Hey folks, I know SOME of you are still watching/reading me here so I wanted to drop this little spoiler for AC.

For a long time Ive been wanting to try this at a fur con, what exactly?? A heel turn! That's right an evil version of my wrestling character.

The main reason I never did it is because...well...I love how everyone wants to say hello or interact with me at the cons and at AC its a ton of fun talking to the people in the city. The energy is so positive that its hard not to want to be/act like Bret Hart, John Cena, CM Punk, Dusty Rhodes, or any other face wrestling icons I watched as a rat pup.

That being said I think most of you know me well enough to know that my wit is quick and razor sharp. You folks have watched me effortlessly tear down the protesters that show up at AC and MFF with the greatest of ease. Also Ive seen people go to the cons as homelander and other villan characters and make it work great. So yes its time to tap into that a bit. The reason I'm giving the plot away now is to let folks know and spread the word so no one ACTUALLY thinks Ive gone to the dark side. So yes PLEASE come upto me and chat and ask for pictures, but just be ready for me to let fly with some insults. I'm gonna do my best not to ACTUALLY hurt anyone.

Also...NO CANNED heat. So no I'm not going to pretend to be a raider or wear a MAGA hat at the con...thats beneath me (in a lot of ways). But trust me I do have something in the works. New costume bits and a new look on things. You see...its not sports entertainment.

Its sports EDUCATION.

Stay tuned.

Not so great so far, first race ended early with a broken transmission. During my 2nd stint, coming into the first corner going for 3rd gear I was rewarded with a loud BANG, then the car sounded like an old washing machine. I thought I had blown the clutch but soon I was able to get 2nd gear. Limping to the pits we found the car leaking trans fluid out of every hole it could, we didn't have a spare....race over.

Oh well...sometimes its like that.

Next race will be next Month in Joliet....RIGHT after anthrocon, then I'll be heading back to gingerman for another go!

Stayed tuned and hope to see some of you at AC



John.

So I just got back from Fur squared. My local con. Was another great show and I had a great time. Its been wild watching the con grow from a house party all the way up to us taking over part of the convention center in downtown, its wild and I'm loving it. Thanks to all the people that stopped by for chat, hugs, and just in general made the event great. Next time I'll see some of you will be at Anthrocon this year and others will be seeing me race as well. We are just getting started with 2025.

John

Yup...old rat is getting older.

Plan is to do sushi with my mate and my close freinds, a small gathering and then me and my dad are going to go to the shooting range afterwards.


I'll be at fur squared the weekend after, I didn't manage to get into the main hotel (my bad!!) but I'll be in the double tree right next door. I hope to see some of you there, mighty rat hugs for all!

Hey folks I'm still here and still being me. To that end I wanted to let everyone know were/how they can find me this coming year...on the track...and in my suit! Here we go.


Fur con plans!

Same 3 cons planned that I have done the last few years! I keep wanting to mix things up but...with how my friends and work go..its hard not to do these.

Furs Squared in Wisconsin in Feb.
Anthocon in July!
MFF in December

As far as my race dates I have a few up in the air but at the moment got these locked in!

May 10-11 Gingerman Raceway in Michigan
July 12-13 Autobahn Raceway in Illinois
July 19-20 Gingerman Raceway in Michigan
Sep 6-7 Road America in Wisconsin

Hope to see a lot of you there while I'm doing my thing. If you see me PLEASE stop by and say hello. If you live close to one of the races hit me up and I might be able to get you in for free to spectate. Hope to see you there.

Hope to see some of yall there

I choose to fight
I choose to stay
I choose to stand

I'm here for my freinds.

Take care everyone.

So not this weekend...but NEXT weekend I'll be racing at Road America!

Want to check it out??

Road America has live feeds from the track. We will be on track all weekend, Friday is practice and inspections and the race is a double header all day sat and all day Sunday! Be there!

https://www.roadamerica.com/post/live-camera-feeds

Ask the rat anything!!

When I get back from the shop I'll reply.

Key word is...anything.

