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• Daniel Sale hates iron-on t-shirt transfers. You know what? We don't blame him one bit.
• Reader Erin Kenzie sent in a tip about artist Lynette May doing 100% custom robot shirts for $18.00, shipping included. This would be worthy of a full-on post if Lynette had a proper shopping cart set up. Still, it's worth at least a mention for the concept alone.
• Ted Leung's got the bestest obsolete software t-shirts ever. All he needs is shirts for BeOS and Microsoft Bob and he'll have amassed what could be the greatest collection on earth.
• Oh, by the way... We're going to be launching a new weblog in the first half of July. While it'll have nothing to do with t-shirts or hoodies, we're sure that some of you might be interested.

  If your interest has been piqued, visit Drinkish and sign up for the announce list. Everyone who has signed up by June 30th will get a chance to look at the site a whole 12-48 hours before the rest of the world.

Maybe it's because I haven't gotten lunch yet, but this Yakisoba tee from TinyCouch is making me drool. They've done a really good job at recreating a noodle package, down to the nutrition facts on the side.

Mmmm... Yakisoba. For the uninitiated, Yakisoba is fried noodles along with meat and veggies. The couple times I've had it, it has been rather tasty. Just the thought of it is making my tummy rumble. In fact, I'm thinking that it's time for a late lunch.

So that it. End of post. Sorry for not leaving a pretty little ribbon to tie it all together with... This tubby bastard is hungry.

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• Oh, sweet... Josh Rubin, the cat behind Cool Hunting has got a limited edition tee available thru Barking Irons. It's always nice to see good sites putting a nice, solidly designed tee out.

  Wait, it's $59? Seriously? Well, it's not that sweet....

• It's not as if it was gone for very long but the delightfully offensive Worse Than Hell section of T-Shirt Hell is back.
• How did we miss the New York Times article on how the NoHo American Apparel store creeps writer Alex Kuczynski out? It's a rather compelling read that ends up bringing up some interesting questions... Like what kind of store displays framed vintage porn magazines near their children's section?

Too many artists nowadays rely on computers instead of hand drawing. Because of that, a great deal of modern designs end up feeling stiff and soulless. But the art on these vintage drag racing reproductions from Nitroactive are overflowing with heart and soul. It's the little imperfections in the drawings that make these tees so wonderful.

You really don't see designs like these anymore, which is probably why I'm fawning all over them. *shrug*

As much as I dig their shirts, I've gotta say that the Googie Architecture on their Wich Stand tee tugs at my heartstrings. The beauty of the Armet + Davis structure makes the fact that the shirt only comes in white easy to overlook.

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• Here are some current Threadless submissions that we're swooning over:
  • Game Over
  • Octopus
  • This Ain't No Wamprat
  • Vespa
  • At At Boo Boo
  • Rain Rain Go Away
  If you dig any of those, please consider throwing some votes their way.
• Are you as much of a retro gaming geek as we are? Yeah? Well, you'll probably squeal with glee over this stenciled Shigeru Miyamoto tee.

  For the non-otaku types in the crowd, Miyamoto is the guy responsible for some of the greatest games on the Nintendo platform... Zelda, Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. For a lot of gamers, this would be like having a t-shirt with Jesus on it. Except, you know, not as preachy. [via]

Sean's one half of the action packed, crime fighting duo that decided to unleash MetroBlogging onto the world. Alongside that, he runs the contemporary art gallery sixspace with his lovely wife Caryn Coleman in Los Angeles. Sean's loves spending his leisure time squeezing off a few rounds at the local firing range, not eating meat and blogging on his personal site, SeanBonner.com.

From June 11th to July 9th his afformentioned gallery is playing host to the pixeltastic tile and Rubick's Cube mosiacs of french artist Invader. If you happen to be in the greater LA area, it's definitely worth a visit.

We asked Sean for a peek inside his closet and he was more than happy to indulge us...

I was in 8th grade and I got a Bones Brigade t-shirt and remember the moment very clearly because I realized that finally I had a drawer full of t-shirts that I liked and had picked out myself and could finally get rid of the old t-shirts family members had given me for birthdays and holidays for the last few years. I remember how sacred those shirts were to me and I think about it every time I package up a load of shirts to drop off at Salvation Army or Goodwill which I have to do pretty regularly since I get so many all the time. A few years ago I got the idea that I didn't want to be a billboard for anyone and tried to get rid of every logo shirt I had, and bought a ton of plain colored shirts to wear in their place. Of course there were lots that I couldn't get rid of - ones I'd designed myself, ones friends had given me or just plain favorite designs. Since then the filter has gotten tighter but I've also gotten even cooler shirts. Trying to pick favorites is rough, I've got 4 drawers full of shirts I wear all the time so this is really more like 4 shirts that are on heavy rotation right now.

