State of the Gringo

Greetings!

In this issue:

* Bad Gringo

* Gringos in the news

* Missing Pictures

* Dance with Mad Gringo

* Salida

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BAD GRINGO

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My sister-in-law has been threatening to out me for the last few months. Consider this a pre-emptive strike. 

Mad Gringo has not been "going slow". 

It may surprise those of you that have tried to get anything from us, but behind all of these bits and bytes there is a business trying to get out. 

I know, I know. Mad Gringo wants to go slow and wander between South Padre and Antigua but we haven't figured out how to do it sans income. So, we try to sell a few shirts here and there. 

Anyway, back to my sister-in-law. We went up to Door County WI with them this summer. 

That's the Off to See the Lizard tropical shirt. (the glare is from my white belly)

In between the late nights and lazy days, she kept catching me on what the kiddles call the "addict-a-phone". At the Renaissance Festival in Minneapolis this weekend (Free Guinness Day) she actually took a picture on me trying to type something out. Right in front of Puke and Snot.

The worst part? It was a Saturday. 

So I'm coming clean. I haven't been going slow. What have I done for the last 8 weeks? Check it out.

I did find a great pic of the kind bus with a Mad Gringo sticker.

I did take some last pictures of the warehouse before we moved it.

I went to a trade show in Chicago and met some nice women from Rhode Island who were in town for an infectious disease conference or something. We took this picture from the hotel bar.

I got stuck in traffic while leaving Skokie. (Mad Gringo hates traffic)

I packed my bags and went to Orlando for a while. (one bag, 3 tropical shirts, one pair of shorts, a swimsuit and toothbrush)

Mad Tom, Head Bottle Washer for the Southeast was waiting for me. (check out the El Chapin tropical shirt! Coming in November)

I went to a party where at least 5 people were wearing Mad Gringo shirts:

I stayed too late. Things got fuzzy.

Went to Vegas and was serenaded by Elvis. (You can't make it out, but the blur in front is Mad Roy in the Excavation tropical shirt. Available in November)

Went to Minneapolis to talk some sense into Bert Favre. (the Packer fans have tshirts that say "We'll never forget you Bert" - love it.)

Figured out that people love my mannequin, Buddy. (sporting the Electric Jungle Juice, the Mad Gim Bridging t-shirt and the new Peten Stela walking short - available in March 2010)

Crashed a fancy dinner held by a golf apparel company.

Drove home in time to see a sunset through my bug stained windshield.

See. No time for just kicking back and writing ridiculously long blog posts. So you have to suffer through this one.

Speaking of suffering.

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MAD GRINGOS IN THE NEWS
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Naps may increase your income earning potential:
Third of adults take naps
Yes, it's a blatant mis-reading of the survey results, but Mad Gringo was just happy they found people who take naps may actually hold jobs.

This guy probably doesn't take naps:
Robber of local motel sought
We've had a rash of Hawaiian shirt clad robbers. Must mean the economy is about to recover.

Even the old guys are getting into the act:
Elderly man tries to rob San Diego bank
That's what Mad Gringo has to look forward to. Being exhausted while trying to escape with the loot.

And yes, I did try to find pictures to go with the articles. No luck.

I did find the Chanhassen, MN Mad Gringo 4th of July Street Party Poster lying around:

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THE MISSING MAD GRINGO PICTURES
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Doesn't this look like fun?

They made every man get a Mad Gringo shirt before they could come into the party. It looks like a big time was had by all and then they marched down to the street dance. It must have been a glorious sight!

Reminds me of a vision I had.

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DANCE WITH MAD GRINGO
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Does it look like there's a lot going on the Mad Gringo world?

We're in almost 200 stores now. There are a dozen half-crazed Mad Gringo Dance Squad members that are wandering the streets and finding more outlets for us to partner with. We have a studly fulfillment team and the best looking ex-Greg Norman golf apparel designer on the planet working with us.

Now we just need a little cash and an unbelievably talented operations/merchandising guru to help move me closer to focusing 100% of my energies researching an unfinished manuscript, "The World's Top 100 Beaches to Nap On".

If you know someone that wants to put their hard earned money into the Go Slow cause, let me know. If you know someone that can pore over spreadsheets and dream up multivariate data analysis scenarios but lists Coen Brothers movies as their favorites, let me know.

Tell them Mad Gringo needs to find more dancers. (I'd find them myself, but I'm lazy.)

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SALIDA
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I forgot to add that I went to Salida, CO too. Salida. Exit. Good way to end this thing.

Speaking of endings. If you've read down this far, you deserve a break.

How does 25% off anything on the Mad Gringo website sound?

Here's how you do it. Add whatever you want into your shopping cart and then during checkout use this code:

GOSLOW

It's good through the weekend (9/27/09) and will put our studly fulfillment team to the test. Because they smell good in addition to knowing how to warehouse and ship.

And that brings us to the end. That is all I have for you this time. Thanks for the read. Now, back to work.

Go slow.

MG