Dragoneer is gone. Thanks to FA I met so many of you here and IRL. Simply put his website made my life better. Thankyou and rest in peace.

Anthrocon...race..IPMS....and then race.


I'm finally home. Thanks to everyone that helped make it happen. My team, my family, my roommates, love to all.

I'll get caught up on notes soon. Pictures and videos soon to come

I'm leaving tonight hope to see yall

Yea...I'm crazy.....

So Anthrocon is next month and yes I WILL be there.....but then...


Next Weekend is a race in Joliet!! and then....


The IPMS Nationals in Madison Wisconsin....and then....


Another race at Gingerman raceway in Michican....



Damn..

Most of you know this but for those of you that don't follow me on blue sky.
Two weekends ago I did a race for another team. Ran great, set the fastest time for the team running 3rd overall out of 90 cars and....got disqualified.

Car had an over sized fuel cell. Car owner said he didn't know.


Not a great race report.

Ginger man raceway in Michigan. Leaving Friday night...the helmet camera will be in play! Wish me luck

Hey gang, sorry its been a bit since I did a journal, but busy rat is busy as always. Last weekend, I attended my local fur con, fur squared. Had a blast! The convention has gotten bigger (just over 1700 furs!) and I really love the new hotel. Its not close enough for me to stay home and attend, but that's OK. I had a blast and it was a great warm up to the bigger fur cons I'll be at in 2024. If you get a chance to attend next year, go for it.

Also I got a bunch of super cool new art from my artist buds for my birthday and I plan to share soon, thanks everyone!


Take care, next convention for me is AC and I have a race coming up in Michigan next month.

Yup...old rat is getting older.


Gift ideas:

Hugs
Art streams
King Cakes
Peanut butter
Trans Am Series awards
Fan Art
Corvette parts
Back massages
The Peanut butter bash from Bills burgers
Funny T shirts
Sexy tank tops
Motor Oil (Brad Penn please)
Cheese
Hugs (again!!)
Topless selfies
Cobalt 5 chewing gum
Diet Soda (Pespi or Dew please)
Track days
Datur (bound, stripped and gagged please)
Lucia (ditto!)
A new Wallet
Ammunition (45 long colt or 357 Magnum)
New jacket
Old school furry art books
Model car kits (any/all)
New Tattoo
Oral sex
Birthday well wishes
Oldsmobile Hat
BIR raceway T shirt
Model car display case!
peanut butter (any/all)
scritches
604 Chevy heads
Hoosier race tires
New speedos (XXXL for my suit. L for me as a human)
Brooklyn Brawler action figure
Fan art of Linda
Blood of the virgin
Cold air kit for my truck (its a 2018 F 150 and has the 5.0)
Body kisses
Workout gloves
Race Hood for my Corvette (1984)
Sunglasses
Colt SAA
Head massage
Superpowers
The Thunderhawk toy from the MASK TV show
An Opel Manta
Road America EZ up table
Uppity by Willie T Ribbs
Youth
New Race shows (Size 13 wide)



See...I'm not hard to shop for at all. Gift ideas for everyone of any means!!!

As always I don't sit still for too long. Coming soon to a convention/race near you!!!


Fur cons:

Fur Squared: Milwaukee Wisconsin Feb 22-24

Anthrocon: Pittsburg PA July 3-8

Mid West Fur Fest: Chicago Dec 4-7


Model Cons:

IPMS nationals: Madison Wisconsin July 17-20

NNL Wisconsin: May

Car races!

Gingerman Raceway Michigan May 11-12

Autobahn Raceway Illinois July 13 14

GingerMan Raceway July 26

Road America Elkhart lake Wisconsin Sept 14-15

Yup, MFF was a blast. It always is. Yes it was a mad house with all the people that showed up, I didn't get to see everyone (typical) and many people were just, "hello, bye!!" but that's been true of MFF for the last few years.

I did the grey muzzle meet, the motorsports furs meet, the combat furs meet, and the rodent furs meet. Got to hang out with Shadow Racoon and his crew a few times, and just in general had a lot of fun.

