tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42493293015549790612024-03-13T08:01:20.349-07:00365 T-Shirts: a sense of doubt blogChris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-65262620197827572182019-08-12T10:10:00.000-07:002019-08-13T14:21:24.195-07:00T-shirt #366.5 - THE END, MY FRIEND... Reprinting the t-shirts<b style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: xx-large;">T-shirt #366.5 - THE END, MY FRIEND... </b><br />
<b style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: xx-large;">Reprinting the t-shirts</b><br />
<br />Since I am always directing people to this blog, I figured I should insert all the composites grids of the 365 t-shirts at the top rather than the most recent posts about the Young and the Restless.<div>
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If you have happened upon my blog, category listings on the right are helpful.</div>
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Scroll through the Y&R content for the last official blog post of the T-shirt year. Or click:</div>
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Or, if flummoxed of where to start, click the Lists- My Top Ten Blog Entries, or click the following:</div>
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So, <i>The Young and the Restless </i>or better known as Y&R is celebrating 11,000 episodes as of September First (this coming Thursday).<br />
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Every time I watch Y&R, I think of you, Mom. And I am pleased to tell you that I am caught up. Often I have a huge back log of Y&R to watch. Though I have not watched Friday's (1608.26) episode yet, I am otherwise current with the show.<br />
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I often get mocked (criticized) for my Y&R fandom by people close to me, but I no longer care. I am open and leaving myself vulnerable to discuss this nearly daily pursuit of episodic fiction that is near and dear to my heart.<br />
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Starting in 1973, we watched so many episodes of Y&R together. Even when I was away at college, <i>The Young and the Restless </i> is something I watched as often as I could and that we would discuss together when you took me out to lunch.<br />
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When you had your bout with meningitis and were in a coma, I started playing Y&R for you in your Intensive Care room. I hoped that the familiar sounds would be soothing to you, comforting, like they are to me. We continued this practice even after you woke up. For a long time during that hospital stay, you could not talk. But we communicated as best we could, and we talked about Y&R.<br />
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Back in 2012, when Y&R celebrated 10,000 episodes (see link at end of this blog entry), we watched much of the celebration together. Checking back in my calendar, I know I spent the day with you on September 8th and again on October 2nd, which was right around the time of the 10,000th episode. We would have Y&R marathons together. I miss those.<br />
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At the rate of just about 260 episodes a year (five each week times 52 weeks is 260, but 365 - 104 is 261; 104 is the number of weekend days in a year), it's easy to see how Y&R is gearing up to celebrate its next anniversary with 1000 more episodes to reach the new landmark of 11,000. Since the 10,000th episode both you, Mom, and the grand dame of the Y&R cast, Jeanne Cooper, have passed away.<br />
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Before each episode for the past week, Y&R has been showing these interview chats with the cast as they reminisce about past stories and episodes and thank the viewership warmly for its dedication and loyalty. I was tempted to save these episodes on my DVR, but then I found that they are easily available online and so I embedded them here. I also posted the fun promo here as well.<br />
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You would have loved all this, Mom. I feel I share it all with you spiritually, but I wish I was sharing it with you physically, in person.<br />
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There are big plans for the 11,000th episode. <i>Star Trek</i> vet Nichelle Nichols will play Neil's mother, from whom he has been estranged for his entire run on the show. And Lee Phillip Bell, who co-created the show with her late husband Bill Bell will appear in a scene with her real-life daughter Lauralee Bell, who plays Christine Blair Williams, formerly known as "Cricket."<br />
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This is all explained here at <a href="http://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/48389/yr-to-celebrate-11000-episode-milestone">SOAP SHE KNOWS - 11000 MILESTONE</a>.<br />
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<b>1st Row (left to Right):</b> Hunter King, Miles Gaston Villanueva, Melissa Ordway, Sean Carrigan, Mishael Morgan, Bryton James, Amelia Heinle, Jason Thompson, Eileen Davidson, Gina Tognoni, Peter Bergman, Eric Braeden, Melody Thomas Scott, Steve Burton, Sharon Case, Joshua Morrow, Justin Hartley, Melissa Claire Egan, Jess Walton, Tristan Rogers, Christel Khalil and Daniel Goddard<br />
<b>2nd Row (left to Right): </b>Robert Adamson, Sofia Pernas, Michael E. Knight, Beth Maitland, Tracey Bregman, Christian Le Blanc, Doug Davidson, Lauralee Bell, Kristoff St. John, Camryn Grimes, Greg Rikaart, Mara McCaffray, Catherine Bach and Kate Linder<br />
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Not pictured: Chrishell Stause (current girlfriend of Justin Hartley) as Bethany Bryant.<br />
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Here's a great article by Candace Young, of whom I beginning to become a fan. She writes for SOAPS SHE KNOWS.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigRumAe-xyu34OSjI_CFm_N5nw-7qR1V8YK72zt7eAz2u6ZC6ngXnc3BRr4xJADhk4gsDpEHm9osTCJ-Cz9qk_Dwy6n37MiCXdK6i-SuQXShvUYrd_ZL6fFBiHGi_huY9rbhyphenhyphenbNJz5AGU/s1600/Y%2526R-meandMom1308+%25286%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigRumAe-xyu34OSjI_CFm_N5nw-7qR1V8YK72zt7eAz2u6ZC6ngXnc3BRr4xJADhk4gsDpEHm9osTCJ-Cz9qk_Dwy6n37MiCXdK6i-SuQXShvUYrd_ZL6fFBiHGi_huY9rbhyphenhyphenbNJz5AGU/s400/Y%2526R-meandMom1308+%25286%2529.jpg" width="238" /></a>Generally, I stay away from fan sites, mainly because of spoilers as I am often far behind on both Y&R but especially B&B. I think my record is 120-some unwatched B&B episodes on my DVR. I did not watch them. I would read recaps and watch every 12th episode or so.<br />
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So, two days after your death, Mom, I posted the first T-shirt blog post that I have posted in two years:<br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2015/07/coming-soon-t-shirt-366-y-for-my-mom.html">T-SHIRT #366</a>.<br />
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I have been saving up content and ideas to do this HUGE Y&R post for the T-shirt blog, but maybe that's the wrong way to do it. Maybe I need to spread out the content over multiple parts. #366, pt.1; #366, pt.2; and so on. I will cross post this content to T-shirts as #366,pt.2.<br />
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I have made other Y&R posts on this blog as part of Hey Mom, but not many.<br />
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<a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2015/07/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mom-4-last-y.html">Hey, Mom! Talking to my Mom #4 - Last Y&amp;R watched together aired Tuesday 1506.30</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2015/07/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-12-i-miss.html">Hey, Mom! Talking to my Mother #12 - I miss you</a><br />
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and then, because you would hate it and I would love to taunt you:<br />
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<a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2016/04/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-281-y.html">Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #281 - Y&amp;R - Victor goes to prison</a>.<br />
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I have probably mentioned Y&R at other times that I did not save to the Y&R category. I am sure I have mentioned it as part of my Talking Again series. It's a constant theme in my life as I "watch" Y&R while working, just like we did together for all those years. Y&R is part of the soundtrack of my life. Its cadences and rhythms are a soothing music for me. And I do love it, as I love you, Mom.<br />
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But in all of this content and photos and things, there's something escaping me. There's an ineffable significance to this TV program and its place in my life, in our lives, Mom.<br />
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Maybe in the next Y&R post I make, I will figure out what it is and find a way to articulate it.<br />
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ENJOY these videos.<br />
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In case the following videos are ever broken, here's the page from <a href="http://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/48613/yr-interviews-stars-reveal-favorite-memories-to-celebrate-11000-episodes">SOAP SHE KNOWS</a> that shares the interview videos.<br />
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Lauralee Bell (Christine Williams), Doug Davidson (Paul Williams), Tracey Bregman (Lauren Baldwin) and Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin) are the latest stars to share their favorite memories from "Young and the Restless." Picking a favorite moment out of 38 years is "almost impossible" as Davidson notes. However Bregman jokes, "My hair alone, that could be a storyline just there!"<br />
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In the latest "Young and the Restless" video celebrating 11,000 episodes, Jess Walton (Jill Abbott), Kate Linder (Esther Valentine) and Jason Thompson (Billy Abbott) reflect on their favorite moments. Walton looks back on the "most wonderful relationship" she had with the late Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor) and the hilarious scenes they shared.<br />
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In this first video, Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman) and Eric Braeden (Victor Newman) reflect back on the beginning of their characters and their favorite moments. Braeden remarks on a pivotal turning point for his and Scott's characters, "Once I had done that scene, I walked off the stage, I knew that it would open up a Pandora's Box for all kinds of emotional scenes."<br />
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Some of the videos were removed, so I had to re-do this on Sunday, June 18 2017.<br />
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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.<br />
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I miss you so very much, Mom.<br />
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1608.28 - 10:10<br />
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NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.<br />
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Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-26068370562107517172015-07-06T09:10:00.002-07:002015-07-06T09:13:00.886-07:00Coming soon: T-shirt #366 - Y&R, for my mom<b><u>Coming soon: T-shirt #366 - Y&R, for my mom</u></b><br />
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Readers (and random people who stumbled on this by accident),<br />
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When I ceased daily transmission of this blog on Friday, March 21 2014, my plan was to resume after a hiatus with new material on an intermittent schedule as I had more t-shirts to feature.<br />
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The hiatus was meant to be short, like a month, maybe. It's been a year and a little over three months.<br />
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I was planning for my next post to be the one for this t-shirt, dedicated to my mother about the soap opera <i>The Young and the Restless</i>, which I have watched with her, often daily, since its debut in 1973, which is most of my life.<br />
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I last worked on this future blog post on 1309.17.<br />
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I will now deliver content on this t-shirt in a series of posts, though it may take me a while to generate it all.<br />
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My mother died July 4th, 2015 at 10:10 a.m.<br />
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Yeah, yeah, I know we're blurry. Blame my Dad.<br />
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Welcome to the "last" entry of the blog year. Important to share with you an understanding of what this word "last" means in this context. A year ago, I set myself the task of posting an entry each day picturing me in another T-shirt and writing about the significance of the T-shirt, at the very least, why I own it. In one sense, the blog served as a means to count T-shirts and to answer the question: "Do I own enough shirts to wear a different one every day of the year?" I will answer that question in a minute. As for the word "last" in this context, I mean that today's entry marks the last of these daily broadcasts. After today, I will cease daily broadcasts. I will continue to blog weekly. The T-shirt blog will continue as well since I have not yet featured all the T-shirts I own, but I am terminating the daily deadline as of today (or at least "today" as defined by when this was originally published since it's taking me about a week to finish it).<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: blue; color: white;">TOPIC ONE: TODAY'S SHIRT AND SHIRTS</span></b><br />
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Today's "actual" shirt is just a blank (plain) white T-shirt. I featured a blank white T-shirt once before (<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-290-plain-white-year-of-t-shirts.html">T-shirt #290</a>) when I wanted to write about whatever I wanted to write about and wanted a shirt with no content to make that easier for me. As I am putting together these remarks, I am discovering quite an unplanned and yet very fitting connection. I used the blank white T-shirt of <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-290-plain-white-year-of-t-shirts.html">T-shirt #290</a> to present most of the pictures of my T-shirt year in a grid back on January Fifth. And guess what? I am doing the same thing with this last entry in the blog year.<br />
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As I explained in the entry for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-290-plain-white-year-of-t-shirts.html">T-shirt #290</a>, the grid does not contain all 365 T-shirts that I featured this year. It features 361 shirt images not counting the last set of dupes to make sure I included a couple of stragglers. You might be thinking that 361 is very close to 365, but if you scan the grids, you will see all the dupes. I tried to limit the number of times I featured a shirt in more than one of the images in the grid, but I did it several times.<br />
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Since the T-shirt blog will continue, though not in daily transmissions, I will eventually put together a set of grids featuring ALL OF THE T-shirts in chronological order of presentation, which, when I take the time to make this grid, will be complete. I would love to hire someone to do this for me, but I have less disposable income than usual right now, so this is off the table for now.<br />
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So, today's post is a wrap-up of sorts. I culminate my categories for The Blog Journey, Blog Recap, and Blog Outlook with lots of text and then a huge grid of T-shirts sorted by date. In <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-290-plain-white-year-of-t-shirts.html">T-shirt #290</a>, I sorted by name. My sort by date shows files when the photos were taken, and since I often do photo shoots to stash a bunch of photos all at once, the grid does not reflect the actual chronological publication dates in all cases.<br />
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As for writing about The Blog Journey, Blog Recap, and Blog Outlook, these are not my final words on these subject categories, surely. But it seemed to be fitting content for the last day of the blog's daily transmission blog year.<br />
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As always, thanks for reading!!<br />
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<b style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: xx-large;">THE BLOG JOURNEY</b><br />
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When I started this blog a year ago, I did not really have a vision for what it would be. You can see this lack of vision in the earliest entries. The photo shoot of pictures produced shots of me in T-shirts that looked like mug shots of the dead. I am not even smiling in several of them. Early blog posts were somewhat perfunctory as well. Given the volumes I produced later, the minimal text of the first five posts really demonstrate that I had no idea what the blog would become when I began.<br />
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You can see the evolution of what I am doing in this blog with the banner text at the top of the page. The original banner text, which I have relocated to the bottom of the blog page read:<br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">"Maybe it's narcissism. I have been wanting to increase my blog presence, and I wanted something that was easy to update, much like my frequent "Facebookery." Hence, 365 T-Shirts. I have a lot of T-Shirts. Some may say that I am somewhat compulsive about buying T-Shirts, owning them, wearing them. Earlier this year (as the blog would have been better started on January 1st), I wondered if I had 365 different T-Shirts. I don't know. Now, obviously, I could count them, but where is the fun in that? Better to post a picture of one per day for an entire year to test whether or not I run out of shirts before 365 days have passed. This hobby means taking and displaying a lot of pictures of me, which is not a prospect that I find thrilling. But the pride of embracing my geeky side and my obvious egotism make for a fine marriage in what I hope will be seen as a whimsical blog for occasional viewing, if not even a regular check in for many of my friends new and old. Thus, I present 365 T-shirts, launched on 1303.22 or as others call it March 22, 2013. Now watch as I fail to keep it going for even a week..."</span></blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCN6R4kQi6ipMgvKHofyTyEqxkf6Ic6lj2uTvUKqnrpf7YSCT9QTdQTm92bN-WzuRcI01RuGCBRJiwmevUFCExCooN998g0JnPxuqP59YP0xvvrRUrtxnEkqaT-JJdsZBO4iAHi55qu0M/s1600/LastShirt%23365-PLAINWHITE+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCN6R4kQi6ipMgvKHofyTyEqxkf6Ic6lj2uTvUKqnrpf7YSCT9QTdQTm92bN-WzuRcI01RuGCBRJiwmevUFCExCooN998g0JnPxuqP59YP0xvvrRUrtxnEkqaT-JJdsZBO4iAHi55qu0M/s1600/LastShirt%23365-PLAINWHITE+(2).jpg" /></a>As you can see this passage emphasizes the counting first and the writing second. When I first wrote that text, when I set up the blog on March 22nd 2013, I had no confidence that I could keep it going for more than a week. I committed myself to take it all one week at a time, and eventually one day at a time. Could I really dedicate myself to something that would have a deadline EVERY DAY for an entire year??? Originally, I felt that I could sustain this rate because the original blog posts were rather minimal. Later, I questioned whether or not I could continue to produce the volumes of text, pictures, and videos with extensive research as I produced during breaks from work, such as with <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-105-ultimate-spider-man.html">T-shirt #105</a>, Ultimate Spider-Man, for which I created my first You Tube video; for the entry of <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-119-doctor-strange.html">T-shirt # 119</a>, for which I researched extensively, produced an insane amount of content, and even contacted Cat Yronwode, whom I wrote about, to view what I had written about her work with Doctor Strange; or for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-77-narcissism.html">T-shirt #77: narcissism</a>, in which I discussed why I started the blog in more depth (beyond what I had written in either banner text pieces).<br />
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Somehow, I made it through a year of blogging about T-shirts. What I am cobbling together here is an analysis and final set of words on this long journey and what it means, but I am posting late, adding to this entry daily since it's original Friday March 21st publication. Right now, it could take me a week to finish the final entry, and in a way, that's somewhat fitting. If you have tuned in, you can watch it grow or check back for when I post the completed entry via many social media platforms.<br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>WHY I REALLY STARTED THE BLOG - THE CANCER MADE ME DO IT</b></span></span><br />
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The entry for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-77-narcissism.html">T-shirt #77: narcissism</a> does a pretty good job explaining why I started this blog project, and why I devoted myself to an insane schedule of daily posting.<br />
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In short, I found out I had prostate cancer, and a week later, the idea I had rejected in January as narcissistic and possibly unsustainable, I determined to give it a try, at the very least.<br />
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I did not reveal my cancer because I was not really talking about it much at all. I did not want to think about it. But once I had the prostate removed, I became more open about sharing with people in person and here on my blog.<br />
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And every day from March 22nd 2013 through March 21st 2014, I managed to post something. Originally, the entries were always finished, but as the blog year progressed, I had to post incomplete entries, but I always published SOMETHING.<br />
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In fact, the day of my surgery, later in the day, I discovered that I did not really understand the scheduled publishing mechanism in Blogger. I thought I had scheduled the blog to publish around the time of my surgery, but later, when I checked, it was not up. Though a haze of pain medication, I posted, from my tablet, the pre-written blog entry and later, re-published it back in time using Blogger's scheduling tool.<br />
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What a long and strange trip.<br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><b>BLOG EVOLUTION</b></span></span><br />
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As the blog evolved, so did the banner text. As I worked on the blog every day for a year, I began to better understand what I was doing and what it could be. This evolution caused the explanatory text atop the blog to change as well.<br />
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<b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;">CURRENT BANNER TEXT (not David Bruce Banner just Banner like a flag not the Hulk)</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">This blog should be sub-titled: a journal of my life in geek.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />(Second Update - 1310.24. First Update - 1306.05 Originally Posted - 1304.25.)</span></blockquote>
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I have learned many things over the year about myself, about my writing, and about this blog. Here are some of the more major "lessons" of the T-shirt blog.</div>
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME - APPRECIATING READERS</b></span></span><br />
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I have been blessed with some very devoted readers. I was surprised that some people actually chose to make me part of their daily or weekly reading schedules and consume all or most of what I produce.<br />
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Given the reason for the blog's existence, I cannot emphasize strongly enough just what this readership has meant to me.<br />
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Thank you readers. Without your attention and feedback, I might not have sustained this pace and output for an entire year. For all my regular readers, both those I know and those I do not, for my occasional readers, and for those who stumble across this blog by Google search, I am very grateful and honored by your readership at whatever depth and/or frequency you managed.<br />
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Furthermore, the readership has inspired me to transition into the next phase of my bloggery. More on that in a section farther along in today's entry.<br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>THE COUNT DOES NOT MATTER AS MUCH AS THE CONTENT</b></span></span><br />
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I do like saying that in the last year I have posted 365 entries on this blog, featuring a different T-shirt every day (despite some doubles). Though others in the blog-world publish more than that per year, for me, given that I had never done anything like this before, this is an impressive feat. And yet, the count, the total, matters less than the content.<br />
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From the beginning, (the photo of the first T-shirt is posted directly to the right), I tried to provide good content, the kind of content that I would enjoy reading, and I tried to keep the content fresh and as varied as I possibly could.<br />
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And yet, as I previously mentioned, those early entries were light on content, as the post for my very first entry demonstrates, posted here again for reading pleasure (minus the picture and somewhat reformatted).<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Satan" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #eef7ff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 16.890625px;">Daimon Hellstrom on the cover of </span><i style="background-color: #eef7ff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 16.890625px;">Marvel Spotlight</i><span style="background-color: #eef7ff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 16.890625px;"> #13</span></a></div>
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Oddly, I cannot move that link.<br />
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Okay, so for every day in the previous 365 days (from the date of this entry's publication), I have thought about "what am I going to post today?" In addition to choosing a T-shirt, which, eventually, I began to do in advance, planning out eight at a time as this is how many fit on the back sides of the French page-a-day calendar I have been using as scrap paper. Often, I would change my mind about the T-shirts I planned to post, but I would at least try to plan out a week at a time, giving myself time to conjure content out of thin air and to even work ahead if my schedule permitted such luxury.<br />
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As I accumulated the count, I also accrued content, which I hoped would be of interest to readers.<br />
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I have been blessed with a great deal of feedback letting me know that I have been at least somewhat successful.<br />
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Oddly, I cannot move that link.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigX6W-dwRyDn7Gfxfjck98HmNb4RxnNg8oAxlNKir2WdnWFwCkOsGUsZSgcwGrxvY0Cywsd4dxkQQ_C3FNK8R2TSoTx3mtnaTaKNYWOyB-crK7BhAcnIKFhl2R_gZX6Il1z8HceazByEHP/s1600/SilverSurferBlackPantherDaredevil+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigX6W-dwRyDn7Gfxfjck98HmNb4RxnNg8oAxlNKir2WdnWFwCkOsGUsZSgcwGrxvY0Cywsd4dxkQQ_C3FNK8R2TSoTx3mtnaTaKNYWOyB-crK7BhAcnIKFhl2R_gZX6Il1z8HceazByEHP/s1600/SilverSurferBlackPantherDaredevil+(1).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a>Okay, so for every day in the previous 365 days (from the date of this entry's publication), I have thought about "what am I going to post today?" In addition to choosing a T-shirt, which, eventually, I began to do in advance, planning out eight at a time as this is how many fit on the back sides of the French page-a-day calendar I have been using as scrap paper. Often, I would change my mind about the T-shirts I planned to post, but I would at least try to plan out a week at a time, giving myself time to conjure content out of thin air and to even work ahead if my schedule permitted such luxury.<br /><br />As I accumulated the count, I also accrued content, which I hoped would be of interest to readers.<br /><br />I have been blessed with a great deal of feedback letting me know that I have been at least somewhat successful.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXNm5bLPVg2Xr7tK17PSB172J4JnqYbP-ovUP1MAWZI8-1cRka4s4DRz1tbjWfRFEtL_dJbIyqWRyWZAf8ytfgr6IZ2U6J7W9LgAYm1a3geAEzof5nj1rqs1_aJuxMKz89AsWlC-RTor4m/s1600/Strange_Tales_178-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXNm5bLPVg2Xr7tK17PSB172J4JnqYbP-ovUP1MAWZI8-1cRka4s4DRz1tbjWfRFEtL_dJbIyqWRyWZAf8ytfgr6IZ2U6J7W9LgAYm1a3geAEzof5nj1rqs1_aJuxMKz89AsWlC-RTor4m/s1600/Strange_Tales_178-01.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="208" /></a><br /><b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;">I CAN WRITE ABOUT WHATEVER I WANT</span></b><br /><br />As I concocted my nefarious plans for the content of the blog, I began to realize that I often wanted to write about subjects that were not directly (sometimes not even remotely) related to the shirt and its imagery (for those shirts with actual imagery).<br /><br />Eventually, I decided that I could write about whatever I wanted to write about. After all, to whom was I beholden? Was there a T-shirt police ready to flog me if I strayed from the apparent featured subject: the imagery and text or at least the origin of each specific T-shirt?<br /><br />No, no police. And my readers seemed happy to read whatever I wanted to share. And so, I began to explore whatever subject matter interested me each day and often planned days in advance for the subject matter that I would choose to explore.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IgNrAHmeI8I9aWFLTame6WbprV8M7RHL7_jpavFf_0v5ZSAvsVVf9kB6WgLNeqDJ_bWbVk7afTOkFB_iERjC-cc_2E2X4jSM-1Phb_86-6NPo-xLMSQaKTJEQEYcH5XKkZaofYG2nQ3R/s1600/SuzanneVega.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IgNrAHmeI8I9aWFLTame6WbprV8M7RHL7_jpavFf_0v5ZSAvsVVf9kB6WgLNeqDJ_bWbVk7afTOkFB_iERjC-cc_2E2X4jSM-1Phb_86-6NPo-xLMSQaKTJEQEYcH5XKkZaofYG2nQ3R/s1600/SuzanneVega.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="239" /></a>After all, I could not buy a new T-shirt every time I wanted to explore some new subject matter. And I could not guarantee that I could find a T-shirt for every subject. For instance, there are no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Warlock" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">ADAM WARLOCK </a>T-shirts. At least, none specifically featuring that Marvel character and some of the old comic book covers by Jim Starlin from the 1970s. And the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/47785723/vintage-80s-deadstock-dark-horse-comics" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">CONCRETE T-shirt on Etsy (sold)</a> is a rare, collector's item that I should have bought years a go when I had the chance. Read here about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_(comics)" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">CONCRETE by Paul Chadwick</a>.<br /><br />And so, I generated all kinds of content for the T-shirt blog that I might not have generated without deciding that the T-shirts should not strictly restrict my subject matter. The categories along the right side of the main blog page reflect well the additional content that I explored in freeing myself from strictly generating content only directly related to the shirt featured that day. After all, I have no shirts that feature Jungian psychology.<br /><br />And I am most proud of being able to inject new content and make it work with that day's shirt, such as my writing on introversion in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-161-blue-in-sport.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #161 on a short that is just blue</a> and my inclusion of material about gratitude in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-78-suzanne-vega.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #78 on Suzanne Vega</a>.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>I LIKE WRITING LOVE LETTERS</b></span></span><br /><br />As I began to generate content for the blog, I realized that with some shirts, I really wanted to create a MASSIVE tribute to the popular culture icon featured on the shirt. I began calling these massive tribute posts love letters.<br /><br />I began to have an inkling of just how huge my posts might grow when I created the entry for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-shirt-13-unlucky-red-shirt.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #13</a> also known as the Unlucky Red Shirt. I have since added to this post, so it's even longer now than the one I did eventually. But it was with this shirt that I started to think about how to best deliver content about the thing featured on the shirt itself.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIr_5uIeNOD480g0aJNY728jKPs_Z7QtEBkMSnBC6mtAyYP4SHCYbs7yqH6-ULzF49QrnItWW8xURQZWmOLI5pOwvLqizelh7y6w6Tlg-ns-MacN7qUi4C9W_6w0gNEa65O-XMvIn0H6mb/s1600/Batgirl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIr_5uIeNOD480g0aJNY728jKPs_Z7QtEBkMSnBC6mtAyYP4SHCYbs7yqH6-ULzF49QrnItWW8xURQZWmOLI5pOwvLqizelh7y6w6Tlg-ns-MacN7qUi4C9W_6w0gNEa65O-XMvIn0H6mb/s1600/Batgirl.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="238" /></a>Though on the longer side, <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-shirt-13-unlucky-red-shirt.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #13</a> looks brief compared to some of the monster posts I created later. My time to create such posts waxed and waned with my work and my work deadlines as well as other things in my life all of which must be kept in balance, such as time with the wife and family, homework for classes I am taking, house work projects, and the myriad and quotidian aspects of daily life.<br /><br />The next entry that grew to a larger size was <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-shirt-28-batgirl-spoiler-alerts.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #28</a> dedicated to Batgirl. But still they would get bigger. Even this is not a full love letter to Batgirl. One of the next really large entries came with <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-45-star-wars-evolution-of-darth.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #45</a> featuring the evolution of Darth Vader. I did not own <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-45-star-wars-evolution-of-darth.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #45</a> when I started the blog. I bought it because after a couple of weeks of blogging the Mack Truck of realization creamed me to paste when I it dawned on me that I did not own any shirts for <i>Star Wars</i>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfxdIlF8eiY27LVXr9wlXcVHnJvw2dDPKr5bKi_HrIzCMeiOV3vXlK04rPJrIbkPVqggk54KlnLJH2bswHEKvxKHhyOyKRnVk4iD48VnWLn8bkAeW4Mgh54T-UcdMCojLd37ROsuSl5wA/s1600/BatmanSixitesLogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfxdIlF8eiY27LVXr9wlXcVHnJvw2dDPKr5bKi_HrIzCMeiOV3vXlK04rPJrIbkPVqggk54KlnLJH2bswHEKvxKHhyOyKRnVk4iD48VnWLn8bkAeW4Mgh54T-UcdMCojLd37ROsuSl5wA/s1600/BatmanSixitesLogo.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="239" /></a>Often the longer entries would coincide with extra time in my schedule and sometimes they would be bunched together, especially in the early days of the blog before I tried to work ahead. For instance, the entry for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-61-replicant.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #61: Replicant</a> and <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-61-nightwing.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #62: Nightwing</a> are back-to-back. <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-61-nightwing.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #62: Nightwing</a> enjoys the distinction of being one of the most viewed entries that I have created on the T-shirt blog. And shortly after posting those really long ones, I completed <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-64-embrace-uncertainty-question.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #64: Embrace Uncertainty</a>.<br /><br />A chronological tour of the blog may be interesting to you. But it's a lot of pages. I am not going to keep going and describe all my long ones. However, there were days when I obviously spent most of the day creating an opus such as <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-86-erykah-badu.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #86: Erykah Badu</a> or the completely over-the-top love letter to the 1960s live action TV show of <i>Batman</i> featured in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-94-batman-1960s-tv-show.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #94</a>.<br /><br />I spent the whole weekend of the July 4th holidays creating the following:<br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-104-silver-surfer-daredevil.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #104 - Silver Surfer, Daredevil, Black Panther</a><br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-105-ultimate-spider-man.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #105 - Ultimate Spider-Man</a><br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-106-captain-america.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #106 - Captain America</a><br /><br />And yet, I spent WEEKS researching and writing one of my biggest and most elaborate posts:<br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-119-doctor-strange.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #119: Doctor Strange</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib10eGbCvf4HNgg2oVf8TDtCg208g47kFEJkh9K222ZYWlxTK1HZJejUMvOSpyiyUd_sE-MobfUO3xjdOKpl26v4JkaUJSINQzaa4FapBGDpdvsL7EgAbvUQp2RpzBYoGsGnlppI5eRoTB/s1600/DoctorStrangeFace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib10eGbCvf4HNgg2oVf8TDtCg208g47kFEJkh9K222ZYWlxTK1HZJejUMvOSpyiyUd_sE-MobfUO3xjdOKpl26v4JkaUJSINQzaa4FapBGDpdvsL7EgAbvUQp2RpzBYoGsGnlppI5eRoTB/s1600/DoctorStrangeFace.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a>Even so, I think I can do better with a love letter to the good Doctor, and I have at least one new shirt planned for the future of the blog that did not make it into the blog year.<br /><br />As I worked along, I realized that I just did not have time to create the elaborate love letters I wanted to create for some of my shirts. I have two shirts that have been in the works for six months: one for the soap opera <i>The Young and the Restless</i> and a dedication to my mother, who is responsible for my love of it, and a post on homophobia and prejudice against non-heterosexuals, mainly focused on the outrage against Orson Scott Card as the movie of his novel <i>Ender's Game </i>was set to be released. Both of these projects were too large and too demanding, as they were conceived in my head, to be completed with the daily deadline and my allotment of, on average, and hour of blog writing time per day (though I suspect that I averaged a bit more time than that).<br /><br />And so, now, I have over 30 shirts (again, no actual count) that I plan to feature on the blog with longer, more voluminous love letters. These shirts did not make it into the blog year because I put them off in lieu of easier shirts that I could render posts for quickly, hence the "Hiatus" category you can see in my category list.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>THE ONLY ONE HOLDING ME TO THE DAILY DEADLINE IS ME</b></span></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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I held myself to a daily deadline for an entire year. Though I scheduled posts once I figured out how to work the scheduling tool, I had trouble working ahead, and so I rarely had too many posts scheduled in advance. Usually I faced the daily deadline, requiring myself to post something by the end of the day. Given this rigor, I am surprised that it took me at least two-thirds of the blog year before I posted my first incomplete entry and finished it the next day.<br /><br />For most of the blog year, I worked on the blog first thing in the morning, and I usually finished and posted it before I started my actual work for the day. Later, I discovered that the blog served as a rabbit hole down which I could lose my way. And so I altered my approach. I tried to work ahead. When I could not work ahead, I tried to spread out the blog work throughout the day, granting myself a reward to work on it some more if I finished more "actual work." But then I still had to post that entry by the end of the day.<br /><br />Eventually, I realized that my merry band of readers were not waiting expectantly in the next room and would chide me if I posted an incomplete entry.<br /><br />The only one actually holding me to the daily deadline was me.<br /><br />When I posted an incomplete entry, not a single person wrote to me and asked "hey, where the Hell is your blog?"<br /><br />And so, over the year, I relaxed on the deadline. I relaxed so much now that it is over a week since the original publication of this entry, and I still have six other unfinished entries on the blog to finish before I can move on to other projects.<br /><br /><b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;">LENGTH SHOULD VARY</span></b><br /><br />I have had a lot of feedback about the length. I have tried to vary the length a great deal. As I shared previously, I have produced some mammoth entries. But then I also have entries like this one:<br /><br /><h2 class="date-header" style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">
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<br /><br /><b><u>COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE BLOG YEAR: 120 shirts remaining</u></b><br /><br />- chris tower - 1311.21 - 17:41</div>
