Guess what happened last week? I completely forgot about T-Shirt Tuesday until Saturday. Yep. So, if you happen to see my brain wandering about out there somewhere, could you please send it back my way?
This week’s shirt is directly related to a) My Mum and b) The Family Business. I am a librarian, like my parents before me. And my mother gave me this shirt more than ten years ago, after getting it from one of her vendors. One assumes that it was the Gale rep, but who knows? It works out well that I’m in the same business. I even wore it to work once, and folks a) found it amusing and b) understood who Gale was without me having to explain anything.
(For those of you who aren’t librarians, related to one, or addicted to libraries, Gale is a publisher well known for their non-fiction.)
This week’s shirt is at least nine years old, as I remember wearing it to the Harry Potter Trivia Tournament one year. It’s one of those three quarter sleeve shirts. You know the ones. You spend half the time you wear it pushing up your sleeves as they are really annoying you. The design on the front is an applique or some such thing. As such, it’s a wee bit uncomfortable where it touches the skin. Scratchy. I’ll bet that you’re wondering why I still have it if I find it so annoying. Um…’cause I haven’t figured out where to find a Ravenclaw t-shirt yet, I suppose. In the meantime, this shirt is useful for geeky events.
Yes. I’m a Ravenclaw. I even have a bumper sticker on my car that says so.
Hello all. This week for T-shirt Tuesday I offer something that is a bit of an obscure reference…unless you are a Doctor Who fan (fanatic, devoted to) like I am.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with my mania, I used to get paid to blog about Doctor Who over at Watching Doctor Who (for two and a half years…until that company went to heck), and now I have a Blog over at Articles of the Shadow Proclamation – where we don’t update nearly often enough, but at least you can find our podcast there. So, yeah…a bit of a fan.
I found this shirt over on Cafe Press (couldn’t find it again last time, sorry) and I had to own it. It’s a reference to some of the stuff that went on during season two of the current series of Doctor Who, and it features The Doctor and Rose running hand-in-hand. I wore it to Gallifrey One that year, and it was well received. I suppose that I’m not the only ’shipper out there. To this day I rather like the shirt. Among other things…it’s pink, and I like to think that Rose would approve.
It’s t-shirt…Thursday. This t-shirt thing seems to be going rogue. So…keep an eye on your t-shirts just in case it’s one big conspiracy to take over the world. Stranger things have happened after all. Like that time I’d actually seen a film that someone asked me about while I was sitting at the dentist’s office calmly getting my teeth cleaned. Wait…that was yesterday. Okay. How about the fact that I’ve sung songs from The Sound of Music in public in front of a lot of people, yet I’ve never actually seen the film? No? What? Not something film-related? Not even the time I stayed up really late helping to film a scene for a short film about a human lab rat? Oh. Still film. Right. Ummm…well…I’ve had doors open for me before. Doors that I wasn’t supposed to be able to open. That’s weird, right?
At least as weird as The Great T-shirt Rebellion, yeah?
Right. Back to the t-shirt.
This week’s t-shirt comes with a story.
Once upon a time I heard about a t-shirt that somebody-or-other one one of my online listservs had purchased. It sounded so cool! One tiny problem though. The shirt had come from Stratford, Ontario and I was in California. But then an extraordinary thing happened. Remember the shirt that I got from RCW139? RCW139, the Due South Convention that I went to Toronto for? Well, wouldn’t you know it? I heard about this shirt right before i heard about the plans for RCW139. One of the outside events that you could get in on during that convention was a trip to Stratford to see King Lear. So, of course I signed on the dotted line, and I ended up having just enough time before the show to pop in and get my shirt from the shop there. Quite a long way to travel for a shirt, but I think that the shirt is just that cool.
Hello all. Lucky for me I only “took a nap” after work rather than sleeping all night. Yeah. Two days of re-shelving materials in a library post-renovation can be exhausting. *whew*
So, since I’m awake, here is another T-Shirt Tuesday Post.
Today’s shirt is a remnant of a bygone age. That’s right. The Dot Com era. During that era, I actually had a little bit of money. I enjoyed going to Denny’s at 2am with friends. People had to wait months on waiting lists to get apartments in the Bay Area. And one of the things that was considered cool was to collect t-shirts from companies that had gone under and, you know, wear them. Certicom was a company in Foster City, once upon a time, that was a place of employment for a friend of mine. He’s the one that got me the shirt, and let me just tell you that it is incredibly comfortable. As the Dot Bomb happened about ten years ago, that should give you a general idea of its age.