Despite having more days to spend at the cons now (thanks to my current job) it all went by in a blur.


That being said, thanks to all the staff at MFF, reg was stupid fast this year.

Thanks to all my buds that stopped to say hi, I really do wish I could have spent more time with yall, even the hit and runs were nice. I love my fans/friends

Beyond that....we are done with events for this year.

I have F2 on the calendar already....and 3 races planned for next year...so we will see.

Happy holidays to yall, art dump incoming

Hey Rat/Race fans. Sorry this took so long but as always Ive been a busy rodent but I owe yall a race report, and here it is.

Thursday:

So we got to the Road America late on Thursday night. The pits were already overflowing with the various teams, the race was sold out with 145 teams on the list to get in! Somehow we did manage to get a paddock spot I think we got the 2nd to last one by the hot pits. The entire back paddock was full, all the pit garages were full, the lower paddock was full, etc... It was a full house.

Friday:

We unwrapped the Corvette and set up camp 100%. One by one the crew/team arrived and we took to the track for practice. Sadly my Dad was not feeling that great that weekend, so he was relegated to being a spectator, thus my mate  syn graduated from spotted to over the wall gang for the pit stops! Seeing as this was our home track a number of team mates past and present showed up to watch us compete, was a real treat to get the band back together. Our car breezed thought tech inspection and we were good to go for the race. One of the cool things they did this year was have a parade downtown to elkhart lake with all the race cars. Police Escort and all! It was amazing, got to hang out with the people downtown, the local bars and taverns brought out beer carts for us and we snagged dinner at Siebkens. When it was time to head back to the track....the damn starter acted up on the Corvette! Thankfully it was a wiring issue, and I was able to fix it quick and get it back to the track...less then fun but...better that it acted up then instead of during the race.

Saturday:

Saturday was race day, a few teams didn't manage to make it to the race, a few teams blew up in practice, and one team was tossed out on Friday for rules violations. A grand total of 138 cars took the green flag and I was up first. The track was so clogged with cars it was really hard to get in clean laps. Legit I spend most of my stint dodging slower class cars, had a number of close calls, but the vette was fast and I was soon in the upper half of the grid. With my stint half done one of the other cars blew up and oiled down the entire front straight, which ended in a red flag for clean up. A few more laps and then I turned the wheel over to my next driver Andrew. Andrew's stint was much the same as mine, lots of traffic and hard to get a clean lap, but he also managed to stay clean and do a good sting, little by little we were gaining positions. Andrew turned the car over to Tony, with a number of cars gone, Tony was able to lay down some fast laps finally! In fact he broke our lap record! During his stint the car developed an odd issue...a backfire! We later found out the new headers had developed an exhaust leak that we needed to fix. Matt King, took the wheel for the final stint, with more cars gone Matt was able to break our lap record again! Day one in the bag we called it a day. Repaired the exhaust leak, checked the car over and got set for Sunday.

Sunday:

Tony had to catch a plane for work the next day, so we decided to let him have the first dance on Sunday. Some of the dead cars got repaired and were back in the race. Tony did his best to find his way through the traffic until.....he passed under yellow and this was sent to the black flag station for a stop and go penalty! That sucks, but its easy to do on that track. Since it was our first black flag, they let us go with just a quick slap on the wrist. Tony finished his stint with no more drama and then it was Andrews turn! During Andrews stint the race was stopped due to a terrible crash, THANKFULLY the driiver was not hurt, but one of the track barriers needed to be repaired. Was kinda creepy having all the cars on the pit road and all the engines shut down. After Andrew finished his stint it was Matt's turn again. Matt reset our fastest lap again! Our new fast lap is a 3:02 on the long track (no kink), said lap would be the best of the race for us. Sadly....and again this happens. Matt was black flagged, IN ERROR during his stint. They figured out fast that car 3 and not car 38 was at fault and let Matt go, but it still cost us time. At the end of Matt's stint we were in 12th place. Our only goal for the race as a top 10...so for the final stop (for me) we only took 3 cans of fuel to try and shorten the last stop and get a few places. Sadly we judged the gas mileage JUST a bit short, with the track more open I was able to lay down some of my own fast laps I got down to a 3:04 which ended up being the 2nd fastest lap of the race. One the LAST LAP of the race the vette died...out of gas!! But, the good news was we had indeed reached our goal we come home 8th in class and 10th place overall, we had met our goal. The 11th place car was 2 laps down to despite me not getting to the line he could not pass us back!


