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Posted 11 years agoDoes anyone have extra space for me and the Mrs? Please and thank you...
Great News!
Posted 11 years agoRowsby's sale covered my past tax bill, with $99 left over. Good show, old boy!
He'll be at his new home by the end of the week, and I'll be on the road across America.
That's right, party people.
birds and I are roadtripping across the country in a northerly fashion: vermont via washington, colorado, and illinois. AC pop-in, perhaps? beyond that... who knows? the beyond. definitely open for suggestions of things to see and do!
too lazy 4 shift key.
He'll be at his new home by the end of the week, and I'll be on the road across America.
That's right, party people.
birds and I are roadtripping across the country in a northerly fashion: vermont via washington, colorado, and illinois. AC pop-in, perhaps? beyond that... who knows? the beyond. definitely open for suggestions of things to see and do!too lazy 4 shift key.
A brief history of Rowsby The Dog with many personal asides
Posted 11 years agoActually not very brief, but oh well:
Yesterday, Rowsby's auction reached its reserve bid, so he's as good as sold (hopefully). I'm stewing in a tasty bittersweet broth surrounded by morsels of nostalgia, glee, pride, regret, inspiration, self-fascination (srsly how good does my butt look when it's Rowsby's butt?) and other flavors too subtle or novel to name. With Birds, I've sold a bunch of fursuits in the past three years, some with a slight reluctance, but none have made me feel this way because none of the others were MINE. He certainly won't be my last fursuit - something I never thought I'd say a few years ago - but he's my first, and he means a lot to me.
If I'd retained a single fursona - if Flip were still with us - he would be old enough to drive, smoke, vote and fuck with impunity. I've been in the furry fandom now for 18 years, but for the first 15 of those years, costumes were a blip on my radar not much bigger than the Poetry submissions on FA or gray muzzle meets at cons. I fondly remember the giddy jolt i received when a frisky cat groped my butt mid-hug at an early Anthrocon (99? 2000?) but apart from that isolated encounter, fursuits occupied the merest fringes of my furry attention span, be it online, at cons, or in my fantasy life. My attitude towards fursuits was indifferent at best in the early years. I wanted to interact with - to be! - an anthropomorphic animal, not a person dressed as one. By attempting so earnestly to bring my fantasies to life but arriving only at blank-eyed mascots, fursuiters only served to remind me how unattainable those fantasies were.
As I developed a healthier, more mature attitude towards furriness as both a social phenomenon and a personal affinity, I was able to appreciate fursuits as works of art. It was impossible to ignore that they were improving by leaps and bounds in terms of craftsmanship and character, but I still never felt compelled to give them much beyond approving glances at cons. The first suit who really captured and held my attention was Jasper, whom I met at MFF 2011. The appeal of the suit - the character - was instant and undeniable, as anyone who has encountered one of his many guises can attest, but he held special attraction for me because I'd been crushing on his maker/wearer, birds, for the preceding 10 years. Over the course of that weekend, I upgraded my crush to love for reasons that ran far deeper than - but did not exclude - Jasper, and less than a month later I was fleeing a failing farm in Florida in an overstuffed car, heading back to California.
Another two months after that, and I was sitting in Birds' living room with a needle and thread: she needed help, and I need a job until the farm season started in the spring. It was exciting to be spending so much time with my lady, and in such a markedly Furry context. Was I actually getting paid to do furry stuff? Hell yes. Did I enjoy the work? Hell yes. Did I want a fursuit of my own? Nope. Still a bridge too far. With the prospect literally at hand, I toyed with the idea and even started thinking about what sort of suit I'd make IF I made one, but what for? Why make a suit for myself when I had no aspirations to wear one? I'd rather have the CA$$$H. Like so many other furries I've spoken to since, I didn't want a fursuit of my own until I actually WORE one, and that changed everything.
Yes, technically I'd worn suits before: modelling our Wild Life creations for fittings and photos in our living room, trying not to feel or look too awkward as I held static poses in front of a static backdrop. Very little about the process recommended fursuiting to me except the pleasant discombobulation that comes from looking into a mirror and seeing a cuddly critter staring back. Then in June 2012, Birds and I attended The Frolic, a monthly furry dance party in San Francisco. Jasper came, too, and in the moist and noisey hours leading up to my sloppy DJ set, I discovered what all the fuss was about. On the crowded dancefloor, blinded alternately by pitch black and flashing lights, deafened by throbbing bass and 2 inches of foam and fur, sanctified by my own sweat, I received my furry baptism. For half an hour I was reborn on a fuzzier plane of consciousness.
All I cared about was doing my doggy dance, and that singularity of purpose combined with sensory deprivation and alcohol really greased the rails under my ego. Then along came all this positive attention and slid the fucker out to sea. Even blind and blurry I could sense that the attitudes of strangers around me were different towards Jasper than they were towards the scruffy man with darty eyes inside. I would look in their direction and they would beam. I would step on their toes and they would beg my pardon. I would grope and grind on them without so much as a how do you do and they would grind back like they were trying to polish their balls on my fur. If I was thinking rational thoughts at all, they were most likely "These people would never act this way towards Brian, ergo I am not Brian, I am Jasper."
This sudden and undeniable transcendence of the confines of my own personality was tremendously enlightening. Most of you who have fursuited before - and not merely tried on a fursuit - can surely relate. Those of you who have not but aspire to... you aspire rightly. Get thee to a costumerie. Those of you who fail to see the appeal, as I once did... this is the appeal. I had previously brushed off costumes as plastic attempts at physical transformation without understanding or appreciating the subtler internal transformations that they facilitate. Further attempts to express the highly personal and highly variable qualities with words will only deepen my cliche quagmire, so let's get back to Rowsby.