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<br />So, I did not write a book every day, all right?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbw-7Us5CAsKfXpf8oX53CJe6P6qJclJOe93pOvBHjLZZsoe6_BrJ1N5mq1QkxofPT2IFpcosXG9AwbfbAdfuzNzO14Q5rwWTgWBftn9h9nxcjvsLs4JBq9TDn55Px3T2pG7ci2W0L-PmD/s1600/GodlandTShirt+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbw-7Us5CAsKfXpf8oX53CJe6P6qJclJOe93pOvBHjLZZsoe6_BrJ1N5mq1QkxofPT2IFpcosXG9AwbfbAdfuzNzO14Q5rwWTgWBftn9h9nxcjvsLs4JBq9TDn55Px3T2pG7ci2W0L-PmD/s1600/GodlandTShirt+(2).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>I NEED MORE SPECIAL FEATURES</b></span></span><br /><br />As I wrote blog entries, I discovered that I needed more special features than what content the shirt prompted and what content I wanted to explore, and so I created many categories in my list as features, such as the Weekly Comics List; various lists of comic books, comic book characters, or music; the Cover Galleries (I do not not know why I am capitalizing that category), and the T-shirt I am Wearing category.<br /><br />Now, many of these special features I created will be posted to the other blog, and this one will remain just T-shirts. Though I will surely still stray off topic, if a bevy of comic book reviews is off-topic for a comic book themed T-shirt.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>I AM LESS CAMERA SHY THAN I THOUGHT</b></span></span><br /><br />At first, I was not thrilled at the prospect of posting a different picture of myself in a T-shirt every day. And so, the earliest T-shirt pictures are very mug shot like. However, as the year progressed, I experimented with pictures in different locations, pictures with guest stars, pictures with props, and with multiple pictures for each shirt. I think I did all right. Actually, I have one shirt still in reserve that was going to be featured in a fun photo shoot, and I never got around to making the photo shoot happen.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8QLpUIPfhpu6fqa92T7rdLaT1xq-sOrsPhnH7k673sS7mUReD3_Ak7KZn68vZtSqZEprPN0EyWEKd_k_LGY6qL6DV98tHIIztx-G6w2Pvik_GheneWA3-BdNxNM1ukFJooixr_N1zAtx/s1600/AdviceFromaVolcano+(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8QLpUIPfhpu6fqa92T7rdLaT1xq-sOrsPhnH7k673sS7mUReD3_Ak7KZn68vZtSqZEprPN0EyWEKd_k_LGY6qL6DV98tHIIztx-G6w2Pvik_GheneWA3-BdNxNM1ukFJooixr_N1zAtx/s1600/AdviceFromaVolcano+(5).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="180" /></a>Though the many photos of me (numbering in the hundreds, well over 365) triggers my fear of narcissism, it's actually somewhat an inescapable fact that narcissism fuels this blog. In the end, I like seeing all the pictures. I am satisfied with the results for the most part.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>PEOPLE SEEM TO LIKE BLOG RECAP</b></span></span><br /><br />I like statistics, and so as I produced blog work, I also described the frequency numbers. One of these posts in which I deliver what I came to call Blog Recap (another special feature) is the single most popular blog entry with almost 300 pages views:<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-241-advice-from-volcano-blog.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Advice from a Volcano: T-shirt #241</a>.<br /><br />Is that entry popular because of the volcano? Because of the blog recap or because I copied the list from the overview page, like this one below?<br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: white;">I LIKE WHAT I LIKE AND THERE'S NO SHAME IN THAT</span></b></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<br />Though the volcano post does a good job recapping page view hits, my last and best blog recap to date that assesses the numbers of my posts by subject came near the end in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-348-kalamazoo-college-alumni.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #348: Kalamazoo College Alumni.</a><br /><br /><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>WHAT I REALLY LIKE BEST ARE COMIC BOOKS</b></span></span><br /><br />I could go on and on about the subject of comic books, but I already have done so in ONE HUNDRED and eleven posts of four-color fictional goodness. I discovered that I can post a link to the category, so if you want to just browse comic book related posts, click the following:<br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/search/label/Comic%20Books" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">COMIC BOOK POSTS</a><br /><br />Though I feel that I wrote about a wide array of subjects, with comic books charting a little under a third of the total content of the blog year, I discovered that comic books were the easiest subject for me to write about, and probably my favorite subject, my go-to subject. Real talk.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: xx-large;">THE BLOG RECAP</b><br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/search/label/Blog%20Recap" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">A LINK FOR ALL THE BLOG RECAPS</a><br /><br />I like to recap what I am doing all the time as I explained previously. I will continue to recap as I continue to posts about shirts.<br /><br />You never know when I may update previous entries, and not just the current "unfinished ones."<br /><br />Please stay tuned.<br /><complete id="goog_159346050">+=+=+=+=</complete>+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br /><b style="background-color: blue; color: white;">WHY T-SHIRTS INSTALLMENTS - more to come</b></div>
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<br />Near the end of the blog year, in supposed "hiatus," I tried to answer the central question of this blog: WHY T-SHIRTS?<br /><br />Here's all that content:<br /><br /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/search/label/Why%20T-shirts%3F" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">LINK TO WHY T-SHIRTS CONTENT</a>.<br /><br />I did not finish the list of reasons and explanations for "Why T-shirts?"</div>
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<br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The official boilerplate for the countdown does and has (for the last twenty posts) explained really well The Blog Outlook.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I am planning to blog here, blog over at </span><a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">SENSE OF DOUBT</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, and to eventually release fiction episodically.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Once again, as I wrote above, please stay tuned.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><complete id="goog_159346050" style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">+=+=+=+=</complete><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: </span><a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">SENSE OF DOUBT</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from </span><a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">SENSE OF DOUBT</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at </span><a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">SENSE OF DOUBT</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. </span><a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">SENSE OF DOUBT</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><complete id="goog_159346050" style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">+=+=+=+=</complete><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPCWHUl-eO3dvYqBgXbwGcInK0DewWcPlJSkBNQuCKBxQ23cMCcBWUcT9Wum7cFvSkjAT3Kl5ZGbkGwiyxspweGbxLOkosSbuj-6ZKdzfbYPNt6K5KiS9zCuDCssBXJ8CX548kWfXxfSm/s1600/vishantibar.gif" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; 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font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">+=+=+=+=</complete><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: medium;">365 T-SHIRTS BLOG: THE BLOG YEAR IN PICTURES</span></b><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">As I explained to start, these are not all the T-shirts featured and not quite in chronological order. I still have to work on the set of photos. But this is nearly complete. It's been a good year.</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 00 shirts remaining</u></b><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">It only took me nine days to finish this one. Whew. :-)</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">- chris tower - first published - 1403.21 - 19:50</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">final publication - 1403.30 - 18:50</span></div>
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And by "next to last" I mean, the next to last one in the BLOG YEAR. Daily transmission will cease tomorrow, but the T-shirts blog will not come to an end. I will simply cease the daily broadcast of the T-shirt blog, the requirement, which I imposed upon myself, to have a daily post on the T-shirt blog.<br />
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I know the banner image at the top with the Carl Sagan quote does not seem to fit with today's content. I leave you to draw your own conclusions. Mainly, it was sitting in my folder, and I wanted to share it before the end of the blog year. If you have trouble reading it, I posted it again at the bottom of this entry.<br />
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Today's post features content that I am probably going to update in the next week, but I want the post in some vicinity of completion at this, the end of my blog year (even though I am writing these words three days after originally publishing this post). I have additional toys to share in regards to Captain Action.<br />
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If I am forced to select one blog entry out of my entire blog, I would be hard pressed to do so. But the original <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-128-captain-action-part-one.html">CAPTAIN ACTION POST (T-shirt #128)</a> ranks highly in my TOP TEN (which is actually twelve) best posts category (see the categories on the right side of the main blog page). When I shared this post originally, I called it "part one," knowing I had today's shirt in the wings and planning to return to the subject of today's shirt and fill in some gaps, such as sharing pictures of my Silver Streak, Captain Action's flying car. Since then, my and kids gave me the two toys featured in the pictures: collector's re-issues of the Captain Action toy and his nemesis, the Dr. Evil toy. The Dr. Evil toy was always a favourite of mine because of the human face mask that could be removed to reveal the blue head and bisected skull with the exposed brain. These features have been lovingly recreated by the company with the rights to the Captain Action franchise with comics and other media in the works as explained in my previous post.<br />
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And so, I am likely to revise this post sometime in the future after taking some pictures with my Silver Streak Flying Car.<br />
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None of this changes how I feel about this entry: <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-128-captain-action-part-one.html">CAPTAIN ACTION POST (T-shirt #128)</a>.<br />
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Today, I wish to rerun some of the core text (the best part) of that original <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-128-captain-action-part-one.html">CAPTAIN ACTION POST (T-shirt #128)</a>. See farther below to find that text.<br />
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<b><u>THE SQUIRREL STORY</u></b><br />
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Here's a photo (above) that Liesel took in 2010 when red squirrel found it's way into our home. There's me in the lower left corner wearing my CAPTAIN ACTION SHIRT (today's shirt), which is why this is relevant today. The squirrel is perched, quite temporarily, in the big window set in the living room looking out on our valley and back deck.<br />
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This is the next day after the squirrel actually entered the house. I did not find it on the first day, and we did not own the dog yet. The squirrel fell down a chimney shaft through a chance drop into a hooded chimney pipe (somehow). It made some ruckus in the basement, but we only saw some peculiar after effects that first day, chaos that we later attributed to the squirrel. The next day, I came home to find counters and desks near windows tossed as if someone had come in and ransacked the place. At first, I suspected thieves, until I spotted the squirrel, which was desperately trying to find a way out of the house.<br />
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Here it is during one of it forays to find an exit. ULTIMATELY, this is how we tried to get it out by leaving doors and windows open. But we were not at that stage yet. I was afraid to go near it as I was worried that I would get bitten. During this escapade, after it perched in the window frame, it vaulted to a built in couch and counter, behind me, and across the dining room table, where my wife had climbed (on top of the table) to take this photo.<br />
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As this all happened three years ago (December of 2010, so not quite four years yet, the details are a bit fuzzy. Honestly, I am not sure if we called the Wildlife Wrangler to remove the critter or used the open door/window method (as it was December and kind of cold outside).<br />
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Seemed like a good time to share this picture and a bit about our squirrel escapade.<br />
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I miss this house quite a lot, even though I do really love our current house. I wrote about this house, the West Gull Lake Drive house, in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-157-gull-lake.html">T-shirt #157</a>.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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From <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-128-captain-action-part-one.html">CAPTAIN ACTION POST (T-shirt #128)</a>:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkd1bLHh-FDBnmLcnvsHyB3v4tXgP_-LYOrnWLkKXlntaUieCPRb-w8Xwzr6_iUwgcB_kT41MTgwNUhtXDAQPljPXIl9BJnPbc1CcxoQFTFYZ22kaMjdoW9jmzhxsC7MXCNfrtIh6dS3K/s1600/CaptainActionNavy+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkd1bLHh-FDBnmLcnvsHyB3v4tXgP_-LYOrnWLkKXlntaUieCPRb-w8Xwzr6_iUwgcB_kT41MTgwNUhtXDAQPljPXIl9BJnPbc1CcxoQFTFYZ22kaMjdoW9jmzhxsC7MXCNfrtIh6dS3K/s400/CaptainActionNavy+(2).jpg" height="400" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="298" /></a><span style="background-color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: white;">TOYS UNEARTHED IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Have you wondered why you are seeing some of my childhood toys?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I had written that my blog was a survey of my "life in geek," but I did not understand what that meant until I started actually doing it, writing it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But the blog is more than just a journal of "my life in geek," as I have written before it's a self-inventory, a self-analysis, and in reading my analysis, I am hoping that my readers will see reflections of their own analysis or potential analysis.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">To explain the toys, I have to drill back into what Jung calls "The Process of Individuation." I am wrestling through the Shadow, the Anima, the Ego, and I am stripping off the layers of conscious and unconscious contents that mask the Self to get at the core. In this process, drilling through the layers, I have to strip out fears (my parents are growing older), phobias (I do not like change, and I actively resist change), purpose (what is the value of these toys?), beliefs (toys are not just for children), and ultimately end up with the results of this process: Have I made progress?</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwA8cji-K20lL7uRQcbEkHyioRj3Ag6OkykYV8zfKzE8htwqg8TDjhaBI_fApdlI-yZfFGk9atXFHFIXZid00kI2LBvIne3FZibaVyrwgVp8TuMZSqnfkDvTlFaPtdnGDR2x8OgDWHooyM/s1600/Captain+Action+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwA8cji-K20lL7uRQcbEkHyioRj3Ag6OkykYV8zfKzE8htwqg8TDjhaBI_fApdlI-yZfFGk9atXFHFIXZid00kI2LBvIne3FZibaVyrwgVp8TuMZSqnfkDvTlFaPtdnGDR2x8OgDWHooyM/s1600/Captain+Action+Logo.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The first step simply explains the toys: where did they come from? Finding the toys was one of the reasons I started this blog in March. One reason for writing this blog was well explained in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-77-narcissism.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #77</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, if you have not read it already, I encourage you to do so if you are interested in why I have devoted myself to this enterprise. Another impetus for deciding to do the blog surfaced when moving my parents from their home of the last 10 years to a new condo and thus dealing with a lot of my things that had been packed away since the move from the old house in 2003 and possibly since the late 1980s when toys were packed away to make room for videos in the family room. Culling through old boxes of toys to identify what to keep and what to give away/purge meant a re-discovery of old loves and old toys, such as explored in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-79-planet-of-apes-evolution.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #79: <i>The Planet of the Apes</i></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-111-atom-ant.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #111: Atom Ant</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, and </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-94-batman-1960s-tv-show.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt#94: Batman TV show</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQkeTNJqbpUREVIkay1kUnIKUXlZ2ptkDue-H3OJfB2785Hfi5R84axpUgHmfjCWr9VlfUa5PAhffQdQPcrxdx_Ct1j3xtSf1q0cpWqMHUqj1mx4L5e6LS55ceugJ2Vj2yTPPU0cs-cmk/s1600/captain_action.gif" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQkeTNJqbpUREVIkay1kUnIKUXlZ2ptkDue-H3OJfB2785Hfi5R84axpUgHmfjCWr9VlfUa5PAhffQdQPcrxdx_Ct1j3xtSf1q0cpWqMHUqj1mx4L5e6LS55ceugJ2Vj2yTPPU0cs-cmk/s400/captain_action.gif" height="400" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="227" /></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">As I culled through old toys, the idea for this blog kept bubbling up from my unconscious as a useful self-inventory tool. As I sorted my many possessions, I had to keep asking myself: "what do I value?" Because this is the essential question about whether I can part with something. In some cases, it's an issue of need: "Do I need these articles on gender and society anymore?" or "Do I need this book as a handy reference?" But other questions were more slippery: "Can I bear to part with this?" And the trickier "why do I value this old toy so much?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The question of value always seemed moot to me before. It seemed like a question to which I knew the answer. I have always held to the opinion that toys are not solely the province of children. I love my toys. I still love stuffed animals. I may not play with toys as I did when I was a child anymore, I may not carry around the stuffed animal and sleep with it cradled in my arms anymore, but the toys themselves have not lost their value, and my affection for them has shifted but not really diminished.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Also, I do not believe that a person must give up toys as a demonstration of "growing up." Becoming an adult is NOT about giving up childish things, and anyone who thinks that is being incredibly shallow. As far as I have been able to tell, being an adult is about responsibility and maturity. Maturity is about handling responsibility and handling relationships in a sophisticated way, in a way that is the product of years of self-analysis and growth. Being an adult is not about giving stuffed animals and the beloved GI Joe play set to Goodwill or selling them on e-Bay. But the world is full of judgmental people who feel otherwise, and I have always avoided digging into this question because I am afraid that the answer is that I do not want to grow up, and that I am holding on to my childhood like a petulant and stubborn toddler clutching someone else's toy that does not belong to me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The issue of growing up along with the issue of parting with old toys and their value to my sense of self, my identity, are the issues that I grappled with as I sorted boxes of possessions that would go to my house and boxes that would go to my parents house, many of which still remain in need of sorting to determine their permanent home. For instance, there is the lodestone of my comic book collection, which numbers close to 10,000 some issues, but that's a story for another time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But it's not just about me. I hope that if you read this blog, then, it's also about you. What do you see of yourself in what I am doing? The blog has given me an excuse to re-discover loves of mine both new and old. I am re-connecting with the toys, TV shows, comic books, books, movies, music, comic strips, and other popular culture artifacts that have shaped me into the person I am today. It's a process that I hope inspires others to undergo a similar reflection. What are your experiences? What are your treasures? What do you cherish?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The natural follow-up to those questions is the question of "why?" Why that experience? Why that treasure? Why do you cherish that thing?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The "why" question is the drill bit. There's always another "why" question that strips the layers, that goes deeper and deeper and deeper. In </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-64-embrace-uncertainty-question.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #64: Embrace Uncertainty</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, I posted a great video by philosopher Timothy Freke called </span><a href="http://youtu.be/ba_KsblXmvQ" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">"The Absurd Notion of One."</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> I highly recommend it if you did not watch it already. From another direction, the video targets the same subject I am targeting here in this essay. Freke uses the same drill bit: "Why?" "Why do I want that?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The answers to the questions of the value and the "why" bring some scary stuff to the surface of the reflecting pool, and my success at grappling with these demons will be the difference between my success or failure (or my rationalized perception of success as I fool myself smugly into thinking that I am making real progress) with the process of individuation. As I sorted through my possessions in order to help my parents move, I realized that one of the things I was really struggling with was their advancing age and how things were changing. Now that I am married and own a home of my own, with my own kids (step-kids), my relationship with my parents is changing. As I see my parents age, I am faced with the realization that they will not be around forever, and I do not like this eventuality. So, in part, this is all about change.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I do not like change. I have always resisted change. I have always been afraid of change. When I graduated from Kalamazoo College, my girlfriend of that time urged me to move with her to New York. We had just met there a few months before and had held down internships, which could have become full time jobs if we had shown our value to those employers. I could have taken off the day after graduation, but I was afraid. All of a sudden, the school of which I had been so critical was my haven. I did not want to leave. I took a crappy job with the summer theatre just to continue to live in the dorms, eat in the cafeteria, and delay leaving the school I suddenly realized that I loved.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">And I made rationalizations to avoid changes because the world changed around me. In 2000, my mother contracted bacterial meningitis that mostly paralyzed her and left her in need of total care. Rationalizing that my parents needed me to help manage her care helped me to avoid leaving, avoid change, and so I tried to do everything I could to keep our home the way she had kept it, the way it was throughout my childhood: unchanged. I developed many OCD tendencies to cope with the change that had happened to my mother, happened in our lives, which I did not want to face head on, that I wanted to deny.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But my efforts were futile. I could not avoid change. Change just happens. And more changes were to follow those of the eventful year of 2000. Starting in 2008, in a period of two years, everything changed. I lost my job at WMU. I met Liesel. We decided to get married. After trying to find a job out of teaching, I went back to teaching. After another two years, we bought a house. Within a span of three years, I had changed jobs, tripled more work load, married the love of my life, become a step father to two awesome teenagers, and become a home owner. For someone who does not like change, who actively resists change, that was A LOT OF CHANGE, and I had to devote myself tirelessly to making a transition.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I find change easier now. I resist it less. In part, I am more open to change because I have realized why I resist it, why I have avoided it, and have drilled to many of the roots of those feelings. And yet, my issues with change are strongly in force with my feelings about my old toys and my parents and my childhood, which brings my subject around again to this blog. Part of the impetus to write the blog came from the psychological work I have been doing to feel comfortable with change, and a good result of the blog itself is the self-examination I have performed here. If you read all of this, I thank you. I am honored to have your attention. I hope that my experience can inform your own experience.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I cannot escape change. My life changes, has changed, will change. The aging of my parents and the eventuality of life without my parents are things I cannot control. I cannot stop time. I cannot dial time backwards. And if I am psychologically healthy, I should not want to do either of those things. I can control the place of my childhood things in my adult life and question their value. I can also write, as I have here, about the reasons to start this blog and as I did in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-77-narcissism.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #77</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, as I mentioned before. My work in this part of the Process of Individuation is ongoing and not yet complete. But I feel better having committed some of these thoughts and ideas to text. Thanks for reading.</span><br />
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I am behind schedule on posting comic book reviews. I have a rather imposing stack of comic books in my office as a "to review" pile. Part of my next activity will be finishing up some of these reviews as I finish past blog entries that I left unfinished. I posted one such entry in particular a month ago when the first issue of <i>Winter Soldier: The Bitter March </i>came out, a comic I had been greatly anticipating, mostly because of the alluring and gorgeous ads in recent Marvel Comics.<br />
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I am greatly bothered by the art on <i>New Avengers</i>, and so I am going to have to apply myself to reviewing it soon.<br />
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As for The Weekly Comics List, this feature will continue. Though I cease daily transmissions of the T-shirt blog with tomorrow's final blog entry of the blog year, I will continue to post, though on my own schedule and to my other blog. Eventually, I will return with more T-shirts here. Meanwhile, I will post in SENSE OF DOUBT, at the very least, next Friday with a new WEEKLY COMICS LIST.<br />
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<b><u>COMICS FOR 1403.19</u></b><br />
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<i>Daredevil</i> #001 - MARVEL.NOW<br />
<i>Winter Soldier: The Bitter March</i> #002<br />
<i>Lazarus</i> #7<br />
<i>New Avengers</i> #015<br />
<i>Avengers World </i> #004<br />
<i>Superman Unchained</i> #6<br />
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<i>Sex Criminals</i> #5<br />
<i>Rocket Girl</i> #4<br />
<i>Thor: God of Thunder</i> #020<br />
<i>All New Invaders</i> #003<br />
<i>Iron Man</i> (<i>Rings of the Mandarin #1</i>) #023.NOW<br />
<i>Nova</i> (<i>Unchained</i>) #015<br />
<i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 10</i>- #1<br />
<i>X-Men</i> #012<br />
<i>Ms. Marvel </i>#002<br />
<i>Superior Spider-Man</i> Annual #002<br />
<i>Batman and Aquaman</i> #29<br />
<i>Suicide Squad </i>#29<br />
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<i>Thunderbolts</i> #023<br />
<i>Wonder Woman</i> #29<br />
<i>Birds of Prey </i> #29<br />
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But I did find it.<br />
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Here's some neat synergy. One of the three WMU shirts that I own that I shared in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/02/t-shirt-324-wmu-big-white-basketball.html">T-SHIRT #324</a> was given to me by AJ Avery, current forward on the WMU basketball team playing in the NCAA tournament. How's that for fun?<br />
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However, this shirt is my oldest WMU shirt, and a very nice shirt that I cannot believe was misplaced so long. WMU goes to the NCAA tournament for just the fourth time in school history. The men's basketball team also qualified for March Madness in 2004, 1998, and 1976. I taught students who played on both the 2004 and 1998 teams.<br />
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This is a big deal for WMU. <a href="http://www.mlive.com/broncos/index.ssf/2014/03/wmu_mens_basketball_to_face_xx.html">Read about it here at MLIVE</a>.<br />
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GO BRONCOS!<br />
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Though the Broncos draw a very tough match up in Syracuse. I don't expect them to prevail and advance. I will be rooting instead for my other favorite teams, including Kentucky, Kansas, and of course THE University of Michigan.<br />
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This blog began during March Madness last year, and I posted several Michigan shirts. These returned in explaining <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/02/t-shirt-324-wmu-big-white-basketball.html">T-SHIRT #324</a>. I think the content from #324 deserves to be rerun today even though it was only posted 38 days ago.<br />
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MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 1403.20 - 10:22 - I just completed my brackets for the NCAA tournament. Despite what I wrote last night, I decided that WMU can upset Syracuse and even win out in round 3 versus Dayton (who I pick to upset OSU).<br />
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I was somewhat inspired by President Obama's faith in the Spartans to pick them all the way through to the finals. Last year, I dumped Michigan too early, having Florida beat them in one bracket and Kansas in the other. I had no faith in my all-time favorite college team. This year I just did one bracket and picked University of Michigan to win it all. What the heck. I doubt I can win Warren Buffet's perfect bracket billion anyway. But I did not pick LOUSIVILLE, last year's winner, to get by Kentucky this year. Sorry Pitino.<br />
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First round upsets? Dayton and WMU as I already indicated. I have Harvard over Cincinnati, I have Providence taking North Carolina, and I have NC State downing Saint Louis. In tighter, games I have Pitt over Colorado and OK State over Gonzaga.<br />
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My Final Four are Florida, MSU, UofM, and Arizona.<br />
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Let the Madness begin!!<br />
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I am not wearing this shirt.<br />
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It's a XXL. It's a little big for me.<br />
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An XL is big on me, but just big enough. That's how I like it.<br />
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I went to Western Michigan University for several undergraduate courses, even before, technically, I graduated from Kalamazoo College.<br />
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For awhile, I considered studying to be a secondary education teacher in the public school system.<br />
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I changed my mind.<br />
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I decided instead to earn degrees in literature and creative writing: fiction, and so I did graduate studies at WMU earning a Masters and a Masters of Fine Arts, the latter of which was, supposedly, a terminal degree.<br />
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This is a "short" entry because I am supposedly on "hiatus," at least that's what the boilerplate I keep pasting in here says.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCX5wWaG4ZmffPJk0wM70VsUxZFxEojlzMoCa_k8lynARjE2x27igNLDp7xLuIMU-VTKo-hOBqrddmLcEzeFa9cI8Qhn-eNAz8NteOnHRr40ZZI2s3s9r98ZFGW4AJmmW9-QApElzY-Yci/s1600/WMU-Broncos-White-Basketball+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCX5wWaG4ZmffPJk0wM70VsUxZFxEojlzMoCa_k8lynARjE2x27igNLDp7xLuIMU-VTKo-hOBqrddmLcEzeFa9cI8Qhn-eNAz8NteOnHRr40ZZI2s3s9r98ZFGW4AJmmW9-QApElzY-Yci/s1600/WMU-Broncos-White-Basketball+(2).jpg" height="640" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="360" /></a>READER: How's that "hiatus" working out for you, T-shirt Blogger Man?<br />
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T-SHIRT BLOGGER MAN: Not great.<br />
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READER: How come?<br />
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T-SHIRT BLOGGER MAN: I am not getting ahead as I planned. If anything, I am falling farther behind.<br />
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READER: I have noticed. I visit your blog every day and the unfinished entries are... unsettling.<br />
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T-SHIRT BLOGGER MAN: For you and me, both.<br />
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READER: Are you ever going to finish that Abbott's entry? And what do you have to say about Robin? And aren't some of your drafts in the drafts section MONTHS old, and if you promise to kick it, I promise to hold the football and not snatch it away at the last second.<br />
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T-SHIRT BLOGGER MAN: ARRRRRGGGG!!!!!!<br />
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I am sure I can come up with more to say about WMU, but I have at least one other WMU shirt, so I will wait.<br />
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I will restrict myself here to how I came by this shirt.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEd2wIROzQY0_w24iQk_qv4aQQbL8MR93wacJRkTrt197eWIzUXn7rgZKx9IyVYwZ3ccgFrrqAX5kAiEnW_ABs2Yg0-gJcBvgWsH-Gae4PK7EY4TphWlFWYDy-RxaTbb5peqjMe_vUewCd/s1600/UM+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEd2wIROzQY0_w24iQk_qv4aQQbL8MR93wacJRkTrt197eWIzUXn7rgZKx9IyVYwZ3ccgFrrqAX5kAiEnW_ABs2Yg0-gJcBvgWsH-Gae4PK7EY4TphWlFWYDy-RxaTbb5peqjMe_vUewCd/s1600/UM+002.jpg" height="400" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="362" /></a>For the last few years, I have been teaching a reading class at WMU. The day before WMU had its big basketball game with the University of Michigan, I wore this shirt, seen above right, to class (It's Michigan in Chinese) without thinking about my student, one A.J. Avery who was on the WMU Varsity Basketball team.<br />
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Talk about rubbing it in his face. Geez.<br />
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WMU lost, of course. But the next class period, A.J. brought me this nice, white WMU Basketball shirt as a gift.<br />
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Now, who was feeling ashamed of himself?<br />
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Not so much that I did not wear the shirt to the left later that semester.<br />
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TODAY'S ITEM - WHY T-SHIRTS #9: FANDOM - GO TEAM!<br />
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REPRESENT!! Wearing a T-shirt that features a sporting team shows how I represent for my team. This is like wearing GREEN on St. Patrick's Day (which I don't do). I show allegiance.<br />
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Also, wearing the team logos, team colors, team art on my body, I keep it close to the heart, where it belongs.<br />
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AND ANOTHER also, by wearing the shirt of the team I want to win, I focus positive energy on that team, on that game, on that event, and try to affect the outcome.<br />
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Or I am just a goofy fan.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">WHY T-SHIRTS EXPLANATORY BLURB:</u> I am doing a series of snippets that will add up to a larger whole answering the "Why T-shirts?" or "What's with all the T-shirts?" question. I have also decided to include the previous items in an ever growing list, hence the "previous items" section next.<br />
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PREVIOUS ITEMS<br />
#1: T-SHIRTS ARE COOL<br />
#2: I BE BRANDED - CHOOSING TO ADVERTISE<br />
#3: It's my tattoo<br />
#4 PRIDE AND STATUS - "It's my thing."<br />
#5 - "LET ME GEEK FLAG FLY!!"<br />
#6 - UNIFORM SHIRTS ARE COOL<br />
#7. PROOF THAT I DID IT - SHIRTS FOR EVENTS<br />
#8. THE FICTIONAL REALITY - THIS T-SHIRT WOULD EXIST<br />
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Spring Training has been going since mid-February, and I am catching the Baseball fever once again. (I hope you know I like to capitalize Baseball.)<br />
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Looking at my remaining shirts and the number of new shirts I shared this year (38 because there's one I have not published yet but exists in draft form) and then considering the box of almost two dozen new shirts that I have not even photographed or laundered yet since receiving them as gifts, I realize that I may have not needed so many new shirts to complete my year. Though I am still letting the blog be the count, and I am resisting the urge to make a manual count, I estimate that I have possibly as many as two dozen shirts that I owned before starting this blog that will not be posted during the main blog year.<br />
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Given that I have posted sixteen times about the Detroit Tigers (though this number does not represent sixteen Tigers shirts as some posts were Tigers content but not Tigers themed shirts), this shirt may not be the most deserving of being the three-hundred and sixty second post with only THREE posts remaining. But I did mention that I would limp to the finish line, didn't I? No huge revelations and epic entries rattling excitedly in the web form in these final days. I am busy with work and life and paying bills. And I will eventually share all of my shirts in blog posts.<br />
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Then again, maybe making a Detroit Tigers shirt one of my final ten posts is very significant and worthy. If I am listing shirts that mean the most to me and that I cherish, there's the comic book themed shirts (logo ones for sure), some ultimate shirts, and then probably Detroit Tigers shirts even over my prize <i>Star Trek</i> or BSG shirts.<br />
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As always at this time of year, I am excited for Baseball season to begin. I am drafting fantasy teams and reading about player news quite often. And yet, no bold predictions. After the Detroit Tigers failed to win the World Series, after getting in to the series, in 2012, I did not proclaim that they were an automatic lock in 2013. And see what happened? And so, once again, of course, I would like to see them win the World Series, but this is not an easy thing to do. As such, I am tempering my expectations.<br />
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And yet, the Tigers look very good this year...<br />
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I am encouraged by the run output this spring in which the Tigers have scored runs in the double digits four times in the last week.<br />
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The pitching looks great. Sure, Porcello is working up to form. But Scherzer looks hot, and Justin Verlander is all recovered from surgery. And though Iglesias, the short stop, will begin the season on the DL (and possibly spend the season there), the offense looks very good, even for spring training.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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FROM <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-132-detroit-tigers-stadium-and.html">T-SHIRT #132</a>: I still have not opened the jar of Billy Sauce.</div>
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<b><u>A GOOD DAY TO BE A DETROIT TIGERS FAN</u></b><br />
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Good morning from the Bloggy Carnival of Towerness. By the time I finished writing this one, it was no longer morning.<br />
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It's Wednesday the last day of July 2013, and it's a good day to be a Detroit Tigers fan.<br />
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I was actually watching last night, and I was actually hoping with the power of my mind and heart for the very outcome that occurred as Alex Avila clubbed a two-out, grand slam in the sixth off one of the best pitchers in Baseball, the Washington Nationals' Stephen Strasburg. It was Avila's first career GRAND SALAMI.<br />
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Usually, if I send a Twitter message during a game, crowing about something that happens in the game, I jinx the outcome, and the Tigers lose. Last night, I sent the message, and the Tigers still won, by a score of 5-1.<br />
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In other Tigers news, a big trade went down last night that will bring Boston shortstop Julio Iglesias to the Tigers as a backup in case regular and All-Star shortstop Jhonny Peralta is suspended by the MLB on the bogus Biongenesis scandal. The Tigers gave up OF Avisail Garcia and RHP Brayan Villarreal in the deal.<br />
