"The Bedtime Conspiracy" Guitar Pick Set

And here we are, third & final edition of owl guitar picks, at least for the foreseeable future. These are limited to just 100 sets, instead of the 250 of the previous 2. Supply chain issues meant that the manufacturer ran out of the heart-shaped in white pearloid, so that determined the size of it.

As with previous sets, it's 3 different owl-face guitar picks. Here's everything that's in it…

The Rand Corporation: 351-style extra-heavy gauge (1.22 mm) celluloid pick. White ink on black pearloid finish. This is the only extra-heavy gauge pick I made for any of the 3 set designs.

Saucer People: Black ink stamped on medium gauge (.46 mm) white pearloid heart-shaped pick. Even though it's in the last set, this was the first pick I designed & had manufactured.

Reverse Vampires: Medium gauge (.46 mm) 351-style. Full color printing on a multicolor psychedelic celluoid pick.

Each pick comes in its own stamped 2”x 2” white envelope, The 3 designs are stamped with it's own color of ink (& this time, one even has glow in the dark embossing- OOOOOOOOOH.) The full set of 3 come in a hand-stamped* 6.5” x 4.75 light gray envelope that's a little thicker than the previous 2 pick sets. Envelopes are printed in 2 colors that takes a UV light source to see one of them. Envelopes are signed & #’ed in an edition of 100.

(* Hand-stamped really means hand-stamped & they look it. I mean, it should be pretty obviously by the photos. If you’re the type that likes things to be perfect & homogeneous, then the envelopes will drive you bananas. Then again, the sets are 8 bucks, so maybe these are pretty low stakes as an investment gamble.)

This set again is named after a theme, this one being the tangential B-story of a classic episode of The Simpsons parodying the X-files.

For those of you too young to clearly remember the 1990’s, conspiracy theories were an overarching theme. See, the Soviet Union had just fallen & with the Cold War over, Americans didn’t have a clearly defined foreign enemy to root against & didn’t know what to do with themselves. Luckily, it didn’t take long for people to look inward & concoct any number of conspiracy theories ranging from semi-plausible to full on whackadoo nonsense, which the X-files milked in a thoroughly entertaining way. But that was 25+ years ago, we're much more rational now. I'm not sure anyone today could suspend their disbelief enough to where a TV show could be successful pushing story lines like a cabal made up of powerful officials in the government who may or may not actually be replicant clones working in league with shape-shifting aliens? I know, right? Totally implausible that anyone would believe in that scenario. That show was so popular, even just the letter "X" would immediately be associated it. Hmmmm, I wonder if you did have something similar now, what letter would be a good summation of it? Ah, what's the point of speculating though? We're way past a place where that has any relevance.

Getting back to that Simpsons plot. In it, Lisa suggests that all the kids wild theories on why their parents were going to bed early could probably be explained using Occam's razor, where basically the most logical explanation was probably the correct one and she was right. Unbeknownst to the kids, their parents just wanted to bang, thanks to some Spanish fly mixed up in an old man's bathtub.