Rowsby was a glint in his daddy's eye on the Frolic dancefloor, and by the next day he was a full-fledged fantasy. 12 hours after peeling myself out of Jasper, I was at Mendel's in SF looking for mutt fur. Technically - if distinctions between fantasy creations can be considered technical - Rowsby is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, a breed so scrappy that they look like wily mutts, though they clean up nice. As an upper-middle class kid from the suburbs who resented the upper middle class and the suburbs and had spent the last 4 years courting a soft, sentimental brand of romanticised danger and poverty, the notion of a pedigreed dog passing himself off as a mutt seemed an apt character choice.
But mutt-passing-as-pedigree fur is hard to find! At Mendel's, I found fur of the perfect length and texture, but it was black and white not the brown and white I needed. I took photos and placed a couple inquiries with Birds' and I's fur-buying contacts but got no leads. It would be another 8 months before we found a nice brown and white fur in the garment district in LA. It wasn't quite what I was looking for, but it was the closest I'd found, and if you can't find the fur you're looking for in the garment district... good luck. So I bought 4 yards. Cash. And then literally 10 minutes later, idly browsing the same store, I found a plusher, darker fur that was undeniably better suited to the cause, so I bought 5 yards of THAT, too.
Alas, by then another farm season was picking up, and my fursuit pursuits were limited to those that would earn us some money to help pay for Birds and I's upcoming wedding. And then the closer the wedding got, the less time there was for anything not wedding-related.. .And then boom, it's the fall, we're married, life is awesome, it's 4 months til Further Confusion, and then it's three months, and then two and then oh shit, if we want to have costumes for the con we'd better get cracking! Photos were referenced, concept art drafted, a muslin body suit constructed from modified parts of older dog patterns...
The character of Rowsby really started taking on shape as I drew the markings onto the blank muslin. Up until then, pretty much all the suits we'd been making (and most of the suits everyone else was making) had symmetrically-patterned bodies, produced by patterning out one side of the body and then cutting two pieces of fur from each piece of muslin: the obverse and the reverse. But symmetry is not the way of the mutt-impersonator; an asymmetrical body pattern was essential to developing and expressing the dog's potentially off-kilter personality, and I think the body is much more visually engaging then it might have been if the markings were simply mirrored.
I carried this concept into the hands and feet, deriving particular pride from the toe coloration. Birds' head is hand-carved and inherently asymmetrical, even though the fur pattern is mirrored, and the addition of a gold tooth and a slightly cocked ear helped throw him further off-balance. The subtleties really make this suit special: the way the dark fur patch on the right forearm lines up with the dark around the ribs; the shaggy brown of the butt creeping off one thigh but giving way to spots on the other; the deep canine curve of the chest; the ridiculously unsubtle crotch-spot; the way the tail bounces and wags and raises depending on how you move: all of these little details make me incredibly happy.
The head was still unfinished at 3am before we were due to depart for Further Confusion; Birds stayed up all night finishing the eyes, teeth, and neck while I grabbed a 4-hour catnap. On the road by 8am. I sewed the ears on Thursday night at the con over beers and then suited until i could hardly stand. He made a few more appearances over the weekend and garnered much admiration, but none admired him more than me. I couldn't pass a window without stopping to glance at my reflection. Reflections can only reveal so much, though, and it wasn't until photos from the con started cropping up online that I really got to appreciate how the suit looked when not seen through it's own mesh-covered eyes.
Ironically, my appreciation of Rowsby is currently at an all-time high, not (only) because of his imminent departure (Joni's whole Got til it's gone thing), but because the sale necessitated more photos. For the last week I have been browsing and re-browsing the photos we shot, ostensibly for the very practical reason of editing and posting them, but every time I have a cause (excuse) to pull them up, I find myself lingering on the task for much longer than necessary, transfixed. What a handsome doggy! But what am I looking at? Something I made, or something I am? Am I looking at someone I was, or someone I want to be (with)? None of those answers need be mutually exclusive...
Looking at the photos doesn't provide the same visceral sense of temporarily discarding my identity, but it does raise questions that help fuzz the lines a bit. It's a very pleasant side-effect to suit-wearing that lasts long after the initial buzz has worn off. Outside of cons and Frolics and other furry ground zeroes, suiting just isn't the same: wearing the whole suit around the house is neither practical nor comfortable, and in the absence of true believers looking at me like a big dog, it's much harder to feel like one. But looking back at myself as a big dog, I can conjure up little wisps of the magic that made the identity sleight of hand possible. I've got my photos. And now I've got my thousand words. So someone else can have the dog.
To whomever wins Rowsby... you're gonna be one lucky, handsome son of a bitch. Take lots of pictures.
Post script: Rowsby's still got two days left on his auction! You can help write the next chapter of his life story.
Yesterday, Rowsby's auction reached its reserve bid, so he's as good as sold (hopefully). I'm stewing in a tasty bittersweet broth surrounded by morsels of nostalgia, glee, pride, regret, inspiration, self-fascination (srsly how good does my butt look when it's Rowsby's butt?) and other flavors too subtle or novel to name. With Birds, I've sold a bunch of fursuits in the past three years, some with a slight reluctance, but none have made me feel this way because none of the others were MINE. He certainly won't be my last fursuit - something I never thought I'd say a few years ago - but he's my first, and he means a lot to me.
