I have more T-shirts than I care to admit, and most of them are generally too obscure to rate much comment from passers-by. My absolute favorite, and therefore the most cool to me personally, is a black T-shirt that says simply “BOLSHEVIK” in red letters.
I yam what I yam.
“Out of Body. Back in 20 minutes.”
My “Fuck School” t-shirt from unamerican.com or my Godspeed You Black Emperor one with ‘chaos’ written in Hebrew on it (the front cover to one of their albums). Though, mostly I just wear plain one color t-shirts if I decide to wear a t-shirt for the day…
A shirt from a company that makes server-rack ready pcs that, when you buy in bulk, offer cheap and powerful computing power. The slogan on the front: “Nice Rack.”
I bought this shirt 4 months before She did.
If you know me, you can imagine how thrilled I was.
Two of the funniest shirts I saw belong to a good friend of mine:
Shirt 1 says, “WWJD… for a Klondike bar”
Shirt 2 has a picture of Cthulhu on it with the caption, “WWCD”
My coolest T-shirt is a custom made one showing the late great Duke Stern performing a zombie illusion with a racoon in place of a sliver ball.
It says, “Ask me about my very large and attractive Penis.”
My coolest t-shirt has a copy of Albrecht Dürer’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on the front, and the text of Rev 6:5-6 below. On the back, in big black letters, it says “FAMINE”.
Several.
St. Louis Browns
“Property of Alcatraz Prison Swim Team”
Munch’s “The Scream” on a shirt.
Marvin the Martian
The cover of Galaxy SF Magazine #1 from the 90s. Has my name among the authors. People ask me were I had it custom made, and I tell them it was an actual cover.
I feel like I can trump all of those.
I’ve got a T-Shirt that says ‘3. Hi Opal!’.
Honorable mention:
My kid sister got me a shirt recently that’s black and has huge capital letters on it that say ‘QUIT WORK MAKE MUSIC’. This never fails to get musicians to come up to me to talk shop.
An old, super-comfortable shirt from ‘Stancil’s Guitar Studio of Kensington’. Scott was my guitar teacher and the shirt is just brilliant.
Somewhere I still have an old shirt I bought in the early 80s that’s a really nice sort of gingham pattern with a note pad on it that says ‘Auntie Em- Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog. Dorothy.’.
obey… Obey… OBEY THE CRAB!
I have a tie.
1a is a white T with a flourescent green late 1970’s Pontiac Firebird on it.
1b is a red T with a faded cartoon of an old man driving a dump truck which reads “Old Truckers Never Die… They Just Keep On a-Rollin’”
These are my bar shirts, with the “I got crabs at Herb’s” shirt alternating in.
I have a couple of shirts I did myself with vintage iron-ons. One’s a huge Good Housekeeping seal, the other is Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
My current coolest t-shirt is bright pink and has a big Felix the Cat face on the front. We all know Felix r0cks!
A friend of mine has several <i>really</i> funny t-shirts, one of which reads on the front:
“There are two people screwing on the back of my t-shirt!”
On the back, it says: “Just kidding! Believe in Jesus!” and shows Jesus grinning from ear-to-ear and giving the thumbs-up sign.
I have one that says “cats suck”
The picture on the back is a dog getting head from a cat.
I have another that says “Who needs U?”
It lists all the Q w/o U words from the scrabble dictionary. I get a lot of comments about that one from confused people. I had someone tell me they did not know there were any words that had q but no u!
I also had a “don’t know - don’t care” shirt that my friend made me. It had little stick people making the ‘don’t know’ and ‘don’t care’ gestures. I wish I still had it but I wore it so often it disintegrated!
Oh and lastly is my tequila worm shirt. Big worm in a sombrero. I’ll have to dig it up because the prasing on it ran out of my brain when I went to type it! grrr
I am posting here again because I am a t-shirt JUNKIE!
I’ve made a few myself.
On the front of one, it says “Nerd Squad”, and on the back, “Captain”.
My friend Olivier Tridon does lovely drawings of Madonna, and I put a few on t-shirts.
God bless iron-ons!
But my favourite home-made tee is the one with those fuzzy melt-on letters that says; “Five by five”. Hee!
I’ve seen that one! Very cool!
My coolest one has picture of Lenin’s toppled over statue and reads, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
I have a shirt with a big head (caricature-like) of Rod Serling.
On the front, a picture of Frank Burns, from MAS*H. On the back, “Frank Burns Eats Worms”
I used to have that one! Along with one that was a pad of Bates Motel stationery with a note that said “Norman, Knock twice, in the shower. M.”
My current favorite are my “Titanic Swim Team 1912”, and my 8-Bit Theater tee that has Black Mage and Fighter and the exchange of “Two fisted monkey style?” “Yyyyyyyup.”