2006
I'm not quite sure why, but I've been on a real Lebowski kick lately. But does anyone really need a reason to be on a Lebowski kick? I think not.
Well, I don't actually need a reason seeing as how the film has a firm spot in my ever changing all-time top five. Fight Club, Repo Man, Touch Of Evil and Princess Bride may fall in and out of that nebulous cloud as my mood changes — but The Big Lebowski is always in there somewhere.
I've been itching to run this magnificent bastard since Uncrate ran it last month. Unfortunately, by the time I had gotten to it it was only available in Double XL. And while that's wonderful news for us big guys, everyone else would have likely been dismayed by that. So I decided to wait until I could find it at another shop...
Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon it over at Super7, having a white russian. They're only slinging it in Medium to Extra Large — but that's better than just Double XL, yeah?
P.S. The "other shop" still has it in Double XL as well as Small and Medium. So while I hate having to link to two stores to give you lot a full size range, I'll do it anyhow.
P.P.S. All you Junior Achievers should read Todd Alcott's fantastic Big Lebowski plot interpretation if you already haven't. It's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. A swiss fuckin' watch.
$24.00 | Credit | URL | M: M - XL
May 11th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, vintage / Retro T-shirts
I know all of the bitter city dwelling types in the audience will very likely think that I'm either a loon or a fucking heathen — but I actually sort of like pigeons.
I don't like it when they decide to shit all over my car right after I've managed to wash it. Or the fact that the really nasty ones are — for the most part — disgusting winged rats, teaming with diseases. And unless they have the mange, it's really hard to tell the nasty ones apart from the okay ones when you're dealing with those feral ass city pigeons.
Hrmph. Upon closer examination, I'm pretty sure that I don't actually care for pigeons all that much. *shrug* Oh well... I do like this shirt from our pals at Teetsy tho. That counts for something, yeah?
$18.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - 3XL
May 9th, 2006
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Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, Funny T-shirts, Animal T-shirts
Is it just me or does it seem like there's been a whole rash of people who have turned some of their great — but for some reason unprinted — submissions to Threadless into their own t-shirt shops as of late?
The one that springs to mind immediately is our pal Jay at White Frog. He's managed to build himself quite an impressive little catalog out of the designs he had laying around his portfolio.
But I didn't start this post to talk about Jay... Today we're talking about a new budding mogul by the name of Josh Perkins and his fledgling shop, Go Ape Shirts. With four great designs from Josh and three others, this crew looks like they're going to be worth keeping an eye on.
Then again, I could just be talking them up because I'm insanely happy over the fact that they managed to print Dave Horowitz's outstanding AT-AT Boo Boo — a design we pimped almost a year ago. And while the name might have changed, my love for it most certainly hasn't. Perhaps that's because it follows a time tested comedic formula...
n + lampshade pet collar = funny
Seriously, if you were to think of anything or anyone sporting a lampshade collar, I bet you'd probably start laughing your fool head off. I know I would. I mean, dude, that's just straight up comedy gold...
$18.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - 2XL, F: M
May 8th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, Womens T-shirts, Funny T-shirts, Movie T-shirts, Pop Culture T-shirts
As you've probably noticed, we've started running banner ads on Preshrunk. While we hate ads as much as you do, we're just hoping that we can cover our costs.
And by cover our costs, we mean that Jason's still unemployed and his emergency fund is running low on money. Instead of begging for it however, he's decided to sell off the ad space to the readers — that would be you — for the rest of May as well as the first week of June if the fairly reasonable goal of $500 is met.
Of course nothing's stopping some of y'all from configuring a simple Greasemonkey script to block the ads — but we like to think that the content we churn out is worth something to you at least a few of you.
But what if the goal of $500 isn't met? Well, for every $125 that does manage to find it's way into the kitty, we'll pull the ads from the site for a week.
What's more, we're going to do our damnedest to make sure that we get at least one new post up every day, Monday thru Friday. Maybe if you guys are lucky, Jason will be so moved that we'll be forced to crank out a post or two on the weekends.
As far as we can figure this isn't that bad of a compromise, is it?
P.S. Just to sweeten the pot, I've got $200 in Threadless credits that I'll gladly give away to a randomly selected donor who throws at least a fiver my way. Live in the US and want a subscription to the 12 Club? I'll buy it for you. Would you like two $100 gift certificates? You got it! Would you prefer smaller denominations so you can share and give some to your friends? That's totally cool of you — not to mention, completely doable.
P.P.S. I'd also be willing to part with a few $50 and $20 Threadless gift certificates for a few other randomly selected donors.
P.P.P.S. Thanks to Scott and Micah for donating before I had a chance to throw up a proper post about this. You two rule.
Update: It's only been 12 hours and we've almost hit the halfway point! To stay good to my word, I'll drop the banners from the site in a few hours. Thanks to everyone for pitching in so far...
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May 8th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
T-Shirts
Okay, lets go ahead and balance out that wonderful but costly shirt I ran earlier this week with this lovely and thankfully inexpensive piece of work from Rebecca Hahn.
Now, I've always been the curious sort when it's come to religion. While I hardly consider myself an expert in any of them, I spent a decent amount of time in my early 20's studying over quite a few of the eastern takes. And while I've found that the basic tenets of most religions are rather similar, the real differences come from the stories which are told to reinforce those beliefs.
