T-shirt #350 - 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden #2

TODAY'S COUNT: 15 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!

T-shirt #350 - 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden #2

Greetings reader. Thank you for checking out my blog.

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:

T-SHIRT #257: 10,000 MANIACS - BLIND MAN'S ZOO

T-SHIRT #289: 10,000 MANIACS - OUR TIME IN EDEN

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.

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WARNING: DISCLAIMER OF BROKEN VIDEO LINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

GOOGLE FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC ONE

GOOGLE FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC TWO

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. :-)

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OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: 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: SENSE OF DOUBT. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from SENSE OF DOUBT. 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 SENSE OF DOUBT 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. SENSE OF DOUBT 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
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TODAY'S VIDEOS

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.

1. We start off with 10,000 Maniacs because of the shirt, but also because this is a GREAT song.

10,000 Maniacs - These are Days (Live MTV Unplugged 1993)

2. I think one could make the argument that this next song is the single greatest rock and roll song of all time.

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - the best version ever.

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?

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven Live (HD)

4. There can be no battle of great bands without this one from CSN&Y. Amazing.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu (video)

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.

Beatles- Let It Be

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!

Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980 - 11 The Great Curve

7. Before I get accused of just sharing videos by white people, one of the greatest African-American groups of all time. FANTASTIC stuff.

Arrested Development - United Front (Video)

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.

English Beat "End of the Party" (Live) June 5, 2009

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.

Roxy Music..........Prairie Rose live in Newcastle

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. :-)

Haircut 100 - Fantastic Day

COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 15 shirts remaining

- chris tower - first published - 1403.06 - 19:19
final publication - 1403.07 - 11:22

T-shirt #349 - Josie and the Pussycats

TODAY'S COUNT: 16 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!

T-shirt #349 - Josie and the Pussycats

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.

My bets memory of Josie and the Pussycats comes to me via Kellogg's cereal.

BOX TOPS.

Did you save them? I know I did.





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.

Okay, late me back up. Josie and the Pussycats is a creation of the Archie Comics line. Originally, Archie Comics published a comic called She's Josie and Josie, starting in 1963.

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 The Archie Show, the Chicago-based Archie Comics wanted to further capitalize on its success.

In December of 1969, the Josie comic was renamed Josie and the Pussycats 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.

Riding the wave of the success of the Archie TV show, CBS produced a show called Josie and the Pussycats that ran from 1970-1971 for sixteen episodes. The show was re-imagined as Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space 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 Josie and the Pussycats was part of my weekly TV viewing was six years.

Hanna-Barbera created a "real life" band to sing the songs and even produce an album. Cheryl Ladd was one of the members of this trio, who released the Josie and the Pussycats album in 1970. On the Wiki page for the band, there's a list of the Kellogg's mail order singled from 1970. I know for certain that I own "Inside, Outside, Upside Down." But I am fairly certain I had at least one of the others as there are four in all. I included videos for two of the four Kellogg's singles among the six songs I feature below, including the theme song from the TV show. The videos to the TV show are hilarious because Hanna-Barbera only created one animation clip for the band playing a song. It may have fit one song, but it does not fit any of the other sings, and yet the clip is repeated as the song plays. There are some obvious editing attempts to try to match the song's rhythm, beat, or get the mouth movements in some synced to the lyrics, but these attempts fail in every video I watched.

Still, "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" is one of my favorite songs from the 1970s. I also included another favorite, "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.

Also, I was lucky enough to find a full episode of Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space in case you want to check that out.

 The Josie and the Pussycats 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 Afterlife With Archie 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.
 
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WIKI-LINKS

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS - COMIC

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS - MUSIC GROUP

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS - TV SHOW
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ARCHIE AND VALERIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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 Rolling Stone one I included in today's COVER GALLERY.

From its roots in 1941, Archie was strictly a white bread cast. It was radical enough when the comics line introduced Valerie Smith for Josie and the Pussycats in 1969. In fact, there was a fight with Hanna Barbera to include her in TV show. In the end, she was included and became the first black cartoon character.

Now, forty years later (2010), Valerie is shown KISSING Archie in the comic book series. Two years later, in 2012, longtime writer of Archie Dan Parent constructs an imaginary tale of the couple's future as they get married and have a child.