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Stories. I love Baseball's stories and I love its statistics. History and numbers. The history of numbers. The human interest of stories. The numbered story of history. The personalities and the oddities. Today, I am going to feature a little bit of all that delightful big country buffet in one roundup blog post.<br />
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<b><u><br /></u></b>I have been disloyal.<br />
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I bought barbecue sauce featuring a Kansas City Royals player named Billy Butler or as he's known by the nickname: "Country Breakfast."<br />
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And this was not an impulse buy in the store. I sent away to Kansas City for this sauce and paid extra fees in Federal Express shipping.<br />
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In my defense, proceeds from the sale of the sauce benefit a Kansas City food pantry and community kitchen charity called the Bishop Sullivan Center.<br />
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Also, hey, I kind of like the Royals. There, I said it.<br />
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The Kansas City Royals would <b>not</b> be on my list of "most hated" Baseball teams. I kind of like the current crop of young players who are making a run in the AL Central. And I have always liked the franchise, going back to the days of George Brett. If a team is going to duke it out with the Tigers down the stretch, I would rather see the Royals in the fight than the Indians and Twins (whom I do hate) or even the Chicago White Sox (about whom I am on the fence).<br />
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Plus, I like Billy "Country Breakfast" Butler. He was a pick up on my main fantasy Baseball team a few years back (is anyone surprised that I play <b>FANTASY BASEBALL</b>? I thought not.), and he has "hit a ton" for me ever since.<br />
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Plus, in these days of summer, I am keen to try specialty BBQ sauce. And Kansas City intrigues me as a great place to visit.<br />
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And though the Royals have produced "Fear the Sauce" T-shirts, I do not expect to purchase and wear one of those shirts. Sauce for another team I will try; T-shirts for another team, a RIVAL team? No way.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">It's difficult to have a favorite Detroit Tigers player. For a while, I was a Brandon Inge fan, and then an Alex Avila fan. But how could I not love Justin Verlander and Miguel Cabrera? And what about Prince Fielder, Victor Martinez, Jhonny Peralta, Doug Fister, and Joaquin Benoit?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">They are all favorites. They are all special because they are on my favorite team. Even when the Tigers acquire someone I did not like previously, such as Jose Valverde, I have to come to like the player because he is now a Detroit Tigers player.</span><br />
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There's also a good blog post here:</div>
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<a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/five-awesome-things-about-al-all-star-starter-max-scherzer/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Five awesome things about AL All-Star starter Max Scherzer</a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">What I read in these articles makes me love Max Scherzer all the more. He was an under-valued, smart pick up from the Arizona Diamondbacks, and he's having a career year following a very good year to prove it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I learned how competitive he is, how much he studies the game, that he loves scuba diving, that he is a kid at heart, and most importantly that he's a life long learner, learning and reading all the time, getting into what he calls "Google Freefalls."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I also learned that his nickname on the team is "Mad Max."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">"Where were you in 2003?" I would ask these suddenly emerged from the closet Tigers fans wearing their new, crisp, creased Tigers gear.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Where was I in 2003? Listening to games. Watching games. Often, my favorite of tandem of TV on mute and radio broadcast on full volume. I listen in the car. I listen in bed at night. I carry my portable radio around with me from room to room, outside, on trips, at the ultimate field, at the dinner table. I listen to or watch games whether the Detroit Tigers are winning or LOSING.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ouITyWRMQq-ABaWF3q2VDpXNgpWhE8e8YDZvX9sh2ZZGDmVKQXa-l_vhhOsWn92pOEyIhKhL-p6AhDw1_jHSiiyWYEfgIF4KWBQDjT-d6PuutPVwoMH5jKNCjq19OxiRCst3YuS60YVg/s1600/TeamOfDestiny+(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ouITyWRMQq-ABaWF3q2VDpXNgpWhE8e8YDZvX9sh2ZZGDmVKQXa-l_vhhOsWn92pOEyIhKhL-p6AhDw1_jHSiiyWYEfgIF4KWBQDjT-d6PuutPVwoMH5jKNCjq19OxiRCst3YuS60YVg/s1600/TeamOfDestiny+(3).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">In 2003, my beloved team lost a lot. Despite significant changes to the team and leadership, the Tigers set a new record for most losses in American League history with 119. EIGHTY-SEVEN years had passed since an American League team had been so futile: the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics lost 117 games. The Detroit Tigers narrowly avoided setting the major league record of most losses in a season held by the 1962 New York Metroplitans with 120 losses. Entering the last week of the 2003 season, the Tigers were well on the way to over 120 losses, if not for a mini-winning streak with victories in five of the final six games of the season, which saved the team from making ignominious major league history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I loved the 2003 Detroit Tigers as much as I loved the 2006 Detroit Tigers as much as I loved the 1975 Detroit Tigers or the really awful (though not epic in losses) 1996 team. Still, I felt there was a lot to like in 2003. Illitch had finally jettisoned Randy Smith, the worst GM in all of Tigers (if not all of Baseball) history. Enter Dave Dombrowski, wiz kid of the Florida Marlins and a graduate of Western Michigan University here in Kalamazoo. Awesome. Dombrowski hires Alan Trammel, my favorite Baseball player of all time, to manage the team with several other of my favorite Tigers as coaches, such as Kirk Gibson and Lance Parrish. The Tigers had some young talent with potential, such as Jeremy Bonderman, Nate Cornejo, Carlos Peña, and even Matt Anderson, who was the inexplicable Number One draft pick of Randy Smith in 1997, the same year the teams that followed selected players, such as Troy Glaus, J.D. Drew, Vernon Wells, Michael Cuddyer, and LANCE BERKMAN.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">So back to my question for these fans coming out of the woodwork: "where were you in 2003?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Was I bitter? Maybe, a little. Bandwagon fans. Not a fan of the band wagon. But did I want them to stop supporting the Detroit Tigers? Not really. I could do without how the fair-weather fans drove up ticket prices and made tickets more scarce, and yet I will take all the Tigers fans the team attracts. The more the merrier. We are an exclusive club, united by one sole common virtue: we all LOVE the Detroit Tigers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This brings me to 2006. After some rebuilding and smart acquisitions, the team had performed better in 2004 and 2005, but they had not earned winning records yet. Sure, 70 some wins are a near 30 win improvement over the dismal 43 win season of 2003, but I tend to be a realist, especially about the Detroit Tigers. Let's not get too excited.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">On Opening Day, someone I knew claimed the Tigers would go to the World Series. I scoffed. 2003 was still too fresh in my mind. In the early part of the 2006 season, things did not look good at all for a post season run of any kind let alone a WORLD SERIES appearance (the first in 22 years). But the Tigers started to win and win A LOT. By August, the team was 40 games above .500, and yet they almost let it all slip away. The Tigers lost the division in an epic September collapse, and they entered the post-season as a Wild Card. Given how the team was playing, I had little hope that it could beat its first post-season opponent: The New York Yankees.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Yanks and Tigers split the first two games of the ALDS. I attended game three, the first home game, in which Kenny Rogers smoked the Bronx Bombers. SMOKED! Embarrassed. AWESOME. Other than the last game at Tigers Stadium, this game three was the single best baseball game I had ever attended. Suddenly, winning some post season games did not seem so unlikely. The Tigers won game four also and a trip to the ALCS.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I did not get to attend any more Tigers games in 2006 after the ALDS as ticket prices were out of sight and work commitments kept me busy at home. But I bought the shirt. I did not expect the team to win the series, and it didn't. But I wear the shirt with pride. It was a wild ride, one of the most fun seasons I had been able to share with my beloved team. And then 2007-2010, the Tigers could not put it together. But now, in 2011 and 2012, two years of making the post-season. AL Central Champs both years and American League champions in 2012. And another World Series loss in 2012. (And yes, sentence fragments, so shoot me; they work.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Is 2013 the year that the Detroit Tigers wins it all?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I am excited.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But let's not get too excited.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">It's Baseball. Anything can happen, and it usually does.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">My all-time favourite Baseball player is Alan Trammell and has been since 1984. I did not have one favourite Baseball player let alone one Detroit Tiger prior to crowning Trammell as my champion. I had many favourite players and many favourite Detroit Tigers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Trammell was everything I wanted to be. He was smart and consistent. He was intense and focused. He was a winner. He was smooth and defensively solid. He was quiet. He led by example. Did I mention the smarts?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Bill James rated Alan Trammell as the ninth best shortstop in the history of the game in the same </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Historical Abstract</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> book that I wrote about in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-115-chicago-cubs-est1876.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #115</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> and the Chicago Cubs (Ron Santo).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Trammell is Hall of Fame bound. He has been on the ballot since 2001. Eventually, he and Sweet Lou will be inducted. Not yet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Trammell was World Series MVP in 1984.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">He sat at Sparky's side and learned from one of the greatest managers in the history of the game. And though Tram's first run as Detroit Tigers manager was not the most stellar, he is getting more seasoning as Kirk Gibson's bench coach with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who are currently in first place in the NL West.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Though Tram was not a power home run hitter (only 185), and though he did not hit enough to reach the lofty and exclusive 3000 hit club (only 28 players have so far in MLB history), he knocked 2365 hits in his career, which is not too shabby and a feat few have accomplished. Though I am not going to report Tram's position in MLB history with his career hit total, he is seventh on the all-time Tigers list after two of the Tigers in 3000 hit club (Ty Cobb and Al Kaline) plus Gehringer, Heilmann, Crawford, and Sweet Lou Whitaker (who has just four more hits than Tram, his infield partner for all those years).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Here's a great blog entry from last year that expresses many sentiments I share about the grand old ball park.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://blog.detroitathletic.com/2012/11/01/alan-trammell-remembers-tiger-stadium/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">ALAN TRAMMELL REMEMBERS TIGERS STADIUM</a></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Trammell embodied the best spirit of that time and the very nature of Ernie's phrase "Bless You Boys!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Tigers exploded out of the gate in 1984 like no other team that year, no other Tigers team in history, with one of the best starts in Major League history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Tigers cruised to a 35-5 record in the first 40 games and one of the top ten best starts by a team in major league history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">A writer collected these starts at</span><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1134833-the-10-hottest-team-starts-in-mlb-history/page/5" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">BLEACHER REPORT</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Tigers ended up with 104 wins and 58 losses, which is not the best record in Baseball history, but it is one of the best. And in 1984, the Tigers' record was far and away the best of that year with the next best team back at 96 wins (The Chicago Cubs).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But 1984 is special to me because it brought me back to Baseball and reminded me of how much I loved the Tigers and Baseball.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Unlike the last time when the Tigers won the World Series (1968) when I was only six years old, the 1984 win meant a lot more to me because I was watching the games with my college friends (and sometimes my father) and engaging in adult conversations about the Tigers and Baseball.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Tigers have not won the World Series since.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Most of all, I remember the summer of 1984 and how it re-kindled my forgotten love of Baseball.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I think puberty turned me temporarily insane. I didn't really fully grow out of the insanity until I was in my forties.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But early on, I remembered how much I loved Baseball, and I have been devoted ever since.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I love books about Baseball. Here's a picture of me posing with some of my books about the Tigers (though not all of my books about the Tigers) and all my books written by Ernie Harwell, most of which are signed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This love of Baseball books should not surprise anyone. After all, I am the writerly, bookish type. Naturally, one of the things I love best about Baseball is the study of Baseball: statistics, stories, and history. The LORE. This is what Ernie gave me a passion for: THE LORE. He told the legends of Baseball both big and small like no other storyteller I have ever heard speak about Baseball.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I have written eight posts (including this one) about Baseball since I started the blog. I have written all but one of these Baseball posts about the Detroit Tigers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">And if you think I am out of Baseball shirts, you do not understand me at all. I have much more to share about Baseball, The Detroit Tigers, the 1984 team, Alan Trammell, Tigers Stadium, and Ernie Harwell. Stay tuned. Oh, and I should not forget to mention: Sparky Anderson.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Ernie took over as the voice of the Detroit Tigers two years before I was born (1960) and finally retired the year I was 38 years old (which was also the year my mother almost died from bacterial meningitis). For 38 years of my life, Ernie was the voice of the Detroit Tigers. As I wrote in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-115-chicago-cubs-est1876.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #115</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, I think I nailed it:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">"I love listening to Baseball on the radio. This is one of the central truths of my love for Baseball. It is presented in its most classic form on the radio. I grew up listening to the Detroit Tigers on the radio, the sonorous voice of Ernie Harwell crackling across my AM band, hand-sized transistor late into the night."</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I am nothing if not self-referential and meticulous about the ongoing story I am constructing in these virtual pages.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Thank you, Ernie. I miss you.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0T_s3HVyTiNovOSjhkwG2uEtLBdjo5A80P_TP7FCDlYLIEYeQ-sDOnzWZQGR0Q0ttyFc-bdX4OYOcha_6Xu_7t8AHIZN0ICL4BGpHmKa-ThOfjVb9UJiZTTqBgFOROJ8rNAz-SrvLw8Bj/s1600/MichiganWomensUltimatePLAY+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0T_s3HVyTiNovOSjhkwG2uEtLBdjo5A80P_TP7FCDlYLIEYeQ-sDOnzWZQGR0Q0ttyFc-bdX4OYOcha_6Xu_7t8AHIZN0ICL4BGpHmKa-ThOfjVb9UJiZTTqBgFOROJ8rNAz-SrvLw8Bj/s1600/MichiganWomensUltimatePLAY+%25282%2529.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>First things first, all my favorite colleges are in the NCAA tournament -- Western Michigan University, University of Michigan, Kansas University, and Kentucky University. Especially where regards WMU, this is a noteworthy achievement.<br />
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Monday's has meant an Ultimate shirt for a lot of Mondays. Starting in May of last year, I posted an Ultimate shirt at least every Monday (or Wednesdays when I switched to that day for a while). I have posted forty-nine Ultimate shirts in all, counting today's. I presented my "good" version of this shirt (as in the one I do not want to get muddy) for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-249-michigan-womens-ultimate_25.html">T-shirt #249</a>. I explained the inscription on the back in that entry if you want to check it. I do not have new content to share that is strictly shirt related, so on to other subjects.<br />
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I am also proud that my Saturday post, <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-359-sandman-shakespeare-tempest_15.html">T-shirt #359</a>, which included my review of <i>The Tempest </i>from the local What A Do Theatre was shared on the theater's Facebook page and spiked my page views to a high not seen in many weeks. The post for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-359-sandman-shakespeare-tempest_15.html">T-shirt #359</a> suddenly jumped to the top spot for last week and with my page view of it (oops) just jumped to a tie for the most viewed page this month (along with <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-348-kalamazoo-college-alumni.html">T-shirt #348</a> because apparently blog recap DOES fascinate people as much as it fascinates me). I always assumed that my own views of pages on my blog were excluded from the count, but as I investigate usage, apparently not.<br />
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I am not sure how popular last week's "reruns" blog was (check out the new category for reruns!). But it was popular with me. Damn. I am writing too much passive voice. Damn, I am writing it again. I must break free. Okay. Better. Not "that's better" because that is more passive voice. ARG!! I just wrote some more. ACTIVE VERBS ACTIVE VERBS...<br />
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Okay, so I liked the "reruns" I posted last Monday with <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-354-east-towne-entropy.html">T-shirt #354</a>, which I just made more popular by one page view by clicking the link.<br />
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I was somewhat random (though not completely so) with last week's collection of some of the best of my blog work. This week I am going to be more intentional about my choices. Though these blog entries may not be part of my Top Ten Blog Entries (which contains twelve), see the category on the right, these are some parts of some entries (in some cases complete short entries) of which I am fond. I do not have a real plan for choosing these posts. I am just going to kind of wing it, letting the exploration of my own blog guide me in making connections and shifting through THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ENTRIES!!<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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<b><u>RERUN #1: </u></b>This first one is a two-fer as I get this bit on introversion, but I also have a link to <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-161-blue-in-sport.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #161</a> in which I fixed the broken videos. Looks like I am going to have to cull through the whole blog and fix all the videos. SIGH. I like that <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-161-blue-in-sport.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #161</a> was exactly 200 entries prior to this entry.<br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/09/t-shirt-178-kudl2009play-introversion.html">FROM T-SHIRT #178</a>: I actually re-posted an edited version of <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-161-blue-in-sport.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #161</a> to Facebook and Twitter last night because I was not finished with this one. It was an instant hit with some folks. Thanks for all the kind words.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This is a good place to share a few thoughts on Introversion and introverts.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I shared the video that Liesel had introduced me to in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-161-blue-in-sport.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #161</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. You can either dial back and watch the video or search You Tube for</span><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i> Susan Cain: The Power of Introvert</i></b><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">s, if you want to watch it and have not yet done so. It will take about 20 minutes of your time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Susan Cain's video is very thought-provoking. As I explained in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-161-blue-in-sport.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #161</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, I am more introvert than extravert. ("Extravert is Jung's spelling, and he created the words.) And yet, I am often mistaken for an extravert. I often play the role of the extravert because our society and culture glorifies and enables extraversion while it denigrates, admonishes, and fails to understand introversion. In our culture, there is something wrong with people who want to be alone, who like to read and have quiet time, who need solitude to work on one project at a time, who do not always feel like collaborating or being a team player, who do not spend all their time out and about being social.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Why are introverts so misunderstood? Why are introverts pressured to change their ways? Why are introverts seen as damaged, sad, or in some other way deficient?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Susan Cain makes several astute observations in her video about the importance of introverts and the contributions they have made to the arts, to science, to world cultures.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">According to Jung, we all fall on a spectrum. Each of us is some part introvert and some part extravert. We are yin and yang, light and dark. And yet many people want to homogenize. They want pasteurization. Difference is what is interesting. Conformity is not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Enjoy the wonderful comic reprinted below (and linked) that makes this point more effectively than my rhetoric.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u>GOOD LINKS</u></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">Susan Cain - The Power of Introverts</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> - Cain's main site.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.susancain.sharedby.co/share/MEcbwK" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">Introversion Cartoon</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> - Link to the comic strip re-published below, without permission but with due credit.</span><br />
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<b><u>RERUN #3: </u></b><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-251-detroit-pistons-fire-logo.html">FROM T-SHIRT #251</a>: Obviously, I am going to be wrong with my NBA predictions. The Philadelphia 76ers looked good at the beginning of the season, and Charlotte usually fades. But Charlotte has come on strong, the Pistons are fading, and the 76ers are terrible. My predictions in the West are way off, too. I hate the San Antonio Spurs.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vSaTLWXK2mrIbwkv8f_SZlKPM4Gy1XtOHH4kd4crurncBiL2-sy1-4Dv1M_NlGo6Wlw85d1VWWhvGI97fnhB_M48qcmLkXhf3tw5gqsFrrqDEfPotnoxhGruPOyCs2yzwpB78-OEIeIU/s1600/Pistons-Drummond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vSaTLWXK2mrIbwkv8f_SZlKPM4Gy1XtOHH4kd4crurncBiL2-sy1-4Dv1M_NlGo6Wlw85d1VWWhvGI97fnhB_M48qcmLkXhf3tw5gqsFrrqDEfPotnoxhGruPOyCs2yzwpB78-OEIeIU/s320/Pistons-Drummond.jpg" height="202" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Since my post at the beginning of the month (November 4th), the Pistons have struggled to a 6-8 record. Although I was going to write last week, decrying their terrible play and playoff hopes that were already dwindling, we fans must remember that they were in the midst of a very tough four game road trip against Portland, Golden State, Sacramento, and the Lakers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Though the Pistons only won one of those four games, fans should revel in how close the game against Portland was: a 109-103 loss. The Pistons hung with the Trailblazers--one of the toughest teams in the West--all the way, matching them score for score. The Pistons trailed 58-55 at half. All the stats were very close as the Pistons matched the Trailblazers in field goal percentage, rebounds, assists, and actually got to the line more times than Portland, thus showing that they can control the game better, drawing fouls more than they commit fouls.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Though they won the Sacramento game, it was hardly a blowout. In the other two games, the Pistons were blown out by Golden State and an LA Lakers team that has no business being as good as it is without Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash. The Pistons have a rematch coming against the Lakers, at home, which will set that situation to right.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrd2EOxgrzdaL0Hl8_iOIVx7GDgZiQCBdps0Wr3A4ZgnpopINnvQJS0fYk-TTdKRwppEFIc5mBhR7RBGl0cbQaagidq9vBig9osKG4MVIYhTLViF2PPzi2Gaxu7DBD02QpKLlMxdHXOVdz/s1600/Pistons+grp_header_image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrd2EOxgrzdaL0Hl8_iOIVx7GDgZiQCBdps0Wr3A4ZgnpopINnvQJS0fYk-TTdKRwppEFIc5mBhR7RBGl0cbQaagidq9vBig9osKG4MVIYhTLViF2PPzi2Gaxu7DBD02QpKLlMxdHXOVdz/s320/Pistons+grp_header_image.jpg" height="180" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Pistons are playing well enough, but they need to do a little better to close out games. Though they won the first home game against the Knicks after returning from the road trip, they dropped back-to-back home and away games against the Atlanta Hawks. They should have and could have won both of those games. Since then, the Pistons have won two in a row against the Brooklyn Nets (who are awful despite having many "name" players) and the Milwaukee Bucks, which are a mess.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Eastern conference is shaky. Though Indiana and Miami dominate the top of the standings, the rest of the conference is up for grabs. Damn Miami has soared to an 11-3 record since I last wrote, when they were 2-2. Despite being the rivals of the Pistons, and despite that Brawl at the Palace (long a thing of the past now), I really like Indiana, and I am rooting for them to win it all, especially if the Pistons do not. I think the Pistons are playoff bound if they can continue to play halfway decently, but I hold no hopes that they can win the championship next year (for this 2013-2014 season). Then again, I said the same thing in 2004.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I like Charlotte making the playoffs. I also think Washington has a good shot, but I did not have Atlanta in my original list, and I think they will be there. Chicago will struggle without D. Rose, but I think they have enough talent to make the playoffs; though given the way they have played in the last four, maybe not. After a month of the season, I just don't see Brooklyn and New York getting to the playoffs with the way they are playing now. Though of the two, Brooklyn has the better shot, I think, simply because of the talent level.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I had Toronto in my list. But I am going to stick with Brooklyn and replace New York with Atlanta, which is hardly surprising. I expect Charlotte to fade, but I would love to be wrong about that. Washington could be a dark horse, and if Chicago fades, look for the Wizards in the playoffs. So my OFFICIAL LIST of predictions (modified which is sort of cheating after a month of the season) is Indiana, Miami, Atlanta, Toronto, Phillie, Chicago, Detroit, and Brooklyn.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">It's the Western conference where I voted with my heart and not my head. I want San Antonio to buckle and not make the playoffs. Given that they are the number one team in the West right now with a 13-1 record, tied with Indiana for best in the NBA, indicates that they will likely make the playoffs assuming there is no catastrophe. I would still like to see them fail. I cannot think of a team that I dislike more.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">If the playoffs started today, the West would be filled with San Antonio, Portland, OK City, LA Clippers, Houston, Golden State, Dallas, and Denver. I had all these teams except I had the Lakers and the Timberwolves instead of the Spurs and the Nuggets. Obviously, the Spurs are going to make it assuming there is no rash of injuries or massive collapse. Popovich is just too good as a coach, and they have enough talent to succeed. Damn them. I see the Timberwolves beating out both the Lakers and the Nuggets for that last spot. Portland, Golden State, OK City, and the LA Clippers could be the Final Four, but the Spurs are a tough team to beat, obviously and could upset my predictions again.</span><br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">RERUN #3:</u> More bucket list. I have been very good with self care all year. The main purpose of the blog was to maintain and support self care. This entry from August shows some self care in action. These were "bucket list" items pre-surgery. (If you're a friend or a regular reader, or both, you probably know I had my prostate removed in August of 2013, just twelve days after posting this entry.)<br />
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Still maintaining the time off time.<br />
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What you will find here are some photos of recent events with captions, and a few links of some good, recent blog things that have caught my attention. If you need something to read, check out some of these.<br />
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Photos to the right are actually two different photos with very subtle differences.<br />
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Today's shirt is the Pink KUDL 2013 shirt. I wanted to have pink as our team color this year but was beaten to it by Will Maddix and his color theft (as I like to tease him). The pink team won no games all season until they beat our Light Blue team by two points two weeks ago. Fitting and ironic.<br />
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<b><u>LINKS</u></b><br />
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<a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-trouble-with-trolls" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">THE TROUBLE WITH TROLLS</a><br />
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<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/07/26/trance.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE HYPNOTIZED?</a><br />
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<a href="http://charlesskaggs.blogspot.com/2013/08/dc-comics-new-52-at-two.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">DC COMICS: THE NEW 52 AT TWO</a><br />
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<a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/08/04/the-i-fully-expect-abuse-gambit/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">THE "I FULLY EXPECT ABUSE" GAMBIT</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=15038" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">HOW WOLVERINE'S CLAWS WORK</a><br />
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<b><u>Warren Ellis on DEAD PIG COLLECTOR</u></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/08/01/warren-ellis-talks-about-his-new-novella-and-living-in-a-science-fiction-present/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Warren Ellis Talks About His New Novella And Living In A Science Fiction Present</a><br />
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<a href="http://geek-news.mtv.com/2013/07/31/warren-ellis-dead-pig-collector-interview/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">'Dead Pig Collector': Eight Questions With Author Warren Ellis [INTERVIEW]</a><br />
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<b><u>RECENT PHOTOS</u></b><br />
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</u></b>Grading Robot rarely has a day off. A true day off. None of these days (Friday-Sunday, today) have been completely work free, but they have been more work free than usual. Today, Sunday, only a very little work needs to be done, and it is not the kind of work that will require powering up Grading Robot. The man-machine goes back online tomorrow (Monday).<br />
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In taking off as much time as possible from work and sort of taking off the weekend from the blog, I managed to attend Day Three of the Fab MagiCelebration in Colon, Michigan on Friday, and I rode about 20 miles of the Kal Haven Trail (about 10 out to Kendall and 10 back) with my friend Chris Dilley yesterday, Saturday. Two Bucket List items down.<br />
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BTW, there's a nice little old style general store right off the trail in Kendall. It's awesome. I recommend the ride to the general store and back. I should have taken a picture of the general store. Maybe next time.<br />
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Here's some photos (with comments and some captions)...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px;">Here's me posing with this handsome bunny in front the Fab Magic Shop,<br />
not to be confused with Abbott's.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px;">This is Abbott's or MECCA for magicians.<br />
It has not changed much in the last 30 some years.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px;">Here's a beautiful depiction of what's happening in Colon:<br />
Two different magic fests, two different companies,<br />
two different weeks.</td></tr>
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This all seems a bit silly that there are TWO different magical conventions and that this silliness has been going on for ten years as this was the 10th annual Fab MagiCelebration is all the more silly.<br />
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Silly, silly, SILLY. But it is more magic for people and more business into Colon, so it's not all bad.<br />
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For more, info: <a href="http://www.fabmagic.com/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">FAB MAGIC</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.abbottmagic.com/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">ABBOTT'S MAGIC COMPANY</a><br />
The Abbott's site has some You Tube clips and there's more on You Tube if you are interested.<br />
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<a href="http://www.magicgettogether.com/schedule.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">ABBOTT'S GET TOGETHER - OFFICIAL SITE</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott's_Get_Together" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">ABBOTT'S GET TOGETHER - WIKIPEDIA</a><br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">RERUN #4:</u> FROM <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-118-wwkd-what-would-kirk-do.html">T-SHIRT #118</a>. I felt inspired to write something about the Trayvon Martin case. This is not the whole thing, but it's a good excerpt, and it allowed me to fix another video. I shared this entry via Reddit and Stumble Upon, and for some time, it was one of my most viewed pages. It's also in my top ten favorite blog posts category, and the only one from that group that I will share today.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #45818e;">T-shirt #57: Batman: my Mimobot Died</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJOmAdSacWf6v36DPkpNaxzlh1HscNMBsbS90_Ora0sR9_p3tkgOmdKGu4gHL9VmiQkymx1GcStrWN5C2ttlLWXC_5h-Fz6MZSD20ra6PIdPgmiwsD2nEtUU3iC9HV5wL8AnkZTlJsyqW/s1600/picture091.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJOmAdSacWf6v36DPkpNaxzlh1HscNMBsbS90_Ora0sR9_p3tkgOmdKGu4gHL9VmiQkymx1GcStrWN5C2ttlLWXC_5h-Fz6MZSD20ra6PIdPgmiwsD2nEtUU3iC9HV5wL8AnkZTlJsyqW/s400/picture091.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a>I had planned to feature another Ultimate shirt today. Plans change. This is why I eschew theme weeks. I know this was surely of great concern to you, my readers (all two of you), but do not fret, 365 T-shirts will remain random and open to the vagaries of life and existence.<br /><br />And so, today's shirt is brought to you by a sad event in my life: the death of my Batman Mimobot flash drive.<br /><br />I love my Batman Mimobot flash drive. Well, I "loved" my Batman Mimobot flash drive. It has died. I can no longer access its contents. It is kaput. These flash drives do not last forever. This one lasted about four years, and it had enjoyed nearly daily use.<br /><br />I am a back-up freak. I back-up constantly. I am terrified about losing data. Back in the olden days, when my computer had no hard drive at all and all long-term storage was committed to 5 1/4" floppy discs, I spent an entire day writing a brilliant (at least I thought it was brilliant) chapter for a novel only to have it vanish in an unexpected power outage. I had not saved it once that entire day. I am sure I am not the only one who has ever had this experience. But for me, this experience heightened my neurosis and anxiety about saving and backing up data by an exponent factor so immense it takes scientific notation to measure its true value (how about at least 6 x 10^24 times the anxiety?).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aYYR_DQh7v-B3GmIyTxgmgQ5AF1rSzLWHjPQFbavL6KPmJ4dNnSvqPes2nAqs5WG4ZX9MdKSowI4W4wfpQCci4rn4Tm4ifu84tR73CZ2q_HivNusuimLuZFB0c8aLSfxondAiKoFS3Bu/s1600/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries-keyart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aYYR_DQh7v-B3GmIyTxgmgQ5AF1rSzLWHjPQFbavL6KPmJ4dNnSvqPes2nAqs5WG4ZX9MdKSowI4W4wfpQCci4rn4Tm4ifu84tR73CZ2q_HivNusuimLuZFB0c8aLSfxondAiKoFS3Bu/s400/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries-keyart.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a>Here's my neurotic back uppityness explanation: Every time I pause, I save. At least once an hour, and usually more like three-four times an hour, I drag the current files on which I am working to my flash drive, which is always plugged in. Folders are always open for quick drag and drop backup. At least once a week, I move all the recent files to my laptop, backing them up again, and a couple of times a month I backup to a third computer and a backup, external hard drive (totaling at least four backups in all). It's on my to-do list to set up an automatic backup to the external drive from the desktop, but then there are a lot of things on my to-do list. I am running a power backup after years of not having one, so at least, I am more protected from the unexpected power outage. I do not store very much in the "cloud," simply because I have not investigated its best use AND I do most of my writing in Word Perfect, which is not currently supported (as far as I know) in Google Docs. ALSO, I have found the Google Doc system to be slow quite often, and this annoys me.<br /><br />I know that some of my astute readers will proffer advice about auto-back ups or synching systems in a way that would save me time. I do spend more time than I probably need to spend moving individual files one at a time off a "new file" temp folder on the flash drive to the laptop, the third computer, and the backup hard drive. But I like the process. Having to manually move the files forces me to think about them and consider ways to improve my sorting system.<br /><br />Granted, my system is a bit old school. I was happy as a pig in slop when I upgraded from my original non-Batman 1 GB flash drive to the what seemed like a huge 4 GB Batman Mimobot drive. Still, I had to be selective as I could not store all my data files on the flash drive with only 1 GB or even 4 GB to work with. However, with my main data folder at 5.9 GB, and probably only another 3 GB at most of vital files I need to move around and backup frequently stored in other directories, I am surely going to be able to store all of that data on my new 16GB Batman Mimobot drive. Yay! Soon, Batman will be back in the HOUSE, suckahs.<br /><br />Still, the death of my first Batman Mimobot makes me sad as well as increasing my determination to transfer files more often. Checking my records, I had not transferred files to the laptop since May 9th. So, to update the laptop, I ran a search for all the files on my desktop modified between May 9th through May 16th. I am still not quite done with the laptop update. And yes, I could achieve these ends with a wholesale overwrite of all the directories, but yesterday, in a rush to get to a class where I would have time to transfer files, I only had time for the search and moving a few files.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9KHKjhdYZgn7qEzdbhqTf_DuSacwwmNuadyxzGl_7lKz_keM5rmrJOxLvyOc21ZnZeHbOogQYjoi8vv94XjE3-VTx_HuGSCy-IIk8t2tfj6ahmhi6LSTqdGoU2mWFCoUM6u7pj7QTYqm/s1600/batmananimatedser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9KHKjhdYZgn7qEzdbhqTf_DuSacwwmNuadyxzGl_7lKz_keM5rmrJOxLvyOc21ZnZeHbOogQYjoi8vv94XjE3-VTx_HuGSCy-IIk8t2tfj6ahmhi6LSTqdGoU2mWFCoUM6u7pj7QTYqm/s320/batmananimatedser.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><br />Bored yet?<br /><br />OBVIOUSLY, I find my whole backup process quite fascinating as you may have inferred from the copious text I have devoted to it. In part, I am just working through the process as I describe it, analyzing whether or not it's the best system for my work, or at least a system I am willing to live with despite its inefficiency. At the very least, I will be moving files more often to the laptop to prevent finding myself in this situation again.</div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">RERUN #6:</u> FROM <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-241-advice-from-volcano-blog.html">T-shirt #241</a>. I am not sure what it is about this entry, but it has the most page views of any in my blog year thus far by a fairly large margin. Is it the volcanos? Is it the blog recap? Is that the blog recap contains links copied from Blogger? I really don't know. I was going to feature the second most viewed page, but I am keeping to my six reruns only.<br />
