Heartbroken Bear Merchandise

(at the CafePress JayceLand store)

So, you're looking for the "Heartbroken Bear" merchandise stuff — well, you've found it. For the sake of others using search engines, let me spell out some of the ways you might be looking. You might be looking for a bear cookie with its heart ripped out, or torn out, I guess. Or you might be looking for sarcastic, satirical, or cynical products to buy for Valentine's Day (similarly, Valentine's Day sarcasm, satire, or cynicism.)

Anyway, the story goes that I happened upon these cookies from Genesee Bakery (1677 Mount Hope Ave., Rochester, NY) which are bear cut-out cookies with small heart cutouts stuck to the frosting. When I first got them it was just a matter of "more tasty cutout-cookie for the buck," but after a recent case of unrequited affection, I ripped the heart off the bear in (mostly) mock anger. It turns out the results are really funny to me and I laughed out loud (for real LOL, not standard IM LOL.) Only after eating the cookie and partly digesting it did I realize that it's got potential.

So, I went back and bought a couple more. I also picked up some M&M's because I wanted the bear to have bigger brown eyes than the original chocolate chips. [Who'd have believed that in 2 gas-station-sized snack-bags there would be exactly 2 brown M&M's?] So I ripped another bear heart out, took some photos, and created some merchandise on my CafePress JayceLand store. The gist of the cards, postcards, stickers, and mugs you can buy is based off the image to the right. Hopefully it's not just me who thinks that's pretty damn funny.

If you want to be my advertising henchpersons, here's the link to this page and the image:

<A HREF="http://jayceland.com/heartbrokenbear.html"> <img src="http://jayceland.com/images/2005209HeartbrokenBear.jpg" width="200" height="300"></A>

alternatively, for those "BB Code" pages,

[url=http://jayceland.com/heartbrokenbear.html] [img]http://jayceland.com/images/2005209HeartbrokenBear.jpg[/img][/url]

Cookie bear with a cookie heart that's been forcibly removed from its chest.

Sweet catharsis — in cookie form.

JayceLand