BRK Can Haz Shirts

When I made my WoW blogger gift round-up post a week ago, BRK didn’t have any t-shirts available — but he does now!

The Big Red Kitty Pet Shirt store is once again open for business — from now until Christmas Eve, apparently. The T-shirts feature a Core Hound, Gorilladin, and Rhino, each with a snazzy tagline. Check it out!

Winter Veil Guides

Reminder: The Feast of Winter Veil event started on Monday. You can find out more about Winter Veil on Blizzard’s Winter Veil page, and also at WoW Wiki.

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Last Minute Holiday Shopping

CafePress: Loque'nahak Large MugInspired by an extremely flattering post by BBB, I spent some time yesterday adding items to Mania’s Arcania Emporia, my awkwardly-named CafePress shop.

The Emporia now features a variety of items with original artwork from the 2009 Petopia calendar (including Loque’nahak, Blacksting, Nuramoc, Tyrantus, the jormungar, the dragonhawk, and the rhino) and the 2008 Petopia Calendar (namely the ghost saber, Mazzranache, and KingB).

I’ve added all the clothing I can reasonably add (so you should be able to find a style and color shirt that you like), and today I’ll be adding more items like coffee mugs and other fun stuff.

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Community Round-Up: After the Wrath

Technically speaking, some of these links I wanted to share are from before Wrath of the Lich King launched. As usual, I am that far behind!

Pike at Aspect of the Hare offers a quick guide to resurrecting a hunter character that you haven’t played in awhile.

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Blackmaw: The Next Spirit Beast?

Blackmaw, Stable Master Andurg Slatechest's PetYesterday BRK forwarded me a fascinating screenshot from one of his readers.

Algörithm of Khaz’goroth snapped this shot of a gorgeous pet snoozing behind Andurg Slatechest, the Stable Master at Bouldercrag’s Refuge in the Storm Peaks.

Algörithm wrote:
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Big Bear Butt Charity Raffle

Hopefully you’re already aware of this, but if not I wanted to remind you: The Big Bear Butt Blogger is running a holiday raffle benefiting Child’s Play, the gamer-driven charity.

Child’s Play is a really cool thing in and of itself, and this raffle is a great way to reward people for who donate. Basically all you do is donate to Child’s Play either via PayPal or Amazon, then e-mail BBB a copy of your donation receipt. And voila! He enters you into the raffle. Raffle prizes include a 2009 Petopia calendar, a WoW TCG loot card, T-shirts, and the absolute coolest prize ever — a WoW class icon quilt. Yes, a quilt. With the class icon of your class of choice. Is that not cool?

This is one of those things I really should have posted about before now, but … it’s been a busy month. :> Anyway, BBB has extended the raffle until Monday morning, so if you haven’t donated to Child’s Play yet, do it now! And if you have already, make sure to send him your receipt so he can enter you in the raffle!

What’s Wrong & How To Fix It

The rash of hunter and pet changes in Patch 3.0 and Wrath of the Lich King have generally been pretty welcome. But changes often bring bugs and similar weirdnesses, and this time was no exception.

But the WoW hunter community has kicked into gear with some nice posts on bugs you may run into and various ways to deal with those bugs. With no further ado:

WotLK Resources

The World Wide WoW Web (WWWoWW) is popping up great Wrath of the Lich King resources like mushrooms today! Before I disappear back into Northern and/or PHP, here’s some of the useful stuff I’ve run across.

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We’re Back, Boxes in Hand!

Tonight I met BRK and Fimlys at Waterford Lakes in Orlando, FL. We had a quick dinner and then journeyed to the GameStop in search of Wrath of the Lich King.

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BRK & Mania’s Wrath Launch Non-Event

Tonight — that is, in less than 24 hours, on Wednesday November 12th — BRK and I will be joining forces to … line up and quietly purchase our pre-ordered Wrath of the Lich King boxes. And yes, that will be exactly as exciting as it sounds. There will be no smiling celebrities (unless you count BRK), no marching bands, no helium balloons, no clowns (unless you count me). But if we’re lucky, Fimlys might be able to make it too!

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