Preshrunk

As someone who grew up (for the most part) in Orange County, I somehow ended up flinging a lot of hate Los Angeles' way when I was younger. I remember calling it horrible names and dismissing it as nothing more than a trashy shithole. And even tho it still can be sometimes, I've managed to fall in love with the city 20 miles north of my sleepy, sterile suburb.

I've professed my love for this city on this blog before — so there's no need to walk thru that well trodden ground, is there? Still, I must say that I'm quite taken with Ubiquity Records rather retro bit of local love. And if that doesn't tickle your fancy — or you just don't give a shit about LA — there are loads of wonderful music tees in their shop as well. Oh yeah, they happen to run a pretty amazing record label that's worth checking out too. But this isn't a music blog, so I'll leave it to y'all to look into that...

$21.99 | Credit | URL | M: S - 2XL

Inspired by Anil, originally uploaded by heather. [via]

You know, I think that it's time for a brand new regular feature. Do any of you remember when I used to do those? You used to be able to depend on getting something other than t-shirt reviews from me at least one day out of the week. So in the interest of writing about something different for a change, I'm unveiling the optimistically named "Tee Of The Week". This is just a way to showcase either hand made, limited run or interesting t-shirt photos from Flickr once a week.

First on the docket is this Neighborhoodies produced tee by one Heather Powazek Champ, Community Manager for Flickr and all around awesome photographer. Inspired by Anil Dash's "User Generated Discontent" quip on Twitter, this shirt is perfectly nerdy and wonderful for somebody who keeps a patient eye on one of the largest community driven photo sites out there.

If you've got a candidate for Tee Of The Week, feel free to let us know about it. If we dig it too and end up running it, we'll be more than happy to give you full credit (see: link love) for pointing us at it.

"A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful."

Our old friends over at Enclothe just relaunched with a brand spanking new site and a batch of fresh designs. And while all of their new shirts are totally kick ass, there really shouldn't be any question as to which one I'd pick given my predilection towards tentacled creatures. More than that tho, I also have a really big interest in the works of one Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the entire Cthulhu Mythos. So naturally this shirt is going to make the oft-mentioned boner quite turgid.

Wow, I can't believe that I just typed that up... That was way dirty — even for me.

Anyhow, thanks to the old boy network, Derek from Enclothe has decided to pony up and offer our readers a really generous, 10% discount code. All you need to do is make sure to enter "preshrinker" when prompted for it during checkout and the system will allegedly take care of the rest. That's pretty awesome of him, right? If you appreciate it, feel free to show him some love and check out his other wares while you're looking around. You don't have to buy anything, but I'm sure he'd love you if you did.

$22.00 | PayPal | URL | M: M - XL

I totally love to rock out, but it's hard for me to talk about the metal when I'm so fucking amped over the new M.I.A. album. Yeah, I know it's not actually out yet or anything. Still, a copy of Kala somehow managed to snake its way down the tubes of the internet and onto my hard drive. And holy shit, it's really good. Well, except for "Mango Pickle Down River". I don't know what the hell is up with that track. If I wanted to listen to a bunch of kids rap, I'd toss on some Kris Kross and be done with it.

Okay, enough of that. How about I talk about the shirt for a change? Would you guys like that? The folks at We Are Industry have done a smash up job with this tee that fuses classic catholic imagery with a subtle skull and upside-down crucifix. It's the sort of shirt that will make your churchgoing grandmother shake her head in dismay. And if that's the sort of thing you're all about, it looks like your clothing options just expanded a bit...

$18.00 | PayPal | URL | M: YM - XL

Have $8? Awesome! You can afford a shirt from the gang at the unfortunately punny NudaTees. While most of their shirts aren't really my thing — sorry guys, I tend to go a little more artsy or minimalist — I do quite like TM.

Now I know I ran ThinkGeek's IM In UR Blank tee a little over a month ago, but I swear that I'm not going to run any old fill-in-the-blank shirt I come across. Besides, this one is way different. For starters, I'm pretty sure the NudaTees folks didn't even intend for anyone to actually write anything in there. I'm sure they wouldn't stop you if you got a hold of a sharpie or your kid brother/sister's Crayola washables to put something interesting in that rounded blank box. Then again, who am I to speak for other people?

Anyhow, the $8.00 price tag is a limited time deal — so if you like anything that they offer, you better get on it...

$8.00 | Credit | URL | M: S - 2XL, F: S - 2XL