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We hope you enjoyed it. We'll be back on Tuesday with details on the aforementioned giveaway, and will (hopefully) have some new designs to share — provided I can bring myself to create new stuff. Again: fingers crossed!

Peace, love, and tacos,

Matt

p.s. - In the event you haven't been by in a while, below is a roundup of some recent designs:

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Rachel B. of Anniston AL, showing off an Oxford Comma Shirt.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

I taught high school English for years, but now I'm actually working my dream job! I'm a high school librarian (or Media Specialist if you want to be fancy) and LOVING every minute of it. Going back to college after a decade of being done with taking tests and doing homework while simultaneously working as a full-time teacher was scary and stressful, but it was worth it for the chance to live my life in my favorite place — the library! Now I get to help students find their favorite new book series and, every once in a while, I get to hear the best words in the world: "I didn't think I liked reading, but this book is great!"

2. What keeps you up at night?

I'm a HUGE Doctor Who nerd. Like, huge. The BBC, in all its wisdom, decided in the early 1970s-ish that they didn't need to keep old episodes of the show, and either wiped them to use the tapes again or just straight up burned them. So now there are huge swaths of the show that are gone forever. There are legendary episodes that I would give my right arm to see and never will. It literally bothers me in the night that I can't watch them. (Ed. note: that is a massive bummer!)

3. If you could have any super power, what would it be?

Oh, time travel for sure. I'm a history buff, and even if I couldn't go back and change things, I would just take some popcorn with me and nerd out watching major historical events unfold. And original-run 1960s Doctor Who episodes, of course.

4. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?

I would curse them with the nagging worry that they've forgotten to pay a bill. They don't know what it's for, but they're pretty sure it's important and it's overdue.

5. What's a book you think the Boredwalk community should read?

Oh, goodness. I don't even know where to start on this one. I could make lists in every genre, but since it's fall, I guess I'll go with something spooky. I re-read Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House every year because I love the way it builds an under-stated tension that slowly works up to full horror. I also love that it can be read on several levels — as a straight-up horror story, or as a metaphor for 1950s-style female suppression. Reading it always gets me in the mood for the Halloween season. Plus, the new Netflix adaptation is a textbook example of how to take quality source material and create something new and wonderful that pays homage to the original, but also tells its own unique story.

6. Clear up a misconception (about your job, where you are from, some other topic you know a lot about.)

AFFECT is the ACTION, EFFECT is the RESULT. (It drives me crazy when people get this wrong, too!)

7. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

On Instagram @dandydalek where I mostly post pictures of my cat, Olive. She's a jerk.

Well, it's October 11th, and here at Boredwalk HQ we're feeling a little frisky. The weather here in LA is (slowly) starting to cool off, but not so cool that we're not shutting things down a little early today to take a company outing for some board games & tasty treats! Don't worry, though; we're still committed to getting your new favorite tees, tanks, hoodies, and bags printed & shipped out as quickly as possible!

If you've been following Boredwalk for a while, you might note that the above "new" Be Yourself design isn't entirely new. This awesome Oscar Wilde quote is one of our favorites, but our original version really didn't do it justice. It was done early on in Boredwalk's history when 1.) we were in a hurry to get our online store up & running and full of designs as quickly as possible, and 2.) I was a much less patient and less polished designer. If you have one of the O.G. shirts and want to upgrade, go for it! If not, take solace in the fact that your current shirt just became much more rare! Hopefully you enjoy this revision as much as I enjoyed working on it. Plus, we picked ink colors with input from Sarah & Charlynn, our production team! With any luck it sells like hotcakes and they get so sick of printing it that they both come to rue the fact that they helped in its creation.

Moving on to other fun stuff, we have a truly awesome podcast episode for your listening pleasure this week! I know I say that every week — and I do mean it sincerely each and every time — but this is one you'll definitely want to listen to! It's a long one, but that's only because our guest was so engaging and insightful and fun to chat with that Meredith and I struggled to stick to our notes. Guess we'll just have to bring him back for a future episode!

This week we were joined by critically-acclaimed author Kealan Patrick Burke. Kealan may be a prolific (and talented) Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author — which is legitimately impressive — but he's also an excellent graphic designer in his own right. He designs his own book covers, and they're awesome! Wanna see?

We chatted with Kealan about his childhood in Ireland, how it informed his love of horror, his development as a writer and all-around creative professional, how he deals with the more annoying aspects of the publishing world, and his method of working through writer's block. We also discuss the books, television shows, and films that inspire him, his recent published works, and the projects he's currently working on. It's such a good episode, I just know you'll love it. Enjoy!

For more information about Kealan and his work, definitely visit his website at KealanPatrickBurke.com. You can (and should) also follow him on Twitter, if only for the cute doggo pix and witty repartee.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend. We'll be back next week with more new designs, a new Boredwalk Community Q&A (of which Kealan is an esteemed alum!), and a new podcast episode. Until then...

Peace, love, and frights,

Matt