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I tripped over a box turning the corner of the carport to get the mail. I was expecting the usual… Netflixâ„¢ discs, bills and a frustrating lack of checks.

I fetched my flip flop that went flying across the driveway from my little trip-dance, looked around to make sure no neighbors saw my display of grace and form, and picked up the box to examine it…

The return address read “CAFE PRESS”… I knew what it was… and this time being less conscious about the neighbors, squealed and ran into the house.

As promised, the box of schwag goodies from Erik, bearsgonewild has arrived!

Erik runs a website / community which is a tounge-in-cheek,, bear-spun parody of the popular light-porn site called “Girls Gone Wild” which documents spring breaking college girls’ antics. The site is called.. of course… “Bears Gone Wild”.

It was one of the afternoons taking a chat break that Erik told me he was wanting to develop a new logo for his website. He asked me if I had any resources for the cliche Mud-Flap girl graphics you see on big-rig merchandise.

I can’t honestly remember the brainstorming process – but the idea came up: “Wouldn’t it be funny instead of the big breasted woman silloutte – to do an outline of a“Bear”.

But where would the source information come from?… and then I realized… I’m partnered to probably as close to a textbook physical representation of a bear-man you can get… Chad!

Weeks passed and thanks to some friendly nagging from Erik to help me remember – I sweet talked Chad into modeling for the reference photos. He got the images the following day, and working with his house guest, (the humbling talent which is chrisglass), developed the new identity for the site.

Erik insisted on sending us a box of goodies for our contribution… Completely unnecessary – but so tickling that I can barely see straight.

Despite our communal wardrobe situation here, we tore into the box and were grabbing items and proclaiming “MINE”… T-Shirts, Sweat-Shirt, Hat, and a kitchen apron, MINE!).

Thanks Erik! If I had a blog – I’d plug your site and encourage folks to click on the store link on the front page. (note – the site is PG-13 for brief tush exposure except for the profiles section which can get a little racy).