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So far, each entry (two) has focused on the Blog Journey and how I have come to work on this project. I found it very edifying that yesterday's shirt for the </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Veronica Mars</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> Kickstarter coincided with my cancer diagnosis in a way that I did not anticipate when I started writing the entry. I did not remember that my discovery of and funding of the Kickstarter came the same day as learning I had prostate cancer.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">My therapist asked me if the momentum shifted in regards to the blog after my surgery. I believe I have mentioned this before, but I have a new point to make. Yes, the momentum shifted. There was less of a sense of urgency. Before the surgery, I was driven by the feeling that I had to get it all in before that dead end date of August 16th. I had this quite irrational feeling that the surgery was the end of my life and that if I did not accomplish certain things before the surgery, I would not be able to finish the things after. Rationally, I knew this was not true. But like I wrote, it was an irrational feeling. Also, I felt as if I had permission to do certain bucket list type things because I had cancer, was having surgery, and so I deserved these things. The sense of urgency came in at trying to get the things I was permitted to do done in time. This urgency also propelled the blog forward. Would I have time to generate all the content I wanted to generate in time?</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZLE8L16BfkxozdF1tFA6fRC-OObsw12U9m1ulDNfl-hmuM3vqS_CzNJshXoKMiHpUPUYjuBbBYj1ND_xYuegnVGiCng43UKUShZpMlHOnsP_fR5TwrvUSsW9hAY6AGRoq8fxbjJsIN3J/s1600/AdviceFromaVolcano+(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZLE8L16BfkxozdF1tFA6fRC-OObsw12U9m1ulDNfl-hmuM3vqS_CzNJshXoKMiHpUPUYjuBbBYj1ND_xYuegnVGiCng43UKUShZpMlHOnsP_fR5TwrvUSsW9hAY6AGRoq8fxbjJsIN3J/s320/AdviceFromaVolcano+(5).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="180" /></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Since the surgery that feeling of urgency has changed, but the bucket list has remained. After all, we went to Hawaii because of that list and today's shirt comes from that trip. Since the surgery, I have a renewed sense of the need for the journey of self-discovery and self-definition that this blog represents. Today's shirt factors well into this journey and this self analysis process. The T-shirt's message may need to be incorporated into the Rules of Chris.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The journey continues...</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: orange;">BLOG RECAP</span></b><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This week the top viewed blog entry is the one on the Clash -- </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-238-clash.html" style="background-color: #ffffcc; border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">T-shirt #238 - The Clash</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> --</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">two others are tied for second most views:</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-235-fantastic-four-long-sleeve.html" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">T-shirt #235 - Fantastic Four Long-Sleeved</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> and </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-236-happy-ending-massage-parlor.html" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">T-shirt #236 - Happy Ending Massage</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">High views for the week came on November 11th when the blog received 87 page views. The second spike came on Friday with 67 views. Today, others had shown hits, such as yesterday's</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Veronica Mars </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">entry, </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-100-kalamazoo-college.html" style="background-color: #ffffcc; border: 0px; color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">T-shirt #100: Kalamazoo College</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, and </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-45-star-wars-evolution-of-darth.html" style="background-color: #ffffcc; border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">T-shirt #45: Star Wars: The Evolution of Darth Vader</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">For the month, and I think this is interesting as I am not sure why it hit so much, </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/10/t-shirt-220-star-trek-red-shirt-gift.html" style="background-color: #ffffcc; border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">T-shirt #220: Star Trek Red Shirt Gift</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, scored the most page views. I suspect this one was popular because it was shared with all the people included in the photo and shared by my wife who took the picture.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Here's the grid (the links are hot in the grid):</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-233-tower-pinkster-titus.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">T-shirt #233: Tower Pinkster Titus Associates Arch...</a></div>
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-shirt-28-batgirl-spoiler-alerts.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">T-shirt #28: Batgirl (spoiler alerts)</a></div>
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-125-hair-and-barn-theatre.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">T-shirt #125: Hair and the Barn Theatre</a></div>
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final publication - 1403.18 - 10:01Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-1399969163123344802014-03-16T14:13:00.001-07:002019-07-21T18:48:40.888-07:00T-shirt #360 - Ani DiFranco & My Top Ten Women in Music<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 05 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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Today is a brief one. Re-presenting T-shirt #255 because it not only describes my dream about Ani DiFranco but collects links to all my other Ani content. I made the banner title below a hot link to #255 if you want to see the whole thing. IF you are looking at my blog on Google Chrome, all the videos in the past blog entries linked below are broken. But they do work on other browsers. I may attempt to fix the broken links as it bothers me, but this a more long term project hence the note at the top of the current blog page, which may be this one depending on how and when you are viewing it.<br />
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Today features the previous Ani content and some videos, a playlist of a dozen or so with an emphasis on women artists, though I may not restrict myself 100% to this goal.<br />
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I dreamed about Ani DiFranco last night. She was at my house, and I was interviewing her for some article I was going to write. I had to confess that I have not liked, though I have not really listened to, any albums since <i>Educated Guess </i>(2004), and really, R<i>evelling/Reckoning</i> (2001) was the last album by her that really spoke strongly to me.<br />
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Ani took this in stride and told me she understood, though she encouraged me to give her more recent works another listen or twelve.<br />
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I have already written about Ani DiFranco in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-121-ani-fuckin-difranco.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #121</a> and <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/09/t-shirt-173-ani-difranco-little-plastic.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #173</a> because I own four Ani shirts and a hat.<br />
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I have seen Ani DiFranco in concert eight times.<br />
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I like this shirt. I like purple. I am going to present a few more videos that I have not yet presented. In <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/09/t-shirt-173-ani-difranco-little-plastic.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #173</a>, I shared videos for "Swan Dive" and "Gravel." In <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-121-ani-fuckin-difranco.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #121</a>, I presented videos for 'your Next Bold Move," School Night," and the poem "Grand Canyon."</div>
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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Here we go. Without much strongly considered thought or research, just off the top of my head, my best and favorites, though I will stick to a general concept of women who have never been part of a band to make the list easier to concoct. And thus, the list provides for me a guide for videos to post.<br />
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I already posted about women artists in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/12/t-shirt-263-kudl-2009-red-cotton.html">T-shirt #263</a>. I made a top twenty for that blog entry. My top ten is very much the same, but when I am stricter about the "no bands" thing then I must drop Tracey Thorn and Annie Lennox and replace them. Tori Amos and Jane Siberry take those spots in the top ten with the no bands caveat. The videos on that page (<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/12/t-shirt-263-kudl-2009-red-cotton.html">T-shirt #263</a>) in Google Chrome are also broken. But here's my revised list and new videos. ENJOY.<br />
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Lots of Ani choices, and I am pretty sure I have not shared this one yet. Great to see a duet with Melissa Ferrick, who is also a wonderful solo artist in her own right.</div>
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I shared this video originally in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-78-suzanne-vega.html">T-shirt #78</a>, even though if you visit that page now, in Google Chrome, the videos are missing. I did check on more than one computer. But this song and the video version of it is worth sharing again, especially since I did not realize that the "World Before Columbus" follows "The Queen and the Solider."</div>
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I shared about Erykah Badu in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-86-erykah-badu.html">T-shirt #86</a>. But I only posted two videos in that entry. Badu is an amazing artist, and I should have shared more than two videos. But for the early days of the blog that entry is rather extensive.</div>
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I am a huge Badu fan. But of a flap with the Flaming Lips from almost two years ago that I am just catching up with now.</div>
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<a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/46765-erykah-badu-is-super-pissed-at-the-flaming-lips-right-now-about-that-nsfw-video/">BADU PISSED AT FLAMING LIPS - FIRST TIME I EVER SAW YOUR FACE</a></div>
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But for now, this excellent song with a much different feel and message.</div>
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This has become my favorite Tori Amos song. So beautiful.</div>
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<b><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 05 shirts remaining</u></b><br />
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Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-27117950816527481992014-03-15T16:57:00.002-07:002014-03-16T11:55:56.115-07:00T-shirt #359 - Sandman - Shakespeare - Tempest<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 06 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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A couple of things before I share the main content of today's post, which will be for the most part my review of <i>The Tempest </i>at the <a href="http://www.whatado.org/">WHAT A DO THEATRE</a> of Battle Creek.<br />
<i><br /></i>But first two subjects: <i>COSMOS</i> and the BLOG JOURNEY/ BLOG OUTLOOK.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #ffd966; font-size: x-large;">COSMOS</span></i><br />
<i><br /></i>I missed the premiere of the new <i>Cosmos</i> program on FOX, but Liesel and I watched it tonight (which is actually last night as I am writing this a day later but time is dilated like that).<br />
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I had already seen some Facebook posts about the program, and one of the authors I follow, John Scalzi, wrote about it on his blog: <a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/03/10/the-new-cosmos-series/">JOHN SCALZI AT WHATEVER BLOG ON COSMOS, the series</a>.<br />
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Like many, Scalzi was disappointed in the music, which was decent but the same caliber as the original Vangelis music. Since I read his reactions, I was watching for the asteroid belt during the tour of the solar system, and I have to agree: too many asteroids.<br />
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I did not know that Neil deGrasse Tyson was so well known in memes shared on Facebook. I am not well acquainted with the man, I must admit. Though I liked his narration quite a bit.<br />
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I agree with Scalzi on most points, except that the animation sequence featuring Giordano Bruno went long. I liked it. Though watching the original transmissions of the show conflicts with our watching of <i>The Walking Dead</i> and <i>Game of Thrones</i>, I have set the DVR, and Liesel and I will surely keep up with it.<br />
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Here's a bit I liked best from Scalzi's blog:<br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">But the main reason why the show works this time is the same reason why the show worked the first time — it’s unabashedly aimed at a popular audience. I’ve said before that one of the things I learned from the original series is that so much of science is understandable to the average person; I thumbnail it as “anyone can get 80% of any scientific topic.” That other 20% is what takes real attention — but if you can get most people 80% of the way there, just by speaking plain language and being engaging while you do so, the benefits can be enormous in the long run. This series is made to provide that 80%. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black;">THE BLOG JOURNEY - THE BLOG OUTLOOK</span></span><br />
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I could surely go on and on rhapsodically about the blog in each of these remaining blog posts. I could treat you to a lot of "Yipee! I am going to make it!" And then, I could close with a final "YIPEE! I MADE IT!!" But I suspect that will get tedious. I cannot promise to refrain from such ecstatic, prideful exhortations of glee, but I will try to keep these cries of joy somewhat minimal and low key.<br />
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In sharing about <i>The Tempest </i>today, I am reminded of what it seemed to mean to Shakespeare and why Neil Gaiman invoked it at the end of his run on the <i>Sandman</i> comic book as seen on Today's T-shirt. Shakespeare was putting an end to his magic when he wrote <i>The Tempest</i>, breaking his magic staff and drowning his magic book.<br />
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In a sense, I am doing the same thing as my magical year comes to a close. I had the merest glimmer of a notion that I dismissed as difficult and narcissistic, which I revisited after being diagnosed with cancer. Could I write something every day? This question plagued me the most. I needed to know that I could keep pace with a blog that would demand a daily installment. A secondary question also occurred to me: would anyone care? Would anyone read? I was less interested in the answer to this question, but I have been pleased with the results. My links do not always get liked on Facebook, and I do not get comments there or here on a regular basis, but I see activity, and I am inspired to do more writing and writing of other kinds (not just t-shirts) in the future.<br />
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In a way, I have woven my own magic spells in daily castings with this blog. I could presume to suggest that the spell worked on you, dear reader. But this idea is very presumptuous. I would rather declare that the spell worked its magic on me. I explored many aspects of my self and my interests over the course of this year of T-shirt blogging, and the spell I made shrouds me in comfort. I am more comfortable in who I am and why I am as well as where I am going. The blog has given me a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment that I was lacking. And now I am geared for more accomplishment and challenges and tests of my fire.<br />
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The analogy with the Tempest is not quite in sync. I am neither breaking my staff nor drowning my book. Not only will the T-shirt blog continue but my writing and my blogging will also continue. I will be somewhat relieved to no longer be tied--by lashings of my own making to be sure but still ones I took seriously--to daily transmissions. I will still broadcast at least weekly, if not multiple times a week, and I am planning to continue a daily writing regimen, but the daily transmissions will cease as will the need to post an incomplete entry let alone leaving entries incomplete (there are still six incomplete entries on this blog as of this writing). And though my regular transmissions will broadcast from my other blog, the T-shirt blog will continue since I still have shirts remaining that were in my possession when I started the blog project as well as a bunch of new shirts and plans for some extensive love letters, such as my post on the soap opera <i>The Young and the Restless</i> (yes, I am a fan), which has languished in various states of draft and incompletion since at least August if not earlier. I late updated the Y&R blog post on September 17th.<br />
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The Blog Journey has been rich and fulfilling, and the Blog Outlook promises good weather and favorable winds to propel me through the rest of this year. I hope you will stay tuned.<br />
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I am blessed with the opportunity to see great local theater, write my views, and have these published in <i>The Battle Creek Enquirer</i>. I saw a very special production Friday night that truly was a work of art. here's the link to the published review.<br />
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<a href="http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20140315/ENTERTAINMENT/303150011/Review-Tempest-spirits-audience-away-magical-world">Review: 'Tempest' spirits audience away to magical world</a><br />
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Next, I will share the promotional text for the show, some promotional videos, and my unedited review.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">What A Do Theatre’s second production of the New Artist Series will feature Resident Company Member Tara Bouldrey as director and welcomes Chicago-based aerial choreographer Genevieve Lally-Knuth in this enchanting version of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Set on a remote island the exiled Duchess of Milan, Prospera, plots to restore her daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. The eponymous Tempest brings to the island Prospera’s usurping sister Antonia as well as the complicit Alonso, King of Naples, and his royal entourage. Three plots are intertwined throughout the rest of the play and are eloquently told under Bouldrey’s direction and Lally-Knuth’s aerial choreography.<br />“It was when Genevieve Lally-Knuth came to see “Back County Crimes” last January that the idea for this production was born. A Chicago-based performer, Genevieve has a long history with physical theatre, Shakespeare and aerial acrobatics. She was instantly drawn to the steel rafters that contribute to the unique performance space at What A Do,” says Bouldrey.<br />The new artist series strives to spotlight up-and-coming artists and allow for that art to be incorporated into elements on the stage. Bouldrey made the decision to take the original text and cut it heavily in order to establish the mysterious and magically masque-like atmosphere under which “The Tempest” was originally performed. This production is a must-see as the space, cast and production team are utilized to their fullest capacity.<br />Lally-Knuth states that, “The work is all done as an ensemble so that the finished product really showcases the strengths each actors brings with them. And I love that we all have such stock in the finished piece. We built it together. This is true ensemble work.”<br />This production features Kristin Marie Stelter, Averi Beck, Sam Friia, Joshua Olgine, Emily James, Rachel Markillie, Heather Cerridwen, Jared Sheldon, Vanessa Banister, Quinton McDougall, Stefani Lynn Wallace, Lars J. Loofboro, Tara Bouldrey, and Genevieve Lally-Knuth.<br /><br />Performance dates are: March 14 & 15 - 8PMMarch 20, 21, & 22 - 8P</span></blockquote>
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<i>"The Tempest”</i><br />
a production of What A Do Theatre<br />
Attended Date: March 14, 2014<br />
reviewed by Christopher Tower<br />
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Upon entering the unique space of the Dickman Road theater, the magical and other dimensional ambience of this special production takes shape. Large fabric curtains shield the performance space, painted with cabala and mandala, some adorned with runic or astrological symbols, which effectively shrouds the performers in the magical spells of the show’s main character. Eerie lighting effects and insistent, infectious music add to the other worldly feel as the theatrical journey spirits the audience away from the mundane world to a magical world, much like the characters are transported in what is considered to be Shakespeare’s last play.<br />
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The spectacle of this production is unlike anything attempted yet at What A Do or anywhere in the west Michigan area. As an organic work of art, a whole, this production of “The Tempest” is unique, powerful, and beautiful. Though not perfect in every aspect, the elements that recommend this production far and away outweigh those that would count against it.<br />
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For Shakespearean purists, some adjustments will be necessary as Bouldrey not only cut the script extensively but recast many of the roles, reversing genders. The re-interpretation works very well and fits the aesthetic of the entire show, though the performances do not always well support the interpretation.<br />
Though in the original, the magician and rightful Duke of Milan Prospero and daughter Miranda are shipwrecked on an island after he was betrayed and cast off to sea by his brother Antonio, aided by Alonso, King of Naples, for the dukedom of Milan. Here, the magician is Prospera (Kristin Marie Stelter), mother of Miranda (Averi Beck), whose sister Antonia (Vanessa Banister) has conspired with Alonso (Rachel Markillie) to depose her from her rightful place as Duchess. Prospera’s servants, Caliban (Joshua Olgine) and Ariel (Sam Friia) remain male, though other characters see gender reversals, such as Ferdinand (Emily James) and Trincula, a jester (Stefani Lynn Wallace).<br />
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Much of the original Shakespearean script is supplanted by choreographed sequences by Genevieve Lally-Knuth. The performing space features hanging fabrics and one hoop that are used in various ways for amazing aerial movement sequences. The storm that shipwrecks the cast on Prospera’s island and a later sequence in which Prospera ensorcels Alonso and his cadre are among the show’s most impressive scenes. The aerial choreography is reason enough to go see this show, but Bouldrey’s strong direction and smart choices with the Shakespearean text make it all the more worthwhile. The show flows artfully and exquisitely like a masterwork symphony due to the synergy of these two brilliant creators.<br />
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And yet, direction and special effects alone might not be enough to satisfy all audiences if performances were lacking. And though Shakespeare demands much of its performers, the majority of the performances in this show are awe-inspiring.<br />
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Kristin Marie Stelter continues to prove that she is one of the most important and talented members of the What A Do company with her majestic work as Prospera. She is regal and frightening when the role demands it and aggrieved and miserable when stripped of her powers at the end of the show. Her work is sophisticated and a driving force for the production.<br />
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Joshua Olgine has proven many times that he is an extremely talented actor, but his work in the role of Caliban is mind-blowing. He is a consummate actor with a range so vast that he is transformed to an almost unrecognizable state in this role. Olgine contorts his body in ways only a yoga master could attain. He performs for most of the show in crouched position with his torso bobbing near the stage floor. His vocal work as well as movement in addition to his shaved head and body painted skin make his role one of the most special in the show.<br />
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Sam Friia turns in his best work to date in the role of Ariel. He is true to every moment, every nuance, and subtlety in this role. Averi Beck proves once again that she has talents beyond her years with impeccable diction and stature in the role of Miranda. Beck has achieved a quality of talent and mastery of the craft by the age of fifteen rarely seen in performers of her age. The drunken clowns played by Loofboro and Wallace are over the top hilarious and without flaws. And Vanessa Banister’s Antonia is sufficiently sinister early on and later redeemed as Propsera forgives her.<br />
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In nearly every aspect, this production of “The Tempest” is a complete and organic work of art. Direction, choreography, special effects, and performances merge into a two and a half hour spectacle of magic, power, and energy rarely seen on stages in our Michigan communities. Innovative, well-conceived, appropriate, and even true to the essence of the original despite the re-interpretations this production is a special achievement that repeats through March 22nd. Don’t miss it!<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-46728938305922767172014-03-14T16:10:00.002-07:002014-03-16T07:24:16.618-07:00T-shirt #358 - Mage shirt (old)<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 07 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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I am writing about "today" tomorrow. As in I posted an incomplete message originally for today's blog, which is Friday. I was engaged in a long day of running errands today, and then had to speed off for dinner with my parents and a show I had to review, a very unusual and wonderful production of Shakespeare's <i>The Tempest</i>, which will be the subject of tomorrow's blog.<br />
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This is the original MAGE shirt (and hat). I have posted about the comic book <i>Mage</i> three times before. I have a newer and better (clean and unaged) <i>Mage </i>T-shirt left to share, which I will do in the blog's future, the blog's extended run. This was my first MAGE shirt, and when it began to show its age, and I decided to wear it out playing Ultimate, I retired it from the "dressy" shirt service and upgraded to a newer, nicer "mint" version of the MAGE shirt.<br />
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<b><u>HERE'S MY PREVIOUS <i>MAGE</i> CONTENT:</u></b><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/10/t-shirt-206-mage-what-color-is-magic.html">T-SHIRT #206 - MAGE - WHAT COLOR IS MAGIC</a><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-140-mage-joe-phat.html">T-SHIRT #140 - JOE PHAT - the nice one</a><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-229-work-shirt-joe-phat.html">T-SHIRT #229 - JOE PHAT - the work shirt</a><br />
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Here's some of that previous content:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Today's shirt is one of the oldest in my closet. I believe that Matt Wagner released this shirt far in advance of</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Mage: The Hero Defined</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, for which we Mage fans waited A VERY LONG TIME.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I submit for consideration that Kevin Matchstick is one of the coolest names for a hero and main character ever created.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">As for the shirt's subject matter, I first wrote about the </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Mage</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> series in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-140-mage-joe-phat.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #140</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, and intrigued some comic fans that a Joe Phat shirt existed. As I warned then, I own two Joe Phat shirts plus two of the Mage lightning bolt shirts (unless I purged the old one), and so I have plenty more chances to write about </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Mage</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, which is an important disclaimer as today I am restricting myself to four short topics, none of which are directly Mage-related.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Though the second </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Mage</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> series was finally released in 1997, I suspect that this shirt was released sometime between 1988 and 1992, hence my claim of its elderly status among the shirts in my closet. In fact, given its age and how worn it has been, I have all but retired it, allowing it languish in the depths of the extended closet.</span><br />
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The previous label can be read two ways. One way refers to the content I am delivering. The other way refers to a feeling and having more of it: feeling more content.<br />
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<i>MAGE</i> and his magic, glowing baseball bat reminds me of people who need that magic baseball bat upside the head.<br />
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We have a problem with people not paying attention and thinking they are the center of the universe.<br />
Yesterday, I was at the bank, exiting the parking lot, some lady in an SUV was entering, driving through a narrow lane that only allows one car, each way, to pass. She stops and is futzing with her phone, she looked like she was writing a text. Meanwhile, two cars have to stop behind her. Was her text or whatever she was doing so important that she had to make those two other drivers wait? I see a lot of this behavior, which seems to have only become worse with technological devices that people regard as more important than basic decency and considerate actions.<br />
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For the next bit, I am not sure who needs the baseball bat upside the head, the president or Mark Zuckerberg.<br />
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Then later, I am reading the BOING BOING feed, and I find this news item:<br />
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<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/03/14/zuckerberg-phones-obama-to-com.html">ZUCKERBERG CALLS PRESIDENT OBAMA</a>.<br />
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You can read the whole content there, but I am going to steal some of it.<br />
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The internet works because most people and companies do the same. We work together to create this secure environment and make our shared space even better for the world.</div>
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This is why I've been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government.</div>
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The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.</div>
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I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.</div>
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So it's up to us -- all of us -- to build the internet we want. Together, we can build a space that is greater and a more important part of the world than anything we have today, but is also safe and secure. I'm committed to seeing this happen, and you can count on Facebook to do our part.</div>
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By the way, Mr. Zuckerberg, the Internet is a proper name, and thus it is capitalized.<br />
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I am not sure that Mark Zuckerberg's intentions here are entirely altruistic, but I do like the cause he's chosen to champion.<br />
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The article is worth looking at, the accusations against the NSA are kind of frightening.<br />
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I am a sucker for a good cover. See that alluring David Lopez Captain Marvel cover? NICE.<br />
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I have not ever taken a picture of the Weekly Comics Stack. I think this is very good thing to do.<br />
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As you can see <i>Fantastic Four</i> hit the top of the stack followed by <i>Black Widow</i> and <i>The Walking Dead </i>as you can read in the list below. The <i>Captain Marvel</i> issue, despite its awesome cover, is somewhere in the middle. Nearer the bottom, though I am kind of excited about the issues, there's <i>STRAY BULLETS</i>, which is an excellent comic book. Lapham finally finished his previous run, and so that's the last issue (#41) of the previous run, and then the first of the new issues. Though obviously inspired by the film, <i>Pulp Fiction</i>, have been a fan for some time now. And you may also see a T-shirt, one of the last ones I ordered before I cut myself off (and back when I was worried that I would run out of shirts).<br />
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Here's the list. Those <i>Stray Bullets</i> issues may move up. Sometimes my mood shifts and other things become priorities.<br />
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<i>Fantastic Four </i>#002<br />
<i>Black Widow</i>#004<br />
<i>The Walking Dead</i> #123<br />
<i>All New X-Men</i> #024<br />
<i>The Superior Spider-Man</i> #029<br />
<i>Batman</i> #29<br />
<i>Mighty Avengers</i> #008<br />
<i>Secret Avengers</i> #001<br />
<i>Uber</i> #10<br />
<i>Hawkeye</i> #017<br />
<i>Captain Marvel </i> #001<br />
<i>Batgirl</i> #29<br />
<i>Justice League of America</i> #13<br />
<i>Superman/ Wonder Woman </i>#6<br />
<i>Nightwing</i> #29<br />
<i>Avengers Undercover</i> #1<br />
<i>Stray Bullets</i> #41<br />
<i>Stray Bullets: Killers</i> #1<br />
<i>X-Force</i> #2<br />
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<i>Astro City</i> #10<br />
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">SPECIAL PURCHASE</span></b><br />
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Inhumans T-shirt<br />
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I am sure I will be reviewing many of these comics in future blog posts.<br />
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I think I should start adding whiskey to my iced tea, coffee, whatever I am drinking all day, in large amounts. The grades I am giving would improve. I would enjoy giving them much more, and the students would appreciate my drunken scrawl of computer type.<br />
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I considered posting just one video on this page -- keeping it simple.<br />
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But then it has to be one Pixies video, and I feel I posted some of the best Pixies videos I could find when I posted about the Pixies for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/02/t-shirt-329-pixies.html">T-shirt # 329</a>.<br />
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I liked the pseudo "Battle of the Bands" thing I did for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-350-10000-maniacs-our-time-in.html">T-shirt #350</a>, but I did not want to post another TEN videos.<br />
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How about three videos?<br />
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<b><u>THREE VIDEOS TODAY - none of which are by the Pixies.</u></b><br />
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I really exhausted what I wanted to share on the Pixies in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/02/t-shirt-329-pixies.html">T-shirt # 329</a>.<br />
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I was going to include more long time favourites. But in recent years, I have become a huge fan of downtempo jazz, house, chillout house, ambient chill-out, deep house, and lounge music. Anything with a down beat or no down beat and just a chill factor. I prefer material without lyrics. My favourite chill artist is DJ Dimsa, who I think works in Europe somewhere, possibly Paris.<br />
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Here's the "about" on his YouTube channel. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DJDimsa">DJ DIMSA ON YOUTUBE</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">DJ Dimsa is a unique phenomenon representing a very new direction in international DJing. Bedroom DJ or a Professional? Lounge or Deep House DJ? A pioneer of the Internet DJ or a leader for the new breed of Social Media DJs? All of the above and none of them at the same time. DJ Dimsa clearly stands out from today's crowd of typical DJs who narrowly specialize on one and only genre and sound -- he takes the road less travelled and leverages his almost 30 years of musical background to create his unique sound. Dimsa is an Original Lounge Crusader. He has a mission, the LOUNGE mission: to share his moods, whether it's a beachside cafe or cluster of poolside cabanas in Mallorca, Spain or an ultra-chic and hip lounge in the Bay Area around San Francisco, Dimsa has it covered.</span><br />
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If you like this kind of thing, check out his mixes. It is my thing. Luckily, I was able to download some of his mixes from a DJ site two years ago. As far as I know he's not producing material that can be downloaded anymore.<br />
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I was going to share one of his new ones, but I found an older one on his You Tube channel that I like much better. Here it is.<br />
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Three songs that have meant more to me than I can express in words by artists for whom I do not own T-shirts.<br />
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I went live with the next one, even though none of the live recordings on You Tube are perfect as the very beginning of the song is cut off, and all the songs are shorter versions. Still, seeing and hearing the passion of Beth Orton doing this song is amazing.<br />
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I have seen Beth Orton twice. The first time I saw her in Irving Place in New York and I was watching the warm up band as she walked up behind me with her dress for the show slung over shoulder. Other people mobbed her, so I left her alone, but we exchanged smiles.<br />
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Beth Orton is one of my favorite all time singer-songwriters PERIOD. I discovered her quite by chance, when I decided to buy some new music, two new CDs, based on reviews in <i>Details </i>magazine. Both artists (the other is Lori Carson) have become two of my favorites.<br />
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This song has been an anthem to me. A healing balm. A passionate, angry, tortured testament to some love lost, found, found again, whatever.<br />
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It's just a great fucking song.<br />
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I had an argument with some wanker online over the lyrics. I say she's singing<br />
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And I won't waste a single second<br />
Living in hell as an idea of heaven<br />
And if one truth leads you to five<br />
I still don't believe in your reasons why<br />
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But this bloke, and many of the lyrics sites have<br />
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And I won't waste a single second<br />
Living in hell as a nadir of heaven<br />
