Fear Regret Not Failure
February 13th, 2008 | Published in T-Shirts | 19 Comments
There’s no way I’m going to call this a comeback. It’s more like I’ve heard the call and I’ve realized that it’s time to fuck shit up. There’s been a lot of really valid demand the past month or so for me to dust this site off and I’ve kept dragging my feet when it comes to actually doing that.
So what the exactly have I been up to? Well, work has been keeping me plenty busy as it is. Add to that the facts that I’ve been busy finding and moving into a bachelor pad in beautiful North Hollywood as well as helping to build a really awesome community of folks in the Los Angeles area and you’ll see that I’ve sort of had my plate full.
But that’s no excuse. When I started Preshrunk, the biggest thing that I loved about it was that the pace of one or two t-shirts a day, Monday thru Friday was something I could take care of in about 30 to 45 minutes. That little bit of work netted me a lot of praise and got me linked from sites like BoingBoing. People loving what you do because you do what you love is a powerful feeling — and a great motivator. It and all of the awesome free shirts I managed to pull down kept me going for the first year of this site. But then something changed and that motivation dried up. Other t-shirt blogs started popping up left and right and I started getting worried about being “first” with a new design. The posts got more sporadic and I started getting all emo by adding “*shrug*” to pretty much every entry. It wasn’t 100% bad — but it wasn’t really that great either.
Inevitably, there were stretches where posts wouldn’t happen for months at a time. And I’d almost always come off a break by making some sort of reference to how busy I’d been — but that was going to change, dammit. I would make time for Preshrunk again and bring it back to its former luster.
The fact of the matter is, my apathy was killing me. My ambition always ended up being handicapped by my laziness — and that’s never any good.
I turned 30 a couple weeks back and the time leading up to it really ended up putting a few things into perspective. Which is where today’s shirt comes into play. For too long, I’ve let my fear of failure get in the way of doing some really awesome shit. That’s honestly fucked me up something fierce in a few parts of my life. So enough is enough. Just because there are around 65 t-shirt blogs doesn’t mean that Preshrunk can’t go back to its previous luster as the place to come for t-shirt related awesomeness. I’m not going to let that little nagging voice in my head tell me any differently either.
I know I’ve said it before but we’ve got some really big things planned. 2008 is totally going to be Preshrunk’s year. Just you watch…
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February 13th, 2008 at 10:13 pm (#)
it’s all you.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:27 pm (#)
awesome. win. excellent. and a lot of other positive reinforcing words. I always enjoyed reading your posts as much as seeing all the neat shirts that I can’t buy because I am but a poor player on the stage of the world.
glad you’re back. looking forward to more good stuff.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:57 pm (#)
Glad to have you back. In your defense, I’ve really felt the lack of creative/interesting t-shirts as of late.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:12 pm (#)
Happy to have you back in the (gulp) overcrowded world of t-shirt reviews.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:24 am (#)
This is my first time here so I can’t say that I’ve really missed you, but I did read some of the archives and I don’t mind throwing in a hearty “Welcome back!”.
BTW, I came here by way of shirt.woot.com and let me just apologize in advance for all the hassle of having to babysit a bunch of fanboys who’s wookies are all bent out of shape because they can’t find that $5 monkey ninja t-shirt they’ve been looking for.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:25 am (#)
Totally fucking Mexico!
February 14th, 2008 at 3:07 am (#)
yay!
February 14th, 2008 at 4:23 am (#)
[this is very good}
Happy belated birthday and welcome back!
February 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm (#)
props, dude. 65 tee blogs!? douchebags.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:56 pm (#)
Good to have you back :)
Yeah, I can definitely relate to losing motivation and fear of failure getting in the way of doing stuff… so I might be tempted to buy this shirt. But it’s good to see that you didn’t totally give up ;)
Onward and upward!
February 15th, 2008 at 6:33 am (#)
welcome back! you have been missed. :)
February 18th, 2008 at 8:05 pm (#)
jason,
i keep coming back to preshrunk despite the sporadic posting. i never really thought about why i kept doing so until i read this post. i think you’ve dug up some really cool stuff when you found the time to write. that’s the most important thing i guess, rather than put something up each day that’s not quite there. i’ve whittled down my daily reading to about 5 blogs a day and preshrunk is in that list of 5.
Looking forward to more posts from you.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pm (#)
Hold up, did someone just call me a douchebag?
February 20th, 2008 at 8:12 am (#)
nah andy. ya didn’t forget about when the TJ contributed to your site, didya? so make that 63 douchebags. one retired douchebag (me). and you. :)
February 21st, 2008 at 6:50 pm (#)
Why are you so afraid of a little competition? Who care is there are 65 other t-shirt blogs. Who cares if there are a million. If yours is the best out of a bunch then that is an accomplishment. Being the best out of one don’t mean shit so quit whining please and do what you do best. Sorry for the negativity but people that pout about being the first of this or that really twist my nutsac.
February 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm (#)
I forgot to say that i love your blog.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:07 pm (#)
yo.. welcome back, old man
March 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pm (#)
I think people are not so much afraid of failure but rather they are afraid of success.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:14 pm (#)
nice to have you back matey. look forward to reading your posts - no pressure though!!