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In honor of Hunter S. Thompson, I spent a good deal of time yesterday trying to find a vendor hawking a decent Gonzo tee. Most of the stuff that I found consisted of poorly done iron-on transfers and Sesame Street related merch.

I thought to check eBay earlier this morning [hoping to at least find a shirt for myself] when I came across the anti-culture store. They've done up a really lovely silkscreen of the classic Gonzo fist clutching a peyote button. What's more, all of their tees and hoodies are printed on black stock, go as big as 3XL and start at $13.00. I know we don't normally link to eBay, but in this case we're making a exception.

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I applaud Glarkware for being so quick out of the gate with this one. I think they brought these shirts to market faster than the "I Stole Brad" ones. And those got slapped with a cease and desist so fast that they had to refund everyone's money and fold up shop.

But anyway, if you find this shirt funny, you may want to buy it while it's still topical. You'll get at least 3 to 5 wears out of it before your friends [and random people] stop laughing. Then you can file it away in a drawer to let the proper ammount of irony incubate before throwing it back into your wardrobe rotation. This tee very well could be the "Don't Have A Cow, Man" of the 00's.

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If you were anything like me when you were young, you wanted to beat Ralph Macchio's ass. Not because he was the Karate Kid, but for making you think that sanding a deck, waxing a car and painting a fence would teach you kung fu.

I spent the Summer of 1984 waxing, painting and sanding everything I could. I had grand aspirations... I was going to be the scrappy quiet kid who stood up against the school bully. When the big fight finally happened during the first week of school, I got my ass handed to me. On the upside, my parents house and car looked great.

As much as I hate "The Karate Kid" for pumping me full of false hopes, I do like this Cobra Kai tee. Even if "Strike First. Strike Hard. No Mercy." does remind me of America's foreign policy.

Update: Ryan Pitts notes that 80stees.com is also selling the shirt. You know, for those of you in the U.S. who don't feel like paying for shipping from London...

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One of our readers dropped us a note to let us know that the Mozilla Store is offering their Firefox tee for 25% off the regular price. Well, at least until tonight at midnight, Eastern Standard Time.

But even if you get at this after the sale is over, the shirt is still worth it at its full price. A lion's share of the proceeds from the shirts go back into the Mozilla project. In turn, they keep cranking out some of the best and most user friendly open source software on the planet. Besides, the Firefox logo is one of the only icons on my desktop that I'd wear on a shirt.

So unless you're one of those kooky Microsoft zealots, go buy yourself a shirt and support independent software development.

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Anyone catch Scrubs last night? If you did, you may have spotted the shirt that Zach Braff's character Dr. Dorian was wearing. It was a nifty little number with four little drawings of origami across the front. Both the girlfriend and I were in lust... Me with the shirt and her with Zach Braff.

J. Hazelip liked the tee so much that he scrounged thru pages upon pages of Google results to find it. I love it when our readers do the work for me. Makes my job a whole lot easier.

After looking over their site, it looks like a few of Crowded Teeth's designs have been worn by Scrubs characters. I can totally understand why. Crowded Teeth makes tees that are fresh, fun and not too cliche heavy. It's really refreshing to see people doing something new rather than cashing in on whatever the hot trend is at Urban Outfitters.

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+ Waxy recently pointed out one of the best designs to ever grace the Threadless design contest... Goatse.

If you get the joke, you know that this design needs to win. Please, please, please check off "I'd buy it" and rate it a 5.

If you don't get the joke, don't try to Google it to understand. Once you gaze upon the reference material you can never unsee it.

+ We had a free Camp Fire shirt to give away, courtesy of our pals at Honkey Threads. But then Jonathan Harford came along and swiftly answered our trivia question. For archival purposes, the original question and the answer are below:

Q. In "Shaun of the Dead", what does it say on the shirt that Yvonne's cousin Tom is wearing?
A. I [heart] Pussy

A lot of the designs at Stolen Shirts are a bit too over the top for my tastes. Maybe it's just that I'm tired of the whole random paint splatter over a silhouette design trend. Look, once Comedy Central starts doing it, it quits becoming cool. Even if they are the network that brought the world South Park.

So maybe that's why I like their Birdy design so much. It doesn't try to be anything more than a pale blue bird on a brown t-shirt. It's not superimposed over a 70's clip art sunset, or in the middle of a whole bunch of clashing vector art. It just is.

Sorta zen, isn't it?

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Despite running beautifully designed graphic tees all the time, we still have a big crush on plain black tees with a clever quip across the front.

MadJoe's "I Have Political Enemies" is a perfect example of one of those kinds of shirts. It pretty much says everything it needs to in four words and gets out of your way. Also, it's nice and nonpartisan. So it works as much for Markos Moulitsas Zúniga as it does for Matt Drudge. Although after looking at the rest of the shirts on MadJoe's site, I bet a douchebag like Drudge would get his panties in a wad...

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+ Man, I'm not sure how I feel about American Apparel now that I know that they're union busters. I guess they're not as socially conscious as they'd like people to believe.

+ Are you on Flickr? Then by all means, join the T-Shirts group. These folks totally saved me from having to start a Preshrunk group, so they're on my happy list.

Are you one of those people who loves Google? So much so that you wish you could wed it and have superintelligent cyborg children?

No? Is that just me then. Bollocks.

Even tho I'm alone, I know that there are a number of men and women out there who subsist on a steady diet of Google. You can't blame them, really. They do make plenty of handy tools that people are extremely passionate about. Some would even go so far as to say that they actually love Google. If you consider yourself one of those people, you can broadcast your feelings to the world. The fine folks at Nerdy Shirts have whipped up a tee that nicely echoes the oft imitated I [heart] NY design. They've got plenty of other good tees that're worth checking out too, so you ought to give them a look even if Google isn't your cup of tea.

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