365 T-shirts - the reasoning

This blog should be sub-titled: a journal of my life in geek.

I get my geek on with things about which I am geeky: comic books, Baseball, Ultimate, science fiction, my favorite bands, books I have read and loved, and Jungian psychology to name some of the most frequently traversed subjects.

I began this project simply as a way to count my T-shirts. I own a lot of T-shirts. But how many do I have? Do I have 365? We shall find out.

When I started this blog, I thought about how each T-shirt means something to me. I bought it for a reason, after all. I set myself the task to post an entry about a new T-shirt every day as a way to simply write something every day, a warm up for writing fiction, which is my passion. Writing is like exercise. Warm ups are good for exercise. But after completing a month of blogging about T-shirts, I have learned that this blog serves as a journal; it documents my life in geek, sort of a tour of my interests in pop culture. The blog serves as a tool for self-inventory, for assessment and analysis of self and the origins of self, for stepping through the process of individuation in catalogues, lists, and ranks.

The blog also made me aware that I have some serious gaps in my T-shirt ownership, and I am in the process of collecting some new T-shirts for several of the great popular culture icons that I truly love. Stay tuned.

I was also a bit surprised that people checked out my blog and continue to check it, read it, and even comment on it. I am very appreciative of this readership. Please feel free to share your thoughts in my comments section. I will respond.

Also, please note that I have moved the original introductory text to the side bar. And now, I present to you the most recent entry of 365 T-shirts: a journal of my life in geek. Thank you for reading.
(Second Update - 1310.24. First Update - 1306.05 Originally Posted - 1304.25.)

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

T-shirt #265 - Winter is Coming


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Google somehow created this magic
photo with the moving snow.
I had to update! 1312.12

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I am tempted to let the pictures speak for themselves.

If you do not know the Stark words from the Songs of Ice and Fire novels by George R.R. Martin or the HBO television show dedicated the series named for the first book, Game of Thrones, then... what? Have you been living in a hole?

I will discuss the books in a future blog entry. I will say that they are among my favourite books of all time in any genre.

And yes, it was cold posing for those pictures. They were taken by my wife. You can see our dog Satchel in some of them.

Anyway, just a tidbit of text before I say adieu.

100 shirts to go to complete my blog year.

Okay, that was yesterday's content, but it's still more or less true today.

I did not start on January First last year. I started on March 22nd with a shirt featuring Marvel's The Son of Satan comic book from the 1970s.

Two hundred and sixty five days later, here I am.

I just like writing that fact because it's such a big number. I feel that today's post is another milestone. I am crossing a threshold with one hundred days remaining to feature 100 shirts.

I just listed some of the shirts I want to feature in the weeks ahead. Yes, I keep lists. How else do you think I organize all this insanity? The list contains THIRTY shirts, and it's not a complete list of the shirts I have remaining. Since there are more shirts in the closet and some select boxes, I think I have 100 to go, though I am still not positive of this projection. Even so, Christmas is two weeks away and my birthday is in January, so I expect to increase my shirt collection through gifts. I am reasonably confident that I will make it to 365.

So, the next question is this: what if I go over?

What if I get to 365, and I still have t-shirts remaining?


Obviously, I am going to keep going until I am out of shirts BUT I may stop posting daily. I plan to transition to my other blog: SENSE OF DOUBT BLOG. I will either post daily but keep it short, or I will post frequently without schedule. I will continue the t-shirts, and I suspect that as I buy new t-shirts (because I always seem to buy more t-shirts) that I will feature them here, so the blog will live on. But I do plan to work more on my fiction (which I am going to discuss more tomorrow, so stay tuned) and roll everything together to run through SENSE OF DOUBT BLOG, even when posts appear here or on my other blog, meant to be for providing content, mainly for my teaching purposes: RANDITION SWOOM.

And like so many of my blog posts, that's all preamble that has NOTHING to do with today's shirt or today's featured subject.

Oh, wait, that's not preamble. That's it. See you tomorrow.

COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE BLOG YEAR: 100 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1312.11 - 20:11
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