Words of Wisdom from The Dalai Lama

Ahmar Wolf

Fear and anxiety easily give way to anger and violence. The opposite of fear is trust, which, related to warm-heartedness, boosts our self-confidence. Compassion also reduces fear, reflecting as it does a concern for others’ well-being. This is what really attracts friends.

Part Time Dragons

Ahmar Wolf

You can find more Part Time Dragons comics on both Twitter and Facebook

Brasil FurFest: 3 Questions

Ahmar Wolf

When I initially contacted BFF to ask about their recent sponsorship agreement I thought that was it. Then Rosca Santigria sent 3 questions:

1: What is your response/feelings about the Brazil Amazon Rainforest fire? There is a lot of public outrage about it in Mexico, USA, and Canada.

2: Are there any efforts or attempts made to rectify the situation? From what I’ve seen, the politiians and rural farmers are defending the burns.

3: How was your experience with parterning with Converse? And do you think its beneficial for furry conventions internationally to use partnerships more often to help bring more positive awareness to the fandom?

What I got back was nothing short of amazing…

BFF: 1. Brasil FurFest is a furry convention and does not comment political issues and we are surely hoping Amazon Forest be protected. 2. Read 1 3. The experience was good, but we think every country is different and what we got in Brazil would be very different if it was in Argentina, for instance, since their market about brands, sponsors and how to show brands is totally different. There is not a single answer. We think our partnership deal with Converse was beneficial for both side since many Furries in Brazil were already fans of the brand and for us it helped setting a better Main Event Room for the event. We are aware next year we might have no partners and now we need to keep the qualify with the event with ticket sales only. We love challenges and we will work hard to make it happen. Keep the quality*

AW: Excellent they will make a great follow up

Now for the Insiders View:

This is the video we shown during the Closing Ceremony (it’s not long) and you will see where Converse brand was shown and also a little about our con(extra: Pepper Coyote really drunk after some caipirinhas – lol)

AW: Cons are best when they give us happy memories. Every Midwest FurFest is like that for me

We had two banners near the elevator like this (this fursuiter even made a Converse sneakers for her fursuit)

We had Converse logo on staff badges (attendees badges doesn’t have Converse logo)

We had the logo during the dance competition at the LED screen they helped us to rent

And during certain moments our logo appeared – not all. So, we didn’t sell our convention to Converse

Oh, the “screensaver” had the logo too

I forgot, we had their logo at the announcements or Dance Competition So, this is all we had of Converse🙂You have a full picture of the subject 🙂

AW: Absolutely

Reminder: Mr. Wolf Goes to Washington

Ahmar Wolf

Next Tuesday I leave for my trip to Washington DC by train, in case you are wondering why? I am scared to fly. I’ll be staying with a friend whom I never met in person before. But we have talked on the internet and phone for the last couple of years. Also as of yesterday, I am going to meet the family of my best friend. To say this is going to interesting will be an understatement. During all of this, I also plan on doing the tourist thing. There are several museums I want to see and unlike a lot of things you read or hear about. Mine will be the truth, I’ll be reporting on my actual experiences and dealing with security. Which is the main reason I won’t be going to either the Captial Building or The White House as security there is in short insane?

I’ll be reporting on how things really are and are it insane as some say? We will find out together. I will be posting “LIVE” reports on my Twitter feed @Dr_Timefox and there will be some exclusives on Tumblr I can’t exactly say what, because I don’t know. Like I said this is going to interesting, even more since I will be taking Public Transit and yes I am going to talk about that. The single truth is I don’t drive, I don’t even own a car. Living in Chicago you don’t need one, and in my neighborhood parking is INSANE. Even my own building charges $150 a month to park. So you can see why I don’t drive and I commute everywhere, even to work.

Like I said if you want to get a glimpse of what things are really like in Washington. Follow my adventure, I can say without a doubt in my mind it certainly will be an interesting one.

I’ll also post as photos of my trip, not enough to be annoying just pointing out Highlights like on my Instagram account @ahmarwolf I am going to leave the bulk of the photos to either Amazon Photos or Google Photos depending on what is easier to access. The link will be posted once it is up. I will be posting normally until Sept 17, after that, I am unsure until Sept 27. A lot depends on what I can do, on other people’s internet.