fine whine

Today is so-called casual Friday and as such I donned a t-shirt instead of the polos I wear the rest of the week. This is nothing new, really, as this is how I dress pretty much every week.

Today's t-shirt was my bright green one with the flocked yellow Atari logo. Jessica bought it and another one with the logo, but on a blue tee, and gave them to me as gifts. I like them both, but rarely wear them. The blue one has 3/4 length sleeves, and I have difficulty with that sort of thing. The green one, though, has totally normal sleeves. The only downside of it is that everybody notices it.

I get more compliments (or at least comments) on this shirt than any of my other ones, save perhaps for the Darth Vader/cK shirt. Atari is just cool, you know.

A lot of people have bought this shirt, mostly for significant others. While that is an interesting tidbit, it also means that this is by far not a unique shirt. I like having unique shirts.

Oddly enough, despite buying it at JC Penny so many years ago, I've never seen anyone else wearing another dV shirt. Not a one.

It would seem that t-shirts are my hobboy of sorts as of late. When making my wish list I scoured the web for e-tailers with cool shirts, and I watch threadless for its new shirts and the submissions for the ongoing contest.

I'm working on doodling up some designs of my own to send them, but probably won't have anything I'm completely happy with let alone capable of winning. Still, it's worth a shot.

I've also fed many a slogan to their sister site OMG, which operates on the same principle except that anybody can submit ideas in the form of a slogan, not a finished design. They're much slower to print new shirts, and so far none of my submissions, clever though I may think them, have been made into a shirt.

Of course I'm not new to the t-shirt making business. As a kid I painted many of them with fabric paint (some of which are cool, others are merely neat copyright infringement) and even once recently, and I even once screen printed a tee in high school, which was later lost. I spent a lot of time working on that shirt, too.

I'd like to print some more. If I recall correctly it was messy but rather fun.