Luckily, I was wrong.
Much to my surprise, when I got home this evening I was greeted by a nice little package from Alex with a note saying that McKinley's Clifton track tee from "Wet Hot..." would be up on the site in a few days. Kick ass!
And even though it's not linked from the front page just yet, it would appear that the page for it is already online. Hopefully I'm not jumping the gun by linking it here. I'm just, well, sort of excited...
$19.95 | PayPal | URL | M: S - 2XL
This picture didn't survive the wash.I'm normally not about running logo tees at all — even tho this one isn't that obvious of a logo — but this shirt has got 3 things going for it:
1. It's got an octopus with a big old creepy ass eye on it!
2. It comes in a whole slew of color combos.
3. It's crazy cheap!
Dude, that pretty much covers everything I go for in a shirt. Affordable, colorful and a freaking cephalopod. Color me sold, yo!
$6.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - XL, F: M
This picture didn't survive the wash.There's nothing like a good old-fashioned, geeky Web 2.0 joke to come back on...
Well, actually there are plenty of things I could have come back with — things which are far more beautifully designed and will stand the test of time — but for some reason I decided to choose this shirt. That means you kids are sort of stuck with it until I decide to update again. And since I haven't been much for those lately, who the hell knows how long it'll be until I get around to running something else?
Actually, I know how long it'll be. But because I'm a tease we'll just leave it at "soon", okay?
$14.00 | Credit | URL | M: S - XL
You know what really sucks?
Realizing sometime early Sunday morning that your site has been in registration limbo since Friday morning because your registrar doesn't send renewal notices by default.
You know what sucks worse than that?
Finding out your shitty little registrar replaced your page with something that looked like a Google AdWords style domain squatter page.
C'est la vie. We're back up now — and we're about to start kicking again. Sorry about the confusion everybody!
Thanks to the glory of the Vox Crossposter for WordPress, you can now keep tabs on Preshrunk over at Vox by adding us to your neighborhood.
At least one or two of you are geeky enough to think that's cool, right?
From what I understand, Go Ape will not only be dropping some new shirts but they'll also be launching a brand new site. And from what I've seen it's a vast improvement over their extremely modest current digs.
Keep your eye on this bunch, gang... They're right on the cusp of being large — I can feel it.
This picture didn't survive the wash.I know some of you might not be into the Jesus and may dismiss this shirt because the figure is a little too Christlike for comfort. Others may balk at the thirty dollar price tag. Well, I say nuts to any and all of you haters — because I totally love this shirt. That's right haters, I just said nuts to you!
I don't know what it is, really. There's just something about the swoopy, sketchy, curvy design — or the fact that it's both limited edition and printed on an inside out tee — that made me fall in love with it.
Well, maybe not love necessarily. But a feeling of deep admiration and respect is involved at the very least.
$30.00 | Credit | URL | M: S - XL
A few weeks after running the wonderfully designed Drop Shadows Not Bombs, I started getting word from folks on how they weren't getting any word on their shirt. At the time, I dismissed it as the folks involved in producing the shirts trying to play catch up from being linked on BoingBoing and SimpleBits as well as here.
Well, here we are almost five months after the initial flurry of post about the shirt and I've only heard two positive bits of feedback on the matter — and both of those are in the comments of the entry here. My recommendation doesn't come lightly, so when I find out that I send my readers somewhere that doesn't even bother communicating what's going on, I get pretty angry with them.
So what the hell is going on gang? Did you get buried under orders? Are you a bunch of shady fucks?
The silence so far speaks volumes to me...
It's been a while since I've had a proper broadband connection around the house — as opposed to ripping off wireless from the neighbors via a boosted WRT54G in client mode — so I decided to check out the much buzzed American Apparel store inside Second Life.
And you know what? I've got to hand it to the gang at AA — the store is actually pretty fucking sweet.
Just like its real world counterparts this virtual outpost is full of some pretty decent goods and a fistful of provocative photos all over the walls. It's also one of the nicer, newbie friendly places to buy clothing in world. Although I'm fairly certain that at least one of my readers could point me in the direction of some decent shops that carry shirts with designs on them, this one is laid out like a store should be.
So if you're one of those alpha geeks who kills way more time in Second Life that they should, you might want to teleport your ass to Lerappa and check it out for yourself.
P.S. If you don't want to bother signing up for a free Second Life account, feel free to check out this Flickr set for a batch of screenshots I grabbed in and around the store. Enjoy!
