Update: we’ll be closing the TEAM AMERICA free t-shirt offer on Friday 15th July at midday EST.

U2 broke America by touring relentlessly. We plan to do it with a little help from our friends.

Here at Missing Parsons HQ we receive a lot of mail from readers in the US who have enjoyed Live Fast, Die Young. It literally warms our cockles to know that anyone has taken pleasure in reading our words, but it’s doubly pleasing to get feedback from American readers, as we know they’ve had to go that extra mile – maybe even pay a few extra dollars – in order to get hold of their copy. Three-quarters of our website traffic, Facebook friends and Twitter followers come from the US, and yet to date it’s not possible, sadly, for them to walk into Barnes & Noble and pick up a copy of the book.

So it’s time, this 4th of July weekend, to raise our game in the US of Stateside, to make Mr. Barnes and Mr. Noble sit up and take NOTICE, goddamnit! We are inviting our American friends to join a CRACK TEAM of advocates who, in return for a *FREE* Missing Parsons t-shirt (pay postage and packing only), will help us break America by sharing our content with their Facebook friends, Twitter followers and anyone else who will listen. All we ask is that each time we post a new blog, video or self-congratulatory news item on Facebook or Twitter, you Share or Re-tweet it to your friends. In return you get a Missing Parsons t-shirt (one per person) and entry into an exclusive club: MISSING PARSONS TEAM AMERICA. We’re thinking about asking this team of superusers to contribute in other ways too, like suggesting cool stuff to post on Facebook, writing guest blogs etc. Go on, it’ll be fun.

Who’s in? OK then, just visit the Missing Parsons shop, select your size, and complete your ‘purchase’ via Paypal by clicking ‘Buy Now’. (It’s also helpful if you can give a thumbs up to this posting on Facebook if you use it, so we know who’s on the team.) While stocks last, the cost of the t-shirt is ZERO DOLLARS. When we run out of t-shirts, the deal is up. PayPal is a completely safe way to order goods online – if your order cannot be fulfilled, you won’t be charged a penny. (And if your shipping address is outside the US, sadly we can’t send out to you either, so your order will be ignored.)

Thanks for your Parsonage – and Happy Independence Day America!

MPx

Postscript: apparently Paypal won’t let us sell stuff for zero dollars. So we’re charging a penny and taking a penny off the postage. That’s FREE!

It seemed rude not to. With our *debut* live performance coming up at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull (Okefenokenee Fairgrounds, Waycross, Georgia, USA, Saturday 18th September, 2.30pm), we figured it was about time Missing Parsons had some T-shirts out there. They don’t exist in real life yet (update: they do now), but we’re too excited not to share these designs with you now. We may even do bumper stickers if they go down well.

Some huge thank you’s are due. The first and most important goes to the always incomparable Courtney ‘Annie Rich’ Connor (whom readers of Live Fast, Die Young have met) for making the gig happen in the first place. That there Ms. Rich is an amazing lady and we’d be nowhere without her. The second thank you goes to our stylist, web designer and friend Thomas Eagle for the wonderful shirt designs. We absolutely LOVE them. What do you think?

Leave us a message here in the comments box below or, if Facebook is your preferred social medium, pop by and say hello. Join the team if you haven’t already – it’s the easiest way of staying in touch with you all and we’d love to have you along.