, continuing a nationwide trend that saw gay rights abruptly trounced in four separate states. The right to marry, as well as the right to adopt in Arkansas, was stripped from gay and lesbian couples without so much as a backward glance.

While the protests and lawsuits that will inevitably follow will draw more debate, but the core essence of the idea continues to confound progressive American citizens. An obvious homage to conservative values, denouncers of  gay marriage fail to realize that the right to marry should not be dictated by creed, just as the right to govern should not be decided by color.

The defeat of Prop 8 was especially stinging in California, liberal haven and home to San Francisco, gay capital of the world. However, the fight for equal rights will continue on, and Brazen Path Designs is proud to continue to support our gay brothers and sisters and their civil rights. We might have elected a black President, but we are far from finishing the battle for equality.  

Celebrate Obama as 'Yes We Did' Design Wins Cafepress Blog Award!

Mark it down, Obamamaniacs. November 4th, 2008 was a delightful win for President-Elect Barack Obama, but November 5th, 2008 was an amazing day for Brazen Path Designs. The Cafepress blog of the day featured a bunch of end-of-election Obama designs, and guess who got picked? Yup, yup, we're not last ones picked on the team here!

What makes this selection especially enjoyable is that we've only been in business for less than three weeks. However, I think that only good things are ahead for Brazen Path Designs. And, for that matter, the country. 

Future developments...watch for the Obama gear to spin off and get their very own website! Aw, they're all grows up, and they've got to graduate to their very own shop! We're sad to see them go, but we're thrilled that the political wing of our Cafepress site has become so successful!

Next goal...convince the President to pick a rescue mutt as the official "First Dog". It would go great with helping to further the "Mutts for Politics" line. Just a thought. Bask in the election results, fellow Cafepress denizens...we've earned this!