If I'd retained a single fursona - if Flip were still with us - he would be old enough to drive, smoke, vote and fuck with impunity. I've been in the furry fandom now for 18 years, but for the first 15 of those years, costumes were a blip on my radar not much bigger than the Poetry submissions on FA or gray muzzle meets at cons. I fondly remember the giddy jolt i received when a frisky cat groped my butt mid-hug at an early Anthrocon (99? 2000?) but apart from that isolated encounter, fursuits occupied the merest fringes of my furry attention span, be it online, at cons, or in my fantasy life. My attitude towards fursuits was indifferent at best in the early years. I wanted to interact with - to be! - an anthropomorphic animal, not a person dressed as one. By attempting so earnestly to bring my fantasies to life but arriving only at blank-eyed mascots, fursuiters only served to remind me how unattainable those fantasies were.
As I developed a healthier, more mature attitude towards furriness as both a social phenomenon and a personal affinity, I was able to appreciate fursuits as works of art. It was impossible to ignore that they were improving by leaps and bounds in terms of craftsmanship and character, but I still never felt compelled to give them much beyond approving glances at cons. The first suit who really captured and held my attention was Jasper, whom I met at MFF 2011. The appeal of the suit - the character - was instant and undeniable, as anyone who has encountered one of his many guises can attest, but he held special attraction for me because I'd been crushing on his maker/wearer,
birds, for the preceding 10 years. Over the course of that weekend, I upgraded my crush to love for reasons that ran far deeper than - but did not exclude - Jasper, and less than a month later I was fleeing a failing farm in Florida in an overstuffed car, heading back to California.Another two months after that, and I was sitting in Birds' living room with a needle and thread: she needed help, and I need a job until the farm season started in the spring. It was exciting to be spending so much time with my lady, and in such a markedly Furry context. Was I actually getting paid to do furry stuff? Hell yes. Did I enjoy the work? Hell yes. Did I want a fursuit of my own? Nope. Still a bridge too far. With the prospect literally at hand, I toyed with the idea and even started thinking about what sort of suit I'd make IF I made one, but what for? Why make a suit for myself when I had no aspirations to wear one? I'd rather have the CA$$$H. Like so many other furries I've spoken to since, I didn't want a fursuit of my own until I actually WORE one, and that changed everything.
Yes, technically I'd worn suits before: modelling our Wild Life creations for fittings and photos in our living room, trying not to feel or look too awkward as I held static poses in front of a static backdrop. Very little about the process recommended fursuiting to me except the pleasant discombobulation that comes from looking into a mirror and seeing a cuddly critter staring back. Then in June 2012, Birds and I attended The Frolic, a monthly furry dance party in San Francisco. Jasper came, too, and in the moist and noisey hours leading up to my sloppy DJ set, I discovered what all the fuss was about. On the crowded dancefloor, blinded alternately by pitch black and flashing lights, deafened by throbbing bass and 2 inches of foam and fur, sanctified by my own sweat, I received my furry baptism. For half an hour I was reborn on a fuzzier plane of consciousness.
All I cared about was doing my doggy dance, and that singularity of purpose combined with sensory deprivation and alcohol really greased the rails under my ego. Then along came all this positive attention and slid the fucker out to sea. Even blind and blurry I could sense that the attitudes of strangers around me were different towards Jasper than they were towards the scruffy man with darty eyes inside. I would look in their direction and they would beam. I would step on their toes and they would beg my pardon. I would grope and grind on them without so much as a how do you do and they would grind back like they were trying to polish their balls on my fur. If I was thinking rational thoughts at all, they were most likely "These people would never act this way towards Brian, ergo I am not Brian, I am Jasper."
This sudden and undeniable transcendence of the confines of my own personality was tremendously enlightening. Most of you who have fursuited before - and not merely tried on a fursuit - can surely relate. Those of you who have not but aspire to... you aspire rightly. Get thee to a costumerie. Those of you who fail to see the appeal, as I once did... this is the appeal. I had previously brushed off costumes as plastic attempts at physical transformation without understanding or appreciating the subtler internal transformations that they facilitate. Further attempts to express the highly personal and highly variable qualities with words will only deepen my cliche quagmire, so let's get back to Rowsby.
Rowsby was a glint in his daddy's eye on the Frolic dancefloor, and by the next day he was a full-fledged fantasy. 12 hours after peeling myself out of Jasper, I was at Mendel's in SF looking for mutt fur. Technically - if distinctions between fantasy creations can be considered technical - Rowsby is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, a breed so scrappy that they look like wily mutts, though they clean up nice. As an upper-middle class kid from the suburbs who resented the upper middle class and the suburbs and had spent the last 4 years courting a soft, sentimental brand of romanticised danger and poverty, the notion of a pedigreed dog passing himself off as a mutt seemed an apt character choice.
But mutt-passing-as-pedigree fur is hard to find! At Mendel's, I found fur of the perfect length and texture, but it was black and white not the brown and white I needed. I took photos and placed a couple inquiries with Birds' and I's fur-buying contacts but got no leads. It would be another 8 months before we found a nice brown and white fur in the garment district in LA. It wasn't quite what I was looking for, but it was the closest I'd found, and if you can't find the fur you're looking for in the garment district... good luck. So I bought 4 yards. Cash. And then literally 10 minutes later, idly browsing the same store, I found a plusher, darker fur that was undeniably better suited to the cause, so I bought 5 yards of THAT, too.