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I still don't believe in your reasons why<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have no real plan here. I am just letting the energy of the universe and happenstance guide me in these picks. The songs have to be great and ones that have meant a great deal to me. They also have to be from artists I have not yet nor do not plan to share about. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Uploaded on Feb 17, 2011</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">originally transmitted 18.3.82. the clip everybody remembers - let the dry ice flow and the special effects roll..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am going to let this one speak for itself. Love this band and I love David Sylvian and his solo career since then.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwT3SqmLASNs4h2Ca9z2YXtT9_GtULAHDqLJBCX6-lDngm0ffejlGo7H7QpynKg15G9QZkDN3YcdBGpAky3V879-6DWmCq9nJ1vtMrIy3_Taf7T9YvGcos4YbvTzN0XUqkHhnPLA4fa4uH/s1600/Kalamazoo+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwT3SqmLASNs4h2Ca9z2YXtT9_GtULAHDqLJBCX6-lDngm0ffejlGo7H7QpynKg15G9QZkDN3YcdBGpAky3V879-6DWmCq9nJ1vtMrIy3_Taf7T9YvGcos4YbvTzN0XUqkHhnPLA4fa4uH/s1600/Kalamazoo+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a>Since yesterday's blog was about New York, I decided that today's blog would be about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo,_Michigan">KALAMAZOO</a> (Wiki link).<br />
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I have lived in Kalamazoo most of my life, even though technically I was living in Richland. Before that Richland, we lived in Schoolcraft and Traverse City. I was born in Midland and lived there until I was three years old.<br />
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I love Kalamazoo, and I am happy to report that so does my wife.<br />
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Technically, this is a shirt for KALAMAZOO COLLEGE, but I decided to take this opportunity to document my love for Kalamazoo with a photo gallery. Most of the shots are older ones that I was able to find online, though I included a few recent shots.<br />
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Yesterday, I wrote about NEW YORK CITY. I do love New York City, but after living there for a few months, I decided that I loved to visit, but I would not want to live there.<br />
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<b>MAJOR CITIES I HAVE BEEN IN: </b>Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, New York City, Columbia, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paris, and Boston.<br />
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From this list, I do not feel that I can make an informed decision about any city enough so as to proclaim it as the "GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD." I am not sure I can even pick a personal favorite.<br />
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I liked the malls, which gave this town its distinction of "mall city," which I wish it still had. The downtown mall. especially, was a progressive idea that no one around here seemed to have the patience to grow and nurture properly.<br />
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I have made a lot of good memories here. And so for today's blog, I want to pull out a lot of images of yesteryear to go with a few from now. I hope you like what you see.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUpTCWFPM-65f3SkixKugIZ7-FANqcStvAt3CHh4_Cpccl8BouuuHuLgWHrl-x9r5iMtfdMoCpOz4rEC75YcbwU9GPCsKlm_PZle-klOUopdK2gUwyhOEKncfrOAUZEniC6MZplgybvFyv/s1600/PowellsTodaysShirt1403+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUpTCWFPM-65f3SkixKugIZ7-FANqcStvAt3CHh4_Cpccl8BouuuHuLgWHrl-x9r5iMtfdMoCpOz4rEC75YcbwU9GPCsKlm_PZle-klOUopdK2gUwyhOEKncfrOAUZEniC6MZplgybvFyv/s1600/PowellsTodaysShirt1403+(2).jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">KALAMAZOO PICTURE GALLERY</span></u></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very old picture of North Burdick - year?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Mall postcard - 1960s?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collected four-way shot of Kalamazoo Mall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Public Library - 1965</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michigan Avenue looking east - recent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wonderful SCHENSUL'S Cafeteria circa 1970s</td></tr>
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My family ate at Schensul's a lot. It was easy, given that it was cafeteria style dining, and when I was first at Kalamazoo College I took many of my friends there as it was a Kalamazoo institution. I was very disappointed when the place closed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo map 1874</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Mall - 1960s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Mall with bridge - 1970s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo From Arcadia Creek - recent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Mall and DoubleDay - 1959</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Mall and Woolworth's - 1960s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Mall 1974</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burdick Street pre-Mall, Looking north, 1950s</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Public Museum and Planetarium<br />
Designed by my Dad's firm: Tower Pinkster</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo is more or less equidistant<br />
between Detroit and Chicago</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalamazoo Train Station 1998</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water Tower at the Kalamazoo State Psychiatric Hospital</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">recent photo; Michigan Avenue; Looking East</td></tr>
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Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-71396876635192354282014-03-11T17:20:00.001-07:002014-03-12T07:17:14.650-07:00T-shirt #355 - New York - Cow - Moon - Big City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tv974WebuToRN5QCsNN9kneIeVwwx28SrRIJXG9r6liVCCXuytxQ5LftFRXz3RJ11J-YXDGYTUUPIT8ehWIGc-G_e_fIiq94vQeIydhV6w3X-x9DQMOFoXuVI5Zv5eRg39ewKYrIYS_i/s1600/picture606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tv974WebuToRN5QCsNN9kneIeVwwx28SrRIJXG9r6liVCCXuytxQ5LftFRXz3RJ11J-YXDGYTUUPIT8ehWIGc-G_e_fIiq94vQeIydhV6w3X-x9DQMOFoXuVI5Zv5eRg39ewKYrIYS_i/s1600/picture606.jpg" /></a>I lived in new York for a while in 1985 doing a college internship at MARVEL COMICS. Yes, I went to Mecca. It was a surreal experience.<br />
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My first time in New York City was with my father in the fall of 1984 when we went to visit to check things out for where I would live and where I would work when I did the internship. I can't even remember where my dad and I stayed, though I am sure he could verify this for me with his calendar from that year. I may update this when I get the information.<br />
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I remember that my father and I went to see the film <i>Stop Making Sense</i> together when we were in New York for that two or three days in 1984.<br />
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I was there January-March 1985, and I have visited many times since. I fell in love with the city, and so today's blog post is dedicated to New York City and a tour of pictures and text by an artist I discovered online. More on that in a moment.<br />
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If you want to read more about my thoughts on New York and my time there, I have a New York category that contains my other New York blog entries. This was the first New York T-shirt I ever bought, though it was not bought in 1985. I was too cool for such T-shirts back then.<br />
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For now, a short anecdote. I am mad for maps. I can be seen in these pictures with my wallet-sized New York City maps. However, I was map-less when I first arrived in New York in January of 1985.<br />
I remember there was no snow then, which was odd as I just left a terrible ice storm in Michigan.<br />
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That first night, I wanted to go to Chinatown, as it was a siren call to me. Eschewing maps or looking at the maps posted in the subway station or on the train, so as to try to not look like a tourist, two of my friends and I (Bayard Bugbee and Margaret Wood) hopped on the southbound train caught in the Times Square subway station. I believe it was the NUMBER ONE train. I knew Chinatown was south of us and a quick glance at the map, when no one was looking, would take us there. However, I had not made a mental note of which street we wanted, and I had very limited experience with the subways thus far.<br />
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When I felt we had gone far enough south, I suggested we disembark at what I think was Houston Street. This was a Sunday night in January, maybe 9:30 p.m. We came up out of the tunnel to abandoned and empty streets with metal doors shielding business and few street lights. This area of the fashion district was closed up tight, and there were few to no open businesses.<br />
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Also, coming out of the tunnel, we were disoriented. Which way was south? How far were we from Chinatown?<br />
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It's always possible to triangulate your position once you leave the subway station by locating the Empire State Building. We were south of it, and so I quickly learned how to pick directions. We started walking but the streets were dark and scary, as I said. Eventually, I believe we got back on the Subway, and this time I located Canal Street on the map, and we found Chinatown. We ended up at a restaurant called Big Wong, which we thought was hilarious, on Bayard Street, which we thought was fortuitous because we were with a person named Bayard. Also, later, I discovered Christopher Street, which seemed equally coincidental that in all the city there were streets named for me and my roommate.<br />
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After that night, I bought myself a lot of maps of New York and learned the streets and the grid numbering system for better navigation.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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I am a day late posting this text for the blog and it's snowing right now, so my choice of this T-shirt to wear yesterday was prophetic, though the credit goes to my wife who was watching the forecasts closely. I have a snow day today from my class, and so I am catching up on bloggery before I get to work.<br />
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In my recent Internet research to complete Sunday's entry on <i>Shi</i>, I discovered this tumblr:</div>
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On her tumblr, I spotted many of these New York pictures, though I added a few more to my set for a total of fifteen to share with you today. The pictures come from this site:</div>
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The following pictures and text is all by Vivienne Gucwa. Check out her site. She also SELLS her images.</div>
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She has captured much of why I love New York, and thus, in the spirit of web 2.0, I will share fifteen of her images and text, without permission, but in the hopes that doing so draws more attention to her work. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.</div>
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<b><u>Flatiron Building and 5th Avenue Building Clock - New York City</u></b><br />
- By Vivienne Gucwa<br />
I have always loved the ornate clocks that line 5th Avenue, especially the Fifth Avenue Building Block that has a prime destination near the Flatiron Building. At 19 feet high, the cast-iron clock was installed in 1909 was made by a Brooklyn Iron Works company. It's a type of clock that was introduced in the 1860s. They were popular with business owners who wanted to attract extra attention and also served a functional purpose as time-telling pieces in a busy area of Manhattan. The juxtaposition between the Flatiron Building, one of New York City's iconic skyscrapers and this cast-iron clock has always put a smile on my face. The Flatiron Building, which was completed in 1902 is also a landmark in Manhattan. Its name is in reference to its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron. ---<br />
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<b><u>Autumn - New York City - Overlooking Union Square</u></b><br />
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On cloudy days in autumn, the trees stick out from the ground below like paintbrushes heavy with memories of the sun's embrace.<br />
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I love this view of Union Square Park looking towards the Empire State Building and the beautiful skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan. It's particularly gorgeous in the autumn when the trees change color before descending gracefully to the ground. ---<br />
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<b><u>Staple Street - Tribeca - New York City</u></b><br />
- By Vivienne Gucwa<br />
There are streets that I return to over and over again. These streets tug at memories I haven’t made yet while yanking memories I treasure from the deep recesses of my mind. They haunt me in all the best ways. They represent the New York City in my mind. Everyone seems to have a different version of New York City in their mind. It's the version that they look for when turning a corner and glancing down a street. My own version of New York City was formed early on. It's a result of falling in love with a combination of streetscapes in classic film noir cinema, futuristic sci-fi city environments in literature and film, and years of traversing New York City on foot. This is one of those streets that I could have only dreamed existed until I turned a corner one day and stopped dead in my tracks as I looked down the street towards the skybridge that crosses between buildings. It’s Staple Street in Tribeca. A tiny alley-like street, it contains one of the most fascinating pedestrian bridges (also known as a skyway, traverse, skywalk and a host of other terms) I have ever seen in New York City. Some history about this street: “In 1894, New York Hospital built the House of Relief, a downtown clinic, on Jay from Hudson to Staple, with an ambulance entrance facing Staple. In that year The New York Herald noted that the hospital was sending its ambulance out as often as seven times a day, sometimes on emergencies involving sunstroke, ”which so often occurs in the lower part of the city,” perhaps because of the large number of men working outdoors on the docks. In 1907 the hospital built an annex across Staple Street (replacing the saloon/row house at Jay and Staple) as a stable and laundry, connecting it at the third-floor level using a pedestrian bridge. Although Staple Street was then just an industrial alley, the hospital had the architects Robertson & Potter design a handsome little building with a terra cotta plaque bearing the ”NYH” monogram on the Staple Street side. The monogram is still there.” - from “Streetscapes: Staple Street in TriBeCa” New York Times By Christopher Gray, February 2001 ---<br />
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<b>Flatiron Building Sunset - Autumn - New York City</b><br />
- By Vivienne Gucwa<br />
Late autumn in New York City has its own brisk beauty. Cold air sharply punctuates the end of every wind gust and the sun retreats earlier and earlier every day. Autumn clings to December in the brief moments before the trees drop their leaves to the ground for good and every afternoon sunset reaches through the sharp cold with its lighted fingers in one last dramatic attempt to bring warmth to the city. --- This particular view is of the Flatiron Building, one of New York City's unique and classic skyscrapers, as seen from inside Madison Square Park during autumn. ---<br />
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<b><u>Density - Above Chinatown - New York City</u></b><br />
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There are streets that, for me, fill in the image of New York City that exists in my mind.<br />
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I have spoken about this before in older posts. Everyone seems to have their own image of New York City that, for them, represents so much more than just the geographical spot that New York City inhabits on any sort of map. These streets are the embodiment of a core concept that has defined New York City for many decades. The sheer density of people that grace these streets with their presence seem to imbue streets like these with the weight of their aspirations.<br />
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New York City has always been a destination for those seeking a generalized concept of a better life. As an economic lighthouse and representation of (the steadily crumbling, nearly non-existent concept of) the American Dream, New York City has attracted people from all over the world especially during the last century.<br />
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I grew up the child of an immigrant to the United States. My mother's family fled Eastern Europe after World War II. They (including her) were victims of the war, concentration camp and labor camp survivors who carried with them mental scars so deep that it took years for them to gain even a small modicum of a foothold here.<br />
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I have always felt disconnected from her experience though. My mother who wanted her children to blend in rather than stick out as she did when she immigrated here, did her best to give me and my brothers a fairly normal American childhood where we grew up in Queens. It wasn't until a decade ago when I started to ask her about her own immigration story after starting to delve into my own fascination with the history of New York City that I started to understand the gravity of what it means to come to a place like New York City with little more than a massive amount of dreams.<br />
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And so, shortly after moving to the Lower East Side from elsewhere in Manhattan I came across this street (the one in this photo) since it sits in a neighborhood that borders the Lower East Side and Chinatown and it felt as if I could finally understand what it must have been like for my mother and for all those who came here to America with eyes full of hope. It's not that my mother settled here. But rather that it's as if this street has been steeped in a time when the world and New York City was a different place, one that held out vast amounts of heady fortune in its outstretched hands. The world has changed quite a bit since my mother first set foot here. It's harder (dare I say almost completely difficult) to come here with next to nothing and make a decent life for yourself. The hands are still held out but they are no longer outstretched for everyone.<br />
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When I look at this street today, I see many of the original tenements that were standing one hundred years ago when waves of immigrants came to New York City following their own hazy image of what New York City embodied in their minds and those who traverse this street today are not so far removed from my mother who traversed the streets of New York City for many decades. It's as if, for the few minutes that I spend gazing at this street below as I often do, I am connected in a deeper way to all the dreamers that called and still call New York City their home.<br />
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<b><u>Heart of it All - Above Chinatown - New York City</u></b><br />
- By Vivienne Gucwa<br />
This is one of my favorite views of Chinatown. The view is of East Broadway, a main street in Chinatown that extends into the Lower East Side. A girl sits on one of the rooftops eating a bowl of food in the upper right hand corner of this photo. The Municipal Building sits in the distance. This particular spot is a Chinatown neighborhood known as ‘Two Bridges’. Two Bridges sits along the East River and has long been a dwelling spot for many different immigrant communities over the years. It sits alongside the infamous and historic Five Points area where Irish, Jewish and Italian gangs battled to the death in the mid-19th century. It is currently home to a large community of Chinese immigrants and many of the buildings are tenements dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ---<br />
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Looking through the bleary-eyed clouds that fill the sky above, the cracks of the city's streets and sidewalks stretch across its body like wrinkles on well-worn skin while street signs and buildings melt into each other pouring themselves into a river of colors.</div>
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<b><u>The Infinite Sprawl - The Empire State Building and the New York City Skyline</u></b><br />
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On a hazy day, New York City stretches on indefinitely: infinity sprawling out like a somnolent feline. Clouds cast a bone-white hue on the tops of skyscrapers that jut out of the landscape: their axis-mundi-aspirations propelling them skyward. The day languidly yawns, its heavy eyelids blurring the horizon. --- Despite growing up in New York City, I hadn’t been to the tops of any of the iconic skyscrapers with observation decks since I was very, very little. The Top of the Rock is an observation deck on the top of Rockefeller Center. It closed in 1986 for renovations and reopened in 2005. When I was younger, I went on a few school trips to Rockefeller Center to go on the NBC Studios tour which was a lot of fun but since it was the late 80s and early 90s, the top was closed to visitors. In recent years, I decided to finally visit the Top of the Rock. The Top of the Rock is the top of what is also known as the GE Building. It’s an Art Deco skyscraper that is in the center of Rockefeller Center. The GE Building used to be known as the RCA Building until the mid 1980s when GE incorporated RCA and NBC. The building is 850 feet tall (70 stories) and since the address is 30 Rockefeller Center, it is usually referred to as “30 Rock”. What I find really incredible about the observation decks at Top of the Rock aside from the views is that there is so much room. There are three observation decks in total and all three are designed to resemble the upper decks of a 1930s luxury ocean liner complete with deck chairs. Two of the decks on the the 67th and 69th floors include outdoor terraces which are enclosed in transparent, safety glass. The top deck which is on the 70th floor features a completely open air, unobstructed 360-degree view of New York City and beyond. The day I went, there were barely any people up on the top deck with me since the weather wasn’t ideal. However, I think it’s often less crowded than the Empire State Building’s observation deck even in beautiful weather. At 850 feet above street level, the view is jaw-dropping and includes complete views of Central Park and the Empire State Building which you can’t really complain about. ---<br />
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<b>The Manhattan Bridge and the New York City Skyline at Sunset</b><br />
- By Vivienne Gucwa<br />
This image inhabits a very special place in my heart. It was taken near the tail-end of a storm back. It had rained only an hour before I made my way across the Brooklyn Bridge and as the sun started to set over New York City, the storm clouds parted just enough to allow the most magnificent amount of sunlight wash over the Manhattan Bridge. As the rest of the New York City skyline faded into the languid haze in behind the gorgeously lit bridge, I knew right then and there that photography was something that made me feel more alive and at one with myself than anything else in the world. --- Can also be found in the limited and standard print editions of The Plus One Collection photography book. You can read about it here if you are so inclined: <a href="http://nythroughthelens.com/post/17337889238/the-plus-one-collection-the-photographer">http://nythroughthelens.com/post/17337889238/the-plus-one-collection-the-photographer</a><br />
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<b><u>Sunday Morning on Orchard Street - Lower East Side - New York City</u></b><br />
- By Vivienne Gucwa<br />
On cold city mornings, birds pepper the bone-white sky with movement. And through the haze left over by clouds caught in the scuffle between autumn and winter, the wind rushes through the streets like the ghosts of yesterday's thoughts. ---<br />
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<b><u>Doyers Street - Rain - Chinatown - New York City</u></b><br />
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This was taken during last year's Manhattanhenge sunset.The experience was rather intense. Even though I got to the overpass an hour and a half before sunset, I was told that many photographers had set up their equipment as early as 3 pm. When the sun started its very dramatic descent all that could be heard was the sound of cameras clicking away. It's definitely a phenomenon I don't plan to ever skip now that I have experienced it. While the sun's dramatic dip only lasts for a few minutes, it's enough to take one's breath away for the entire duration. The city is bathed in the light from the sun and the most beautiful red glow is cast through the streets. Manhattanhenge is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. It was coined in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. --- </div>
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<b><u>The New York City Skyline from Above</u></b><br />
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The sun dances slow with the skyscrapers of the New York City skyline in the summer as the clouds kiss the horizon and haze emanates from the collective heat of these intimate encounters. --- I love viewing the New York City skyline in late summer. While the visibility is often limited due to the haze, there is something really exquisite in the way that the foreground skyscrapers appear in this sort of view. This particular view is facing north. On the right side of the image, notable skyscrapers that can be seen are the Chrysler Building and the MetLife building (which stands over Grand Central Terminal). 30 Rock and Rockefeller Center can be seen straight ahead looking out over Central Park and the buildings that line Central Park West. On the left side of the image, a notable skyscraper that can be seen in this view is the Bank of America Tower (with the pointy tip) which stands next to the green MetLife building and overlooks Bryant Park. ---<br />
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<b><u>Every Yesterday - Lower East Side - New York City</u></b><br />
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Store gates slumber in the folds of the day when the sun and clouds fall over the city like exhaled breath wrapping the cityscape in sleepy thoughts. And on these slumbering store gates, dreamscapes unfold surrounded by the discarded remnants of every yesterday and every today. ---<br />
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<b><u>New York Alley - Lower East Side</u></b><br />
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When I was younger, I thought that New York City was teeming with alleys and narrow streets fueled by an over-active imagination and a predilection for film noir cityscapes. I wanted to believe that New York City harbored the best and brightest of in-between places and worn out spaces. The truth is that while New York City does have alleys, they are a pretty rare sight. Perhaps that is why I am so drawn to the ones that do exist. ---<br />
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<b><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 10 shirts remaining</u></b></div>
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- chris tower - first published - 1403.11 - 20:20<br />
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Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-56018662138122020742014-03-10T17:05:00.002-07:002014-03-18T06:24:02.226-07:00T-shirt #354: East Towne Entropy<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 11 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br>
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br>
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For most of my blog year, which started almost an entire year ago, this shirt was my life preserver. As I posted about one shirt per day for what has now been THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR days, I always thought to myself: "Well, when I get to the end, I always have that box with a few left over Ultimate shirts, especially the East Towne Entropy shirt."<br>
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So, as Mondays was the most common day for me to post Ultimate shirts this year (because of the day we play Ultimate), I post this one today for my next to last Monday. The blog's last day is next Friday the 21st of March, though I have considered posting the next day, which would be shirts remaining ZERO, but it would also be T-shirt #366, as I did not start the counting with ZERO. I started with Number One.<br>
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I do really love this shirt and feel badly that it's been relegated to a box since our move to Kalamazoo in the Fall of 2012. East Towne is an area of Grand Rapids where some cool folks had an Ultimate team that practiced at Wilcox Park. Keen for any Ultimate, and lacking it in Kalamazoo in the 1990s, I would drive to Grand Rapids at least once a week to play with the East Towners. The captain, John Schwartz, was excited when he discovered that "entropy" is defined as "an ultimate state of inert uniformity." Though, technically, this should be "The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity" (according to <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/">THE FREE DICTIONARY</a>, my favorite dictionary site and rss reader).<br>
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GRADING ROBOT has final grades due tomorrow, and is in overdrive to finish, and so that's all for NEW content today. But since this shirt is devoted to entropy, I thought I would randomly select some bits from my year of blogging and re-post as a way to entertain you with content you read before but forgot or content you never read at all. I will randomly select with a random number generator.<br>
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I will do seven because that's how many projects I have left to grade.<br>
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I am going to cheat. No random number generator. And I will pick randomly from the first 120 or so only.<br>
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<i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Battlestar Galactica </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">would surely make my top five favorite all-time TV shows, though I hesitate to make a top five list that is not separated by genre. Certainly, </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Star Trek</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Lost, </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">and </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Buffy the Vampire Slayer </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">would make this list. Though I love </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">A Charlie Brown Christmas</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, (which is in </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Time</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">'s list), I would not include one-shot programs in a favorite all time list. Comedies and reality TV shows (I do love </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Survivor</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">) would be relegated to separate lists for their respective genres. And, really, I would not rate a show like </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Battlestar Galactica </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">next to shows like </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Gilmore Girls</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Veronica Mars</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, or </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Felicity, </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">which really fall into another category entirely.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Why was </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Battlestar Galactica</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> so good? Pathos. The show featured razor's edge tension and cathartic pathos unlike any other SF or "fantastic" TV show of its kind. The acting was superb. The writing was superb. The visual and sound effects won Emmys. Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell rocked the park. It's full of surprises and mysteries and intricacies of plot, character, and long term story building (as certain elements of the show's finale are set up in the show's original mini-series).</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But at first? If you know the 1970s program, there are adjustments to make. Starbuck is a woman?? WHAT?? Cylons are human-looking??? HUH? Stick with it. Because the punch it packs is unlike anything I have ever experienced in episodic TV. In the end, for its overall excellence, I would rank it above both </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Lost, </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">and </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, which I loved dearly, but which had flaws that BSG lacked.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghnLqz1NPfgx32QA96sUHuLx0cIx0xLgfjLcW4bdrgYERdaMSbQgz1THKuumXN2V7czLkUNXTACVCt9ACZ9Y1vgtY31cAuBSAEu4f2wpmJCx2yr_cF9QsOYgsJOxOcx-8DwWPqk12u8pML/s1600/DailyPlanetRing1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghnLqz1NPfgx32QA96sUHuLx0cIx0xLgfjLcW4bdrgYERdaMSbQgz1THKuumXN2V7czLkUNXTACVCt9ACZ9Y1vgtY31cAuBSAEu4f2wpmJCx2yr_cF9QsOYgsJOxOcx-8DwWPqk12u8pML/s400/DailyPlanetRing1.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="238"></a><span style="background-color: yellow;">T-shirt #107: The Daily Planet, Random News, and the Missing Ring</span><br><br>I promise for once this will be short. Or at least shorter. I have gone a little nuts lately, but, hey, time off, vacation, freedom, and thus more writing and time in research. I had some fun.<br><br>Yesterday (Friday July 5th), I had a haircut.<br><br>Here is a picture of me in the salon (left).<br><br>I was just out the door of my home and at the stop light at our nearest major intersection when I discovered that I had left the house without my wedding ring.<br><br>Had I not been late to my appointment at the salon, I would have turned around and retrieved my ring. But I did not, so I thought that this would be a cute picture. A thank you to Tim at Ultima Salon for the photo.<br><br><br>I hate being without my wedding ring. I only take it off to shower or wash my hands. But sometimes, I forget to put it back on, such as when I am doing dishes and get called away or when I am in a hurry and leave the house in a rush.<br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0AM4A6JS7jomLPfDppP21h31u3z6LPg75YCL9QJui63hm65DCUymUKJd8uroY4k0um3XRP3TFHxlefODJ3I4sNly70O1uWh3H09wwS-cqEBFLe31PKV1_8tA7vqf-aRpzeKoDp0g-LZi/s1600/DailyPlanetRing2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0AM4A6JS7jomLPfDppP21h31u3z6LPg75YCL9QJui63hm65DCUymUKJd8uroY4k0um3XRP3TFHxlefODJ3I4sNly70O1uWh3H09wwS-cqEBFLe31PKV1_8tA7vqf-aRpzeKoDp0g-LZi/s400/DailyPlanetRing2.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400"></a>When I am without my wedding ring and I am not absolutely certain where it is, I feel PANIC. I am terrified of losing it. Though it's just a ring, it is a very important ring, and I am sentimental about it. Made of Tungsten, if I am ever seriously injured, I may lose a finger as the ring cannot be cut off. It would be great if I was able to slip it off in the middle of a serious accident. I will work on developing that super power.<br><br>Of course, this time, my ring was where I left it on the bathroom counter, and I was much relieved when I returned home and put it back on my finger. Whew!</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">T-shirts ordered at Fanfare (mostly comic book related) - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/03/t-shirt-1-son-of-satan.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #1</a> Son Of Satan</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Concert T-shirts - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-86-erykah-badu.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #86</a> Erykah Badu</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">T-shirts bought on trips and vacations - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-85-up-north.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #85 - Up North</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Gifts - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-62-comics-code-authority.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #63 The Comics Code Authority</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Ultimate T-shirts - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-60-musl-2007-team-venom.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #60 Team Venom</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Sports T-shirts to show my fandom - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-shirt-15-tigers-opening-day-in-detroit.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #15 - Tigers ALCS Champs 2012</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Shirts I bought to support a business - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/03/t-shirt-9-peoples-food-co-op.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #9 The People's Food Co-op</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Shirts I ordered based on Internet/social media ads - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-shirt-23-planet-of-snapes.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #23 Planet of the Snapes</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Shirts I had made to order - <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-64-embrace-uncertainty-question.html" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #64 Embrace Uncertainty</a></li>