Sigh. I miss the Dot Com bubble, and my job as a Knowledge Engineer. Ah well.
This week’s shirt for T-Shirt Tuesday is actually one that I bought for someone else. Yes. I bought this pink t-shirt for my brother while I was at University. Is it any wonder that it found it’s way back to me?
And, for the record, this is the most raggedy t-shirt that I own. As such, it was pressed into service today (along with my most holey jeans) when I had to wash the cats. Yes. Wash the cats. One word. Fleas. Bleh.
Anyway, it’s good to have a t-shirt from my Alma Mater…even if it is the most disreputable thing I own.
Hello All. T-Shirt Tuesday is back. (Yes…it’s still Tuesday in my time zone, if barely.)
This week’s shirt is nineteen years old. I know this, because as you can see below it has a date on it. Yes, back in 1991 I went to see Jethro Tull in Davis during the Catfish Rising tour. I have had many different concert t-shirts that I haven’t hung on to over the years, but this one is special somehow. Perhaps it’s just that I love Jethro Tull. Maybe it’s that Broad sword and the Beast is my favorite album, and, as you can see above, this shirt features art from said album. Or, it could be that the friend I went to the concert with bought me the shirt. I’m not sure. It could be all of these things.
Oh! And it’s useful for folks who don’t know where Davis, CA is located. As you see on the map, it’s a wee bit above San Francisco.
And for the record? Ian Anderson can stand on one leg FOREVER.
And finally, just for fun, here is a Lord of the Rings fan video using the song “Broadsword” by Jethro Tull.
This week on T-Shirt Tuesday I have something a little extra special. My own art!
That’s right. I can’t draw cats, as you can see on the shirt above. This shirt is from a short-lived CafePress store I had. I thought it would be fun to celebrate my lack of artistic skill. I mean, why not? Anyway, I think that Party Cat is my favorite. Preferences from you lot?
In other news, it turns out that I’ve owned Celticangel.org since 31 March 2000. Wow. I ran across my original domain name registration yesterday. Can you believe that this site has been around (in one form or another) for over 10 years? It also tells us how long Koshvader and I have been together, as the domain name was a gift.
In other other news, I’m going to Atlanta for a week, so please forgive a lack of updates for a bit. Photos of my Nana’s 95th Birthday party to follow. To keep y’all a wee bit entertained in the meantime I’ve posted some videos, and a tab dump post is on it’s way.
I didn’t manage to post yesterday. Sorry about that. And here I was trying to post all regular-like. *hangs head in shame*
Wait! I can explain! The server was actually down for a while to allow for migration to a new server. And…
I was at a concert!
I may have mentioned an upcoming concert on this blog a while back. Well, that concert was last night. I just couldn’t resist the combination of Kansas, Styx, and Foreigner all in the same venue. And the show was excellent. Styx especially did a fabulous job of putting on a show.
When I went to look at t-shirts, I was intent upon getting one that had all three band names on it. How better to commemorate a show this full of awesome? And then, I saw the t-shirt pictured above. It should be explained here that my favorite Styx song is Renegade. So, how was I supposed to resist a shirt featuring “Renegade,” “Styx,” The words to the darn song, a rose, wings!!, and crossed smoking revolvers? (Side note: I think this shirt would go very well with Mal’s coat from Firefly. Sadly, I don’t have one.)
So, yeah. I totally caved. And ended up buying two shirts. One for me and one for Koshvader (that he says I may borrow if I need to.) He is the proud owner of the three band United in Rock shirt. I have this one.
Greetings all. This week’s T-Shirt Tuesday shirt takes a bit of explaining. (Yeah. I know. What else is new?)
Okay. First of all, yes, the shirt is an obnoxious chartreuse green.
“Al-Team” refers to a group of Weird Al Yankovic fans, of which I am one. Each fan has a number and goes on a list. That number is also on the back of the shirt (see below). Yes. My number is the squared velocity of light. In my defense, small “i” was taken. And C squared is also quite appropriate to my initials. (And Koshvader’s, but that’s beside the point.)
The Spatula is a reference to a certain commercial from the film UHF:
The shirt dates from before the dot bomb, I know that much. So, it’s at least ten years old. And even though I rarely wear it, I still keep it. I am a member of the Al-Team, and I’m proud.