Alas, by then another farm season was picking up, and my fursuit pursuits were limited to those that would earn us some money to help pay for Birds and I's upcoming wedding. And then the closer the wedding got, the less time there was for anything not wedding-related.. .And then boom, it's the fall, we're married, life is awesome, it's 4 months til Further Confusion, and then it's three months, and then two and then oh shit, if we want to have costumes for the con we'd better get cracking! Photos were referenced, concept art drafted, a muslin body suit constructed from modified parts of older dog patterns...
The character of Rowsby really started taking on shape as I drew the markings onto the blank muslin. Up until then, pretty much all the suits we'd been making (and most of the suits everyone else was making) had symmetrically-patterned bodies, produced by patterning out one side of the body and then cutting two pieces of fur from each piece of muslin: the obverse and the reverse. But symmetry is not the way of the mutt-impersonator; an asymmetrical body pattern was essential to developing and expressing the dog's potentially off-kilter personality, and I think the body is much more visually engaging then it might have been if the markings were simply mirrored.
I carried this concept into the hands and feet, deriving particular pride from the toe coloration. Birds' head is hand-carved and inherently asymmetrical, even though the fur pattern is mirrored, and the addition of a gold tooth and a slightly cocked ear helped throw him further off-balance. The subtleties really make this suit special: the way the dark fur patch on the right forearm lines up with the dark around the ribs; the shaggy brown of the butt creeping off one thigh but giving way to spots on the other; the deep canine curve of the chest; the ridiculously unsubtle crotch-spot; the way the tail bounces and wags and raises depending on how you move: all of these little details make me incredibly happy.
The head was still unfinished at 3am before we were due to depart for Further Confusion; Birds stayed up all night finishing the eyes, teeth, and neck while I grabbed a 4-hour catnap. On the road by 8am. I sewed the ears on Thursday night at the con over beers and then suited until i could hardly stand. He made a few more appearances over the weekend and garnered much admiration, but none admired him more than me. I couldn't pass a window without stopping to glance at my reflection. Reflections can only reveal so much, though, and it wasn't until photos from the con started cropping up online that I really got to appreciate how the suit looked when not seen through it's own mesh-covered eyes.
Ironically, my appreciation of Rowsby is currently at an all-time high, not (only) because of his imminent departure (Joni's whole Got til it's gone thing), but because the sale necessitated more photos. For the last week I have been browsing and re-browsing the photos we shot, ostensibly for the very practical reason of editing and posting them, but every time I have a cause (excuse) to pull them up, I find myself lingering on the task for much longer than necessary, transfixed. What a handsome doggy! But what am I looking at? Something I made, or something I am? Am I looking at someone I was, or someone I want to be (with)? None of those answers need be mutually exclusive...
Looking at the photos doesn't provide the same visceral sense of temporarily discarding my identity, but it does raise questions that help fuzz the lines a bit. It's a very pleasant side-effect to suit-wearing that lasts long after the initial buzz has worn off. Outside of cons and Frolics and other furry ground zeroes, suiting just isn't the same: wearing the whole suit around the house is neither practical nor comfortable, and in the absence of true believers looking at me like a big dog, it's much harder to feel like one. But looking back at myself as a big dog, I can conjure up little wisps of the magic that made the identity sleight of hand possible. I've got my photos. And now I've got my thousand words. So someone else can have the dog.
To whomever wins Rowsby... you're gonna be one lucky, handsome son of a bitch. Take lots of pictures.
Post script: Rowsby's still got two days left on his auction! You can help write the next chapter of his life story.
Further Confusion
Posted 12 years agoI'm going! Are you?
RAD MIX I made: Splendid Moments 2013
Posted 12 years agoMusic peoples! I made a new mix of some of my favorite jams from last year. I'm really proud of this mix; it flows really well and has some great songs. Listen and learn at http://www.pandemonium-jones.com/#/.....-moments-2013/
Tracklist:
Chance The Rapper - Chainsmoker
Blood Orange - Chamakay
Darkside - Papertrails
Oneohtrix Point Never - Chrome Country
Matt Karmil - Reverse Peephole
Shlohmo and Jeremih - Bo Peep (Do U Right)
DJ Koze feat. Matthew Dear - Magical Boy
GoldFFinch - 11th Hour
E.M.M.A. - Shoot The Curl
SOPHIE - BIPP
Hysterics - Code Switch (Club Mix)
Tigga Calore - BEADS
Pearson Sound - Starburst
Beek - Pulse (Feel Me)
Mumdance and Logos - Legion
Four Tet - Parallel Jalebi
Rich Homie Quan - Type Of Way
James Blake - Everyday I Ran
Kelela - A Lie
LV feat. Dan Bowskill - Livin' Up (Gulls Remix)
Danny Brown feat. Scrufizzer - Dubstep
DJ Rashad - Let It Go
Rockwell - Aria
Forest Swords - The Weight Of Gold
Kanye West - Blood On The Leaves
Pusha T - Numbers On The Boards
Jai Paul - Zion Wolf
John Wizards - Lusaka By Night
Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear - Doin'it Right
Drake feat. Majid Jordan - Hold On, We're Goin' Home
Shar.S - Hold On
Tracklist:
Chance The Rapper - Chainsmoker
Blood Orange - Chamakay
Darkside - Papertrails
Oneohtrix Point Never - Chrome Country
Matt Karmil - Reverse Peephole
Shlohmo and Jeremih - Bo Peep (Do U Right)
DJ Koze feat. Matthew Dear - Magical Boy
GoldFFinch - 11th Hour
E.M.M.A. - Shoot The Curl
SOPHIE - BIPP
Hysterics - Code Switch (Club Mix)
Tigga Calore - BEADS
Pearson Sound - Starburst
Beek - Pulse (Feel Me)
Mumdance and Logos - Legion
Four Tet - Parallel Jalebi
Rich Homie Quan - Type Of Way
James Blake - Everyday I Ran
Kelela - A Lie
LV feat. Dan Bowskill - Livin' Up (Gulls Remix)
Danny Brown feat. Scrufizzer - Dubstep
DJ Rashad - Let It Go
Rockwell - Aria
Forest Swords - The Weight Of Gold
Kanye West - Blood On The Leaves
Pusha T - Numbers On The Boards
Jai Paul - Zion Wolf
John Wizards - Lusaka By Night
Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear - Doin'it Right
Drake feat. Majid Jordan - Hold On, We're Goin' Home
Shar.S - Hold On
Pertinent MFF Info
Posted 12 years agoI won't be there, and I will be sad.