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<br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Now, I would add a tenth category in that I have been purchasing shirts based on what I want to write about and feature in this blog, such as my </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> shirt for </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-79-planet-of-apes-evolution.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #79</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, my Evolution of Darth Vader shirt for </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-45-star-wars-evolution-of-darth.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #45</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, or my SpektrModule shirt for </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-75-spektrmodule.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #75</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWAvH0ORHDrRnFCeW1tMkiCa7KJyvXSbvieXTb_AwZd0E7XMZHtSuG_-4H54AR2IPPMYgVn0MR2iz9v5Ytg8BmTMnxNLTyXvtYyMEX0kqOq3hYvEfaoY1nlGFt0en0Mby3O7m4ImsrARPU/s1600/Alien-Zombie-Robots-VennDiagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWAvH0ORHDrRnFCeW1tMkiCa7KJyvXSbvieXTb_AwZd0E7XMZHtSuG_-4H54AR2IPPMYgVn0MR2iz9v5Ytg8BmTMnxNLTyXvtYyMEX0kqOq3hYvEfaoY1nlGFt0en0Mby3O7m4ImsrARPU/s1600/Alien-Zombie-Robots-VennDiagram.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a><span style="background-color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">WILL I WEAR THIS SHIRT?</span></span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u>Shirts with "sayings":</u></b><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> There are many T-shirt companies, even more now with the Internet that feature DAILY T-shirts. Prior to the easy accessibility to the Internet, catalogues like Wireless would offer all sorts of specialty T-shirts with cute sayings. Today's T-shirt came from the Wireless Christmas catalogue circa 2012. Though I am not finding it in a Google search at Wireless, but if you like it, try </span><a href="http://www.snorgtees.com/zombies-robots-and-aliens-venn-diagram?gclid=CO_3vs7s6LcCFfBaMgodexIAiQ" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">SNORG Tees</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> in grey (not this nice green).</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I am very choosy about the "shirts with sayings" that I purchase. I like the Venn Diagram idea, and since I had only one other Venn Diagram shirt, as gifted to me by my best friend (and also a great father), the Lord of Chaos, Tom Meyers, which I featured in </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-77-narcissism.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #77: Narcissism</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, wherein one could find a secret message that I do not think anyone has actually found yet, I bought this one. (How is that for a complicated sentence??) I think this shirt is clever enough to wear with some pride. However, I am very wary of the "I am Stupid" type shirts, and so very choosy of the shirts with sayings that I own. I have a few more, though, so I will be returning to this topic in the future.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u>Shirts with brands:</u></b><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> Technically, almost all of my shirts fall into this category. A comic book is a brand. The logo of the hero is surely the brand's trademark (and it is legally trademarked). Movies, TV shows, sports teams, and so on are all brands, and I am providing free advertising for them with my T-shirts. In fact, I am spending MY OWN MONEY to be a walking advertisement for the brand. I know I have written about the advertising angle before on this blog, but I am not finding where and in what entries. Feel free to explore and let me know.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">So, setting aside these approved brands, you will not see me in a shirt that advertises a clothing company (the Gap, Ambercrombie and Fitch) or a soda pop (though I did have a Pepsi shirt that is now a rag, but I am not sure where it is... though it may make an appearance). With the exception of two shirts advertising Bell's beer, I do not own any alcohol related shirts.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This blog is very much dedicated to the kinds of things I feel are worth wearing on a shirt and parading around with pride as a walking billboard for the product depicted. I am increasingly snobbish about what I find acceptable and unacceptable in this regard, and a trip to the mall the other night MORE than confirmed this snobbery for me. More to come on this subject in future blogs.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">One of my first logo T-shirts was the Flash logo. This is actually my second Flash T-shirt.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_oj2q3DiJQTGP0oYWlraWv2hUhyphenhyphen-pRsAvrbYeE33HwnQ4K_l73TjhKPhO37U7HJudLsGKJzjxjB6qf8XgK3RkbDbPCTptcmRc52V8fmQEX1QYxOl6QVUC7ga2hgZHub1_eDZQV1q6XoA/s1600/Flash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_oj2q3DiJQTGP0oYWlraWv2hUhyphenhyphen-pRsAvrbYeE33HwnQ4K_l73TjhKPhO37U7HJudLsGKJzjxjB6qf8XgK3RkbDbPCTptcmRc52V8fmQEX1QYxOl6QVUC7ga2hgZHub1_eDZQV1q6XoA/s320/Flash.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320"></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Flash logo is one of the coolest superhero logos in all of comics. As a fan of logos, I am prepared to argue that DC comics has the better logos compared to Marvel Comics. Sure, the Fantastic Four logo is simple and basic as is Spider-Man's logo. The X-Men logo is iconic. Though not all the heroes or organizations have logos in Marvel Comics, I like the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo very much (as you will see since I own a shirt for this one), then again, I like the HYDRA logo, too. Other notable Marvel logos include Iron Fist, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Mar-Vell (or Captain Marvel for Marvel), the Punisher, and Captain America. Maybe later this year after I have posted many of my logo shirts, I can do a comparison of logos and which are more iconic and viral.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">With casual consideration, I say DC Comics' logos beat Marvel Comics' logos for cool factor, iconic status, and recognizability. Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Aquaman, Deadman, all the Legion of Superheroes logos, the Metal Men logos, the Teen Titans, and so on. Wow. Among these, Flash's logo is arguably top five. Possibly, even tied for number one as the best and coolest with the Batman logo. Thus, the Flash logo adorns my Smart Phone case. I love it.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygyhc-enhiDqCG-uFTMAsmnxfCypqH9HVGKfnWJK1V1HG4RhNoXHKIznvA8PZa7JSbP4Q0AQF4rUTwk8e6JaFxZQzXIuOzYgoaT86gQkzmbS7AZLGTcWNsMdIRbW5D4b3mcTdNK7J2eSh/s1600/Flash177.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygyhc-enhiDqCG-uFTMAsmnxfCypqH9HVGKfnWJK1V1HG4RhNoXHKIznvA8PZa7JSbP4Q0AQF4rUTwk8e6JaFxZQzXIuOzYgoaT86gQkzmbS7AZLGTcWNsMdIRbW5D4b3mcTdNK7J2eSh/s320/Flash177.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="216"></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I was inspired to select the Flash shirt for today's shirt not only because I love the Flash insignia but also because of the recent death of one of the greatest and most influential of artists who worked on the Silver Age Flash: Carmine Infantino. My friend Charles Skaggs, who writes the blog </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Damn Good Coffee... and Hot!</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, wrote an excellent post on the death of Infantio that can be read here:</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://charlesskaggs.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-flashs-carmine-infantino-passes-at.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">THE FLASH's Carmine Infantino Passes at 87.</a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcPit6thmKREMDwNu0HiPrV8Kw_820xmsXUNcva4pmQvOyAgowPKpNktkp0u5giZckhyphenhyphenscEHY5Z98jNiTGxpGr8pi8KVxxKcgVEe0lZBaRewAhMh0RAAtat_RwZbz7qhVeAkZkkUt-mpJ/s1600/Flash_v.1_180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcPit6thmKREMDwNu0HiPrV8Kw_820xmsXUNcva4pmQvOyAgowPKpNktkp0u5giZckhyphenhyphenscEHY5Z98jNiTGxpGr8pi8KVxxKcgVEe0lZBaRewAhMh0RAAtat_RwZbz7qhVeAkZkkUt-mpJ/s320/Flash_v.1_180.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="216"></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">My parents purchased an issue of </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>the Flash</b></i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> for me as one of my earliest comic books. I am including two covers here. I am not sure which issue I owned first, but these are definitely my first two </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Flash</b></i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> comics. Given that 177 comes before 180, it's likely that the "big head" issue was my first Flash comic, though in the old days some back issues could be found lingering in racks and shelving units, and it's possible that I was given 180 first or both together. Flash #177 was published in 1968 when I was six years old. I received my first comic in 1966 at the age of four, but that's a story for another time.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I love the Flash because the Flash is cool. I won't render a complete biography replete with descriptions of all the characters to assume the mantle of the Flash. Those who are interested can check the Wikipedia page for the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(comics)" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Scarlet Speedster</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. Wikipedia is actually quite a good source for basic information about things, especially comic book related matters. And OMG! I just found the </span><a href="http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DC WIKI DATABASE</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. WOW!! I am having a geek overdose.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The advertisements for Quisp were created by Jay Ward, an animator who had worked on the</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Rocky and Bullwinkle</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> cartoon (one of my favorites). In both 1972 and 1976, Quaker ran a competition between two of its cereals, asking fans to vote on which cereal would remain on the shelves and which would be discontinued. Each time Quisp beat Quake and Quangaroos, respectively, to remain in production.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyKWEMiLCU00MGR-g9sEnyI3cfSi2N4u46okthyphenhyphenMXozUkeHyeXefd4y2Q-rqrM3JCiaKPZvmBjv26ZAIiVaHHXPLBPScRCLJXpLhrsRyKki4os1SbptD8nRxrDHR1zneiwGtMvpljTsVA/s1600/QuispShirtandWatch+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; display: inline !important; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyKWEMiLCU00MGR-g9sEnyI3cfSi2N4u46okthyphenhyphenMXozUkeHyeXefd4y2Q-rqrM3JCiaKPZvmBjv26ZAIiVaHHXPLBPScRCLJXpLhrsRyKki4os1SbptD8nRxrDHR1zneiwGtMvpljTsVA/s1600/QuispShirtandWatch+(1).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnhotdwL9R6vnWcDT57nGUHBbxiSzy9t4Q6_085luDzHdOV9lbmFOD-6FFVdKKKDYdOwAuQgEUvYLyeZv9I8LUcYLjCV0hgWWmVPcEVWgDRCY1BrGHMCzGNmxZmt15mMyIgRbt_h3HxzZ/s1600/QuispShirtandWatch+(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnhotdwL9R6vnWcDT57nGUHBbxiSzy9t4Q6_085luDzHdOV9lbmFOD-6FFVdKKKDYdOwAuQgEUvYLyeZv9I8LUcYLjCV0hgWWmVPcEVWgDRCY1BrGHMCzGNmxZmt15mMyIgRbt_h3HxzZ/s1600/QuispShirtandWatch+(3).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Though sales began to fade as the '70s also faded and Quisp was eventually discontinued, its frequent return is further proof of the power of fandom, crying out for the cereal of their youth. Quisp has returned once a decade since the Seventies.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Quisp became the first cereal for sale on the Internet starting in 2001.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">In the 2000s, Quaker sold a commemorative watch via the Quisp website (now defunct).</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeV1vAvBtcnzPRv_Uv1BDjVJHe0Uut1xFEa1unbmPVBQfeV_x3D1wPCJkahbAohkC7vZS3w-xATK8u59JzdHrX7TGPH2qP232P0urxlG-gvIPAjdLeHtReiPla4kkaN_2O2Iwdhpxphwv/s1600/quispwatch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeV1vAvBtcnzPRv_Uv1BDjVJHe0Uut1xFEa1unbmPVBQfeV_x3D1wPCJkahbAohkC7vZS3w-xATK8u59JzdHrX7TGPH2qP232P0urxlG-gvIPAjdLeHtReiPla4kkaN_2O2Iwdhpxphwv/s1600/quispwatch.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Marie Javins, a longtime blogger (also a comic book creator), writes about the watch on her blog</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://mariejavins.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favorite-martian.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">NO HURRY IN ... (now Jersey City) AFRICA</a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">in 2007.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqus05W8r_2EbHI2doy-nI6rEnkzJmdec3_3LliK6UJJB9doJBmluLDRWV-dqhuyOY_nxmIa67SeyjXwpzn4WgTNsjq9YFkzJHIw6IZL_ExppKbf4NzIpkl-eYs3BniuB7iWSJVZFqwvlh/s1600/Quisp+Cereal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqus05W8r_2EbHI2doy-nI6rEnkzJmdec3_3LliK6UJJB9doJBmluLDRWV-dqhuyOY_nxmIa67SeyjXwpzn4WgTNsjq9YFkzJHIw6IZL_ExppKbf4NzIpkl-eYs3BniuB7iWSJVZFqwvlh/s320/Quisp+Cereal.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320"></a><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u></u></b><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u><b><u><br></u></b></u></b><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></span><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u><b><u><br></u></b></u></b><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></span><b style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><u>Here are some good QUISP resources:</u></b><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisp" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">QUISP ON WIKIPEDIA</a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://www.hometownfavorites.com/quaker-quisp-8-5-oz-by-quaker/" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">QUAKER QUISP: HOMETOWN FAVORITES</a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/everything-you-could-possibly-ever-want-to-know-about-quisp" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">EVERYTHING YOU COULD POSSIBLY EVER WANT TO KNOW ABOUT QUISP</a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/quisp-cereal-returns-store-shelves-find-retro-8784217.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">QUISP RETURNS TO STORE SHELVES - 2011</a><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; 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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">A great deal of my playtime as a young boy involved </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Planet of the Apes </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">franchise. As seen here, I had many of the figures and playsets. I wrote stories about </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Planet of the Apes.</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> I wrote synopses of all the episodes of the 1974 TV show. I collected and read the comic books published by Marvel Comics about the apes and all the movie novelizations. I devised my own stories of time loops and paradoxes during years of play time during which I was as obsessed with the </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> as I was with other great and inspirational TV shows and films, such as </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Dark Shadows</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, which is one of the few I did not mention in my list two paragraphs previously.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: #999999; clear: both; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The idea of paradox fascinated me. In the five-film Apes story, during the first iteration, two of the key players, Zira and Cornelius, are born in a future version of the Earth circa the 3900s. After Taylor (Heston) and his astronaut crew are flung into Zira and Cornelius' future (</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film)" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Planet of the Apes</a></i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">), Taylor and an astronaut from a second ship, Brent (Franciscus), play a role in the destruction of the Earth (</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Beneath the Planet of the Apes</a></i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">). But before, the planet is destroyed, Zira and Cornelius launch Taylor's space ship and journey through a time warp back to 1973. In what was the near future to this film's present (</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Escape from the Planet of the Apes</a> </i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">was released in 1971), Zira gives birth to a child (monkey) that grows up to be Caesar the leader of the ape revolt that culminates in the use of nuclear weapons and Earth's partial destruction (</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Conquest of the Planet of the Apes</a></i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">). The fifth film (</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;">Battle for the Planet of the Apes</a></i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">) takes place at least twelve years later in a world post-nuclear holocaust and chronicles struggles between humans and apes, raising the question as to whether apes and humans can co-exist in peace or in a state of constant war.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUqazamImKQ4evUfxd_CtiWtfYVnJI5hhkxrHtRv0uVzWI9WwX1Q5yFyBoD2bPB1IN_3W6JvqFttEeqiB4nZtIKmbVkfH2Ps2Vzxvzv277qS9lG8kVVrD53nUs6QDNUtB9Lp5SR-2WoVw/s1600/planetoftheapesposter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUqazamImKQ4evUfxd_CtiWtfYVnJI5hhkxrHtRv0uVzWI9WwX1Q5yFyBoD2bPB1IN_3W6JvqFttEeqiB4nZtIKmbVkfH2Ps2Vzxvzv277qS9lG8kVVrD53nUs6QDNUtB9Lp5SR-2WoVw/s320/planetoftheapesposter.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="208"></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The stories create a time loop. In the first iteration, in which Zira and Cornelius are born in the earth of the 3900s, Caesar is a historical figure who started the ape revolution against the humans, though by this time the original human society is much forgotten by the majority of apes, who believe that they have always been the dominant species on the planet. And yet, Caesar is Zira and Cornelius's son, who does not exist until they go back in time, and Zira gives birth to him. And yet, he cannot exist until Zira and Cornelius are born 2000 years in his future. I use the term "first iteration" because from our perspective in learning the story, it begins for us with</span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> and a version of Zira and Cornelius before they go back in time and before Zira gives birth to Caesar. And yet, Caesar has already been born. Hence the "paradox," and my introduction to the chicken-egg conundrum. Though I should not say that this was my first introduction to such a puzzle, since many of the SF related shows I listed dealt with similar time paradoxes, especially the TV show </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Time Tunnel</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwBWIpSw5eBC4GUaUzN_WZG-WEHOtHbYOs08ZSOLbd0qvYQ-ALwz9PqFwv5gEr934CAxNuUtrep0R9XZ9cVWML88E3j9FqFeNT8zkuf84uLu9pW7ENcmjbepOnQX-a7kO4oFqTeioBZ8k/s1600/planetoftheapes19682006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #999999; clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwBWIpSw5eBC4GUaUzN_WZG-WEHOtHbYOs08ZSOLbd0qvYQ-ALwz9PqFwv5gEr934CAxNuUtrep0R9XZ9cVWML88E3j9FqFeNT8zkuf84uLu9pW7ENcmjbepOnQX-a7kO4oFqTeioBZ8k/s320/planetoftheapes19682006.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="234"></a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">And yet, the time paradox from </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> is the one I remember best as having the greatest impact on my own sensibilities as a budding writer. As I mentioned, I wrote many </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> themed stories and studied the entire set of tales closely with detailed synopses that I kept in a notebook. Shortly thereafter, I started my first major SF story epic, which I wrote in a series of notebooks from around 1974-1977. I called this story "Zeroes," and it dealt with a time cycle paradox and the idea of infinity. In my estimation, I could not conceive of something that continued without end that was not a circle. At some point, one must come back to the starting point. I also grappled with the idea of multiple universes, multiple realities, and the atomic and subatomic foundations of our universe, which provide structure to the multiple universe idea: one universe after another universe consisting of a base level, atomic level, subatomic level, which is a new base level that has its own atomic and subatomic levels, and so on. I know these ideas did not originate with me, but </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> was one of the principle and germinating sources for my own exploration of the ideas of paradox, cycle, and infinity. I mixed "Zeroes" with some other fictional elements. My play world of small woods, fields, fences, ponds, hills, and trees formed part of the story, and, also, I was inspired by the aliens of Jim Starlin in his 1970s Marvel Comics work. I invented a little, pointy-eared alien whom I called "Grok," not knowing that the word had entered my consciousness because of the Heinlein book </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Stranger in a Strange Land</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, which I had not read at that time.</span><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">DEAR READERS, Were you drawn to this entry because you also have a strong connection to </span><i style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Planet of the Apes</i><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> saga? 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<span style="background-color: orange;">T-shirt #21: Conan</span><br><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4oKB73LcNaqwUeUywUwW9f61hvNNJv8_Gup53XN2K9UO-YJFSonQIHB_HPrgL95aeDUbv9bvkgkXp5rkYn35ZxujJc1U5_xgaZcREA4O3HvSuDLLiWykkB4NlDbjyYxMQAhSJ9Tay0-5/s1600/Conan44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4oKB73LcNaqwUeUywUwW9f61hvNNJv8_Gup53XN2K9UO-YJFSonQIHB_HPrgL95aeDUbv9bvkgkXp5rkYn35ZxujJc1U5_xgaZcREA4O3HvSuDLLiWykkB4NlDbjyYxMQAhSJ9Tay0-5/s320/Conan44.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="209"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Early Buscema cover with Red Sonja!</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6159pO6pvsDkpYPazw9PspBC2Ce3OiGTXEyyIuShu2JPNIMR5EpzyweuUzbOBnzBF8z9nXN6rtcCI-a_Lnv0acuEvxdVbD3yhzyOVyjZ1q5BYlIDA6cIWcGBDx4IL0ewf-LEhwY9KUFS8/s1600/Conan-Buscema+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6159pO6pvsDkpYPazw9PspBC2Ce3OiGTXEyyIuShu2JPNIMR5EpzyweuUzbOBnzBF8z9nXN6rtcCI-a_Lnv0acuEvxdVbD3yhzyOVyjZ1q5BYlIDA6cIWcGBDx4IL0ewf-LEhwY9KUFS8/s1600/Conan-Buscema+(1).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a>So, the day after explaining my fixation with superhero logos, and how for years I avoided shirts with the likeness of the hero, it seemed fitting to feature another shirt with the likeness of a 1970s Marvel icon. After all, this whole blog started with Marvel's Son of Satan, one of my all time favorite characters from the 1970s, even though recent incarnations have left me altogether unimpressed.<br><br>Though I like Conan--today's featured character on today's shirt--I am unlikely to ever wear this shirt out of the house where you can see me wearing it. Okay, sure, I just took my puppy to Camp Fido. And yes, I was wearing the Conan shirt, but it was mostly hidden under another big, warm chamois shirt, so I did not really feel that my Conan shirt was on display.<br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67BzsR2EBuOMfgX-xQRmsUwpeo9uVjHcLCI87uybZfx6mrsWZNNiB4DMdgSYWCYobSdNG9kxpzC39XGrtwqopPoBkT7Pj3zYMcX03oMQNJDDweRCuOp5Lh1dqgWo96LFcHIkHrzbt_wgW/s1600/Conan-Buscema+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67BzsR2EBuOMfgX-xQRmsUwpeo9uVjHcLCI87uybZfx6mrsWZNNiB4DMdgSYWCYobSdNG9kxpzC39XGrtwqopPoBkT7Pj3zYMcX03oMQNJDDweRCuOp5Lh1dqgWo96LFcHIkHrzbt_wgW/s1600/Conan-Buscema+(2).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a>As I feature new shirts each day, I will make notes of their uses. Some are only worn at home. Some are only worn as pajamas. Some are only worn for sports or exercise. Some are worn when I eat pasta or clean the kitchen because I do not care if they get permanently soiled. Conan falls into the "only at home" category.<br><br>In one sense, this category is a bit irrelevant now as I am posting pictures of myself wearing these "only at home" shirts on THE INTERNET, not exactly a private bat-cave by any means. There's nothing really wrong with the shirts with likenesses, especially this one that derives from a comic book cover (Conan #96), and I am more comfortable sporting shirts that look a bit more like something I would have worn when I was 10 or 11 years old than I used to be. But still, I keep this one to "in the house."<br><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Possibly my favorite Buscema<br>Silver Surfer cover.</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1i3SGh_xrVhDNZZbcj354BfRPuSHxJfRWt_O9i04x1cJLmw94oHv5g_1w4P-G3hKXoGpYJ-fgJHnVmYLzJd71Hj4RG66Vtat3xVSQktMKO42NB4wXiVJPGGhzL-43pH1Q9-LDYDhgbjHe/s1600/Conan-Buscema+(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1i3SGh_xrVhDNZZbcj354BfRPuSHxJfRWt_O9i04x1cJLmw94oHv5g_1w4P-G3hKXoGpYJ-fgJHnVmYLzJd71Hj4RG66Vtat3xVSQktMKO42NB4wXiVJPGGhzL-43pH1Q9-LDYDhgbjHe/s1600/Conan-Buscema+(3).jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;"></a>I bought this shirt in the last few years, inspired by learning that my wife likes Conan. For a while, she was interested in doing some Conan reading, so I loaded her up with the first three volumes of the Roy Thomas-Barry Windsor Smith Marvels, some of the books with Frazetta covers, and then we watched the movies with Schwarzenegger. Like many discoveries with Liesel, if I was not already in love with her, I would have fallen in love with her upon learning she liked Conan the Barbarian. Who wouldn't?<br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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<br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq16EeDVXI_SwGSyYVgEgWy4P3boma7pXZJbtSyWiZetRFdfUqzMAQo6x0u8yRT6FnAyjUT8PDyf19wQbDqdVHxJjGQhgY25e_LqXRcvYEQzrABFt9BURD7IBOf2f8jDUuZ4_hJa489Xse/s1600/KingConan1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #b81909; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq16EeDVXI_SwGSyYVgEgWy4P3boma7pXZJbtSyWiZetRFdfUqzMAQo6x0u8yRT6FnAyjUT8PDyf19wQbDqdVHxJjGQhgY25e_LqXRcvYEQzrABFt9BURD7IBOf2f8jDUuZ4_hJa489Xse/s320/KingConan1.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="207"></a>I was not on the bandwagon with Marvel Comics' adaptation of Howard's stories in its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(comics)" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Conan the Barbarian</a> title from the start and the earliest issues lavishly illustrated by Barry Windsor Smith. I had not found the Robert E. Howard stories until after I started reading the comics. I jumped on with Conan during John Buscema's run on the comic. I already loved Buscema's art work because of his runs on <i>The Avengers</i> and <i>Silver Surfer</i>. Buscema's strong lines and sturdy figures made a strong impression on me. One of the first short stories I wrote (in fourth grade) was about Conan the Barbarian, inspired by the issues created by Roy Thomas (one of my favorite all time comics writers) and Buscema. The story also was inspired by <i>Treasure Island</i>, which I had read the year before as my first "adult" novel. Later, in the early 1980s, Buscema would do a run on King Conan that not only did I love, but so did my sister.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buscema" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John Buscema</a> is missed. He died in 2002 at the age of 74. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in the same year. Obviously, I could go on an on about Conan and the character's and the stories' impact on my life, but I have waxed on and waxed off enough for now.<br><br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6oPgCU7OUISDnK9jbZ_HYnq8XB7ydtt7TZ3L6blpKxV87QbgFGs88xo05HnoYvUx8bKjo6WiiEB2sRlNkqta0riwXLqigtEVu-ObI6oqfWhX7Jjbad53DhWZNtVE9DKV8ZnklEBsbp5m/s1600/ConanShirtTag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #b81909; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6oPgCU7OUISDnK9jbZ_HYnq8XB7ydtt7TZ3L6blpKxV87QbgFGs88xo05HnoYvUx8bKjo6WiiEB2sRlNkqta0riwXLqigtEVu-ObI6oqfWhX7Jjbad53DhWZNtVE9DKV8ZnklEBsbp5m/s320/ConanShirtTag.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320"></a> <b><u>SIDE NOTE: </u></b>One interesting thing about my Conan shirt is its label. It's not a Hanes or Fruit of the Loom. It's copyrighted by Conan Properties International LLC, and the shirt is manufactured by Mad Engine, who do some very cool shirts seen here: <a href="http://madengine.com/" style="color: #b81909; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MAD ENGINE</a>.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br>The label reads CONAN in big letters, which seems fitting. He should be in big letters.<br><br>- chris tower<br>just in his house<br>not in public<br>1304.11 - 10:06<div style="clear: both;">
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: black;">T-shirt #353 - "Death" - Shi Comic</b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeNc-LCJdT7DgyWLpWNI932ZXGzMt4jKzrry9LC3FJhzjpOGLMWQ6i2PyFJjZokayv0ajxS8StYYBccMxsuEqcurjAzZygcFoJmD3jQS0wngls7lHa8khyphenhyphenHyYGbv39ozQLIw50W36L7Sw/s1600/SHI-Death+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeNc-LCJdT7DgyWLpWNI932ZXGzMt4jKzrry9LC3FJhzjpOGLMWQ6i2PyFJjZokayv0ajxS8StYYBccMxsuEqcurjAzZygcFoJmD3jQS0wngls7lHa8khyphenhyphenHyYGbv39ozQLIw50W36L7Sw/s1600/SHI-Death+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a>Once I was out for breakfast with my good friend Chris Dilley, who speaks Chinese and has lived in China for short periods of time, and he asked "Why do you have death on your t-shirt?"<br />
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"It's from a comic book. Shi."<br />
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"Oh."<br />
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Sadly, I could not offer much more back than that.<br />
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I could not recall the details then that I can share with you here after some Internet searching.<br />
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Apparently the Japanese character for "death" and the Chinese are very much similar.<br />
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Though the character is often depicted in provocative and sexual poses, the series itself rooted itself in Japanese history, mythology, and spirituality.<br />
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Buying the Shi comic was definitely an action in which my ethics came into conflict with my fan boy, basic male hormone-driven lusty nature.<br />
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Though tame compared to many of the Manga and bubblegum pop cheesecake of little girls in short skirts popular with the Japanese men, and though Shi panders directly to the fan boys who like to ogle provocatively dressed women, even if they are sohei warriors armed with a naginata who could kill them with a flick of the razor sharp pole arm.<br />
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Men are visually wired. This is a fact proven best by evolutionary psychology (even though "intellectuals" dismiss evolutionary psychology as non-factual and anecdotal). I confess that I have a tendency to ogle, though less so now that I am married.<br />
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Nevertheless, I like the shirt because it's not a picture of Shi in a position swiped from a picture on pornographic magazine. It's just the Chinese character for "death" because when Shi is involved, death is coming.<br />
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I am using this shirt as an excuse to write about other comics. To feel that I have provided enough content, feel free to explore the links to Wikipedia and Comic Vine Shi content farther below. And, because my visual wiring almost requires it, I have a gallery of Shi art, mostly by original creator Billy Tucci. The art is gorgeous, even though, at times, it's swiped from pornography.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">BY THE WAY NOTE: 1403.09</u>: Reviewing my page views, I am intrigued that my post for<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_(comics)">Shi (Comics) Wikipedia</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicvine.com/shi/4005-24864/">Shi - Character - Comic Vine</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicvine.com/shi-the-way-of-the-warrior/4050-21367/"><i>Shi - The Way of the Warrior</i> - Comic Vine</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14247">Shi Movie? DEATH IS COMING</a><br />
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There was a Shi and Daredevil cross over comic. Information is <a href="http://marvel.wikia.com/Daredevil_/_Shi_Vol_1_1">HERE: SHI & DAREDEVIL</a>.<br />
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Herein I review the top six comics from my stack from March fifth 2014 as promised two days ago in the blog for <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-shirt-351-distant-soil.html">T-shirt #351</a>.<br />
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Though the blog will grow to a large size with images and the content I am sharing, I do consider these to be "mini" reviews. :-) Really. I mean it. Stop laughing at me.<br />
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Do not read on if you wish to remain unaware of what takes places in the following comics:<br />
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<i>Afterlife with Archie</i> continues to be great with work by one of the most under-rated and yet best writers in the business (whose take on the <i>Fantastic Four</i> in the comic simply titled <i>4</i> is still among my favorites) -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and the up and coming master of the dark and shadowy Francesco Francavilla.<br />
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Issue #4 is the best yet. As Archie leave Lodge manor and heads home to save his parents, he flashes back to childhood memories, mainly of choosing his puppy Vegas, and the bond that they share. This flashback culminates in the scene in which Vegas sacrifices himself for "Archie Master."<br />
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Later in the comic, Archie must make a similarly difficult choice as he must take a bat to the skull of his now zombie-fied father, hence the banner image above.<br />
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Here's some good sites that go into more depth on the comic and a few pages from it. Truly excellent work!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=51289">AGUIRRE-SACASA GOES INSIDE "AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE'S" BRUTAL TURN</a><br />
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And in an excerpt, Aguirre-Sacasa says: "I can't speak for Francesco, but for me, the biggest surprise -- and the most gratifying thing -- has been the unconditional -- like, completely unconditional -- support this book has gotten from everyone at Archie, from Jon Goldwater on down. It's a labor of love for everyone…"<br />
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<a href="http://www.horrortalk.com/comic-reviews/4237-afterlife-with-archie-4-comic-review.html">HORRORTALK REVIEW</a><br />
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Horrortalk is a great blog site full of all things HORROR, which my wife especially will love once I tell her about it.<br />
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And lastly, the link below, is a preview that includes a "trailer" because in today's world one can make a movie-style, film-like preview for a comic book (or anything really). And, yes, it's actually very awesome and worth watching.<br />
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<a href="https://majorspoilers.com/2014/02/28/afterlife-archie-3-trailer-looks-awesome/">Afterlife with Archie #4 trailer looks awesome</a><br />
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If you are a regular reader of my blog, then you already know that I am a very fond fan of writer Warren Ellis, so much so that I have devoted a category just to post concerning him in my category list. For those who are not regular readers, there, I just told you.<br />
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So it should be no surprise that I eagerly anticipated the new <i>Moon Knight </i> comic by Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire.</div>
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In the exclusive CBR interview (see link below), Ellis promises a <i>Planetary</i>-esque experience with <i>Moon Knight</i>, which will set all Ellis fans' hearts aflutter as there is a great deal of general agreement that <i>Planetary</i> is if not his best work, surely top five. It's also one of the best comics of its kind ever produced.</div>
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Ellis discussed in the interview (again, link below) that his "<i>Planetary</i> process" is to scrape back barnacles to "what excited people about it [the comic, the character] in the first place." This process of scraping has me intrigued and has set my creative juices a-flowing on my own projects.<br />
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The <i>Moon Knight </i>comic is a great new look at the character (though I am hoping that the cape and special helicopter eventually make appearances) supplied by Ellis' inventive twist. The ending, which I will NOT spoil here after all, makes a great reversal of an assumption about the character that will produce some very intriguing stories going forward. This comic could easily have taken my top spot for the week, though it's rivaled by other GREAT comics that came out on March FIFTH.<br />
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BTW, Quirky thing, because they can be quirky, <i>the Moon Knight</i> comic letters page -- "Going Postal" -- is only accepting hand written letters mailed in the postal mail and marked "Okay to Print." I find this request amusing and wonder how many they will receive. Will they in turn be postal mailed to Ellis or scanned into a Google account or sent via email?</div>
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<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50761" style="text-align: start;">WARREN ELLIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ABOUT THE NEW MOON KNIGHT</a></div>
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<a href="http://charlesskaggs.blogspot.com/2014/03/damn-good-comics-moon-knight-1.html">Damn Good Coffee and Hot! - Charles Skaggs' Moon Knight Review</a></div>
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<i>Velvet</i> continues to be one of my favorite comics, and for those who like the old 1950s and 1960s spy thrillers, you will find this comic to be one of the best on the market, which is a claim that if I keep making it, I am going to have to back up with an actual LIST. Though my assessment will be flawed because I do not read everything.<br />
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One of the best observations by the reviewer shared in the upcoming link is that Templeton is an older woman, though we're not sure how old, surely she's at least in her 40s.<br />
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Here's the review I mentioned, a great <a href="http://benjaminherman.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/comic-book-reviews-velvet-1-2/">REVIEW by Benjamin Herman</a> of issues one and two.<br />
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In this issue, Velvet costumes herself for prowling about Monaco's annual Carnival of Fools to make contact with an ex-KGB agent named by the woman whom Velvet sprung from prison in the last issue (in the flashback in one of the art pages I will share below). The issues turns quickly with a great action sequence as Velvet intervenes to protect her contact and is almost beaten to death by an assassin. She narrates this sequence, explaining that any fight that lasts more than five seconds is hell. She manages to beat the assassin in a very hardcore and unexpected fashion, (I don't want to give away everything), after which she and her contact Roman, get the heck out of the area. the issue ends with possibly the best cliff hanger yet, one that will turn Velvet's world, and our reading experience, upside down.<br />
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<complete>Okay, here I go again. <i>Green Arrow</i> is one of the best comics being currently published. It may be the best DC Comic, at least of those I read (and I do not read S<i>wamp Thing </i>though I plan to catch up via trade collections).</complete><br />
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<complete>Lemire and Sorrentino have transformed this comic completely from its former incarnation, have worked in older popular Green Arrow story lines (Shado), and are developing a rich, complex new mythology.</complete><br />
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Wow.<br />
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Damn.<br />
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DC comics' <i>Forever Evil</i> is not quite a match for the other comics in the top six. It's one of those big superhero and villain all universe cross overs in which much is left unexplored because of the nature of the mini-series format and the intermittent publishing schedule (this book has not shipped monthly and on time or so it seems in my flawed mind).<br />
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But it's damn good stuff. I like these crossover books generally. And David Finch's art is gorgeous. I am also not a nay sayer and happen to like Geoff Johns' writing.<br />
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But I am also a huge NIGHTWING fan and, well, damn, damn, damn. But then heroes are dropping like flies this week (go read <i>Green Arrow</i>), and I am not convinced that Nightwing is DEAD.<br />
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But that's what happens. It's well done and the story is solid enough, though not the best I have ever read.<br />
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The big surprises are worth the price of admission, especially the final frames.<br />
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Here's two reviews.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wordofthenerdonline.com/editorial-nightwing-lives/">WORD OF THE NERD - NIGHT WING LIVES</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/20488-spoiler-alert-forever-evil-6-death-counts-looming-threats-and-what-s-next.html">SPOILER ALERT - REVIEW FROM NEWSARAMA</a><br />
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<b><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 12 shirts remaining</u></b><br />
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Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-84180847146770569182014-03-08T10:08:00.000-08:002014-03-12T07:17:14.654-07:00T-shirt #352 - Cub Fan - Bart Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Baseball season is upon us, and I am making my nefarious plans for my Fantasy Baseball Empire with my first draft tonight.<br />
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Actually, I am going to wing it. I don't have time to prepare my own stats log and analysis, so I am going with the work of Baseball Forecaster and my own reasonable intuition for this league, in which I placed eighth of twelve last year. I think I can beat that record.<br />
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I did not win any of my leagues last year. The best I finished was second out of eight. I finished fourth in the league I run (TIGER TOWNE), third of eight in a league run by my friend Craig, and sixth of twelve in a New England league. I was kicked out of a rotisserie league run by a crazy madman, so I decided to reboot his league with the other players who may well be disgruntled.<br />
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Today, I am renewing the "hiatus shirt" mandate in order to possibly catch up by Monday on the seven incomplete blog entries found elsewhere via my main address. They are now sufficiently buried so as not be so persistent to my psyche's wellness, and yet, I know they are there.<br />
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Several gravitational anomalies aligned in the galaxy to produce this blog, which originally had been schedule as not one other but two other shirts.<br />
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And then I saw this: <a href="http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/365-days-of-kirbytech-day-66.html">365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 66: The Finkatronic Ray</a>, which reminded me of my Cub Fan Bart Man T-shirt as a herald (get it? If you're a comic geek given my picture of Homer-Galactus below, you will get it.) of SPRING and BASEBALL SEASON.<br />
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I have given shouts to both the<a href="http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/"> BULLY SAYS COMICS OUGHTA BE FUN</a> and the wonderful <a href="http://pencilink.blogspot.com/">Pencil Ink blog</a>, and this morning I decided to let those bloggers know of my appreciation for their efforts with comments on their sites.<br />
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Bully is doing a 365 Days of Kirby Tech series, which, yesterday, manifested as tech from the Simpsons comic. Wonderful stuff. Here's one of the pics he shared from Panels from "Captain Cupcake and Pieboy!" in <i>Simpsons Super Spectacular</i> #5 (July 2007), script by Mike W. Barr, pencils by James Lloyd, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Rick Reese, letters by Karen Bates.<br />
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Meanwhile, I decided to post -- pretty much -- just pictures today. So here, we go (with a little text in between, D'oh!!) Okay, Don't have a cow, man.<br />
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There are 21 entries (including today's) in my Baseball category, which is a sport name that -- as you may or may not know -- I like to deify with a capital letter.<br />
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I featured the shirt that goes with this hat in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/09/t-shirt-182-baseball-is-life.html">T-shirt #182</a>.<br />
