Wow, that was a long nap.

So hi! In case you
haven’t noticed, we’re back with the Official
CafePress “[Working Title] Blog” To-Be-Named-Something-Awesome and then Eventually
Relaunched As an Even-More-Awesome Very Official CafePress Blog 2.0!

This is a very long name, so we’re calling it [Working
Title] for now. Here’s why:

1) We want you to help us pick the final name of the blog.

2) This is truly an interim blog. Although that makes it the middle child, it
was decided that naming a blog “JanBlog” after the middle child poster girl
(Jan Brady, a’course) might conjure up scarring childhood memories involving Imogene
Coca as Aunt Jenny.

3) I like punctuation, and any excuse to use the
oft-overlooked [ ] is one I’ll take.

“But Leslie,” you may be asking (because that’s my name and
all), “What’s in store for us with [Working Title] Blog and its replacement?”

The answer: self-expression, conversation and lots of bad
haiku.

You may in fact notice that the header of this blog breaks
out into a haiku in at least two ways, depending on how you phrase it. Sweet. (If you can figure out more than two ways that make sense, shoot a
comment my way so I can be impressed with your mastery of Japanese prose.)

In any case, we’re back and ready to start some great
conversations. At the heart of CafePress
is that passion that led someone to make or buy a piece of merchandise as a
form of self-expression. This blog will
be themed around those topics. Let’s
bullet point them for ease of memory, and because bullet points look
professional:

• Passion
  • Sidenote: we’re going to invent a better name for this word. Right after we name [Working Title]. Or perhaps concurrently, as they go together. And by “we” I mean “y’all.”
• Self-expression

So, the first order of business:

Name that blog!

Understanding that CafePress is a platform for passionate
people to express themselves freely, and that both our merchandise and this
blog are about starting conversations and self-expression and your fervent interest
in [insert object of unfettered interest], what do you think we should name the
blog?

Post your suggestions here, or email them to me at blog@cafepress.com

After we get some good submissions (and do feel free to
explain the rationale behind your decisions) I’ll put them into a survey and
we’ll tally the results.

Note: I’ve already rejected “Shirttales” as being too
self-consciously clever and too merch-focused. “Off the Cuff” has vaguely the same problem, unless you all feel
differently…

Anyway, cheers to all of you (that’s me on the right and Community
Superstar Britta on the left) – it’s good to be back.

Let the conversation begin!

Oh – and note the rad little social icon festival. Aren’t they cute, all getting along like that?

The blog lives again
We start with haiku advice
Don’t run with scissors