{"id":1416,"date":"2008-08-17T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2008-08-18T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T03:37:22","slug":"t-shirts-from-futures-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/17\/t-shirts-from-futures-past\/","title":{"rendered":"T-shirts from futures past"},"content":{"rendered":"

After four years of wearing only solid colourMostly black, I admit.<\/footnote> t-shirts for everyday wear–primarily a habit I developed during my daughter’s infancy, as between her and I several shirts a day were suffering various stains, and I wanted cheap, “hot swappable” clothing–I am starting to pick up a few new interesting printed shirts. (Yes, I have lots of “not a t-shirt” clothing, but remember I work at home, so I really only need that stuff for going out.) As part of that project I should take a moment to mention on here how happy I am with my recent order of some shirts from the Retropolis Transit Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I ordered four different designs for myself, as well as a matched pair for Trish and Sarah.<\/p>\n

You should totally go browse the site, but here’s my commentary on the stuff I ordered:<\/p>\n

First there was this one, which I ordered because I have been known to exclaim the very phrase<\/a> it carries, or variants thereof:<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a><\/p>\n

Second was this one, which I ordered primarily because it’s a variation on an old gag from Mooney’s modules<\/a> that always made Iron Doug laugh:<\/p>\n

\"Speed<\/a><\/p>\n

Third was this one, which goes nicely with my recently acquired Official Girl Genius goggles<\/a> (although I prefer to think of them as my Offical Mad Genius goggles, honestly):<\/p>\n

\"Certifiable<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the one a little closer so you can read the text:<\/p>\n

\"Mad<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: I do<\/em> have a death ray, and I do<\/em> know how to use it. However, it’s that final tagline that really makes the shirt.<\/p>\n

Fourth, and clearly the best of all (indeed, in my hot-so-humble opinion, the best thing at RTA<\/a>) is this one:<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the closeup on that one:<\/p>\n

\"I'm<\/a><\/p>\n

This shirt has won me kudos on several occasions, including props from the McAuslan<\/a> people at the Beerfest<\/a> this weekend–including my being able to negotiate some St. Ambroise<\/a> + Strongbow experiments from them (and they had the best shirts there with the Virtuvian Pint design, by the way). Actually some random dude at the beerfest<\/a> stopped to pose with me for a photo because he liked my t-shirt so much. (Trish, incidentally, was somewhat put out that random guy would rather have been in a photo with me than her).<\/p>\n

Sarah and Trish got a matching pair in this design:<\/p>\n

\"Like<\/a><\/p>\n

Trish seems quite pleased with hers, but Sarah absolutely refuses to wear her smaller, pinker version<\/a>. “I don’t want to take over the world and boss people around,” she says very adamantly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After four years of wearing only solid colourMostly black, I admit. t-shirts for everyday wear–primarily a habit I developed during my daughter’s infancy, as between her and I several shirts a day were suffering various stains, and I wanted cheap, “hot swappable” clothing–I am starting to pick up a few new interesting printed shirts. (Yes, I have lots of “not… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[126,154,99],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-something-great","tag-t-shirts","tag-things-to-buy","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-mQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}