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Blünt Lancet Rocks the Diabetes Community

By AllisonN on January 20, 2011

Have we mentioned that we are hard core fans of Blünt Lancet?  Nope, not those overused needles that haven’t been changed since daylight savings time ended. I’m talking about the awesome D-rock band that made the girls swoon back in the early ’90s!

Haven’t heard of them? Don’t worry, it’s not that you weren’t hip, even if you were old enough to remember their “heyday.”  Is Blünt Lancet really a “blink-and-you’ll miss-them” has-been group making new waves in the 21st century?  Sort of, at least in the minds of their newest fans. Blünt Lancet is, for lack of a better description, the diabetes online community’s answer to This is Spinal Tap.

It’s a completely fictitious rock band borne from the crazy/creative minds of D-OC members Kim “Pancreas”, Simon “Syringe”, Moby “Testkit”, Kelly “Rawsugar”, and their invaluable roadie / agent, Jeff “Lancer”. Blünt Lancet first made waves in the D-OC when Kim published a “tell-all” behind the scenes profile on her blog, which was followed by Jeff’s interview with his alter-ego “Lancer,” the band’s No. 1 roadie.  A few days later a “leak” of a Christmas song made it onto a blog called My Diabetic Heart. The band’s created a lot of banter on Twitter, too.

Lancer: "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold our Blood Sugars Back."

The fact that there is no real band (much to the chagrin of the D-OC!) hasn’t stopped folks from capitalizing on Blünt Lancet’s popularity. This week, a line of Blünt Lancet merchandise was released by Kelly Rawlings of Diabetic Living magazine. Gunning for your own Blünt Lancet waterbottle?




T-shirt?

Messenger bag?

How about a tee for your dog?

Now you can get it all and support the Diabetes Hands Foundation. How rad is that?

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16 Responses

  1. Kim
    Kim January 20, 2011 at 6:11 am | | Reply

    This has totally made my day. Thank you!

    (Lancethead 4 life!)

    Kim

  2. Richard
    Richard January 20, 2011 at 6:14 am | | Reply

    I like the bag…

  3. Moby "Testkit"
    Moby "Testkit" January 20, 2011 at 8:28 am | | Reply

    This oh so ROCKS! Great way to start the day!

  4. Laura
    Laura January 20, 2011 at 9:06 am | | Reply

    Love it.

  5. Manny Hernandez
    Manny Hernandez January 20, 2011 at 9:23 am | | Reply

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

  6. Jeff
    Jeff January 20, 2011 at 9:42 am | | Reply

    Yes!! Thank you so much!

  7. Wendy
    Wendy January 20, 2011 at 11:37 am | | Reply

    WOOT!

    I LOVE THIS BAND…who cares if it’s not real.

    IT ROX!

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  10. Mike Durbin
    Mike Durbin January 20, 2011 at 2:31 pm | | Reply

    This is just AWEsome! And thanks for the shout out!

  11. Simon "Syringe"
    Simon "Syringe" January 22, 2011 at 6:42 am | | Reply

    Wow. Incredible. This would include a wipes tear from eye hashtag on twitter.

  12. Bernard Farrell
    Bernard Farrell January 24, 2011 at 5:31 pm | | Reply

    Allison, thanks for pulling together all the Blünt Lancet threads, it’s hilarious to see them all together. I’m very tempted by the Error 5 t-shirt. Though I think my meter says something like Error 7F!

  13. Kelly Rawlings
    Kelly Rawlings February 3, 2011 at 6:20 am | | Reply

    Make music with Blünt Lancet! Please “like” the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/diabeticliving#!/pages/Blunt-Lancet/198596250157897 and join the fan club on tudiabetes.org http://www.tudiabetes.org/group/bluntlancet

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  15. Scott K. Johnson
    Scott K. Johnson February 15, 2011 at 8:18 pm | | Reply

    I’m totally ordering a tshirt.

    \m/,

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