Preshrunk

Ever since Seven Grand opened up a few months back, this shirt isn't as true as it used to be for me. It would probably be a little more apt for it to say "I Whiskey LA", but I'm sure that might not go over as universally. Don't get me wrong tho, I still drink my fair share of beer. It's just not as much as I used to back in the day.

You see, I used to have thing for passing out while eating diner food after having a few too many pitchers (and Irish Car Bombs) at The Goat. Although it really should be said that I cut that shit out sometime around my 24th birthday. Mostly because I wanted to remember the patty melt and fries at the end of the night instead of finding out that my friends ate it while I slept in the booth weeks after the fact. Dicks.

So if beering LA is your pastime, you might want to give this tee a go. Oh, by the way, if you're a New Yorker — Hi Williamsburg! — there's apparently an alternate style available for y'all in the shop as well. I'm sure a few of you might find that to be handy.

$22.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - L

• I'm sure you've probably heard by now, but Threadless is having another one of their $10 sales. From now until September 3rd, you can pick up any tee in the store for a crisp, clean Hamilton.
• Not to be outdone, Ten Bills is selling a decent chunk of their current stock for $5. Since their stuff is $10 all the time, you might want to take any leftover money you might have from the Threadless sale to burn there.

God Save Stan Lee, originally uploaded by gruntzooki.

So I inadvertently ran into Cory at Seven Grand a couple weeks ago and he was rocking this extremely kickass tee from Secret Headquarters, one of the best comic shops in all of Los Angeles.

For those of you not hip to comic book nerddom, this is a mash up of the classic Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" single artwork — which has adorned countless t-shirts — and Stan Lee, a god amongst men. As far as I'm concerned, it's a pretty apt tribute to one of the people who helped shaped my adolescent years. Now mind you, I wasn't old enough to grow up during Stan's golden era — but I did read all of the Spider-Man and X-Men titles pretty religiously when I was in my early teens.

Right now it looks like the shirts are only available in their store, but hopefully they'll get them for sale online shortly. If they do, I'll be sure to link it up here if nothing else. Until then tho, you're going to have to make the trek to LA in order to score one. Sorry kids!

In the 3 plus years that I've been doing this, I don't know why I've slept on Owl Movement as much as I have. Hell, looking over the archives shows that they've only been written up once — and that was by Josh from Go Ape.

That's a damn shame too, because they've got some outstanding shirts to offer. Take this Simon Noynay designed one for example. The Moops are back — and this time they're fighting for their lives. This tee actually looks like it very well could be a sort of prequel to this print on deviantART, but I could be wrong there...

I guess I'm going to have to fess up and admit that I have a very tiny man crush on Simon. But come on, the dude does some awesome fucking work. I mean, if I ever ponied up the cash to do a run of Preshrunk tees, he'd be towards the top of the list of artists I'd consider commissioning to whip something up. Well, you know, so long as my publicly admitted man crush doesn't make him too uncomfortable to consider doing it...

$20.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - 2XL, F: S - XL

🧦This picture didn't survive the wash.This is sort of a unique case — as I'm mostly sure that I've never linked to someone selling a shirt on Flickr — but I really dig the whole anti thing that designer UK James Greenfield has got going on here. In fact, if you look at all of the tees he's offering as a part of his Counterfeit Outfit line, most of them are pretty fucking solid.

They actually sort of remind me of something that Experimental Jetset would do. Well, you know, the shirts aren't set in Helvetica or anything — but why imitate when you can do your own thing, right?

Mostly, I'm hoping that giving James a little pimp will encourage him to at least pony up and go get a Big Cartel storefront or something similar. If he decided to stay in the t-shirt business, that is. I'm honestly hoping that he does tho, because I'd like to see what else he manages to come up with.

£20,00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - L

🧦This picture didn't survive the wash.When somebody's got a shotgun leveled at you, you don't argue — you listen. There should be no doubt in your mind that they mean business, either. Just do what they say and nobody will get hurt, alright?

This one's from Defunker, so you know what that means... It's probably $2 to $5 cheaper on the site of the designer who originally sold it — but I'm not going to bother busting my ass trying to find it. I know I could, but fuck it, man.

Still, it's a pretty striking design that manages to look fairly menacing for a one color silhouette. I might be wrong, but I'm sure it pulls this off by actually leveling the shotgun at you instead of going for the classic silhouetted profile. No matter how it does it tho, it's still a bad ass shirt. Well, at least I think so...

$26.00 | Credit | URL | M: S - XL

🧦This picture didn't survive the wash."Excuse me, ladies. You may remember me as the guy who came to dinner a few weeks ago with underwear on my head. My name is Keith Stat from Millburn, New Jersey. State bird, the mosquito. And as you may have heard I am recently a crowned class B dungeon-master. So if any of you would like to play D&D today, please speak now or forever hold your peace."

It took them almost an entire year to get to it, but Found Item Clothing has done up another "Wet Hot American Summer" tee that I have an overwhelming urge to share with y'all... So if that's the case, I might as well do it, right?

Last time around McKinley's Clifton track tee got the loving, otaku style treatment. And since I really adore that shirt, it's really going to be a hard one to top in my list of all time favorite movie tees — but this one manages to come really fucking close to getting in the top five. Why's that? Well, the extra attentive eye of Alex sure helps. Hell, I've seen "Wet Hot..." dozens of times and I didn't even realize there was printing on the back of the shirt. So kudos to you for catching that, sir.

Oh, I'd totally suck if I didn't mention the fact that there's been a bunch of great tees printed since the last time we checked in with Found Item. Shirts from "Shaun Of The Dead", "Repo Man" and "Spinal Tap" — which all look absolutely bad ass — are totally worth checking out. Especially if a shirt from one of my favorite, goofy cult films about summer camp isn't really your bag. So give them a gander, dammit!

$21.95 | PayPal | URL | M: S - 2XL

Despite the fact that my belly is full of extremely delicious fish tacos right now, the thought of some chicken adobo has my mouth watering. It's practically the national dish of the Philippines — and if you've ever had it before, you'd know why. If you haven't tho, you might want to find a recipe online and give it a go. I know that there's some floating around out there that are so simple that even a fairly hapless bachelor — like me, for example — could whip it up given the right ingredients.

I've grown pretty tired of Adidas logo remix tees — mostly because a lot of them involve pot — but Blacklava's take is good enough to be far more tolerable than the others. Hell, it's good enough to be run here...

Okay, maybe that made me sound a little full of myself. But whatever. Who says I'm not entitled to a little ego flexing now and then?

P.S. My vegetarian/vegan homies can find a pretty tasty looking faux chicken adobo recipe if you do a little digging on Follow Your Heart's recipe page.

$19.95 | Credit | URL | M: S - XL F: S - XL

🧦This picture didn't survive the wash.Even tho I'm a dude, I'll totally rock a shirt with a panda on it if it's cool enough. Fortunately, P is for Panda's Death Panda isn't only cool, but I'm also finding that I'm really partial to the model they're using for selling it as well. The profit is split evenly, three ways: First, the artist gets their cut. After that Death Panda takes their slice. And then finally, the last 1/3 of the profit goes to the World Wildlife Fund. Since I'm a latent hippy, this appeals to the side of me that thinks donating money to good causes by — myself or other people — is awesome.

Sure, the "[blank] and crossbones" thing has been done countless times before. But for some reason, there are ones like this that I keep falling for. I'm not quite sure why I do that tho. I mean, it's sort of a t-shirt cliche by now. And I really should be tired of seeing them all the time. But I like it — so fuck it. I'm not about to go all Freud on myself...

$18.00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - XL, F: L