Rap likers: Like this
Posted 12 years agohttp://www.foolsgoldrecs.com/worldsfair/ Yes. Perfectly balanced.
Free comics at RRUFFURR Online
Posted 12 years agoIn addition to the physical books RRUFFURR 2 and RRUFF TRADE there is a new online anthology called.... RRUFFURR ONLINE! It's a bi-annual collection of comics of and by furry critters. The first installment features action-packed long-format comics from editors 
ianjay and 
chickenteeth as well as thick girl affirmation from 
sigil and a 20-page preview of The City Dreams of Tamino The Cat by 
thomasblue
All in all, some good readin! And it's free! GET OVER THERE!
ianjay and 
chickenteeth as well as thick girl affirmation from 
sigil and a 20-page preview of The City Dreams of Tamino The Cat by 
thomasblueAll in all, some good readin! And it's free! GET OVER THERE!
Pre-order RRUFFURR Book 2 & RRUFF TRADE (Adult Anthology)
Posted 12 years agoYES! The second installment of the RRUFFURR comixx and artz anthology is going to premier at Anthrocon 2013 alongside RRUFF TRADE, a book of furry porn by some of my favorite artists. Both are available for pre-order now, and will ship in July. Buy 'em both and save on shippings! Dazzle your friends! Embarrass your parents!
RRUFFURR 2 includes works from
brokowski 
tastybones 
22mg 
rayfkm 
hotaruarc 
hygge 
lundi 
marcothecat 
henrieke 
trucky 
weaselr 
rampack birds 
brindledcashew and more(!?)
It includes a furry (literally furry) cover with a patch designed by :numbersstation and yours truly, plus a cut-and-construct zoetrope by
swatcher Sound good? GET THAT!
RRUFF TRADE is a black and white zine of raunchy, funny, furry porn by
artdecade 
hottapwater 
aixarata 
autumncitynights 
cubetriangle 
krishva 
nuzzle chickenteeth 
cubi 
pierrezaius rampack brindledcashew 
brosephsmiff and maybe more! SORRY FOR THE ICON SHORTAGE!
It's the perfect size to stash under your mattress or in underwear drawer, or you can proudly display it's handsome, muzzle-adorned cover by weaselr GET THAT!
I am extremely grateful to all the contributors, and we are collectively grateful to the community for its support. Thanks, all!
RRUFFURR 2 includes works from
brokowski 
tastybones 
22mg 
rayfkm 
hotaruarc 
hygge 
lundi 
marcothecat 
henrieke 
trucky 
weaselr 
rampack birds 
brindledcashew and more(!?)It includes a furry (literally furry) cover with a patch designed by :numbersstation and yours truly, plus a cut-and-construct zoetrope by
swatcher Sound good? GET THAT!RRUFF TRADE is a black and white zine of raunchy, funny, furry porn by
artdecade 
hottapwater 
aixarata 
autumncitynights 
cubetriangle 
krishva 
nuzzle chickenteeth 
cubi 
pierrezaius rampack brindledcashew 
brosephsmiff and maybe more! SORRY FOR THE ICON SHORTAGE!It's the perfect size to stash under your mattress or in underwear drawer, or you can proudly display it's handsome, muzzle-adorned cover by
weaselr GET THAT!I am extremely grateful to all the contributors, and we are collectively grateful to the community for its support. Thanks, all!
RRUFFURR T-Shirts now available!
Posted 12 years agoThe first in a series of RRUFFURR Ts is now available! Impress your friends and vanquish your nemeses in THIS SEXY BAPHOMET SHIRT by Natalie Robles aka Tastybones.
Shit's deadly! Discharge print on 100% ringspun cotton, made and printed in the USA for a mere $20!
Shit's deadly! Discharge print on 100% ringspun cotton, made and printed in the USA for a mere $20!
DJing soon: Frolic and Furlandia!
Posted 12 years agoWest coast party people, I am DJing at San Francisco's (in)famous Frolic party next Saturday at The Stud in SF , and then getting it in as the musical Guest of Honor at Portland's first furry con, Furlandia which will feature a FULL BAR and possibly go til 4 AM. BONKAZ. Come dance with me!
If you are sad at having lost something...
Posted 12 years agoThink long and hard about that what you lost, and it doesn't make you happy, then it's not worth being sad over.