But before I go off on a tangent about religion and open up a can of worms that I'd rather not, I must admit that some of the tales in the Eastern philosophies intrigued me the most during my studies. Take Ganesh for example. He's a four armed god with a broken tusk on his elephant's head who rides a mouse. Ganesh also happens to be the lord of good fortune and the physical embodiment of the entire cosmos. I don't know about you, but I think that's sort of cool.
Rebecca has done a wonderful and lighthearted take on Ganesh that manages to be both respectful of the Hindu dogma and graceful at the same time. Although the shirt is a very loose interpretation, it does a great job of portraying a Western interpretation of an Eastern deity. Good jorb, yo!
$15.95 | Credit | URL | M: S - XL
May 5th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, Animal T-shirts, Comic T-shirts
While I know that it probably won't be cool in another 6 months, I've been noticing that there's a growing number of t-shirt companies — and a whole lot of the kids out there for that matter — that are swiftly crawling onto the MySpace.
So I think you know where I'm going with this... Do you guys and gals think that I should set up a profile for Preshrunk? And if I did, would you laugh at me for being a lemming or would you actually add us? Inquiring minds want to know.
Update: Since all of you who have responded so far seem to be down with it, here's our MySpace profile. Now, do any of y'all know how to make it sexy?
May 4th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
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🧦This picture didn't survive the wash.Oh Floater, I'm so very conflicted over you...
You're a sexy beast of a shirt, I'll give you that. But could you be any more expensive? I mean at the current US exchange rate you're over $42.00, shipped. And after looking at that price point, I know that I shall never own you.
The fact that you don't come in any good fatty friendly sizes also makes me weep a few emoesque tears of sorrow — but they're nowhere near as bad as the sobbing fit that my otherwise barren bank account would have if I were to snatch you up like I want to.
It's a shame too... You were one of the first "too much shit going on at once" designs that I really could have fallen in love with. *shrug* It wasn't in the cards, I guess.
If you're rich enough, be my guest — I'm out on this gold digger, kids.
£20.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - XL
May 3rd, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, Funny T-shirts, Pop Culture T-shirts, Quirky T-shirts, Artistic T-shirts, Comic T-shirts
Is it a new calendar month? Shit, it is. Well, I guess it's time for a Threadless plug then...
It would appear that our boys are having a week long, storewide $10.00 sale. They've even reprinted Mourning Girl — one of my personal favorites.
I suggest you go and get while the getting is good...
P.S. Couple the sale with the coupon code SUPER TEES and Threadless will knock $3.00 off your order. That means one of your shirts will run you a mere $7.00!
P.P.S. One of you lucky bastards can have $20.00 of merch on us. All you have to do is be the first one to use gift certificate code DF9D918D7491A7381D. Do you think you'll be fast enough?
P.P.P.S. If you keep the bitching down to a minimum — and my schedule plays along — I might even have a real post for y'all tonight.
Update: There's a whole bunch of new designs and reprints that went up earlier today [05.08.06] and the sale's on until Midnight Central Standard Time this evening. It'd probably be a good idea for you to get one now — so long as you like any of the designs — instead of paying full price for it later.
May 1st, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
T-Shirts
My homies over at
Found Item Clothing were nice enough to send me a care package as a thank you for running their
Caduceus shirt the Friday before last. And while getting free t-shirts happens to me all the time, they managed to throw a couple of unreleased shirts into the mix. And seeing as how I sort of run a t-shirt blog, I thought I'd give y'all a sneak peek... You guys would like that, right?
The What Are You Looking At Dicknose shirt is apparently rocked by Stiles in "Teen Wolf" and First Mate shows up in "Summer School". I have no clue of when they're going on sale, but I'm sure they'll sell pretty well to the otaku set once they do.
I just wonder when they'll get around to printing up some Camp Firewood shirts from "Wet Hot American Summer"...
April 26th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, Funny T-shirts, Offensive T-shirts
I think I like this shirt because it reminds me of my younger brother, Jim. Despite being my flesh and blood — not to mention sharing a room with me for 17 years — Jim isn't into the whole indie thing all that much. I'm pretty sure he can't stand most of the music1, and I know for a fact that he'd rather clean his guns than check his email. Maybe there was a mix up at the hospital...
Even if we do happen to share DNA with one another, that doesn't mean that we're going to be into all of the same stuff, I guess. I'd be willing to bet that most identical twins eventually manage to evolve some separate tastes somewhere down the line.
Now while Jim's "Cowboys From Hell" tee will do for an afternoon of rebuilding his transmission, he knows better than to go out for the evening rocking it if he wants to take a lady home. Since I know his tastes pretty well, I'm fairly certain that this shirt from Spraygraphic Apparel would be right up his alley2. It does a pretty good job of saying, "I know the errant bits of dirt and oil under my nails might betray me as a bit of grease monkey, but at least I know how to dress myself when I'm not under the hood of a car."
So if you're a grease monkey — or you just happen to know one — put this tee on your list. Or don't. See if I care. *sigh* I just thought you might appreciate something nice, that's all...
P.S. This design is also available in gal friendly sizes and a zipper hoodie. Cheers, yo!
- Let's just say that he prefers Pantera over The Postal Service, okay?
- Despite the rest of the site being full of shirts that he'd never be caught dead wearing, but I really happen to like.
$24.00 | Credit | URL | M: S - XL, F: S - L
April 17th, 2006
Posted by
Jason Cosper |
Mens T-shirts, T-Shirts, Funny T-shirts
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