Here’s a candidate logo for the brand-new Brandywine Roller Girls team. The team just picked their name, and are in the middle of selecting a logo. As you already know, I’m really excited about having a hometown roller derby team, so I asked Michele to do a sketch based on Archibald Willard’s Spirit of ’76 painting:

Mere moments after posting this picture to Facebook, local parade mogul and one-time next-door neighbor Todd Marcoccisaw it and asked if they would be willing to be in a parade. This made me simultaneously ecstatically happy (a logo that immediately snags a parade invitation is a GREAT logo, right?) — and extremely jealous (Todd has never asked me to be in a parade!)