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10/15/2004 Archived Entry: "T-Shirt"
T-Shirt
The T-Shirt is the poem of the 20th and 21st century.
This site is fantastic. They are making shirts found in movies. This one from the fantastic Strange Brew (STEAMROLLER!) is great. Mouse in a bottle? So far, their tiny stock is limited mostly to the goofy flick Real Genius, but dig this great International Order of Gorillas shirt.
I love T-shirts. Some of my fondest memories of the flea market in Miami at the old drive-in involve buying $5 bootleg concert shirts of The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Kinks, and others. I wish I still had my B.B. King shirt which I bought for $5 at the concert ("cheapest shirt EVER"). Currently, I'm waiting for my Ray shirt to arrive. Gotta love Ray. In his bikini briefs, raybans, and martini. There are these great moments in Achewood where Roast Beef tries to sort through all the silly slogan shirts he's bought over the years.
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I used to use Tshirts to teach classification and division--I'd bring in a basket of Tshirts (donated by college faculty and staff), ask each student to pick one and put it on, and then we'd get busy walking around the room classifying each other. By the time we finished, we had a living outline. I need to dig out those
shirts and use them again.
Posted by joanna @ 10/18/2004 09:54 AM EST
"At the moment, i'm wearing a Bugs Bunny t-shirt that says "Mischievous"."
Ha. That's funny. I know Michael Day (NIU) collects Computers and Writing conference t-shirts.
Used to have Yellow Dog shirts way back...these days I dig beer shirts and James Browrn shirts...
Posted by jeff @ 10/16/2004 09:15 AM EST
T-shirts are one of the best sources of street texts. In the campus coffee shop this week, I was reading a Faulkner quote on the back of a student's t-shirt when he turned around. So I made him turn around so I could finish reading his shirt. Then we had this brief chat on Faulkner and Hemingway.
My two favorite t-shirts are my John Lennon "Imagine" shirt from the St. Louis airport and my young Elvis shirt from Graceland.
I often wear t-shirts with messages on specific class days to provoke response. Once, to raise the issue of whether a prof had the right to promote his own causes by way of t-shirts, I wore four shirts--one with a beer logo, one for the Sharks, one with the Polo logo and one with Nike. I took them off one by one (except the last one)--they decided it didn't matter to them what messages I had on: "It's cool" was the consensus.
At the moment, i'm wearing a Bugs Bunny t-shirt that says "Mischievous". I don't know if that's poetry, but it's a hell of a lot of fun.
Posted by John L @ 10/15/2004 07:28 PM EST