Check out the links if you want to read more.

Three last things.

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.

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.

Three, I last included my TOP TEN HANNA BARBERA cartoons list in T-shirt #303. Josie and the Pussycats was not in the top ten and only received an honorable mention. I may need to re-think this position.

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LINKS TO ARTICLES ON ARCHIE AND VAL

FABRICATED NEWS

COMICS ALLIANCE

TIMEOUT CHICAGO

ARCHIE BLOG

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Just cheating by copying the list of links from WIKIPEDIA. It's easier this way. Trust me. I'm a doctor.

External links[edit]

• http://www.dandecarlo.com Creator Dan Decarlos Website
• Josie and the Pussycats at the Internet Movie Database
• Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space at the Internet Movie Database
• Archie Comics' Josie and the Pussycats homepage
• Josie and the Pussycats at TV.com
• Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space at TV.com
• Josie and the Pussycats at Toonopedia
• JOZINE: unofficial Josie/DeCarlo fan site
• Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDb): Josie and the Pussycats
• Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDb): Josie and the Pussycats In Outer Space

ALSO
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS ON TV TROPES

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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.

OFF RAMP TO NOWHERE

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VIDEO GALLERY

Josie and the Pussycats (1970) - Intro (Opening)

Josie And The Pussycats - Inside, Outside, Upside Down 1970

Josie And The Pussycats- Voodoo 1970

Josie And The Pussycats - Stop, Look, And Listen 1970

Josie And The Pussycats - Lie, Lie, Lie 1970

Josie And The Pussycats - You've Come A Long Way Baby (Single Version) 1970

Josie and the Pussycats in OUTER SPACE

Episode 01 - "Where's Josie?" - Full

I know this next one is not Josie and the Pussycats, but I don't own an Archie shirt and this song is too classic to not post.

The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (Original 1969 Music Video)

OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUTNDOWN: 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: SENSE OF DOUBT. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from SENSE OF DOUBT.

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 SENSE OF DOUBT 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.

SENSE OF DOUBT 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

COVER GALLERY

COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 16 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1403.05 - 10:15

T-shirt #348 - Kalamazoo College Alumni

TODAY'S COUNT: 17 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!

T-shirt #348 - Kalamazoo College Alumni

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.

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.

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.

The upshot being that producing large volumes of content is in my blood. And so...

It's time for another BLOG RECAP because I haven't done a full one in some time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SHIRTS BY COLOR/PURPOSE

Shirts by Color - White (91)

Shirts By Color - Black (72)

Shirts By Color - Grey (52)

GIFTS (58)

Shirts By Color - Blue (49)

New T-shirts (38)

Shirts I Made (31)

Shirts by Color - Red (24)

Shirts By Color - Assorted (17)

Long-Sleeved Shirts (16)

Shirts By Color - Green (12)

Shirts By Color - Yellow (12)

Pajamas (10)

Shirts By Color - Purple and Pink (8)

Dead T-shirts (4)

Work Shirts (2)

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.

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.

TOP TEN CATEGORIES BY SUBJECT

Comic Books (105)

Just Logos and Symbols (56)

Sports (53)

Favorite Things (50) & Posts with Music videos (50)

TV and Movies (49)

Family (48) & Ultimate (48)

Music (45)

Comic Book Artists (43) & Cover Galleries (43) & Reviews (43)

DC Comics (41)

Books (36) & Friends (36)

SUBJECT MATTER

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.

It should be no surprise to anyone that comic books dominates my subject matter with the top slot at 105 entries. I use this category liberally so even when the T-shirt is not comic book themed, I have categorized a shirt as "comic books" if there is comic book content in the post. Glancing through the comic book category, I count eleven posts that are not comic-book themed shirts in the three dozen or more shirts, going back to posts made in October. I could get crazy and count the ratio of comic book content to comic book imagery on the shirt, but I would suspect that it's probably no more than a third of those 105 shirts that include comic book content apart from what the shirt depicts.

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.

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).

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.

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.

(Here's the list again as I need to see it as I write so I figure you need to see it as you read).

