John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

A T-shirt for pizza-loving Gothamites

My good friend Maggie directed me to this, knowing I have a thing for T-shirts. (Click on the tag below to see just how much.) As spotted on Glennz Tees.

A merry, merry Hothmas for you

This T-shirt, a seasonal wink on The Empire Strikes Back battle on the ice planet Hoth, made me laugh. And I bought one (actually, more than one), too, because it's available today only. TeeFury sells its wares dirt cheap (US $9), but on a limited edition basis. 

A T-shirt from Evergreen Terrace

A still life, of sorts, based on the Simpsons. As seen here.

A T-shirt that kicks it old school

I love this cartoon, found on this T-shirt website. Thanks to my friend Tim for the pointer.

Some T-shirts from the Mac & PC wars

Microsoft has been much more aggressive with its advertising to take on Apple (a recent tidbit published here), particularly to hold its share of the laptop market. But I had not seen a T-shirt until this weekend that attempted to put Apple in its place: 

If you can't make out the detail (get a better view here), it has a PC (modelled on John Hodgman) playing Solitaire while Justin Long's Mac has a beachball - the symbolic stall on an Apple computer when it's too busy to help you - next to a pop-up saying, "Loading witty retort." The beachball is what Apple serves up in lieu of crashes. 

"Macs never crash" may be true now, but that certainly was not always the case. Twenty years or so ago, when I toted a Mac 512 home from work (in a protective case about as large as airline luggage), the little symbol below was really familiar.

Don't mistake me for an anti-Mac kind of person; I use both, but still prefer my Mac. (In fact, I'm writing this post on one.) I'm inclined to think a lot of Mac users will just get the humour. 

A T-shirt about romance and Timbits

Awww. As seen here. For more of my virtual T-shirt collection, click on the link below.

A T-shirt that shows how less is more

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe continues to have a profound effect on architecture, design and how we live, whether we know his name and how to pronounce it. We can thank Mies for not only one of the best, shortest aphorisms of all time - less is more - but also for that chestnut, "God is in the details." I found this T-shirt here, on a site that features T-shirts all about architecture. For a bit more on Mies, click on the excerpt from a 2003 BBC documentary below.

A T-shirt that respects Dwight Schrute

It is pointless to argue with Mr. Schrute. And, a reminder: The Office's new season debuts Thursday night.

A T-shirt with local appeal

Regular readers will know I have a thing for T-shirts; I'm also fond of Signal, the locally produced blog. (Our titles are kind of fishing from the same [Deadman's] pond.) Signal is now selling some swag: check it out here.

A T-shirt for the aspiring ambidextrous person

From the Mental Floss flock of T-shirts, as seen here. Click on the T-shirts label below for more postings.