What now?? We had a great season this year, a top 5, 2 top tens, and a class win. Part of our reward for winning our class this year was they bumped us up into the top class of the series. The car can dance with the faster class,but we need more power, so that is my plan I have a block at the machine shop being checked out, and that will be the replacement engine for the car for next year!!


MFF!!!


Yup I'll be there with my mate and a few of my buds! I/we will arrive thursday night around 8:00, and we will be there till Monday. I'm going to suit, goof off and in general have fun. If you see me PLEASE stop over and say hello. I love my fans. Hope to see some of yall there.

What??

24 hours of Lemons. 14 hour race, 7 hours each day. 144 teams signed up to race!

Were??

Road America!! My home track!

Who??

I'll be racing with my own team this tine again. The Corvette now has long tube headers for a bit more punch on the straights at Road America.

How.....can I watch and see??

I plan to do a FEW updates on my bluesky as best I can. MOST of them will be on Friday as we are going to do a parade downtown at Elkart Lake!! That's right our race cars on the streets with a police escort...how cool is that?!?!?

Tune in here I'll post as much as I can with the time I have, rememver I'm not only a driver, but a car owner and team leader too

https://bsky.app/profile/tiptoetherat.bsky.social

Wish me luck

Pretty simple!

Mostly gonna be car racing stuff but....lots of furry goodness to. Stop on by and say hello and maybe tune in.


https://bsky.app/profile/tiptoetherat.bsky.social

Oh man what a whirlwind.

Alright I'm gonna have to make this short because I'm already starting to forget details.

Two weekends ago I was down in Texas for the IPMS nationals. The contest was HUGE, over 3000 models, people from all over the world came to compete. Japan, Oz, Canada, 46 of the 50 states, it was just amazing.

No national title for me, but I DID get on the podium, 2nd place small scale race car, and 3rd place for commercial vehicles. I'm still shocked I managed to get anything, the models were all just so amazing.

I finally got the 406 installed in my Monte Carlo. The car is amazing now, the engine pumps out over 500 horses and almost 600 pound feet of torque. Despite being a heavy, all steel car it now feels like a proper street machine. The next thing the car needs is more tire. It spins them like a funny car if you give it more then 1/2 throttle! Its damn fun, and thanks to the new EFI the car is still civil enough to drive in the city and cruise.


Finally Last weekend was my most recent race at autobahn raceway in Joliet Illinois, and....WE WON!!!

I'm still shocked, but the team, the car, everything went PERFECT. We found ourselves cruising with an hour to go, got the trophy, got the check, was in victory lane for the first time...amazing!

I'm having one hell of a year so far. Pics and vids to follow.

AC was a blast

I'm leaving for Texas this week to do that IPMS model show

Next week I'm doing a race at Autobahn!!


No rest for the wicked. WOOO!!

So yea not much time to tell much about the race...why??

Because I'm going to AC!!! More on that in a bit.


The race team I raced with was an amazing group of guys. Lots of video to follow in a bit. The good news was the car was fast, and I was able to post the fastest lap time and the car ran great. Sadly the car broke the torque arm with 2 laps to go which resulted in a DNF....we came home 24th out of 81 and 16th in class out of 34.


And yea I'm going to anthrocon!! Its going to be a big year, a good year and the ratman is going to be part of the part. I'll be getting in early on Thursday and staying till Monday. I'll be driving I'll be staying at the marriot, I'll be in suit...look for the rat...look for the cowboy hat...say hi!


See some of ya soon.

John