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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Taking the plunge

 


It's Marching Music Day.  And being a former band geek and Drum Major,  I couldn't resist putting my own twist on Marching Music Day with this design:


It was an updated design based on text version I did a couple of years ago. I also produced this one:


It's a bit more esoteric. I am selling a t-shirt and a tote bag version. We'll see if anyone appreciates my dad joke inspired genius. It is also National Pound Cake Day and I worked with ChatGPT to create an appropriate design.  At first it gave me this:


I was concerned it might be a bit difficult on first glance to understand the joke. And it made the guy look too much like me shoving cake in my face. So I asked for a different version:

I liked it but ChatGPT kept making the hammer head look like it was at a 45 degree angle and couldn't seem to correct it, so I fixed it myself in Photoshop. Plus ChatGPT tried to sell me on smashing a Bundt cake instead of a pound cake for some reason. I've been in marketing too long not to know that there would be some cake freak out there that would write me to tell me that wasn't a pound cake, it was a bundt cake. So I held my ground. I did let it do another version with a redneck looking guy in it though.

I created t-shirts with both designs. But I only promoted the redneck one on X because X is full of redneck freaks. We'll see if there are any out there that like to pound cake. It was a productive day, but I'm beat. 

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