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Bumblebee-Tuna.com is now dead and gone, buried by a major American corporation taking advantage of my complete lack of giving a crap.

But do not fear – your favourite pair of misfit conversationalists aren’t gone. They’ve moved to a new address and title which is -

…wait for it…

MISPLACED PANDA!

Check out the new site
HERE

You see, Around mid-December of 2009 in a fit of boredom and procrastination I drew, designed and created the first Bumblebee comic. It was based upon a conversation I was having with a friend when I was talking about creating a stupid little comic.

(and by ‘based upon’ I mean almost word for word)

But when it came to a title I was all out of ideas. I wanted something nonsensical yet irrelevant. Something that rolled off the tongue but didn’t mean anything at all.

It was at that moment when I heard this -

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That’s a clip from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. It was playing on the TV. I thought it was a meaningless bit of gibberish and perfect for my little comic thing that I would probably do two or three of and then forget about.

Then I kept on have ideas for more and more. They kept coming like… well, like a swarm of bumblebees. They started overrunning my site here so I decided to move it onto a site of it’s own.

That’s when something weird happened. I got the funniest email.

Here’s an excerpt –

I purchased 2 12 oz cans of solid white albacore tuna in water from winn-dixie 02/14/2010.I opened one can found it to be a water soaked mess.It was impossible to fully drain it.I made a tuna salad from it and could not eat the mess.This is the worst tuna I have ever purchased.At 3.99 a can you should be ashamed to sell this product.

At first, I thought it was someone’s odd sense of humour. But then I got another…

i recently bought two cans of solidalbacore and was very disappointed with the quality. it was not solid but in many pieces and there were several bloody specks in it.this the only brand that i buy.

And another…

Recently had a can of solid white albacore tuna–it had bones in it–yuck.

I did a search and found this

HOLY CRAP.

Well, it was around this time that I was already thinking about changing the name. The complaint emails kept rolling in day after day. And I began making lists of names that I wanted to change it to. (Making sure to search the internet for inferior American products while I did.)

AND THEN… I received a cease and desist notice via email AND FedEx. Here’s a small sample –

_{(I don’t know if it needed the smudgey marks but I always see people doing
that and I’ve never had a chance to do it.)}

To be honest – I thought it hilarious. I have the FedEx copy on my wall next to my desk. They wanted me to give them my Bumblebee-Tuna domain (Pffft… yeah right.)

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Anyway, they gave me a deadline of April 2nd to change the name or suffer the litigious consequences. That was about five weeks ago now, wasn’t it? And I still haven’t heard anything more. I’m kind of hurt that I wasn’t as much of a threat to their sales as they led me to believe.

Bone-filled cans of bastards!

In any case I’ve found a name that I like possibly more than Bumblebee Tuna. One which has no affiliations with bone-filled cans of dolphin meat.

Now, the only complaint mail I’ll be receiving is about how shitty the jokes are.

Brains!! Brains!!!


BRAAAIIINNNSSS!!!

Yesterday was the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle. It was awesome. Thousands of zombies showed up, brains where eaten, beers were drunk, homeless people went “missing”.

You can check out all the photos I took of the day HERE.

Saturday is the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle and in the theme of things I’m putting up my Zombie-fied story ICY DEAD PEOPLE on the website for you all to read for FREE for the next week.

You can also download a free 3 story sampler from Lulu.com

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for tonnes ‘o’ Zombie fun.

And remember you can purchase Death, Dismemberment and a Little Bit of Sass in it’s entirety at Amazon.com and Lulu.com…

Jealousy, betrayal, sacrifice, murder, werewolves and zombies, existential dilemmas and a fridge that controls the universe, You’ll find it all in this collection of eleven deathly good short stories.

And if that still hasn’t satisfied your zombie cravings you can get the coolest zombie mug this side of the apocalypse. It’s the “Zombie Drank My Coffee” Mug at Zazzle.com.

DEATH, DISMEMBERMENT AND A LITTLE BIT OF SASS is now $16.95*!

What? $16.95*? You’re crazy!!

Yes, $16.95*! And yes I am crazy! but I’d prefer it if you didn’t bring it up in civilized company thank you very much.

But for a limited time only (until the apocalypse) you can get DEATH, DISMEMBERMENT AND A LITTLE BIT OF SASS for $16.95*!

But WAIT!! There’s still more!!

Oh, no there isn’t.

Just buy the book.

Get it now at your local Lulu dealer – Click Here!

 

 

*prices are in USD.

 

P.s. Amazon.com will be reflecting these changes within the next few weeks. Thankyou for calling.

There’s a new Bumblebee Tuna up for you to read, stare at for a moment and quietly chuckle before checking to see that no one saw you.

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Number 10! Milestone high five!!

…because as of this moment Bumblebee Tuna has it’s very own website!

Woo!

So put www.Bumblebee-Tuna.com into your rss feeds.

DO IT!!

Love the zombie on the cover of Death, Dismemberment and a Little Bit of Sass?

I know, everybody does!

But not everybody has him on their coffee mug, but you can!

Just go to Zazzle.com.au and order yours now!!

So, I tried my hand at making a book trailer.

The one thing I learned when making it was this – Start with the music because it’s a bastard finding something that works at the end.

Anyway, here is the finished product.

Available at Amazon.com

or from Lulu.com

Not that I was typing my own name into Amazon.com or anything… But I accidentally came across this –

That’s right, you can now get Death, Dismemberment and a Little Bit of Sass at Amazon.com.

Awesome.

on a side note – you can also add it to your WeRead or Librarything