It's not like I need more t-shirts that I can't wear to school

[sabotabby]

Poll time!



[Poll #1155098]

They're from here.

Comments

[ephraim-oakes.livejournal.com]

i just looked at the page 'o shirts, and it really makes me wonder what the fascination with h.p. lovecraft is all about. there's a sort of 'local pride' thing about lovecraft here in providence, but i don't quite get the wider (apparently t-shirt worthy) appeal.

[sabotabby]

It's a cult horror thing. He's amusingly bent.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

he was also a brilliant writer that created some of the strangest and best sf, horror, and fantasy of the 20th century.
and i snippily add that 'cult' implies marginalisation, when he's been the critics' darling for decades and his work is some of the most widely translated american literature, and it's seen an impressive amount of mainstream printings in the past few decades.
hmph!

[sabotabby]

Pshaw. "Cult" implies appealing to discerning, or at least unusual, tastes.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

piffle!

[ironed_orchid]

Brilliant? Yes. Especially if you don't mind the fact that everything is eldritch, and the moon is always gibbous.

I love the guy, but I also like adjectives.

[fidget]

I totally need the Tesla and Bat Country shirts. I can't believe I've been existing without them.

[sabotabby]

I sort of need them all. But I have no room in my t-shirt drawer, and hardly any money.

[peterbilt-47.livejournal.com]

LOL@"Free the Shit Out of You."

[sabotabby]

I'm sure I've seen that before somewhere.

[pilarcruz.livejournal.com]

I routinely wear a Provisional IRA shirt to work. Mind you, I am a federal employee.

[sabotabby]

Does anyone ever say anything?

[pilarcruz.livejournal.com]

No.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Certainly the SLA one.

[sabotabby]

I like that I could wear it to work and probably not actually encounter anyone who recognizes the symbol.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine has a tattoo of it.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I can only narrow it down to three:

1)Free the shit outta you
2)SLA
3)Hammer/Sickle/Superman

1 and 3 are the narrowest I can get, if you had to force my hand.

[sabotabby]

I can't decide!

[joxn.livejournal.com]

Hammer/Sickle Superman is from the Superman: Red Son comic book, in which Supes does not land in Ma & Pa Kent's back yard, but rather in Ma & Pa Kentovich's glorious farming collective.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! I heard of that... Morrison, right? Never read it, nor did I realize that he had that as a symbol. Pretty sweet.

So, how is the book? I'm curious... I loved the Invisibles, and alternate history stuff like this piques my curiosity.

[homewardangel.livejournal.com]

i voted for the bats in part because i'm actually waiting for it to arrive at the moment.

[sabotabby]

You must model it when it comes!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I like "Bat country" and "SuperCom" the best, if only for the comic geekery and they're two shirts you actually can wear to work, seeing as no one will actually get the subversive nature of the picture, unless they're rude and stare at your tits.

[sabotabby]

I figure that I could get away with the Tesla one and the SLA one as well (though I suppose that most teachers are Boomers, so maybe they would recognize the SLA symbol. But they'd at least know it was ironic.).

[makaani.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!! as an american, i friggin love the first one!!! hahaha... ive seen a similar slogan that says something like, "be nice to us or we'll bring democracy to your country"
cafe press is amazing!!!

[sabotabby]

Speaking of which, zingerella and I need to update our CafePress store. Not like I have the time, *sigh*.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

sorry...we can no longer speak to each other. Anyone who would make me choose between a super-commie t-shirt and a Tesla t-shirt is obviously only bent on making me cry.

For shame madam, for shame.

(psst - super-commie FTW!)

[sabotabby]

I make you choose because I can't choose. Dammit!

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

Have you read Red Son? If not, you need to.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

seconded a thousand times!

[sabotabby]

I know. I haven't read it, alas.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

you're going to love it.

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

It was a hard choice, but I went with the majority. But why couldn't you wear the Tesla shirt to school? Is there something about him I should know?

[sabotabby]

I probably could wear most of them once I had a permanent job, but at the moment I need to dress up and impress people. :(

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

thanks to that site, i just found me a new user icon! i like it. and yes, i need most of those t-shirts.

[sabotabby]

There were a few (like that one) that I'd want as user icons but not as t-shirts. But yeah, I have t-shirt issues.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Now I'm trying to imagine a cross between the Internationale and the Theme to Superman.

[sabotabby]

Someone needs to do a mash-up.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

The SLA one for sure. Patti Hurst ftw.

[sabotabby]

"In your mind, your sisters they sit by the window, you know your mama doesn't sit and cry and your daddy, well you know what your daddy said, Patty, you know what your daddy said, Patty, he said, he said, he said, "Well, sixty days ago she was such a lovely child, now here she is with a gun in her hand.""

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

It's hard to choose before we see how you fill them up.

Trying to use my imagination though, I'll go with the SLA, because the weird snakey logo is a sure conversation starter, and capped sleeves.

[sabotabby]

Most of 'em come with capped sleeves; I went with the style I liked most for each of them.

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

That only 3 other people (at current count) are waiting for "Everybody Gets Ice Cream" damns democracy.

[sabotabby]

Maybe they haven't seen it? Because it's the best shirt ever, and I don't think that anyone could see it and not want one.

[flintultrasparc.livejournal.com]

I voted for the SLA shirt, not because I like the SLA--but because I'm currently reading The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.

[sabotabby]

I heard that's good. Is it?

I'm leaning towards the SLA one because the only would-be terrorist group that's funnier than the SLA is the FLQ. I almost bought an FLQ shirt once, but they were really ugly.

[flintultrasparc.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying the book quite a good bit, about as much as you can enjoy a book that makes you seethe with anger for people 300-500 years in the grave.