July | 2011 | Regretsy

By now, you probably know about the Regretsy-inspired tarot deck currently selling out on Kickstarter.

This deck is being designed by 25 Regretsy fans and artists all over the world. All of the proceeds go to the artists creating the deck, and they are donating a percentage of their profits to the Regretsy charity fund.

While the April’s Army store raises thousands of dollars each month for people facing big challenges, this fund is earmarked to help Etsy sellers with immediate, smaller needs, like utilities, vet bills and groceries. We bankroll this fund with Zazzle store sales, book royalties, donated ad revenue and projects like these, so I’m really excited and grateful for this deck. It will benefit a lot of deserving people.

Now as good as the art is in this deck – and it is really, really good – we realized it was missing one important card – The Towel Mike card. If you have been skipping the Members Only posts in the evenings, you have missed the awesome wonder of Towel Mike, and you have no one to blame but yourself.

Towel Mike came to my attention one evening a few months ago, when he sent me this email:

From: Mike
Date: April 8, 2011 @ 2:12 AM
Subject: random email

Hi April,

You are fucking hilarious and sexy. I’m not the type to offer any indecent proposals. I’ve attached a picture, and I’m sure you’ll rip me a new one if you have the time. Tonight I’ve been enjoying one of your favorite pastimes, drinking.

Now, I’m all for hot guys getting drunk and sending it pictures of themselves, though I’ve never disliked towels quite as much I do now. But Mike is also a great guy, and has been cheerfully sending the fat, jealous losers of Vaginaland (and Dickville) salacious photos every Monday, so we can have something to look at as we drink ourselves to death, broken by the fact that we cannot craft.

Clearly, the tarot deck Mike needed to be united in the steamiest way possible, preferably without real phone numbers being exchanged and no breakfast the next day.

So we asked you to design your best Towel Mike card, and let Mike himself pick the winner.

I put these up in the Members Only post last night, so some of you have already seen them. But Mike himself chose the winner this morning, and as you look through the gallery, you will eventually see the one he chose.

UPDATE: Some of you have sent entries this morning, asking why they weren’t posted. I didn’t edit the entries at all; I posted every one I received.

I have added the new entries to the end of this gallery, and I apologize for any that were missed. If you’d like to send them, I will be happy to add them to this post.