New Account for Fursuit Pursuits: Wild-Life
Posted 13 years ago
wild-life This is where future fursuit collaborations between myself and 
javacostumes will go to strut their stuff. We just put up a pink hyena! We're also at http://wild---life.tumblr.comMutha Fucking Freakout
Posted 13 years agoFurfest 2, Mutt 0 This thing keeps knockin' me out. MUCH FUNZ. It was my first time having a fursuit at con (superstud Jasper, by my honey bunny 
javacostumes) and it was worn by 6 different people, all of whom had a blast. I spent less time drinkin and smokin than usual and consequently, more time high off the fuzz buzz. There were a lot of fun, friendly, talented people there and it had me feeling giddy all over. I saw many cherished friends and made some new ones. Shoutouts to everyone who contributed to an awesome weekend:
ROOMIES:
goldenboiblaze Roommeister extraordinaire. A scholar and a gentleman possessed with generosity and saintly patience, which was tested more than once by the con, the hotel, and his rowdy roomies. Thank you thank you thank you.
hottapwater Big burly beer buddy and fursuiting compatriot! Great seeing you in the flesh and Maple in the fur.
wolfyama FLIGHT BUDDIES! You worked hard and played hard (and slept hard!) with quiet grace and utter unflappability. See you at FC!
pierrezaius I hope this was the first con of many more for you. You are adorable and charming both in costume and out. From our first encounter, you were a joy to be around. Watching you draw was a treat.
nightphaser and 
jey_vulpes From the farflung corners of the globe came two awesome, enthusiastic, friendly roommates. A pleasure to meet and hang out with you both! Nik, thanks for the book! It's real classy.
JASPERS! Thanks to all of you for helping bring my favorite dog (well, after my REAL dog) to life. It was entertaining watching his shape and personality shift from wearer to wearer and I was proud of all of you, especially since you're mostly first-time fursuiters!
phylum You my dog, dog! I think we were star-crossed, because despite 2000+ people at the con I kept running into you, and was thrilled every time. Thinks for good vibes and dry humor and Barenjager. I'm stoked for you to have a costume of your own.
dogteeth I'm so glad to have met you! You're a peach and a pleasure to be around. I don't think you ever stopped smiling unless it was ironically. Much love.
pierrezaius SECOND SHOUTOUT! From the second you put him on, you transformed! Or rather, the expressiveness of your face spread through your whole body. Like a duck to water:)
ataraxia Dude. The look on your face when you took the mask off was priceless. You looked utterly transcendent. I'm glad it was such a powerful experience for you. After being on each others' radars for what feels like years, I was happy to confirm my suspicions that you're awesome. I will cop Fevrier by the bushel and hit you with feedback in the coming weeks.
atmus23 CHAMPION! Face it dude, you were born for this. Top marks for style and stamina (4 hours?!) Walking, talking, and rocking with you in and out of costume was a privilege. Your future is full of promise. Look out, MOMA. Your past is full of pictures. SHOW US THE PICTURES.
MY PERENNIAL PALS:
redacteur Never not awesome spending time with you. I love you a lot. Nuf said.
thatoneguy297 CuJo! You'se a beast! Thanks for taking us in your car not once but twice:) I regret we didn't get to have That Chat. Soon though! Party on!
ianjay The workhorse! Your grind was unstoppable! Neither rain nor sleet nor respiratory crud could stop you from delivering the goods. Thanks for a beautiful badge, for brokering RRUFFURRs, and for inspiring me with your engaging conversation. Gotta say though, you missed out on some of the best Indian food I've ever had... Just sayin:) Also, you make a cute walf:)
media Back in my orbit after 4 years! Holy shit, dude! We gotta stay up. Great talking shop and watching you boogaloo. DEY DONT KNOW. But I do:) You did Herbie Hancock proud.
MY NEW CHUMS!
chickenteeth DUDE! You're an awesome artist and individual. I can't believe I have not been watchin you on here. I've corrected that and I shall be a-hollerin when the next anthology starts taking shape
spiralstaircase You're so sweet and subdued! See you in Colorado, I hope!
ideno Dear deer! You're handsome and sweet in suit and out. I felt an instant rapport when I met you.
ichabod You scruffy scoundrel! You exude good will and I was glad to absorb some of it.
So long, formating!
heavyteeth 
opiumrevolution 
tomhoshino Formed the hot burning core of a star cluster that included several fun, fashionable and feisty gals who i wish I could spend more time with. Thanks for being so damn cool and making me feel cool, too. Next time, we're fuckin DANCING.
joebluefox Guy smiley! Thanks for the whip appeal to the Asian Megamart! Booya! Keep them dongs chunky.
I hope I'm not forgetting anyone, but I almost certainly am. It was a wild, woolly weekend.
Lastly, special shout out to the HYATT, both the super-accommodating staff and the hotel itself, which really contributes a lot to the look and feel of the con. It would not be the same event in other environs. Also: Future con-goers, do not deprive yourselves of Maharaja. Some of the best Indian food I've ever had (and I spent 3 weeks in India).
Shit was bananas, dudes. I'm gonna go catch up on sleep.
javacostumes) and it was worn by 6 different people, all of whom had a blast. I spent less time drinkin and smokin than usual and consequently, more time high off the fuzz buzz. There were a lot of fun, friendly, talented people there and it had me feeling giddy all over. I saw many cherished friends and made some new ones. Shoutouts to everyone who contributed to an awesome weekend:ROOMIES:
goldenboiblaze Roommeister extraordinaire. A scholar and a gentleman possessed with generosity and saintly patience, which was tested more than once by the con, the hotel, and his rowdy roomies. Thank you thank you thank you. hottapwater Big burly beer buddy and fursuiting compatriot! Great seeing you in the flesh and Maple in the fur. 
