Who is Tommy?

How's life treating you? I hope it's all going well. I'm staying busy and now that the weather in Atlanta is turning more spring-like, I now have the super-terrific task of mowing the lawn. At least I use it as an opportunity to model my Otter. I mowed the lawn today in Betty and worked out in Macho. I was represent'n.

Anyway, I digress as always. After last week when the new Vitruvian Rocker Ringer Tee came out, I have been getting lots of emails based on a side note I included in the description.

"Thanks for suggesting we do it in a ringer tee Tommy!"

Everyone has asked who is Tommy and why did we use his suggestion. Well first off, it was a great suggestion because I love it. And the way you guys have been ordering it, you must love it too.

Secondly, Tommy is ,my bf, Mike's brother.

Mike created the original Vitruvian Rocker, after he went with me to an interview I did in London with Beige magazine back when I was promoting my last cd. The interview took place in a little cafe just off the theater district. It was less like a cafe and more like a posh lounge. I felt like quite the superstar. Martin, the interviewer, was so nice and such an easy person to talk to. And I was talking all over the place. I had a hard time staying focused on the music when I had a bunch of new stuff going on with Otter and then I was working on Jock Soap...it was insane. I felt bad for him.

Well through the course of the interview, Martin said I was like the vitruvian man. I don't mean to be ignorant, but I had no idea what he was talking about. My mom taught me in those situations to just smile and nod. So I did. He smiled when he said it, so I figured he wasn't calling me a slut or something like that.

Anyway, we went to our home-away-from-home , a little hotel in Kensington just across the street from Kensington Palace for you Princess Diana fans. The hotel room barely had enough room for the bed and three channels on the TV. It was horrible. But there in the midst of our closet, Mike pulled out his....phone and looked up what a vitruvian man was. It was "the perfect man". Wow! You could have slapped me silly and it wouldn't have phased me. That was such a compliment. (I have to say just before he looked it up, I was slapping acne cream on my face and flossing sesame seeds out of my teeth, while sitting on the commode. A far cry from the perfect man, but nonetheless I'll take it.)

So Mike started playing with Leonardo's original design and rocked it out a bit with the guitar. I'm sure someone thought to do it before, but it is a very special design to me because he made it based on that day we experienced together. Like a scrap book. I also love the fact that he worked in the word OTTER into the text underneath the rocker. It's kind of hidden, but you'll see it if you look.

Mike has been very proud at how successful the Vitruvian Rocker tee has been. He wears it all the time and he always points out the fact that it is his design.

This Christmas his brother, Tommy, cornered me on the patio at his parents house and told me all about ringer tees and how they are the new thing and everybody is wearing them. So I should make the Vitruvian in a ringer tee. It was like a bad after school special and he was playing the bully. But he wore me down and I must say I very pleased with the result.

So in a big fat nut shell, that is the story of the Vitruvian Rocker and the Ringer Tee. I hope when you wear it, you totally rock it.

Until the next time...

Otterly Yours,

Joshua