Shirts, workshop names and tinsel (Patreon)

Writing you from the Giertz Patch, which is the current working name for our workshop. I wish I could call it "Simone's cave", in the same way Adam Savage has "Adam's cave", but it just sounds slightly different coming from a woman.

So let me know if you have suggestions of non-suggestive names for our new office. It's recently gotten a glittery tinsel upgrade for the staircase, so we're fancy now.

Rapid fire update:

• I'm flying to San Diego for Comic-Con tomorrow! Will any of you be there? I'm the girl holding a neon sign that says "let's not talk about brain tumors"

• ... but I did make a video about brain tumors. Here it is, in case you haven't watched it yet.

• Thanks everybody who hung out for the livestream! And for your poems about the shirt*. Angelica and Erica were close runner-ups, but the shirt has to go to Erin for this beautiful piece of poetic art:

How many shirts
rhyme mispronounced Giertz:
Not three, not four
Simply one not any more.
Long teal sleeves,
perfect in a breeze.  
The Robot Queen
has a giving gene
gifting this shirt
so it doesn't get hurt.
A present, not trash
it's hardly quite rash.
I'm really quite ardent
long live this garment.
Thank you Simone,
for this new home,
This shirt is beautiful
it will never be alone.

* If you're confused because you didn't watch the livestream: I wanted to give away a shirt and asked people to write a poem about it. If you did watch the livestream but you're confused anyway: I'm not sure how to help you. Try some snacks and a nap, usually works for me.