We don’t make sports jerseys here at Kind of Great, but here is one I mocked up. I suppose it could also be made into a t-shirt, but its shelf-life would be too short for me to ever sell any.
Get it? I wonder who’d be more likely to wear this…
This time, it’s a t-shirt with Optimus Prime on it. Next time I am flying, I am wearing the stick-up shirt. I wore it to the bank once and the teller laughed. I wore it to the coffee shop and the barista said “nice shirt!” One day I’m going to get arrested.
Picture of shirt in custody (probably doesn’t help he isn’t a plain white guy):
This t-shirt was inspired by this incident, where a gentleman was prevented from boarding a plane because he was wearing a t-shirt with Arab script on it. That is ridiculous, but even more absurd is the inspector’s reply to the gentleman’s contention that he was exercising his right to free speech. The inspector said that wearing a shirt like that to go on an airplane was like entering a bank wearing a shirt that read “I am a robber.” So here it is. (Edited slightly.) Wear it to the bank and I bet nothing will happen. I guess the inspector was right.
I love t-shirts. That’s why I enjoy making them, I guess, but I still buy a whole lot.
This t-shirt is currently my favorite:
They reuse the idea a couple times with other dinosaurs, such as this one:
But this one isn’t nearly as good because I suspect the T-Rex ate all his friends and is now complaining about it and is only sad because he’s hungry. The first Rhino/Stegosaur has this sad / lazy-eyed / I have no idea what the hell happeneed / stupid look on his face that is priceless.
It’s a damn shame it’s sold out:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9840240
But my, that is one kind of great scarf!
87 years ago, a bunch of guys made a new country on this land. They thought that independence was a good idea and that people were all basically the same.
Now there’s a bunch of people fighting because not everyone agrees with that. Some of them died here so let’s just bury them here.
We can’t make this land sacred, though, because the fighters already did it. Even if everyone forgets what we say here, they’ll see all the tombs and remember the big fight. So let’s remember why they fought: a) independence is a good idea worth revisiting, and b) our government that we all contribute to should continue to exist.
Kind of Great currently employs a remarkably ineffectual and unsustainable business model I like to call “give away t-shirts to all my friends.” I think I should change to a “give away t-shirts to random strangers” strategy. This is equally ineffectual and unsustainable business-wise, but I might gain (buy) some new friends.
In the magazine, I see an ad for Clearblue easy digital pregnancy test. The advertisement promises “Greater certainty!” What do they mean by greater certainty? Nope, it’s not any more accurate, just easier to read. That’s right. No more lines to interpret. No more pluses and minuses to add and subtract. Thank god!
It seems every new pregnancy test promises to be easier to read than the last. Apparently, people were really getting mixed up because when you are pregnant, you can’t read the instructions anymore. Now I haven’t personally looked at a pregnancy test box before but can it really ever be more complicated than: “pee on stick. one line means you’re pregnant, two lines means you’re not”? Or maybe I am giving the instruction box writers too much credit and they really are trying to trick everyone with an avalanche of quadruple negatives: “if you don’t see less than two lines on the stick you peed on, you aren’t 99% certain to not be without child.”
This article in the New York Times talks about a recent study that connects metabolic syndrome to diet soda. Not that any of us don’t know that Western dietary patterns are all screwed up anyway but it’s always good to have proof because most of us are in denial. At the bottom of the page, there are a bunch of google ads, one of which is for Diet Coke. Yes, because after reading this article, that’s exactly what you want.
Actually, I just drank some Diet Coke. It IS exactly what I want. Diet Coke is the number one addiction in America! But Google had better watch out for my lawsuit.
Freddy Got Fingered is a strange but, in this viewer’s opinion, a pretty brilliant and inspired movie. If not actually great, it is certainly, Kind of Great. This t-shirt is based on this most remarkable scene (which AO Scott describes, and I am inclined to agree, as a work of art that wouldn’t be out of place as an installation in the Museum of Modern Art):