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GUYS. It's snowing at the beach today. Are you dreaming of spring yet? Whether you're in school or not, we'd like to extend an honorary Spring Break to you. The first round of our officially licensed Collegiate Freakers is here!!! If you don't see your school, hold on to your hate mail. More are coming this summer! Pinky promise. Ladies and gentlemen, give a warm welcome to the first batch of collegiate Freakers... Team Spirit!

This week we released one of our all time favorite Freaker designs: Shaquille O'Peel. It's a banana being picked up with chopsticks. What are we rambling about, you ask? What does Shaquille have to do with a chopsticked banana, you ask? Why is that an all time favorite, you ask? What does it MEAN, you ask? Valid questions. One answer: Because we could. And so we did. It's Friday. Let's get veird. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring BankNote NYC, and we have the honor of featuring their namesake product - the BankNote Light. "A minimalist wallet paired with a notebook. Vintage Italian leather. Small batches. Made in NYC." Yes, please. BankNote NYC is a homegrown operation with a sense of design and more importantly, a sense of humor. "We don’t know what we’re doing. So we keep things simple and work with people who know exactly what they are doing." I like your style, guys, but we respectfully disagree. BankNote knows exactly what they're doing. The website takes you through their entire manufacturing process, how they stitch each envelope, and even name-dropping the individuals who handmake each product. A+ and gold stars all around. Each winner also gets a Shaquille O'Peel Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram, and show us an absurd thing you've created. It can be a doodle, masterpiece, soundscape, lego creature, whatever. Use the hashtag #FreakerNote so we can find you! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

We do not live in a boring world. Nobody represents the unpredictable quirkiness of life on earth quite like Shaquille O'Neel. All basketball accomplishments aside, Shaq Diesel is an extraordinary creature. Have you Googled his nicknames recently? Remember his rapping genie movie Kazaam? What about the time SAG fined him for crossing the picket-line to get into Disneyland? This moment. Or that time he spent 2 full minutes rapping insults about Kobe Bryant? What about all of those weird photo-ops with tiny pandas and baby seals? Or the Aaron Carter music video "How I Beat Shaq" from 2005? Shaqtin' a fool. Shaq is an American Lucid Dream full of strange turns and endless giggles. He probably DOES eat his bananas with chopsticks, and for that he has earned our eternal R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Ladies and gentlemen, give a warm welcome to the newest member of the Freaker Family... Shaquille O'Peel!

Got the cub going up on a Tuesday.  (Photo via Dima Shapira!)

Congratulations! You survived Monday! Here's an adorable fruit bat getting a toothbrush head rub.

Tomorrow is the most divisive holiday on the calendar. Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is here to stay. We have a solution for the cynics and celebrators alike! If it was up to us, a holiday celebrating love wouldn't be narrowed down to just people loving other people. Love is all encompassing! One of The Freakerteam members loves Vin Diesel's Fast & Furious character more than any romance she's ever dabbled in. Another one loves that "Going Up On A Tuesday" more than should be humanly possible. Alpacas? Love them. A lot. Pizza? Even the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court can't deny that pizza is true love. It's high time to celebrate all kinds of love. Baby goat videos, nachos, and potato gun love included. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the clean craftmanship of Wood Thumb!! Wood Thumb is the design child of two brothers, Chris and David Steinrueck. They craft modern accessories from "reclaimed redwood, old bourbon barrels, whiskey, tablesaws, bacon chocolate" in their warehouse in San Francisco, and have a damn good time doing it. We're featuring their handsome magnetic bottle openers in this week's care packages! Each winner will get a choice between reclaimed solid walnut and bourbon barrel wood bottle openers! They are outfitted with three powerful magnets embedded into the wood, that can catch over 30 bottle caps at a time! Simple. Functional. Dapper. Done. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic and leave us a photo comment with something that you love inexplicably. Rubber bands, carnival rides, llamas - we all have SOMETHING that we love uncontrollably without a solid reason. We want to know what yours is! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

YOU GUYS! You did it!!! You made Freaker Feet a real thing in real life! We're overflowing with unbounded gratitude, wild bewilderment, and a whole bucketload of intense love! No words can describe how melty our hearts are. Puddles. Love puddles. (The innocent kind.) Our campaign ended at 10am this morning. With 18 hours left, we still needed $70,000 to reach our funding goal. With 12 hours left, we still needed $50,000. With half an hour left, we still needed $4,000. With 6 minutes left, we still needed $1,500. And you made it happen. WHAT?! You are incredible! We're acting immediately. It all starts now. Freaker Feet will be coming to a mailbox near you this spring! We couldn't have done this without you. Thank you thank you thank you thank you! You are the wind beneath our wings. Truth!

YOU GUYS!!! You did it!!! Freaker Feet is a real thing now! We're overwhelmed and overflowing!!!!! Thank you to the moon & back. And then back to the moon & back to earth again. Back and forth. Forever. Gahh!!

Heyyyyyyy e’rybody!! We're in the final stretch and we need one last push!! We’ve added a couple new reward packs for the frisky at heart! Every pledge for $96 or over will also now get a personal video message! New Reward Packs: -TOECUS POCUS ($1,500) Choose 96 pairs of Freaker Feet / Get 96 FREE corresponding Freakers / Beard clipping from Zach for your personal use (that we promise not to question.) / Personal video message! -HEEL SAUCE ($2,400) 200 pairs of custom or regular Freaker Feet! / Beard clipping from Zach for your personal use (that we promise not to question.) / Personal video message! -SOCK LOBSTER PARTY ($8,000) - We'll drive to you in our infamous Freaker Boxtruck Party House & throw you a grilled cheese party! / 200 pairs of custom or regular Freaker Feet! / Personal video-message from Zach! Please tell your friends about our "Pledge $1, Get a Freaker" special! Sharing is caring, especially when it's this graphic on Facebook! Our hearts are overflowing with love and our armpits are getting a little sweaty! Thank you from the bottom of our entire beings for all of your support. Internet hugs for all!!!

You survived Monday. You deserve it! That is all.

It's down to the wire!!! Thank you everyone for all of your support! Anything and everything is HYPER appreciated! In the last 24 hours of this campaign, everybody that shares our Kickstarter Link with their Facebook Friends earns unlimited internet hugs! Toe-gether, we can totally do this!  Love you guys so hard!! 

We're in the very last days of our Kickstarter campaign for Freaker Feet and we just launched a Last Minute Surprise Special! Now, everybody that pledges $1 or more will get a Freaker! Everybody deserves food, water, shelter... and a Freaker. Give what you can, everybody gets a Freaker. More than anything, we want you to join our Freaker team! WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 10 care packages to give away this week featuring Freaker Madness!! Five winners will get a pair of our first sample runs of Freaker Feet socks! Five winners will get 2 Freakers of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram, share the above graphic with a fun caption, the hashtag #FreakerFeet, and the URL www.getfreakerfeet.com for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!