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.)

Monday, February 24, 2014

T-shirt #340 - Freer Gallery of Art

T-shirt #340 - Freer Gallery of Art

I missed a shot of the sleeve of this shirt, which reads: THUNDER GOD - adaptation of a Japanese Scroll painting by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). - 1997 Freer Gallery of Art.

Also, just known as HOKUSAI at WIKIPEDIA and special Katsushika Hokusai  site. Hokusai is quite famous. See one of his most famous images farther below and/or check the links.

Because I am so far behind, for once, I am going to let the image carry the message (mostly).

HIATUS TEXT: REVISED 1402.18:  I have been trying to maintain a hiatus from large or over involved blog posts beginning with the start date of my hiatus on January 20th (almost a month ago) during which time I logged 21 posts, which I consider "Hiatus Shirts." By this term, Hiatus Shirt, I mean the shirt is not one that would cause me to write a great deal on the subject it features. These are shirts about which I can write anything, either a lot or a very little. The hiatus will continue, though as it has for the last few weeks, not consecutively as I will continue to mix Hiatus and Non-Hiatus shirts. The blog's year (365 shirts) draws close to a close. (I like the double word use in that previous sentence.) I hope to finish strong with some good entries with high quality content and imagery on some beloved subjects.

To earn this time, I will need to intersperse shirts of little consequence, what I have come to call Hiatus Shirts.

My original goal of working ahead remains. I need time to write the enormously lengthy text to complete the extensive love letter to certain beloved popular culture icons featured on my many special shirts.

Even with "Hiatus Shirts," I will try to share some worthy content as I have either an idea, a new suggestion of something to read/look at/listen to, or another installment of my various features, such as the WHY T-SHIRTS item, the WEEKLY COMIC BOOK LISTS, and the SHIRT I AM ACTUALLY WEARING TODAY among others. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.

Thanks for reading. I am always honored that people have taken some of their valuable time to look at my ongoing web writing project. Keep checking this address. I promise to make it worthwhile.

Just FYI, The Freer and Sackler Galleries are part of the Smithsonian system: LINKED HERE.

Quite likely, this shirt was a gift from my parents after a trip they made to Washington DC in 1997.

Seems a bit anti-climactic to post something so limited with only 25 shirts remaining. But with my current back log of EIGHT unfinished blog entries, a new record, I have to find ways to bring entries to a state that I consider "finished." And there's no reason why the content I had in mind for today's entry cannot be applied to a previous entry, like, say, yesterday's.

Thanks for checking me out, reader. More to come as I get into the final days of the 365 T-SHIRTS BLOG YEAR!!!




COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 25 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1402.24 - 20:02
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