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Here's some text from that blog:<br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-80-detroit-tigers-est-1901.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #80</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">: Detroit Tigers est. 1901 may be my best Baseball post so far, though </span><a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-115-chicago-cubs-est1876.html" style="background-color: #999999; color: #b81909; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">T-shirt #115</a><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">: Chicago Cubs est. 1876 also shares a great deal of good Baseball stuff. I love the sense of history. I love the stats. I love my teams.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">But it's all best summed up by this quote from the great Ernie Harwell:</span><br />
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"Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. A carnival without kewpie dolls. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season."</blockquote>
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When I saw this T-shirt, I had to have one. I like the Simpsons, but I would not characterize myself as a massive Simpsons fan like some folks.<br />
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"Don't Have a Cow, Harry!" refers to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Caray">Harry Caray</a>, former announcer for the Chicago Cubs, who always used to say "Holy Cow!" and since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Simpson">Bart Simpson</a> often says "Don't Have a Cow, Man" then this is a great joke connection.<br />
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Harry Caray died in 1998. Here's a little weird irony: in the 2003 playoffs, one of the Cubs few post-season appearances in the last 20 years. In October of 2003, the Cubs were playing in the National League Championship series against the Florida Marlins (who won the World Series that year), there's one incident that is defined as the losing moment for that Cubs team, preventing them from advancing to the World Series. It has come to be known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman_incident">STEVE BARTMAN INCIDENT</a>.<br />
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Lifelong Cubs fan Steve Bartman interfered with a catch by Cubs outfielder Moisés Alou. Had Alou caught that ball for the out, the Cubs would have been four outs from the National League title and the World Series. As it turned out, the Cubs lost the game and eventually the series.<br />
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Get it? The shirt is "Bart Man" and is from Cubs merchandise no later than 1998 and possibly earlier, and yet it foreshadows the infamous "villain" of the Cubs' 2003 loss. Really, it's a sad thing. Steve Bartman is a well meaning Cubs fan who got caught up in the excitement of a ball coming his way and made a mistake, like we all do (make mistakes that is). It just so happened to be a mistake that is believed to have cost the Cubs a National League title and a shot at winning the World Series.<br />
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Remember how in yesterday's blog I mentioned saving time for date night with my lovely wife? Well, here's our sashimi/sushi dinner from Friday the 7th of March using a gift certificate given to use for Christmas.<br />
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We love delicious sashimi/sushi at <a href="http://kumohibachisushi.com/home-page/">KUMO</a>.<br />
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YUM.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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<b><u>HIATUS TEXT: REVISED 1402.18:</u></b> 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.</div>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.<br />
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<b><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 13 shirts remaining</u></b><br />
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- chris tower - 1403.08 - 13:11Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-39299148467491922472014-03-07T09:07:00.000-08:002014-03-13T06:36:13.653-07:00T-shirt #351: A Distant Soil<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 14 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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Greetings readers. Keeping things short today because it's date night with the wife, a bi-monthly tradition, and I have been working hard lately, so I want to devote maximum time to us, which seems fitting given the romantic nature of today's subject matter.<br />
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Easy to dredge up content for today's blog. I used to write a weekly comic book column for <i>The Kalamazoo Gazette</i> in 1994-1995. I am sad that I am no longer publishing this column (though my blog work is better!!) because it was one of the best and most fun freelance projects I have ever done.<br />
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In many ways, my subject matter for the column, like my subject matter for this blog, was driven by my interests. In the 1990s, Colleen Doran was a rising star, and I felt that she deserved more exposure if only in the small way I could provide. What follows is my column about her, redacted from a telephone interview.<br />
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Doran has worked for many of the big companies. Look above to see her work on <i>The Legion of Superheroes</i>.<br />
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UPDATE on 1403.13: I did not do any research on Colleen Doran when I posted this entry last week as I was planning to reprint my article about her from 20 years ago! However, I knew I had not heard of her doing much lately. And then last night, Warren Ellis resent a Twitter message from Colleen sharing that her comic (written by Ellis) is still hosted on the Internet. It's pretty damn good, too. Find it at the link following.<br />
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<a href="http://www.artbomb.net/comics/superidol.jsp">SUPER IDOL ON ART BOMB </a><br />
written by Warren Ellis with art by Colleen Doran<br />
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The following is my comic book column originally published in <i>The Kalamazoo Gazette</i> in August of 1994 after my interview with Colleen Doran.</div>
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If you were a comic artist, would you withdraw from BIG paychecks and national distribution with a major company?<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That's just what 30-year-old artist Colleen Doran has done. She quit her job as regular penciller on DC Comics' "Valor" and guest stints on such things as "Sandman" and "The Legion of Superheroes" to write, draw, and produce her own comic book: "A Distant Soil."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJqiwe5BKyiCyLIjpCr-TXHgb53s3fnzrB4CFcBA5WRHxlagD8FP46nPLy6xWz2GVzI5UYQUFyv8LYY9jYPZD3ft74Wj3nYils3hLyt7lbw4kgM1vmo1i0JQV3lmcOGpPy-yfBFlJWlor/s1600/AdistantSoil4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJqiwe5BKyiCyLIjpCr-TXHgb53s3fnzrB4CFcBA5WRHxlagD8FP46nPLy6xWz2GVzI5UYQUFyv8LYY9jYPZD3ft74Wj3nYils3hLyt7lbw4kgM1vmo1i0JQV3lmcOGpPy-yfBFlJWlor/s1600/AdistantSoil4.jpg" height="400" width="301" /></a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is not so strange. Many creators are doing the same thing. The problem with working for a company like DC is that when you finish drawing a 22-page comic, you don't own any of it: DC owns it. So many creators have left big companies like DC and Marvel to create and publish their own comics, their own property.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Colleen Doran began publishing "A Distant Soil" (ADS) under the umbrella of Aria Press--her own publishing company--in 1991, but the enticements a big company can offer--steady paychecks and drawing favorite characters--lured her away from her own book. Now, she's back on ADS full time. She plans to publish monthly through the end of 1994 ("to catch up") and then return to a bi-monthly schedule in 1995.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"A Distant Soil" features two stories. "Immigrant's Song" tells the story of teenagers Jason and Liana Scott, brother and sister, who are on the run from a government that imprisoned them to study their psychic abilities. "Seasons of Spring" takes place prior to "Immigrant's Song." It's a story of the Scott family, Jason and Liana as children, their father Aeren--who is a fugitive from the world Ovanan--their mother Jessica, and their brothers and sisters, twins Cari and Tiar. Also, for Arthurian fans, Avalon made an appearance in issue #5, featuring Galahad, Lancelot, and Percival.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beyond a simple plot summary, ADS is impossible to describe because it's not like anything else. Sure, other people do comics in black and white, but ADS possesses an elegance of both art and story that's incomparable. Doran's book focuses on family relationships, the minutiae of life, the beauty of love. But it's not sappy. And it doesn't lack action: there's action scenes, personal relationships, conflicts, schemes, aliens, and psychic powers, too. But even these scenes are not like the fight scenes in other comics. Doran's work is thoughtful and elegant.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Doran's ADS is a pretty big hit with comics readers, too. The first issue sold out three printings, and Doran is about to do a fourth printing of 20,000 copies. The other issues have sold well, too. ADS's sales increase 14% with each issue.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One element about which Doran spoke ardently during an interview was characters in ADS who are androgynous or obviously gay. "I am interested in gender issues and gender roles. When people say that they don't approve of how other people behave in the privacy of their own bedrooms, this inherent homophobia is a kind of misogyny. These attitudes persist even among gay men who are hostile to transsexuals and transvestites: they incur my ire, too. There's never an excuse for bigotry. We're born with our sexual orientation. We don't ask what makes someone heterosexual. Why do we ask what makes someone homosexual?"<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>These attitudes come through in Doran's depiction of her characters. Her "gay" aliens Rieken and D'mer are androgynous, and when they do exhibit their feelings for one another, Doran understates the scene, makes it natural, simple. The result is beautiful and elegant like everything else Colleen Doran does.<br />
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HOT COMICS: "A Distant Soil" # 8 is at comic shops now, and #9 is due in September. If you can't find it, request that your comic shop proprietor order one for you, or order it directly from Aria Press 12638-28 Jefferson Ave. Suite 173, Newport News, VA 23602-4316.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">WEEKLY COMIC BOOK LIST</span></u></b><br />
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Originally, I had <i>Moonknight</i> (the new launch written by Warren Ellis) first with <i>Velvet </i>a very close second but since <i>Afterlife with Archie</i> is such a quick read, it takes top spot. <i>Afterlife with Archie </i>did not disappoint. I plan to share reviews of all of at least all of the first six issues in the list below (which I have already read) in a future blog. For now, this is it.<br />
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Though I have to mention that I am happy I have read back far enough to get <i>Detective Comics</i> and G<i>reen Lantern </i>out of the back log.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">COMICS FOR 1403.05</span></u></b><br />
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<i>Afterlife with Archie</i> #4<br />
<i>Moonknight</i> #001<br />
<i>Velvet</i> #4<br />
<i>Starlight</i> #1<br />
<i>Green Arrow </i>#29<br />
<i>Forever Evil</i> #6<br />
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<i>New Warriors</i> #002<br />
<i>Clone</i> #15<br />
<i>Jupiter's Legacy </i>#4<br />
<i>Nova</i> #014<br />
<i>Uncanny X-Men</i> #018<br />
<i>Captain America</i> #018<br />
<i>Iron Man</i> #022<br />
<i>The Punisher</i> #003<br />
<i>Avengers AI</i> #010<br />
<i>Batman: Detetctive Comics: GOTHTOPIA</i> #29<br />
<i>Green Lantern</i> #29<br />
<i>Earth 2</i> #21<br />
<i>God is Dead</i> #8<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">BACK LOG</span></u></b><br />
<i>Superman - Action Comics</i> # 29<br />
<i>Fairest</i> #24<br />
<i>Trillium</i> #7<br />
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<b><u>SPECIAL PURCHASES</u></b><br />
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<i>Atomic Robo - Real Science Adventures - Volume 2</i><br />
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<b><u>HIATUS TEXT: REVISED 1402.18:</u></b> 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.</div>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.<br />
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- chris tower - 1403.07 - 12:05Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-90758892401879096062014-03-06T16:20:00.001-08:002014-03-08T08:55:03.132-08:00T-shirt #350 - 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden #2<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 15 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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Greetings reader. Thank you for checking out my blog.<br />
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This is my third 10,000 Maniacs shirt, and I think I have shared everything I want to share about this wonderful band in these previous entries:<br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/12/t-shirt-257-10000-maniacs-blind-mans-zoo.html">T-SHIRT #257: 10,000 MANIACS - BLIND MAN'S ZOO</a><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-289-10000-maniacs-our-time-in.html">T-SHIRT #289: 10,000 MANIACS - OUR TIME IN EDEN</a><br />
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And so, I thought I would try something a bit different today. A battle of the bands, in which I share videos of various bands in mock competition for your attention. I will share one 10,000 Maniacs song and then my choices will be based on bands for which I do not own T-shirts, and so they would not be otherwise featured, which means no videos by the Who, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Dead Can Dance, King Crimson, the Jam, The Pixies, the Clash, Sigur Rós, Kraftwerk, Sterolab, Steely Dan, U2, Cocteau Twins, Everything But the Girl, Joy Division, New Order, and a few others I am not thinking of off hand or that I am planning to feature later. As you can see, this is just bands that I am including not individual musical artists.<br />
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. In reviewing some of my former posts which contain music videos, I have found that the videos are no longer loading on many of the pages. My preliminary investigations reveal that the more recent videos are still embedded, but older pages are missing their video widgets. After some research, I discovered that this is a known issue. It appears that it is an issue with Chrome.<br />
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<a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topicsearchin/blogger/You$20Tube$20videos$20in$20Blogger|sort:relevance|spell:true/blogger/UtGrWIen-5A">GOOGLE FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC ONE</a><br />
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I checked, and the videos work fine in Internet Explorer, which is the only other browser to which I have access. But they probably work fine in other browsers, too. This may finally get me to download FireFox, which I gave up on years ago because of its massive memory leak! Just FYI, if you have trouble seeing videos on any of my pages, try another browser. I may or may not try to reload them all in all the past pages. This could take a lot of work, and if they are still embedded and just not visible from every instance of Google Chrome, then I am not sure I want to do the extra work. I am sure you understand. :-)<br />
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Presenting here kind of a mock "Battle of the Bands" with what I think are some of the greatest "rock" band songs in all of modern music (not counting ones I have already presented, so this is an edited list). See explanation farther above. I will try to restrict myself to TEN, which is going to be difficult.<br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">1. We start off with 10,000 Maniacs because of the shirt, but also because this is a GREAT song.</span></u></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">2. I think one could make the argument that this next song is the single greatest rock and roll song of all time.</span></u></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">3. I know, I know... this next one is such a standard pick and so over selected, and yet, how can I not select it?</span></u></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">4. There can be no battle of great bands without this one from CSN&Y. Amazing.</span></u></b><br />
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<u><b><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">5. I am somewhat restricted by You Tube's restrictions with Beatles content. However, this is just one of my favorites if not my single favorite Beatles song. I would not argue that it's the best Beatles song, but I adore it.</span></b></u><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">6. I am sure that people who view my list will note that I am leaving out many great bands and that I am selecting with my own personal preferences. Well.... uh... yeah, DUH. I love Talking Heads, and when I decided to do this battle of the bands, this was the song that popped into my head. When I found this love version: kismet!</span></u></b><br />
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<u><b><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">7. Before I get accused of just sharing videos by white people, one of the greatest African-American groups of all time. FANTASTIC stuff.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red;">8. Time for a little SKA, but it's SKA that transcends SKA. A band that should be known as simply "The Beat." I could have picked so many other bands and songs, I know. But this is such a beautiful song and one of my all time favorites, and it's my band battle, so there.</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">9. This next one is all my all-time top song to make DJs play on college radio. This video may not be the best (though it is the best of the lot that are out there), but I wanted a live one, so here it is.</span></u></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">10. So many bands and songs that I could select for the last one, and I KNOW I am leaving out so many bands, but this next song has always meant a lot to me, and it makes me happy. It's what I wish you, too. HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY. :-)</span></u></b><br />
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<b><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 15 shirts remaining</u></b><br />
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final publication - 1403.07 - 11:22Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-27030602413201612332014-03-05T07:17:00.000-08:002014-03-08T05:56:07.479-08:00T-shirt #349 - Josie and the Pussycats<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 16 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">T-shirt #349 - Josie and the Pussycats</b><br />
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I confess. I have not seen the movie. I know, I know. If I am such a fan of the 1970s cartoons, why have I not seen the movie. I don't know. I intend to watch it at some point.<br />
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My bets memory of <i>Josie and the Pussycats </i>comes to me via Kellogg's cereal.<br />
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Did you save them? I know I did.<br />
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As a result of saving my box tops and redeeming them with Kellogg's, I managed to receive 45 RPM records in mail of Josie and the Pussycats songs, which were among my favorite tunes as a young boy in the early 1970s.<br />
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Okay, late me back up. <i>Josie and the Pussycats</i> is a creation of the Archie Comics line. Originally, Archie Comics published a comic called <i>She's Josie</i> and <i>Josie, </i>starting in 1963.<br />
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With the hit success of the Archies' single "Sugar, Sugar" in 1969, which claimed the number one spot on the Billboard 100 Pop Singles as fueled by the CBS Saturday morning cartoon <i>The Archie Show</i>, the Chicago-based Archie Comics wanted to further capitalize on its success.<br />
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In December of 1969, the <i>Josie</i> comic was renamed <i>Josie and the Pussycats </i>as Josie and Melody decide to form a band, and after a failed attempt to have Alexandra in the band, they select Valerie Smith (though in some descriptions she is called Valerie Brown) to be the third member of the band.<br />
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Riding the wave of the success of the Archie TV show, CBS produced a show called <i>Josie and the Pussycats</i> that ran from 1970-1971 for sixteen episodes. The show was re-imagined as <i>Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space </i>for the 1972-73 season for another sixteen episodes. The original series appeared in reruns on all three networks (CBS, ABC, and NBC) from 1974-1976. This is important as the total time that <i>Josie and the Pussycats </i>was part of my weekly TV viewing was six years.<br />
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Still, "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" is one of my favorite songs from the 1970s. I also included another favorite, "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.<br />
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The <i>Josie and the Pussycats </i>comic continued monthly publication until 1982, at which point Archie Comics published occasional one shots with no schedule. But lately, Archie Comics has been doing interesting things as I noted in my reviews of <i>Afterlife With Archie</i> as found elsewhere on my blog (search reviews or comic books categories if interested). In both 2010 and 2012, Archie Comics further shook up the comics world with some innovative story lines.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josie_and_the_Pussycats_(comic)">JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS - COMIC</a><br />
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I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about comic books. But I either missed this entirely or simply forgot about it. In 2010, Archie Comics launched a story in which Archie develops a romance with Valerie Smith of Josie and the Pussycats.<br />
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This is a pretty big deal, and Archie Comics made a big deal of it with a huge marketing push and mock up covers, like the <i>Rolling Stone</i> one I included in today's COVER GALLERY.<br />
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Now, forty years later (2010), Valerie is shown KISSING Archie in the comic book series. Two years later, in 2012, longtime writer of <i>Archie</i> Dan Parent constructs an imaginary tale of the couple's future as they get married and have a child.<br />
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One, Archie Comics also has a comic featuring Kevin Keller, Riverdale's openly gay student. The character was immediately popular enough to warrant his own series.<br />
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Two, I love this twist with Archie and Val and the busting of the Betty-Veronica-Archie triangle. As a young boy, I think Veronica Lodge was part of the foundation for why I prefer dark-haired women, as I always preferred Veronica over Betty, even though she was kind of the bitchier of the two (maybe I prefer that, too). But Valerie Smith surely beats out Veronica in the sex appeal department, especially with the new long haired look seen in this frame from the recent comics. It's great to see a company that butters its bread with endless output of the same old same old has abandoned that model for some innovative, fresh stories aimed at 21st century audiences.<br />
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Three, I last included my TOP TEN HANNA BARBERA cartoons list in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-303-space-ghost-with-red-collar.html">T-shirt #303</a>. <i>Josie and the Pussycats</i> was not in the top ten and only received an honorable mention. I may need to re-think this position.<br />
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<b><u>LINKS TO ARTICLES ON ARCHIE AND VAL</u></b><br />
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<a href="http://gamecola.net/2010/04/fabricated-news-more-josie-and-the-pussycats/">FABRICATED NEWS</a><br />
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<a href="http://comicsalliance.com/archies-magazine-cover-promotion-is-lacking-something/">COMICS ALLIANCE</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.timeout.com/chicago/kids/archie-comics-tackles-race-sexuality-and-more">TIMEOUT CHICAGO</a><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/jozinezine&date=2009-10-26+01:02:15" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(data:image/svg+xml; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">JOZINE: unofficial Josie/DeCarlo fan site</a></li>
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<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats"><i>JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS</i> ON TV TROPES</a><br />
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This blog has some great stuff, and many of the following videos come from this blog, but sadly it has not been updated in almost four years.<br />
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<a href="http://offramptonowhere.blogspot.com/">OFF RAMP TO NOWHERE</a><br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUTNDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013.<br />
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I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks.<br />
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After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year.<br />
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At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>.<br />
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I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS.<br />
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Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently.<br />
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<a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here.<br />
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I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider.<br />
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Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year.<br />
I am humbled and blessed by your readership.<br />
- chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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- chris tower - 1403.05 - 10:15Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-56572849091733739602014-03-04T15:45:00.000-08:002014-03-08T05:56:07.494-08:00T-shirt #348 - Kalamazoo College Alumni<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TODAY'S COUNT: 17 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><u>T-shirt #348 - Kalamazoo College Alumni</u></b><br />
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Welcome to the 365 T-shirts blog as I count down my final entries. I appreciate your readership! Lots of pictures today plus blog recap. Check it out.<br />
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Today's shirt is another of my Kalamazoo College shirts, but since I have written about K-College quite a bit (and have more T-shirts in case I have something more to share), I am going to take this opportunity to write about something else, which, in all honesty, would still have been possible even WITHOUT a Kalamazoo College education, though such education didn't hurt.<br />
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I was already a dedicated writer before I went to college. Banging away on my Smith Corona (first the manual and later the electric), or on those rare occasions I could go to work with my father (sometimes on a Saturday) and use the office's IBM Selectric (don't let the name fool you, it was still a typewriter), I applied myself diligently to writing. I wrote many short stories in my youth, starting in fourth grade. I published my own magazine in junior high. Throughout high school, I wrote a column for the local village newspaper about magic called "The Wizard's Corner," which I serialized the adventures of an action hero/ escape artist modeled on Harry Houdini for most of my senior year. I wrote a couple of short plays. I started several dozen projects that I did not finish. In junior high, I spent many days writing comic book reviews for a magazine that I never published, but I did apply myself assiduously to long days at the typewriter. And after graduating, I wrote my first short novel, a love story meant as a gift to my high school sweetheart, an unrequited love. Then in college, I wrote three book length manuscripts: an autobiography, a postmodern novel, and a collection of short stories and poems.<br />
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The upshot being that producing large volumes of content is in my blood. And so...<br />
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It's time for another BLOG RECAP because I haven't done a full one in some time.<br />
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My concern at the moment regarding content on my blog is how I may limp to the finish line simply due to time constraints and being behind on posting entries.<br />
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Had I planned smartly, I would have applied myself better during my hiatus, saving time so as to work ahead, enabling me to finish strong with the final week or even two weeks of excellent posts full of worthwhile content. I like to think I provide something fun to read every day, but I know that some days my content is better than other days. I have taken to referring to my lengthy posts as "love letters," explorations of adoration and fan affection for some pop culture; however, these are time consuming to complete. The research alone is daunting and often paralyzing. I have several half finished entries of the longer, love letter variety that have been in the works for months, one of which is actually published and is still unfinished (stay tuned; I hope to finish it soon). Thus, had I planned better, or been possessed of more time, I would have banked at least seven such love letters to spoon out in heaping, sugary goodness in my final three weeks of T-shirt bloggery. Alas, this is not the case. And with work and other time demands, there may be more shorter entries than longer ones as I conclude, which feels very much like a limp to the finish line sort of ending: a whimper not a bang.<br />
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My current plan is saving these love letters for after March 22nd when I am no longer obligated (to myself mostly) to transmit a daily post and can take my time to craft meaningful, beautiful, adoring love letters to my most favourite popular culture artifacts. We shall see.<br />
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So, on to more blog recap. As you can see by this first list, I have more white T-shirts than anything else, though black follows closely and then grey. I am impressed that 58 of the shirts I posted were gifts and that only 38 of the shirts I posted were new, as in acquired since March 22 of 2013. Then again, I have a box full of over 20 new shirts that I have not posted yet.<br />
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<b><u>SHIRTS BY COLOR/PURPOSE</u></b></div>
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Shirts by Color - White (91)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Black (72)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Grey (52)</div>
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GIFTS (58)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Blue (49)</div>
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New T-shirts (38)</div>
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Shirts I Made (31)</div>
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Shirts by Color - Red (24)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Assorted (17)</div>
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Long-Sleeved Shirts (16)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Green (12)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Yellow (12)</div>
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Pajamas (10)</div>
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Shirts By Color - Purple and Pink (8)</div>
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Dead T-shirts (4)</div>
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Work Shirts (2)</div>
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Also, there's always problems with accuracy. The colors should add up to 347, as today's would not be in this count yet. However, the colors add up to 337 shirts, which means I missed ten shirts somewhere along the way. So these numbers need to be examined with some suspicion.<br />
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I do my best to keep the categories accurate, but some have fallen low due to neglect and some are just missed. But generally speaking these numbers are somewhat accurate. At the very least, every post on this blog appears under at least one of the labeled categories.<br />
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<b><u>TOP TEN CATEGORIES BY SUBJECT</u></b></div>
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Comic Books (105)</div>
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Just Logos and Symbols (56)</div>
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Sports (53)</div>
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Favorite Things (50) & Posts with Music videos (50)</div>
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TV and Movies (49)</div>
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Family (48) & Ultimate (48)</div>
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Music (45)</div>
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Comic Book Artists (43) & Cover Galleries (43) & Reviews (43)</div>
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DC Comics (41)</div>
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Books (36) & Friends (36)<br />
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Please note that I considered ties as one item, so the above list is a top ten list with three ties in the fourth, eighth, and tenth positions.</div>
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As for the overall number, 105 posts is fewer than a third of the posts so far with content dedicated to comic books in some way. So though most popular this still leaves 242 posts thus far (not counting today) that examined subjects other than comic books.<br />
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Those who have been reading my blog should also find it no surprise that over half of the comic book posts I made were with T-shirts sporting the basic logos and symbols of comic book character uniforms as I have said repeatedly that this is my favorite type of shirt, the replica of the hero or villain's uniform (though mostly heroes... I have few to no villain shirts).<br />
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Sports also takes second place in general subject categories, which again is a catch all category for content as well as the actual subject matter of the shirt. However, here the vast majority of shirts are either Baseball, football, basketball, college, or Ultimate, with a few weird exceptions, such as writing about sports with a Stereolab shirt.<br />
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Favorites logged in 50 times tied with music videos in the fourth slot. Music and posts with music videos are very close, meaning that I have five more posts with videos than shirts that specifically depict some musical artist. I am not surprised to see family as a frequent subject as well as Ultimate (tied in sixth), especially since for most of the year I posted at least one Ultimate shirt a week. Comic book artists rounds out the top ten with 43 posts. This is a category I added after I realized that there were times I would specifically write about the art in comics and specific artists. Though I have made lists of favorite artists by decade, I have not yet listed my favorite all time artists as I am not sure I can. Well, I can make the list, but reducing it to a top ten or even a top five may be too difficult for my poor, fandom addled brain.<br />
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Comic Books (105)</div>
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Just Logos and Symbols (56)</div>
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Sports (53)</div>
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Favorite Things (50) & Posts with Music videos (50)</div>
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TV and Movies (49)</div>
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Family (48) & Ultimate (48)</div>
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Music (45)</div>
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Comic Book Artists (43) & Cover Galleries (43) & Reviews (43)</div>
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DC Comics (41)</div>
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Books (36) & Friends (36)</div>
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DC Comics beats out Marvel as I have many more DC T-shirts, not because I love DC more but because DC's Graphitti company (or the company licensed to produce DC Comics apparel, which is probably owned by Time Warner) did a better job, in the 1990s especially, of creating, marketing, and selling cool T-shirts.<br />
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I like seeing the synergy in both books and friends being categorized an equal number of times.<br />
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<b><u>SECOND TEN (11-20) SUBJECTS ON THE BLOG</u></b></div>
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Lists-Weekly Comics Stack (34) & Women in comics (34)</div>
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KUDL (30)</div>
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Science Fiction (29)</div>
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Causes and Good Stuff (27)</div>
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1970s Nostalgia (26)</div>
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Hiatus (24) & Marvel Comics (24)</div>
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1960s Nostalgia (23)</div>
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My Oldest (21)</div>
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Baseball (20)</div>
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Blog Recap (19) & Concert T-shirts (19) & Places (19)</div>
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I started the Weekly Comics List before I was halfway through the year, so the majority of the year features this weekly post, which I plan to continue even after I complete the blog year. I like that it is tied with Women in comics, which may be a category in need of updating. That one may be underserved. KUDL is in the second tier as over half my Ultimate T-shirts are from KUDL but not all of them. I am slightly more apt to write about 1970s nostalgia, my halcyon era of age eight through eighteen, when I truly came of age and was most engaged in the popular culture world around me as a child. But the 1960s is only three posts behind that 1970s mark.</div>
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It's amusing that I have posted as many Marvel Comics shirts as entries I labeled as "hiatus." I am also impressed to see that twenty-one of my posts feature images of my oldest comic books. This is how I am collecting those comics for now, though I may throw them all into one blog post at some point.</div>
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After Ultimate, Baseball ranks as the highest numbered sports category, as it should be, because these numbers reflect my fandom.</div>
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And even before today, I recapped about the blog as often as I shared concert shirts or wrote of places, which is probably more interesting to me (like this entire entry) than to anyone else.<br />
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I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks.<br />
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After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year.<br />
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At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>.<br />
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I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS.<br />
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<a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here.<br />
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I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider.<br />
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Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year.<br />
I am humbled and blessed by your readership.<br />
- chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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<b><u>COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 17 shirts remaining</u></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cVBNDmbCWytrqOgp5jCXwz3B14VBiAA6AjsgRPDlpFjHUll9NAPvQkVgRSSyzvyOLsvXS157HmoiO8ZqwJyXT5dVsNwO2LdcOhGAxiN1nJvZqo_vJQWcCzQgpM_nJeeCSBADgA0yZ-i5/s1600/Unknown+Hero+DC+Comics+from+2000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cVBNDmbCWytrqOgp5jCXwz3B14VBiAA6AjsgRPDlpFjHUll9NAPvQkVgRSSyzvyOLsvXS157HmoiO8ZqwJyXT5dVsNwO2LdcOhGAxiN1nJvZqo_vJQWcCzQgpM_nJeeCSBADgA0yZ-i5/s1600/Unknown+Hero+DC+Comics+from+2000.jpg" height="640" width="360" /></a><b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUTNDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">T-shirt #347 - Unknown Superhero T-shirt - Yellow Star on Black - DC Comics - circa 2000</span></b><br />
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I have no idea what this shirt is supposed to depict.<br />
