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Tis' the season for sing-a-longs and frivolous parties. For Meatloaf and time warps. For hot patooties and blessing souls. For strange journeys with sweet transvestites from transexual Translyvania.  It's Rocky Horror Picture Show appreciation month. So damnit, Janet, touch-a touch-a touch me and let's celebrate.  WHAT YOU'RE WINNING THIS WEEK: We have 5 care packages featuring wooden iPhone covers from the lovely team at Toast! Made in Portland, Toast exclusively uses renewable energy and donates a percentage of their sales to environmental non-profits so we aren't all forced to live on Tim Curry Planet. We have 3 covers for the iPhone 5 and 2 for iPhone 4! Each winner also gets a Lucille III Freaker! (Total Retail Value: $45) HOW TO ENTER: If you've ever been to a Rocky Horror screening, you know when, how, and why to throw toast at the screen. Rocky Horror fans have special traditions. We want to know what yours are. (For example, every time our CEO watches Seinfeld, he puts on a pirate shirt and bellows HELLLLLOOOOOWWWWW.) Get on Twitter and let us know what your tv tradition is with the hashtag #FreakerToast for your chance to win!  

We here at Freaker USA believe in valued customer service. We usually only post Freaker Friday winners in our Tuesday newsletter, but today is special. Last week we asked you for task-suggestions for our new interns. Without further ado, I present both the winners of Freaker Friday and photographic proof that we are listening to your input.

This week we got two interns. Mmhm, that is real life. At least two people thought it was a good idea to be our intern. We need your help in proving them wrong. We here at Freaker USA want our interns to come away from this opportunity with more experience than just shredding incriminating documents. That's why we've already given them meaningful tasks like holding our arms up so we don't get tired, brushing our accountant's hair and scaring away One Tree Hill fans that make daily pilgrimages to our office (AKA Club Tric.) But we're already running out of ideas for their productivity! And this is where you come in. WHAT YOU'RE WINING THIS WEEK: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring our favorite-cards-of-all-time made by Wilmington local, Tay Ham! Technically, there is a card for every occasion, but they're best used for reasserting how awesome you are. Each package comes with 4 Tay Ham cards and a MadDog Freaker! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this photo, and let us know what you would make our interns do. Make it silly yet reasonable because each winner will not only get a free care package, but also a photo of the interns playing out your work-suggestion. For example, if you think the interns should wash our neighbor's El Camino… there will be photographic proof that we're listening to your input! Because …customer service > labor rights?

Do you remember the linguistic renaissance of the late 1990s? It was a glorious moment for wordsmiths everywhere. Suddenly we were talking to the hand, our home skillets had "yo mamma" jokes for days, and the undesirables were filed under "scrubs." One of our favorite colloquialisms from the 90s has been making a comeback -"that's tight." In celebration of the all-encompassing tightness, we're giving away 6 Tight Wallets for our Freaker Friday collaboration this week. Trust me. They are all that and a bag of chips. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: TGT (Tight) Wallets are the future of making your butt look good. We all know you're dealing with a giant bank roll, but there doesn't have to be a bump on your butt to prove it! TGT wallets are designed compact, and that makes your pants fit better! They come in a bunch of cool designs, and they are designed in Brooklyn! Each of our 6 winners will receive a TGT wallet and a Draper Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: The need for new words that express feelings, while keeping other generations in the dark, will never cease. It is a hole we need you to fill. Fire up them Twitters and use #FreakinNeologism to tell us about your contribution to the english language (or really, any language)! You don't like pens, call them Frindles. You haven't been blessed with immortality, YOLO. It's that simple people!

Most offices have casual Friday. Most children are rebels. As we experience new company growing pains (our legs are sprouting!) we follow the path of countless teenagers that have forged the path of brat-hood. Freaker USA has casual-everyday except for Friday, when we dress up for the red carpet of Absolutely Nothing. It's past time that you celebrate Tie-Day Fridays with us, and that's why this week we're giving away fancypants accessories for ladies and gents alike!