TOP TEN CATEGORIES BY SUBJECT

Comic Books (105)

Just Logos and Symbols (56)

Sports (53)

Favorite Things (50) & Posts with Music videos (50)

TV and Movies (49)

Family (48) & Ultimate (48)

Music (45)

Comic Book Artists (43) & Cover Galleries (43) & Reviews (43)

DC Comics (41)

Books (36) & Friends (36)

Once I decided to go nuts with sharing comic book covers (mostly, though there are a few other posts in that category with a series of non-comic book images), I have managed to share cover galleries the same number of times as the artists and reviews all of which are tied in eighth and mostly because these posts would qualify in all three categories.

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.

I like seeing the synergy in both books and friends being categorized an equal number of times.

SECOND TEN (11-20) SUBJECTS ON THE BLOG

Lists-Weekly Comics Stack (34) & Women in comics (34)

KUDL (30)

Science Fiction (29)

Causes and Good Stuff (27)

1970s Nostalgia (26)

Hiatus (24) & Marvel Comics (24)

1960s Nostalgia (23)

My Oldest (21)

Baseball (20)

Blog Recap (19) & Concert T-shirts (19) & Places (19)

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.

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.

After Ultimate, Baseball ranks as the highest numbered sports category, as it should be, because these numbers reflect my fandom.

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.

This is the shirt I am actually wearing today.

Here's the list of the rest with various favorite shirt pictures to dress up the list a bit!

THE REST OF THE LIST OF CATEGORIES BY FREQUENCY

Beliefs (18) 

College (18)

LOVE (18)

Humor (17)

The Blog Journey (17)

Detroit Tigers (16)

Lists - Music (15)

Rules of Chris (15)

Cartoons (14)

Hawaii (14)

Top Ten Lists (14)

Flying (13)

Just Good Stuff (13)

Lists-My Ten Best Blog Entries (12)

Writing (12)

Batman Related (11)

Grading Robot (11)

Star Trek (11)

Comic Strips (10)

Dinner Party (10)

Letting Go & Growing Up (10)

Lists-Artists (10)

Satchel (10)

episodic narrative (10)

Why T-shirts? (9)

fantasy sports (9)

Dungeons and Dragons (8)

Jack Kirby (8)

Posts with videos (8)

Work (8)

Fantastic Four (7)

Food. (7)

Gene Colan (7)

Superman Related (7)

Warren Ellis (7)

Wearing T-shirts (7)

1980s Nostalgia (6)

Computer and Tech stuff (6)

Jungian Psychology (6)

Lists-Superheroes (6)

Magic (6)

Science (6)

Self Care (6)

TPTA (6)

Toys (6)

audio books (6)

Athletics Shirts (5)

Chicago Cubs (5)

Christmas (5)

Detroit Pistons (5)

George Pérez (5)

Kickstarters (5)

Liesel (5)

CBLDF (4)

Comedy (4)

Halloween (4)

Identity (4)

John Buscema (4)

Kalamazoo College (4)

Lists-Random (4)

Space (4)

Theatre (4)

UofM (4)

football (4)

whisky (4)

Detroit Lions (3)

Feminism (3)

Games (3)

Jim Starlin (3)

NBA (3)

New York (3)

Star Wars (3)

Teaching (3)

Women (3)

romance (3)

Death (2)

Expectations (2)

Gay Rights (2)

Gratitude (2)

Introversion (2)

Lists-Recommendations for non-comic book readers (2)

Narcissism (2)

Ray Kurzweil & the Singularity (2)

Sassy women (2)

Satchel. (2)

The machine (2)

Vampires (2)

Venn Diagrams (2)

WMU (2)

Why I love Comic Books (2)

Aquaman (1)

Art (1)

Basketball (1)

Brands & Products (1)

Comics (1)

Fandom (1)

Horror (1)

Japanese Related (1)

Lists-T-shirts (1)

Memory (1)

My Videos (1)

POP! (1)

Pop Culture-General (1)

Relaxing (1)

Stupidity (1)

Survival (1)

The Internet (1)

The environment (1)

advertising and brands (1)

misanthropy (1)

my Father (1)

my Mother (1)

other people's shirts (1)

shirts with sayings (1)

the Future (1)

OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUTNDOWN: 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: SENSE OF DOUBT. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from SENSE OF DOUBT.

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 SENSE OF DOUBT 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.

SENSE OF DOUBT 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

COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 17 shirts remaining

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