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I know that this is a DC Comics character, probably a superhero, and I know that the T-shirt was printed and sold in the year 2000. I tried some searching to discover the true identity of what this shirt is meant to resemble, and I have found nothing.<br />
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The Internet may be powerful, but one comes up with very little useful imagery searching for "DC Comics 2000 yellow star on black T-shirt." Given the logo, it's possible that this is one of the many variations of Starman. But all such searches produced no results. Given that the shirt is fourteen years old, a general search for DC Comics shirts produced no useful results either.<br />
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I just looked through this list at the following link and found nothing to match this shirt.<br />
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<a href="http://www.comicvine.com/profile/theoptimist/lists/top-100-dc-characters/32198/">TOP 100 DC COMICS CHARACTERS COMIC VINE</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8OkyXqHvQYMc2BEu6ZNWYwUBaaWmYR0PJR3z9Ld0EO7VufV0DbBavClfqCr9Ag0AeseszG14XEgOy3r4wQ5CnJ064BoL1UIKWqagcVjnycKdjaMipanAN_4Cb6_yGFZb3k-NSX8lVl-P/s1600/JackKirbySelf+Portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8OkyXqHvQYMc2BEu6ZNWYwUBaaWmYR0PJR3z9Ld0EO7VufV0DbBavClfqCr9Ag0AeseszG14XEgOy3r4wQ5CnJ064BoL1UIKWqagcVjnycKdjaMipanAN_4Cb6_yGFZb3k-NSX8lVl-P/s1600/JackKirbySelf+Portrait.jpg" height="320" width="316" /></a>Okay, so I don't know what this shirt is supposed to replicate.<br />
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How about a variety of comic book related content to fill out this happy Monday in March.<br />
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Some jackass wrote that<br />
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<a href="http://www.truthfulcomics.com/1/post/2013/09/jack-kirby-wouldnt-be-relevant-in-todays-comics.html">KIRBY WOULD NOT BE RELEVANT IN COMICS TODAY</a><br />
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This is a ridiculous statement on many levels. The link above is a retort to a debate on many comic book boards by a blogger (Manuel Carmona) who disagrees with the argument that Kirby would not be relevant today. So apparently the jackass (or jackasses) are the people on the message boards arguing about Jack Kirby. It's inane arguments like this one that keep me from frequenting comic book message boards. Back in the day, I used to frequent Compuserve comic book message boards and subscribed to Yahoo Groups for various comic book groups, and eventually I left this all behind because debates of this kind would drive me completely nuts.<br />
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We would not have modern comics as they are today without Jack Kirby, so arguing his relevance to today's comics predisposes he already existed to drive the comic industry to its current state. I could move to dismiss the argument just based on this faulty reasoning.<br />
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Saying Jack Kirby would not be relevant TODAY and his comics would not sell also assumes that if Kirby were working today, he would be producing comics in the styles of the 1960s and 1970s. This is also a ridiculous assumption because if Kirby were a current creator of the present his work would do what it did in the past, which is to innovate and make more dynamic the characters, stories, and situations that he tackles. He would also be able to produce an enormous amount of work even more efficiently and brilliantly.<br />
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This specious argument is also like saying that Shakespeare would not be relevant and sell plays today. These creators are products of their time and advanced their work beyond the quotidian dreck churning about the in the frothy canals of the time period. The genius of these creators would rise to the surface and be self evident no matter what time period they worked in, and they would find ways to innovate the current status quo.<br />
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I just added the rss feed for TRUTHFUL COMICS (the right thinker blogger above) to my reader. We need more right thinking people.<br />
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Above, fan created artwork Wallpaper from <a href="http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/marvel-comics/images/13957332/title/final-war-marvel-dc-wallpaper-73-charcaters-photo">HERE</a>.<br />
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Speaking of Jack Kirby, Alan Moore and various artists did a take-off a few years ago on Marvel Comics circa 1963 (mainly the work of Jack Kirby but also Steve Ditko and others). These are brilliant and FUN comic books, smartly conceived and executed.<br />
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I have been meaning to share about them for a while now. Today is about pulling things out of my T-shirts Blog folder to fill up content since I cannot write about the shirt as I do not know what it is.<br />
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Read more about these comics via the following links. The Tor and CBR links are particularly good.<br />
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<a href="http://www.comicvine.com/1963/4050-5162/">1963 on COMIC VINE</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/the-great-alan-moore-reread-1963">TOR - THE GREAT ALAN MOORE RE-READ</a><br />
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<a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/08/26/comics-you-should-own-flashback-1963/">CBR ON 1963</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_(comics)">1963 ON WIKIPEDIA</a><br />
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- chris tower - 1403.03 - 19:51Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-64501476288919648992014-03-02T09:51:00.002-08:002020-05-20T09:07:08.790-07:00T-shirt #346 - The JAM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN:</b> Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday, at the top of the blog, for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: black;">T-shirt #346 - The JAM</b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro8tJ3-kjDQP11IJlraiw2fhmGUTgCUuqnV-McKyurfW6_5ZqdVSGROV2Ib4rbg5pVfa17Fd79Fn556RDh5b-vjXZwf14v9m0e85FUP32cASMY7f6eiWQ-hYqqbo8DAAdXMTYIu5sQ9cA/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro8tJ3-kjDQP11IJlraiw2fhmGUTgCUuqnV-McKyurfW6_5ZqdVSGROV2Ib4rbg5pVfa17Fd79Fn556RDh5b-vjXZwf14v9m0e85FUP32cASMY7f6eiWQ-hYqqbo8DAAdXMTYIu5sQ9cA/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(3).jpg" /></a>Today's shirt features what is one of the greatest bands of the modern era: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jam">THE JAM</a>.<br />
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I would put <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jam">THE JAM</a> next to most any band in an evaluation of musical impact, fury of fandom, raw power, lyrical strength, chart topping songs and albums, quality of albums as a whole, pop hooks, originality, and many of the other factors used to evaluate bands.<br />
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Even so, when I created my BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME LIST in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-292-bruce-springsteen-rising.html">T-shirt #292</a>, I did not include any albums by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jam">THE JAM</a> in the top ten list.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jam">THE JAM</a> were among the two bands I mentioned immediately following my top ten list as an unfortunate omission. However, in my personal top most listened to albums, the Jam's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Mod_Cons">All Mod Cons</a></i> logged 20th as you can read here in the oft-recommended <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-97-kraftwerk.html">T-shirt #97</a>.<br />
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Despite these rankings or lack of rankings, the Jam are definitely among my favorite bands of all time, ranked third when I listed favourite bands in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/05/t-shirt-46-devo-are-we-not-men.html">T-shirt #46: DEVO</a>.<br />
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I first discovered the Jam in the early 1980s, probably around 1981-82 with the purchase of the 1980 album <i>Sound Affects</i>. In 1982, I had tickets to see them at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, which I sold for less than I paid, out front, because my then girlfriend of the time had lost interest in attending and wanted to visit her grandparents in Greektown instead. The Jam broke up shortly after this concert appearance, and I have never gotten over missing my chance to see them live.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">JAM MIX</span></u></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvo2pn21rXfNaC8tGKZOuqaPoy4eyaP3813Zgyk4Xw6zK6cwwRX3vzDOrPHF9kqf18nBTzVtUiTIh_qPF_m2RqfLQoiUP1ZK75NTxFJH1SHJXFXXelYWRX-gplwAPFUfnbS3dtb4bpjjC/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvo2pn21rXfNaC8tGKZOuqaPoy4eyaP3813Zgyk4Xw6zK6cwwRX3vzDOrPHF9kqf18nBTzVtUiTIh_qPF_m2RqfLQoiUP1ZK75NTxFJH1SHJXFXXelYWRX-gplwAPFUfnbS3dtb4bpjjC/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(4).jpg" width="320" /></a>In 1983, I started dating another woman who had just spent the summer living in Britain and had become a HUGE Jam fan and discovered the rest of their albums, primarily <i>Setting Sons </i>and my personal favourite: <i>All Mod Cons</i>, which I think is a truly great album despite my failure to rank it in an objective listing of top ten greatest albums of all time.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKgJeNjTtjPLFoVr_PKNmeuHW49STALiN23OBlTvic2YNeG-sajfatCx769hylLRRNaL-CZkMZJwfYAFi5zNVyAZD3yyY_J-IVigYL5aFJ3EJww18zurW4Vs_eAIfduLI8cnqYX6q8lx6/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKgJeNjTtjPLFoVr_PKNmeuHW49STALiN23OBlTvic2YNeG-sajfatCx769hylLRRNaL-CZkMZJwfYAFi5zNVyAZD3yyY_J-IVigYL5aFJ3EJww18zurW4Vs_eAIfduLI8cnqYX6q8lx6/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(6).jpg" width="180" /></a>I have been a huge Jam fan ever since, though I am most interested in PAUL WELLER, the Modfather, whom I have followed through his years with THE STYLE COUNCIL and later (and currently) his burgeoning solo career. I have yet to see Paul Weller live, and this is definitely on my bucket list of things to do before either one of us, me or Paul, kicks. Along with never seeing The Jam, missing Paul Weller ranks with my other missed live shows, such as Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, and Joni Mitchell.<br />
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Ranking the Jam albums is easy.<br />
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1. <i>All Mod Cons </i>(1978)<br />
2. <i>Setting Sons </i>(1979)<br />
3. <i>Sound Affects </i>(1980)<br />
4. <i>The Gift </i>(1982)<br />
5. <i>In The City </i>(1977)<br />
6. <i>This is the Modern World </i>(1977)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOk_B6aknfrFKetetByoklvmXM4pj6ysDVRfmsP_RTW3_iMCJjcGK7RL6GqoVyUd1Kdw2GepvjSWfhGohhOGv741gHvTMx4MMYB3OT29wqm9AoQoKEG-GCnzzu-Badif6kYERt8sA64V0N/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(7).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOk_B6aknfrFKetetByoklvmXM4pj6ysDVRfmsP_RTW3_iMCJjcGK7RL6GqoVyUd1Kdw2GepvjSWfhGohhOGv741gHvTMx4MMYB3OT29wqm9AoQoKEG-GCnzzu-Badif6kYERt8sA64V0N/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(7).jpg" width="225" /></a>This list does not count compilations or special editions, like <i>Beat Surrender </i>seen in the photos. I was fortunate and blessed to receive a copy of <i>Dig the New Breed, </i>a live compilation album released as the band broke up in 1982, and the deluxe 30th anniversary edition of <i>The Gift</i> as Christmas gifts in 2013 from my wife.<br />
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The Jam are an amazing success story. Formed in a flurry of punk activity in Britain, the band emerged as one of the punk bands that was not so stereotypically punk. Though the band formed in 1972, the recording and popular years were short: five years. They burned twice as bright because they burned half as long as many others.<br />
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Yes, somewhat lazy, but effective, here's the main WIKIPEDIA text on the Jam that does a good job summing up how great the band was.<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The Jam were an English punk rock/new wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes, and they incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock and R&B influences rather than rejecting them, placing The Jam at the forefront of the mod revival movement.</span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mKJZqFVvEQ3O7BktYcQTpZGB2WuIhXiOHq707oJLw4TD1F4HSsE0-pW_7Eqc3rH88W5AFPmwpj4VVg2ohtshyphenhyphenFsSDgR9IqqI96k-QtufT4jaoa46ydUp7n2mzVx4tAGdURypHkMc3Bqr/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(8).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mKJZqFVvEQ3O7BktYcQTpZGB2WuIhXiOHq707oJLw4TD1F4HSsE0-pW_7Eqc3rH88W5AFPmwpj4VVg2ohtshyphenhyphenFsSDgR9IqqI96k-QtufT4jaoa46ydUp7n2mzVx4tAGdURypHkMc3Bqr/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(8).jpg" width="225" /></a><span style="color: #f1c232;">They had 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" remained the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, hit number one on the UK album charts. When the group split up, their first 15 singles were re-released and all placed within the top 100.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. The trio was known for its melodic pop songs, its distinctly English flavour and its mod image. The band launched the career of Paul Weller, who went on to form The Style Council and later had a successful solo career. Weller wrote and sang most of The Jam’s original compositions, and he played lead guitar, using a Rickenbacker. Bruce Foxton provided backing vocals and prominent basslines, which were the foundation of many of the band’s songs, including the hits "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," "The Eton Rifles," "Going Underground," and "Town Called Malice."</span></blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAe6kFP9hmkKuMOnSG_ZYGvxQw1Chx3cOoGhLFyzpAqWmdQmgc_6Lt7sUPoMduV-PJD-v2tWzVuCEWJQk4OBzjUHf2lsV7Q5no4jFGgqfqBF2Vbyd_6hL1zZBhm_AR2rumEhJ37B3qQ4w/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(9).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAe6kFP9hmkKuMOnSG_ZYGvxQw1Chx3cOoGhLFyzpAqWmdQmgc_6Lt7sUPoMduV-PJD-v2tWzVuCEWJQk4OBzjUHf2lsV7Q5no4jFGgqfqBF2Vbyd_6hL1zZBhm_AR2rumEhJ37B3qQ4w/s1600/TheJamShirtandAlbums+(9).jpg" width="640" /></a>I have copious reading materials about The Jam and much more that I could share, but I also have another and a newer (nicer) shirt, so the full love letter will wait for a future post, after the 365 days of posts has ended.<br />
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For now, just videos featuring some of my favourite Jam songs. ENJOY. Happy Sunday. Have a cuppa and settle in with music from one of the best bands of all time.<br />
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Difficult to pick, but I restricted myself to TEN songs, the full album of <i>All Mod Cons</i>, and two documentaries. Piffle. Not that much. Sue me. How can one select even ten best and favourite songs from a band this great?<br />
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One of the best songs ever written...<br />
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<span class="watch-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="border: 0px; color: black; cursor: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="The Jam - That's Entertainment"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/artist/the-jam?feature=watch_video_title" id="watch-headline-show-title" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Jam</a> - That's Entertainment</span></h1>
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</span> I thought about going with a live version of this song, but I love the video. It's classic.</div>
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<span class="watch-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="border: 0px; color: black; cursor: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="The Jam - Going Underground"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/artist/the-jam?feature=watch_video_title" id="watch-headline-show-title" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Jam</a> - Going Underground</span></h1>
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<span class="watch-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="border: 0px; color: black; cursor: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/artist/the-jam?feature=watch_video_title" id="watch-headline-show-title" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Jam</a> - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of the most venomous songs ever, and I love it. One of my favourite Jam songs: 'BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR."</span></div>
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<span class="watch-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; color: black; cursor: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="The Jam Live - Beat Surrender (HD)">(From <i>All Mod Cons</i>)</span><br />
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If you like what you have heard of the songs I posted, check out the WHOLE ALBUM!! <br />
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Just pictures today. It's about time I did something simple.<br />
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If it's not obvious, I love my dog: Satchel "the boo boo" Paige Tower.<br />
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Better known as Poopsy, Poopsy Doodle, the Doodler, Puppyness, Duh Boo, Her Booness, Boo Boo Puppy, and the Sneaky Pickle.<br />
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Okay, just a wee bit more text. <a href="http://www.campfido.com/">CAMP FIDO</a> is a great local business. This shirt is produced and sold by CAMP FIDO. It was one of my Christmas presents in 2013.<br />
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<b><u>OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: </u></b>Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a>. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02<br />
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Pictures of me with Satchel were taken by Piper.<br />
Many of the pictures below were taken by my wife Liesel.<br />
Rather than crediting her with each picture, just know that the good ones, those are hers.<br />
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- chris tower - 1403.01 - 18:51Chris Towerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032504937903592824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249329301554979061.post-45444232262660885632014-02-28T17:10:00.001-08:002017-03-24T04:54:01.945-07:00T-shirt #344 - Fantastic Four Logo - printed - blue-long-sleeve<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN7d-Hulj1G6Rdx-1KQaKoybISaQ2Q9F25o6Zri58cI2WaMK26EWtPToNoq4OWZUpFm8snC_bNUtXMMtPycl4E4QpSz98WYoxnXYHOBret3-DYMWNe7BPGsrPvnrcIcGRZgsFoVh30_-lk/s1600/FantasticFourLongSleeveBlue-Print+(8).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN7d-Hulj1G6Rdx-1KQaKoybISaQ2Q9F25o6Zri58cI2WaMK26EWtPToNoq4OWZUpFm8snC_bNUtXMMtPycl4E4QpSz98WYoxnXYHOBret3-DYMWNe7BPGsrPvnrcIcGRZgsFoVh30_-lk/s1600/FantasticFourLongSleeveBlue-Print+(8).jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-size: x-large;">T-shirt #344 - Fantastic Four Logo - printed - blue-long-sleeve</span><br />
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I have been awaiting the launch of the new Marvel NOW! <i>Fantastic Four </i>with a mix of dread and anticipation of dread. There was just a lot of dread, actually. Terrible fear and dread and anxiety that there would be misery and suffering that could not be salved with any healing balm.<br />
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Really. It's like those plastic troll dolls with the blue hair, you know those? For three months, now, I have felt like hundreds of those little dolls with their fake beady eyes were drilling into my brain and planting dread spores, sitting on the back of my skull with their cantilevered drill works and scaffolds and the terrible and sickening malaise of what could be A VERY AWFUL COMIC BOOK.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS COMIC SKIP AHEAD TO THE <span style="color: red;">SAFE TO READ NOW</span> SECTION.</b></span><br />
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There's been a great deal of discussion about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robinson_(comics)">James Robinson </a>(new writer on the <i>Fantastic Four</i> comic for MARVEL NOW) in the comic book store. My good friend and fellow writer Jeffery Johnson has been hyper-critical of James Robinson because of his recent, dreadful work on DC's <i>Earth Two</i> and especially prior to the new 52 the abysmal <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League:_Cry_for_Justice">JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR THE JUSTICE</a> </i>series, which I did not read.<br />
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Prior to these "terrible" comics (for the record, I did not have as much of a problem with <i>Earth Two </i>as Jeffery did, though I will admit that some of the plot elements were handled in a sloppy fashion), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robinson_(comics)">James Robinson </a>was held in very high esteem, so much so that an announcement that he would take on one of my favourite comic books would not strike terror in my entire dermal layer. In the past, especially the 1990s, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robinson_(comics)">James Robinson </a> had created great comics such as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Chance">LEAVE IT TO CHANCE</a></i> (with the amazing Paul Smith), <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Age_(comics)">Golden Age</a></i> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Society_of_America"><i>The Justice Society</i> </a>in the 1990s for DC, and of course, he wrote the amazing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(Jack_Knight)">STARMAN</a> (with Tony Harris) that I have discussed at length in <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/08/t-shirt-138-classic-starman.html">T-shirt #138</a> and <a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/12/t-shirt-276-starman-by-robinson-and.html">T-shirt #276</a>. Given the dread I felt that a writer with a good track record but recently uninspired work would ruin my favourite comic book family, I am pleased with the first issue of the new <i>Fantastic Four</i> for MARVEL NOW.<br />
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Immediately fans will note the red uniform rather than the traditional blue (as in my photos of the t-shirt), which James Robinson has claimed there's a purpose for the red uniforms, though this purpose is not revealed in the first issue.<br />
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Sue is recounting a tale, in a diary entry to her children, at some point in the future, of the tragic events about to unfold in the lives of the Fantastic Four. By the point of her journaling, Reed Richards, Mister Fantastic, is a "broken man, a shell" ; Ben Grimm, the Thing, is imprisoned on murder charges sealed by Reed's testimony; her brother Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, is "a lost soul" and is shown drinking in a bar surrounded by women; and she confesses to being heart broken and alone.<br />
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This opening sequence introduces the characters after a fashion as any good first issue should do, which then opens on a double page splash in true epic comic book tradition, tying the team to its roots of monster fighting, which distinguished the very first issue in November of 1961.<br />
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The four fight the enormous dragon creature FING FANG FOOM, one of the great creations of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby from the earliest days of Marvel Comics (just the month before the Fantastic Four first appearance in the October 1961 of <i>Strange Tales</i> (#89)).<br />
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The titles follow on another double-page spread heralding this tale as the "FALL OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR."<br />
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The battle ensues in which the characters are further defined for those who are picking up the comic for the first time. Reed, the genius, must calibrate his neutralizer gun while the rest of the team distracts the creature and protects the innocent. When it looks as if the Thing is injured or killed from a blow by F-F-FOOM, Johnny Storm shows his concern for his best friend and then his natural tendency toward mocking and heckling when he sees that his friend, Uncle Ben, is all right.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkN8N5m7MHs1t3WlmCxmr0BRgI1L21eDPW_5BNcpMyyGdKJ5d8gonzL3wXgjyS7Fm-u5-h6GEqyRHZiArWdj7HjtYR5Ev6Oj-sEzIbjAFWrO_NeJ5FF7z7hicw3dKU-mqqRmrM6NB0pBW/s1600/FantasticFourLongSleeveBlue-Print+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkN8N5m7MHs1t3WlmCxmr0BRgI1L21eDPW_5BNcpMyyGdKJ5d8gonzL3wXgjyS7Fm-u5-h6GEqyRHZiArWdj7HjtYR5Ev6Oj-sEzIbjAFWrO_NeJ5FF7z7hicw3dKU-mqqRmrM6NB0pBW/s1600/FantasticFourLongSleeveBlue-Print+(2).jpg" /></a>The team works together to defeat the monster as each has a role to play in ensuring that Reed's neutralizer does the job. With the major battle out of the way establishing the heroes as courageous, efficient, and powerful, Robinson plugs in the heart and soul of all the <i>Fantastic Four</i> comics: the personal relationships. Aided by some gorgeous art by Leonard Kirk (pencils), Karl Kesel (inker), and Jesus Aburtov (colors), the personal stories unfold, connecting to the recent continuity (Valeria is in Latveria with "Uncle" Doom) and establishing conflicts: Sue is hurting and lashes out at Reed, Ben wants to get back together with Alicia, and Johnny signs away his space-faring freedoms to a new tour contract. Meanwhile, as Reed and Sue bond over the grieving the absence of their daughter, the Future Foundation children run amok in need of supervision an discipline, reminding us all that this book is first and foremost about a family.<br />
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Much like an episode of <i>The Waltons</i>, the comic ends with the characters shown one at a time, happy, for now. Reed and Sue are nestled in each others arms, Ben and Alicia have reunited, Johnny flies happily through the night eager for his new career to begin, the Future Foundation children are covered in chocolate and dreaming blissfully. Sue's diary narration returns here to remind us that this is all the beginning of the end as she wrote at the beginning of the comic. The story ends as an ominous hatch marked only as "GATEWAY F" has its status light change from SEALED to UNSEALED and frightening insectoid creatures spill forth, bursting out of the Baxter Building and into the Manhattan night.<br />
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I am pleased with the start of the new <i>Fantastic Four</i> comic. James Robinson seems to have shaken off whatever rust or ill-conceived writing ideas were plaguing him at DC lately and delivers a strong first installment to a story that promises to shake the foundation of Marvel Comics' first family. The art is superb and the production values are of high quality. The comic ends with an editorial from new editor Mark Paniccia, sharing of his love for the team and his deep history with it (which shows me that he's about ten years or a little more younger than me).<br />
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Hold on tight. I am ready for more. Are you in?<br />
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Here's some text I have been saving and was going to present prior to the debut of this issue but decided to wait for the debut instead.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wordofthenerdonline.com/james-robinson-leonard-kirk-take-on-fantastic-four/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=james-robinson-leonard-kirk-take-on-fantastic-four"><b><span style="color: black;">WORD OF THE NERD NEWS ITEM</span></b></a><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">All-New Marvel NOW! marks a brand new start for Marvel’s First Family – from the award winning creative team of James Robinson and Leonard Kirk! And they’ll take them to places you’ve never seen before in the all-new FANTASTIC FOUR #1 – on sale this February!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The Fantastic Four’s lives are full of deadly twists and turns. They’ve explored other dimensions, fought terrifying monsters, and stood together against some of the Marvel Universe’s deadliest villains! But they’ve always done so together. So what happens when the Fantastic Four go their separate ways?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The brilliant Mr. Fantastic, the compassionate Invisible Woman, the hot headed Human Torch, and the ever lovin’ Thing are about to embark on a new mission full of danger and excitement – and one that will see the Fantastic Four meet their untimely end!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">“New readers and long-time FANTASTIC FOUR fans are in for an emotional and action-packed roller coaster ride that will tear the team apart at the seams,” says Senior Editor Mark Paniccia. “Broken hearts, betrayal, conspiracies and even murder will test this family of super heroes beyond anything they’ve ever experienced.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">FANTASTIC FOUR #1 also features a special 75th Anniversary Cover by legendary artist Alex Ross! This stunning cover celebrates 75 years of Marvel with a gorgeous rendering of the Fantastic Four in Ross’ rich, highly detailed style. Don’t miss your chance to own this piece of Marvel history!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">All-New Marvel NOW! brings you the biggest creators and the biggest characters in the biggest stories! Don’t miss the beginning of the end for Marvel’s First Family when FANTASTIC FOUR #1 hits print and digital this February!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><i>FANTASTIC FOUR</i> #1</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Written by JAMES ROBINSON</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Art & Cover by LEONARD KIRK</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Variant Covers by ALEX ROSS, JEROME OPENA,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">SKOTTIE YOUNG, and KATIE COOK Also Available!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">ON SALE FEBRUARY 2014!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;"><b>GENERAL ARTICLE ON THE NEW FANTASTIC FOUR</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2014/02/26/james-robinson-fantastic-four-comic-book-series/5832413/">Robinson mixes past and present for new 'Fantastic Four'</a></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: blue; color: white;">REVIEWS of THE NEW FANTASTIC FOUR</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.wordofthenerdonline.com/review-fantastic-four-1/">FROM WORD OF THE NERD</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicvine.com/reviews/fantastic-four-1/1900-2767/">FROM COMIC VINE</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/27/fantastic-four-1-review-2">FROM IGN</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=7031">FROM COMIC BOOK RESOURCES</a><br />
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My first <i>Fantastic Four </i>comic book made this motif abundantly clear. I started my reading of Fantastic Four in December of 1967 with issue #69. Looking over the next twenty issues or so, I would estimate that <i>The Fantastic Four</i> was definitely my favorite comic book as I have more of those early issues from 1967-1970 than any other comic book.<br />
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COMIC VINE LINK TO THIS ISSUE: <i><a href="http://www.comicvine.com/fantastic-four-69-by-ben-betrayed/4000-9816/">BY BEN BETRAYED</a></i></div>
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In <i>Fantastic Four #</i>69, Ben Grimm's mind has been manipulated chemically by the Mad Thinker who disguises himself as mustachioed charlatan so Ben does not recognize him. All of Ben's pain and bitterness about being the Thing and blaming Reed for making him this way is twisted into hatred by the Mad Thinker's brain washing.<br />
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The Fantastic Four try to fight Ben and subdue him, for his own safety, as the New York police call in the Air Force to take him out.<br />
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In a cover that harks back to <i>King Kong</i>, Kirby does some of his best and most dynamic art work and story telling as Jack Kirby was the driving force behind the excellence of <i>The Fantastic Four </i>comic.<br />
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Not only did this comic inspire me for its story and compelling art, but it cemented my FF fandom already fueled by the 1967 cartoon (see ad farther below) from Hanna Barbera.<br />
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Also, this issue is my first Marvel Comic -- as my first ever comic book was a DC publication -- opened up a whole new world to me of Mighty Marveldom as I began to enjoy the writing of Stan's Soapbox and began drooling over ads for Mighty Marvel T-shirts (see image below). I was entranced by Marveldom and wanted my own No Prize in the Mighty Marvel Manner. I was a REAL FRANTIC ONE from then on.<br />
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Examining the run of issues in that time period, this may be one of the few cases, especially at such a young age that I bought the next issue (#70) of a comic (as I rarely bought consecutive issues back then) as well as seven of the next ten issues (72, 74, 76, 77, 78,79, and 80).</div>
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In December of 1967, I was five about to turn six years old. I was just learning to read. My father (and sometimes my mother) was still reading to me before bed. Often my choices were comics, often I chose THIS and these other <i>Fantastic Four </i>comics. My world and the world of the comics were the same: they were both all about family, all about having a HOME to share with family. And love. Love for each other, love for family, love for the home and the security it provided.<br />
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To the left is Ben's final vow to "get" Richards for his betrayals as this story was continued in the next issue.<br />
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Check out this art in the page below (page 12) from issue #69. This is some of Kirby's best work. In fact, I would argue that Kirby's work from issue one of <i>Fantastic Four </i>through when he left the book in issue 102 is the best and most fertile period of the <i>Fantastic Four </i>and some of Kirby's best work in comics. Kirby really begins to hit his stride with issues around #s 20-30, and he begins the most classic period of FF history with issue 48, "The Coming of Galactus," truly establishing the comic by it's subtitle: "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine!" But then, the long story arc starting with issue #68 and moving through the second coming of Galactus, Doctor Doom stories, Ben in space as a prisoner of a War Games despot, culminating in issues with the Frightful Four, the Inhumans, and the mega-battle issue 100 are some of the most amazing work in all of Marvel Comics history!!<br />
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This nifty blogger, BULLY of <a href="http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/">Bully Says Comics Oughtta Be Fun</a> is doing 365 days of tech created by the master Jack Kirby. Here's two of my recent faves.<br />
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Tonight at 13th Dimension you can find a guide, with specially-written mini-biographies, of each of the contributors to 13D: The 13thD Super Team: Who We Are and How We Came to Be! I would like to point out that it include my person pal John DiBello. Aside from that claim that "he writes most of the stuff" here at Comics Oughta Be Fun! (heresy!) it's a pretty accurate depiction. He does want to shake Ben Grimm's hand and thank him for the events of Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7, one of the greatest superhero comic books of all time. How great is it? So great that the Thing is acclaimed as the ultimate fighter in the universe, the warrior who will not give up.<br />
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Also, because of Reed Richards' Thing-Finderer...I mean, his Portable Energy-Detector.<br />
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<a href="http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2014/02/365-days-of-kirbytech-day-49-reed.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 49: Reed Richards' Compu-Beam</a></h3>
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This is one of my favorite S<i>ilver Surfer</i> issues and opening splash pages. When I saw it, I had to copy it.<br />
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<span style="color: grey; font-size: xx-small;">Splash page from <i>Silver Surfer</i> (1968 series) #5 (April 1969), script by Stan Lee, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Sal Buscema, letters by Sam Rosen</span></center>
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I am charting my Fantastic Four content by adding a Fantastic Four category. To sets of links here. First, links in which the Fantastic Four is featured on the shirt. Next, blog posts that featured "significant" Fantastic Four content, by which I mean more than a quick mention or the monthly item in the Weekly Comics List.<br />
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<b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;">FANTASTIC FOUR SHIRT SPECIFIC</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/10/t-shirt-207-fantastic-four-grey.html">T-shirt #207 - Fantastic Four - Grey</a><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-235-fantastic-four-long-sleeve.html">T-shirt #235 - Fantastic Four Blue Long Sleeve (DIY) and Comic Book News</a><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-104-silver-surfer-daredevil.html">T-SHIRT #104 - SILVER SURFER, DAREDEVIL BLACK PANTHER</a><br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/09/t-shirt-168-kudl-2009-white-no-play.html">T-shirt #168 KUDL White</a> (<i>Fantastic Four </i>cover featured)<br />
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<a href="http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2014/01/t-shirt-305-michigan-sectionals-2002-no.html">T-shirt #305 - Michigan sectionals</a> (<i>Fantastic Four </i>cover featured)<br />
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And over on my <a href="http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/">SENSE OF DOUBT</a> blog:<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four">FANTASTIC FOUR WIKIPEDIA</a><br />
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The Wiki entry contains a great examination of who created the Fantastic Four Stan then Jack, Jack then Stan, or both Stan and Jack concurrently. It's worth a look if you're interested. I have too much content on this page to explore it at this time. :-)<br />
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...and just because.... (actually I might add my own review of this one later).<br />
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It should be no surprised given the love fest going on for this page that <i>FANTASTIC FOUR</i> - #001 took first position this week. If you're surprised that <i>Cataclysm: The Ultimates Last Stand</i> #005 took second place, don't be. I needed to know what happened and this is the final issue of the mini-series. So, <i>Aquaman</i> drops to third but look for this one to be back on top next month, unless it comes out the same week as FF. <i>The Walking Dead </i>has once again dropped from the top slot, but I would not be surprised to see it top a future week as the current story line is improving. The Avengers books are startling and riveting, especially <i>Uncanny Avengers</i>, which must be taking place in an alternate timeline given that it SPOILER SPOILER....Okay, I am not going to tell you. You're gonna have to read it.<br />
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<i>FANTASTIC FOUR</i> - #001<br />
<i>Cataclysm: The Ultimates Last Stand</i> #005<br />
<i>Aquaman</i> #28<br />
<i>The Walking Dead</i> #122<br />
<i>Mighty Avengers</i> #007<br />
<i>Uncanny Avengers</i> #017<br />
<i>Guardians of the Galaxy</i> #012<br />
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<i>The Superior Spider-Man</i> #028<br />
<i>Hawkeye</i> #015<br />
<i>Secret Avengers</i> #016<br />
<i>Batman/Superman</i> #8<br />
<i>Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze</i> #3<br />
<i>Avengers Assemble</i> #024 (DeConnick & Ellis)<br />
<i>Thunderbolts</i> #022<br />
<i>The Flash</i> #28<br />
<i>World's Finest: Huntress and Power Girl</i> #20<br />
<i>Black Science</i> #4<br />
<i>Deadly Class</i> #2<br />
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<b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;">BACK LOG</span></b><br />
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<i>Superman</i> #28<br />
<i>Teen Titans</i> #28<br />
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<i>Catwoman</i> #28</div>
<i>Miracleman</i> #3<br />
<i>Sheltered</i> #7<br />
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<b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: white;">IN DEFENSE OF MY INSANELY LONG COVER GALLERIES:</span></b> Okay, yeah, this is a lot of covers (starting with this gorgeous Alex Ross tribute for the new <i>Fantastic Four #001 </i>for MARVEL NOW). I hope you realize that I am actually being somewhat prudent and somewhat picky. If you want to see all the covers I did my pick as my "favorites," see the links above to THE COMIC VINE sites where they are all archived. I like making cover galleries of favorite comics. It's a tour down memory lane for me. I am not digging through my comic boxes after all. But seeing thee covers takes me back, reminds of what I love and why I love it. It's good therapy for me. And so I share it with you. I am also blessed to have a DVD set of archived <i>Fantastic Four </i>comics, all the issues from the start through 2004. AWESOME. But that's how I gleaned the images from issue #69 shared farther above. Enjoy this tour down FF memory lane, True Believer. This is a good survey of the history of the team with some of its most provocative and powerful cover art. See you all later!<br />
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