Quick Recap for all you Newbies: Every week we do a collaborative giveaway contest called Freaker Friday with the most amazing companies you've never imagined. Each week is a different contest with different prizes from a different company! At least 5 winners are announced every week in our Tuesday newsletter! Are you an artist? That question isn't limited to painters, sculptors or poets. Artistry spans all human activity. You can only cross one eye? ART. You trained your dog to do your laundry? DOUBLE ART. You can moonwalk, worm and twerk all at the same time? You, my friend, are my new favorite artist. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 6 care packages to give away this week! We're featuring the fine chaps at Denik Journals! Self proclaimed as the "raddest notebooks ever," Denik puts the work of artists from around the world on their covers and designates a percentage of their sales to social missions like building schools! Made it the USA and easy on the eyes, each care package will include 1 Denik journal and a Freaker of their choice! (total retail value: $22) HOW TO ENTER: Imagine that you are a famous artist, but you exclusively use a fake name. (Hey, Banksy. Nice to see you, Banksy.) Find this graphic on Facebook and leave a comment with what your secret artist pen-name is! Winners will be announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Fridays are a day to be celebrated! Sometimes, the week weighs down so heavily upon us, that we forget this fact. Many times, at the end of a week, we need a little something to lift us up by our boot strings!

There is nothing like the sizzling of some spicy sausages™ on the grill to remind you that summer is drawing to a close. It's not all bad though. Football is about to start again, and a little structure in your life never killed anyone. Looking back, you probably went somewhere. It could have been France, or it could have been that little town with the giant ball of string! Either way, we want to know about it! Also, should you find yourself in the wonderful world that is Savannah, Georgia, be sure to come party with the Freaker Team! They'll be set up on River Street today at noon, and tomorrow at 5! There will be football, Freakers, and fun!.

Everyone has an alter ego. Some of you go to sleep every night solely because you turn into a flying ninja-lizard in dream world. Some of you watch Free Willy on repeat because that caged whale "just gets you, man."  

Elasticity is a great thing. It pays the bills around here, at least. At the dawn of vulcanized rubber, people realized it could do something even more special. By tying some rubber to a forked stick, kids were able to send projectiles through the air a dangerous velocities! That's right boys and girls, we are talking about the Slingshot! WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week, we will select 3 winners who will each receive a Hella Slingshot! These designer toys (read: weapons.) force you to relive your childhood AND are made in the USA?! I'm in. All winners also get a Freaker! (total retail value: $42) HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and use ‪#‎FreakinSlingIt‬ to show us your best makeshift slingshot! Our 3 favorites will be furnished with the real deal!

Are you a superhero? Irrelevant question. Of course you're a superhero. We're a superhero too. Do you want to form a superhero alliance? ALSO IRRELEVANT. We're forming a super hero alliance. Me and you. Us and y'all. Fighting the evils of bottle sweat and moist handshakes for the betterment of everyone, everywhere, for the rest of time. The only truly relevant question now is how flashy our flash will be. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING THIS WEEK: We have 5 care packages this week featuring Amazing Capes! Roxanne Turpen is a North Carolina luminary making capes and saving the world through the power of imagination! With the profits of every cape sold, Amazing Capes gives back to world saving causes, all while cloaking you in the power of awesome! Each winner will receive a cape and a Freaker of their choice! (Total retail value: $45) HOW TO ENTER: Find this graphic on Facebook and let us know what our super hero alliance would be called for your chance to win! Amazing? AMAZING.

Everybody loves a comeback, especially when the comeback kid is angsty-teen dreamboat, Ryan Atwood. In a couple days, the world will be celebrating the 10th birthday of The OC. You heard me. It's been 10 years since you got all hissy about fictional characters in Newport Beach. In a true Sandy Cohen fashion, we're here to make you feel better about that fact.  We can't wait until Monday to celebrate, so we are giving you things now! WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have four "Sandy Cohen Sunset" Freakers that never made it to full production! These are the only four that exist, which makes each of them one-of-a-kind! Each winner will also receive a stylish gift from Cotton Snaps! These sunglass accessesories are Made in the Freakin' USA, and their magnets keep your sunglasses on your head while you are swimming, fishing, or just plain head bangin'! HOW TO ENTER: We all remember the void we felt when the show ended. It was impossible not to feel cold and alone. If they based a show on your life to fill their old TV spot, what would it be called, and what would it be about? Get on Twitter and use #FreakersHereWeCome to tell us about it!