wolfyama FLIGHT BUDDIES! You worked hard and played hard (and slept hard!) with quiet grace and utter unflappability. See you at FC! pierrezaius I hope this was the first con of many more for you. You are adorable and charming both in costume and out. From our first encounter, you were a joy to be around. Watching you draw was a treat.
nightphaser and 
jey_vulpes From the farflung corners of the globe came two awesome, enthusiastic, friendly roommates. A pleasure to meet and hang out with you both! Nik, thanks for the book! It's real classy.JASPERS! Thanks to all of you for helping bring my favorite dog (well, after my REAL dog) to life. It was entertaining watching his shape and personality shift from wearer to wearer and I was proud of all of you, especially since you're mostly first-time fursuiters!
phylum You my dog, dog! I think we were star-crossed, because despite 2000+ people at the con I kept running into you, and was thrilled every time. Thinks for good vibes and dry humor and Barenjager. I'm stoked for you to have a costume of your own.
dogteeth I'm so glad to have met you! You're a peach and a pleasure to be around. I don't think you ever stopped smiling unless it was ironically. Much love. pierrezaius SECOND SHOUTOUT! From the second you put him on, you transformed! Or rather, the expressiveness of your face spread through your whole body. Like a duck to water:)
ataraxia Dude. The look on your face when you took the mask off was priceless. You looked utterly transcendent. I'm glad it was such a powerful experience for you. After being on each others' radars for what feels like years, I was happy to confirm my suspicions that you're awesome. I will cop Fevrier by the bushel and hit you with feedback in the coming weeks.
atmus23 CHAMPION! Face it dude, you were born for this. Top marks for style and stamina (4 hours?!) Walking, talking, and rocking with you in and out of costume was a privilege. Your future is full of promise. Look out, MOMA. Your past is full of pictures. SHOW US THE PICTURES. MY PERENNIAL PALS:
redacteur Never not awesome spending time with you. I love you a lot. Nuf said.
thatoneguy297 CuJo! You'se a beast! Thanks for taking us in your car not once but twice:) I regret we didn't get to have That Chat. Soon though! Party on! ianjay The workhorse! Your grind was unstoppable! Neither rain nor sleet nor respiratory crud could stop you from delivering the goods. Thanks for a beautiful badge, for brokering RRUFFURRs, and for inspiring me with your engaging conversation. Gotta say though, you missed out on some of the best Indian food I've ever had... Just sayin:) Also, you make a cute walf:)
media Back in my orbit after 4 years! Holy shit, dude! We gotta stay up. Great talking shop and watching you boogaloo. DEY DONT KNOW. But I do:) You did Herbie Hancock proud.MY NEW CHUMS!
chickenteeth DUDE! You're an awesome artist and individual. I can't believe I have not been watchin you on here. I've corrected that and I shall be a-hollerin when the next anthology starts taking shape
spiralstaircase You're so sweet and subdued! See you in Colorado, I hope!
ideno Dear deer! You're handsome and sweet in suit and out. I felt an instant rapport when I met you.
ichabod You scruffy scoundrel! You exude good will and I was glad to absorb some of it. So long, formating!
heavyteeth 
opiumrevolution 
tomhoshino Formed the hot burning core of a star cluster that included several fun, fashionable and feisty gals who i wish I could spend more time with. Thanks for being so damn cool and making me feel cool, too. Next time, we're fuckin DANCING.
joebluefox Guy smiley! Thanks for the whip appeal to the Asian Megamart! Booya! Keep them dongs chunky.I hope I'm not forgetting anyone, but I almost certainly am. It was a wild, woolly weekend.
Lastly, special shout out to the HYATT, both the super-accommodating staff and the hotel itself, which really contributes a lot to the look and feel of the con. It would not be the same event in other environs. Also: Future con-goers, do not deprive yourselves of Maharaja. Some of the best Indian food I've ever had (and I spent 3 weeks in India).
Shit was bananas, dudes. I'm gonna go catch up on sleep.
MFF 2012 & RRUFFURR
Posted 13 years agoOkay, Amurrica! I'll see some of you at MFF. I'll be there, along with a few copies of RRUFFURR. It will also be available at the Furplanet table in the Dealer's Den. I look forward to seeing whoever you are there:)
I can't believe the Baywatch theme took up two full minutes
Posted 13 years agoEvery week, ya'll.
RRUFFURR Release Party at Frolic this Saturday in SF!
Posted 13 years agoDude! Dudettes! If you're in the bay area, come to the Stud tomorrow night for the furriest party outside of a convention. Details here: httP;//www.neonbunny.com/frolic I'll be DJing the late set... in dog costume.
RRUFFURR Anthology Now Available For Purchase! (Or To Win!)
Posted 13 years agoHOLY COW FURMERICA! I am deeelighted to announce that the first installment of RRUFFURR's print anthology is going to the presses. Please help me spread the word! I have like no followers so I need you to all tell YOUR followers, cuz you will like it and they will too! It's 80 pages of full-color comics and art by a bunch of my favorite furz including... well including a lot of YOU! and:
artdecade
phylum
birds
marcothecat
cubetriangle
redacteur
cenizo
ghostmeat
hottapwater
thomas_blue
ianjay
kamui
negger
pierrezaius
weirdthingswithanatomy
The small-run books are printed digitally in full color and hand-bound with a rruff cover. Each copy comes with goodies including stickers handmade by Birds and a printed envelope so it doesn’t thrash your other comics. They are fun to hold and behold.
The book is available now for $20 at RRUFFURR’s spankin’ new Etsy site: https://www.etsy.com/listing/101320.....ffurr-book-one and there's previews going up steadily at rruffurr.tumblr.com plus a contest to win a free copy by reblogging a post.
