April 15 marked the one-year anniversary I started blogging here at Franzenmuth - the night of Game One when that high stick on Lidstrom wasn't called). While I don't blog here as often as I used to (or as consistently), I'm still writing for the Red Wings over at NHLHotStove.com (and loving it) and tweeting like crazy. I still think it's absolutely nuts that I started my twitter a year ago without really caring and now I'm addicted...and have 350 followers. You guys are the best, seriously.
So to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Franzenmuth, I'm giving you two things, both of which are pretty epic (the second one more than the first).
Franzenmuth is expanding!! I don't mean this site - I mean the fictional land in Sweden with mule-drawn carriages (and you guys probably don't know how much of Franzenmuth I have planned/mapped out). Here's how...
My boyfriend was coming up with nicknames for hockey players that would annoy me (he's a pest like that), and somehow he came up with the nickname "Helmalot" for Helm. I told this to Twitter, and someone said it sounded like a medieval land.
Lo and behold, I had to sketch it during one of my classes. Now, this second thing has been going on for quite some time. And this is a video I made back in December and never posted (you can tell by the Christmas tree behind me, hah). But I think I need to show you guys just because of how amazing it is and I don't know how I've kept it a secret for this long. It could be bigger than "Pavel Datsyuk in: A Case of Dangleitis."
I promise to continue working on it with all my might. It's going to be awesome. (More of it's done than you think, too!)
I'm known as the craziest Red Wings fan that works at Caribou Coffee. I draw Red Wings comics about the [made up] hilarious things the players do on and off the ice. I now write for Octopus Thrower, an NHL Fansided blog.
My favorite players on the Wings are Valtteri Filppula and Johan Franzen. The title of this blog came from a typo when I tried to type Frankenmuth to a friend and lolzy conversations ensued about a magical land in Sweden with mule-drawn carriages.