So my parents are here. God love them, they’ve been packing up your Kickstarter rewards all day.

It’s been incredibly entertaining.

My 81-year old mother fired my father several times today because she didn’t like the way he stuffed envelopes. There was also a heated debate over what CF4L stands for, despite the fact that I repeatedly told her that C does not stand for “cock.”

I told my mother the whole Jacqueline Stallone story. I asked for her a formal opinion on the issue so I could share it with my readers.

“She wants me to look at her ass?”

“No, she wants you to pay her to look at your ass.”

“I think she should pay people to look at her face.”

“Well, I don’t disagree. But that’s not the arrangement.”

“She needs a psychiatrist.”

“So you would not pay her $600 to look at your ass?”

“No one is looking at my ass, I’m Sicilian. You tell a Sicilian woman you want to look at her ass, you find a horse’s head in your bed.”

So, there you go.

Then we had pizza, and mailed out another 400 packages.

And then I told them what Goatse is.

Awesome day.

Back to work!

Two thousand copies of Regretsy’s Big Book of Fabricated Folktales from Finland arrived on a pallet today, and they are now resting comfortably in my garage. They look fantastic.

Well, except for the typos. I saw at least 8 of them before I just had to lie down.

Whatever, you already paid for them.

The books are completely sold out, and we’re starting to pack them up right now. Everything will be mailed out over the next few days, except for the BANDmade books (also sold out). Those are hand made and take a little longer. I’ll be sending those out when I get back from Finland on December 4th.

I hope you enjoy the book. More importantly, I hope the Finns have a sense of humor.

Use this link to buy the E-book:

All right, it’s getting down to the wire over here.

We’re in the last week of assembling this book so we can send it to the publisher and get it delivered to you by Thanksgiving.

Posting may be sporadic the next few days, so bear with me.

In the meantime, here is a sneak peek of a piece of art in the book, created by Regretsy regular Christina Tom (who you may remember as the winner of this contest). This is her illustration for the chapter called, “Food and Drink of Finland.”

I don’t know what else to say about this, except that she swears those are cookies. Maybe it’s a Finnish term.

If you want to buy a book or any of the extra rewards we had made up for Kickstarter, you can get them here. There are probably only about 20 books left and just a handful of everything else, so if you see something you want, get it soon.

Remember, “Myöhäistä itkeä kun on kakat housuissa!”

*There’s no point in crying after you’ve shit your pants