Orders placed before June 17th will print and ship the week of the 17th, and a larger print run will follow in early July. There will be a small number available at Anthrocon in the hands of some of the artists, who will doodle on it for you. More on that soon.
Thanks for your help and support! Special shout out to ataraxia for placing the first order, before I was even done typing this!
artdecade phylum birds marcothecat cubetriangle redacteur
cenizo
ghostmeat hottapwater thomas_blue ianjay
kamui
negger pierrezaius
weirdthingswithanatomyThe small-run books are printed digitally in full color and hand-bound with a rruff cover. Each copy comes with goodies including stickers handmade by Birds and a printed envelope so it doesn’t thrash your other comics. They are fun to hold and behold.
The book is available now for $20 at RRUFFURR’s spankin’ new Etsy site: https://www.etsy.com/listing/101320.....ffurr-book-one and there's previews going up steadily at rruffurr.tumblr.com plus a contest to win a free copy by reblogging a post.
Orders placed before June 17th will print and ship the week of the 17th, and a larger print run will follow in early July. There will be a small number available at Anthrocon in the hands of some of the artists, who will doodle on it for you. More on that soon.
Thanks for your help and support! Special shout out to
ataraxia for placing the first order, before I was even done typing this!I helped make another fursuit...
Posted 13 years agoAnd it's kyoot! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7880839/
Why didn't I do this 5 years ago?
Posted 13 years agoThis = opting out of Google personalized ads. Game changer.
Fantasy porn commission:
Posted 13 years agoA horse with a sensibly-proportioned wang. No offense horses, but you have issues. I sense many of you will purchase exotic sports cars in your middle age.
New Mix: Splendid Moments 2011
Posted 13 years agoSlightly overdue but ultimately satisfying. Download it at pandemoniumjones.com here's the tracklisting:
The Weeknd - The Morning // Balam Acab - Apart // Burial + Four Tet featuring Thom Yorke - Ego // Zomby - Alothia // Daft Pink - Sky Sailor // Sepalcure - Hold On // Dauwd - Ikopol // Drake - Take Care // Jamie xx - Far Nearer // Korallreven - As Young As Yesterday // Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa // Real Estate - Out Of Tune // Bon Iver - Michicant // Jame Blake - The Wilhelm Scream // Holy Other - Know Where // Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty // Jay-Z + Kanye West - Gotta Have It // A$AP Rocky - Wassup // Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream // Rustie - After Light // Hudson Mohawke - Thunder Bay // Elite Gymnastics - Here, In Heaven // Frank Ocean - There Will Be Tears // Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar // Shabazz Palaces - Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt) // Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica // John Maus - Cop Killer // Kuedo - Whisper Fate
The Weeknd - The Morning // Balam Acab - Apart // Burial + Four Tet featuring Thom Yorke - Ego // Zomby - Alothia // Daft Pink - Sky Sailor // Sepalcure - Hold On // Dauwd - Ikopol // Drake - Take Care // Jamie xx - Far Nearer // Korallreven - As Young As Yesterday // Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa // Real Estate - Out Of Tune // Bon Iver - Michicant // Jame Blake - The Wilhelm Scream // Holy Other - Know Where // Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty // Jay-Z + Kanye West - Gotta Have It // A$AP Rocky - Wassup // Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream // Rustie - After Light // Hudson Mohawke - Thunder Bay // Elite Gymnastics - Here, In Heaven // Frank Ocean - There Will Be Tears // Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar // Shabazz Palaces - Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt) // Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica // John Maus - Cop Killer // Kuedo - Whisper Fate
I love it when random waves of Robin Hood porn come along
Posted 13 years agoA meme I can endorse.
Cruising Santorum's Website...
Posted 13 years agoGosh what a kook. On the same page (http://www.ricksantorum.com/iran) he both claims credit for helping bring the US military out of Cold War mode and proposes fully funding and building a missile defense system to address concerns of a nuclear-capable Iran. Just a zample. I kinda hope that he wins the primaries...
I don't know why I'm frustrating myself with this tomfoolery, not just Santorum but prez politics in general. I feel once again I'm being compelled to vote for the less-wack of my wack options regardless who ends up on the Republican ticket. Ron Paul's consistent voting record and disdain for war and the Federal Reserve are enticing but he's not without unsavoriness... Obama is a smart man and a good symbol for particular causes and cases but is very obviously indebted to powers beyond those of the American citizenry or the Constitution, which he swore to uphold, and has made too many compromises to inspire an enthusiasm towards his reelection.
I think that most Americans, myself included, have no idea day to day what their elected officials are doing or in whose best interest it's being done.
I don't know why I'm frustrating myself with this tomfoolery, not just Santorum but prez politics in general. I feel once again I'm being compelled to vote for the less-wack of my wack options regardless who ends up on the Republican ticket. Ron Paul's consistent voting record and disdain for war and the Federal Reserve are enticing but he's not without unsavoriness... Obama is a smart man and a good symbol for particular causes and cases but is very obviously indebted to powers beyond those of the American citizenry or the Constitution, which he swore to uphold, and has made too many compromises to inspire an enthusiasm towards his reelection.
I think that most Americans, myself included, have no idea day to day what their elected officials are doing or in whose best interest it's being done.
Don't tell anyone, but...
Posted 13 years agoI am javacostumes new "studiomate" and we made a rad fursuit together: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7616435
New mayor of Cute City.
javacostumes new "studiomate" and we made a rad fursuit together: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7616435 New mayor of Cute City.