The Mid-West

I don't know why I like this shirt so much, I'm not from or particularly fond of the mid-west but something about the "it's in the middle" line makes me smile every time I read it.

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Ecology Flag

I've wanted a shirt with this flag on it since I was in High School and first saw it. For one reason or another I never made one, luckily my friend Glen just did. I got this shirt about 2 weeks ago and have worn it probably 4 times since then. The only thing better than the shirt is the puzzled looks I get from so many people - one guy even asked me if it was some anti-american thing, I had to respond "depends on how you look at it" and walked away.

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10 Points

I love Space Invaders. I love Invader. I love this shirt.

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The Model Sons

I'm not sure how I ended up with two of this exact same shirt but I have two and I wear them all the time. My friend Scott plays in this band. I know he gave me at least one of the shirts at one point, I know they are from Boston and I have the CD, but other than that I couldn't tell you much about them. This shirt on the other hand outright rules. I love everything about it and if I had 7 I'd wear them every day.

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That s a bit of what's in my closet right now. Check back in 6 months and it will be completely different.

Thanks for sending those tees along, Sean!

You have no idea how hard it is to decide what t-shirt you're going to feature after you've been one of the front page stories in a large regional newspaper. Especially when said paper is the one that serves both where you grew up and where you live now. I've been getting a flood of emails from former classmates and teachers for the past twelve hours. Seriously, things have been sort of crazy. But now that today's edition of the paper's been relegated to birdcage liner, I'm hoping that my inbox will settle down a bit.

And while it's nice to hear from all of these ghosts from my past, it's a bit overwhelming too. My basic instinct was to post the best shirt that I could dig out of my "to do" pile. One that I'd been sitting on for just the right moment that would wow and shake every one of my readers to their very core.

Then I realized that the article was in the OC Register. It's not as if there were a story on the site in Time or Newsweek. So I decided to hold off on the best t-shirt ever. Believe me, when I finally run it, you'll know...

So in its place I'm posing a bloody and beaten rendition of Uncle Walt's beloved Mickey. Even if I'm not very pleased with the "2sickbastards" underneath the splattered visage of the world's favorite mouse, I still really adore this tee. Maybe it's because it's taking the piss out of a global cultural icon that's so easily identifiable with Orange County. Or perhaps it's because there's some sort of visceral nerve deep inside me that gets tickled by seeing a brutalized figurehead.

Hrm... That last sentence sort makes me think that I might be able to get some use out of therapy. I'm sort of sensing some unresolved rage issues here.

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Here's a hearty aloha to the readers of the of the OC Register!

Even though we still don't get exactly why they wanted to do an article on this site - or a profile on Jason for that matter - we're very happy to be getting the coverage. We've got this theory that they were probably just hard up for content, but no one at the Register will confirm that for us. Bastards.

Please give the site the once over and let feel free to let us know what you think. Hopefully you'll like what you see enough to bookmark the site. Even if you end up forgetting what folder you put the link in and never visit again. It really is the thought that counts...

P.S. We'll have a copy of the online article available for our regular readers once it becomes available on the Register's web site.

Update: Just like we promised, here's an online copy of the article. If you need a login for the site and don't want to bother with forking over your personal information, BugMeNot's got you covered. Enjoy!

• Looks like weblog empire Gawker Media is selling a bunch of t-shirts that we'd never buy. *shrug* To each their own.
• It looks like Brian Wood from Northern Boy did a few tweaks to their signature Northern Girl design. We must say that we do like the results a bit more than we do the original - and we loved the original.

Q. What's cuter than a kitten in a baby blue Devo flowerpot hat?
A. A buxom, indie rock gal wearing a representation of a kitten in a baby blue Devo flowerpot hat on a t-shirt.

Man, I think this shirt just gave me diabetes. If you'll excuse me, I need to go lay down. If you have any reason to believe that I've slipped into a coma, please call the hospital. Thanks!

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