Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Shirts or Skins
While I could probably write a similar post about the state of the men's game as my morning lament on the women's (oh, I miss the days of Borg and Connors, and Solomon and Dibbs), there's no denying that a Roger Federer vs. Tommy Haas and Andy Murray vs. Andy Roddick Wimbledon semifinal line-up -- in which the players actually hit the ball -- is nothing to sneeze at. I might even be saying that if these boys weren't so nice to look at, too ...
Too Many T-Shirts? Transform Them!
Do you have a drawer full of t-shirts that you don’t wear anymore, but can’t part with?
Megan Nicolay, author of “Generation T” has an easy how-to for re-fashioning a t-shirt into a halter top. It’s perfect for beginner sewers and is one of those instant gratification projects that we all love :-)
Actually, there are fabric recycling bins - in fact, in Britain - you can even recycle old bras! But it’s definitely better to reuse fabric rather than tossing it in the garbage.
Megan Nicolay, author of “Generation T” has an easy how-to for re-fashioning a t-shirt into a halter top. It’s perfect for beginner sewers and is one of those instant gratification projects that we all love :-)
Actually, there are fabric recycling bins - in fact, in Britain - you can even recycle old bras! But it’s definitely better to reuse fabric rather than tossing it in the garbage.
The 10 Most Ridiculous Airbrushed Shirts in Music
irbrushed t-shirts aren't just reserved for white trash, anymore! Once a staple for lot lizards and trailer park queens, airbrushed shirts are branching out, these days. No longer is airbrushed subject matter limited to just slutty, oversized Betty Boops.
You've got your hip hop airbrushes, your rock, we've even seen a latin Broadway star. Sadly, we didn't find an airbrushed tribute for Eddie Money: The Musical.
No matter how fancy the designs, airbrushed shirts still scream GHETTO. So, we've dug up the worst of the worst. Check out our 10 Most Ridiculous Airbrushed Shirts in Music.
10. Hector Lavoe
Who? Exactly. Hector was a Puerto Rican salsa singer, and judging from the looks of him, he was the Puerto Rican Liberace, only creepier. Shower immediately after taking this shirt off.
9. Jimi Hendrix
Few artists have inspired as much bad art as Jimi, from airbrushings to black light posters. If you're going to get a huge face airbrushed on your chest, though, make sure to spell the name right. If they'd airbrushed a pool of vomit over it, then we'd be impressed.
8. Janet Jackson
This girl looks so proud of her creepy new Janet Jackson shirt. Maybe it's the fact that their eyebrows match. Judging from the whore posters on the wall, this girl better get used to being called "Miss Jackson".
7. Busta Rhymes
WOAH. The artwork on this is pretty bad ass, but Busta looks like he's going to bust out of the shirt and swallow you in his enormously giant mouth. This one should be worn during making out, while your girlfriend wears the Paula Abdul, making for one truly bizarre four way. And why did they airbrush the herpes on his lip?
6. Madonna
Madonna's the constant. From the white trash days to today's fancy airbrushings, Madonna's always been there. She even signed this one, which makes it just that much more ridiculous.
5. The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers? You got the body part all wrong. Get yourself an extreme airbrushed crotch, and get back to us. It'll be just like Playboy magazine. Sluttiness. You're doing it wrong.
4. KISS
What's with all the airbrushed tongues? After about three washings, it's going to look like Gene has a giant slug coming out of his mouth. Or a penis. Or a slug penis.
3. Bob Marley
As if reggae wasn't bad enough, you have to mix it with The Pink Panther? The white trash aren't going to give up the airbrushing easily.
2. Biggie
The artwork's pretty good here, but it looks like a scene straight out of Tales from the Hood. Biggie's going to eat your whole soul in one sitting, and call it an "appetizer".
1. Tupac
Tupac may have surpassed Betty Boop as the most airbrushed figure of all time. With all that practice, you'd think people could get it right. This shirt looks like what would happen if Marilyn Manson and Gollum had a black baby. You better send in that drawing of the turtle and get yourself an art scholarship, quick!
Honorable mention, Tupac AND Biggie
What's better than one creepy airbrushed rapper on a shirt? TWO airbrushed rappers on a shirt. Especially two that hated each other, in life. In death, they live side by side, hanging on a booth in the mall.
You've got your hip hop airbrushes, your rock, we've even seen a latin Broadway star. Sadly, we didn't find an airbrushed tribute for Eddie Money: The Musical.
No matter how fancy the designs, airbrushed shirts still scream GHETTO. So, we've dug up the worst of the worst. Check out our 10 Most Ridiculous Airbrushed Shirts in Music.
10. Hector Lavoe
Who? Exactly. Hector was a Puerto Rican salsa singer, and judging from the looks of him, he was the Puerto Rican Liberace, only creepier. Shower immediately after taking this shirt off.
9. Jimi Hendrix
Few artists have inspired as much bad art as Jimi, from airbrushings to black light posters. If you're going to get a huge face airbrushed on your chest, though, make sure to spell the name right. If they'd airbrushed a pool of vomit over it, then we'd be impressed.
8. Janet Jackson
This girl looks so proud of her creepy new Janet Jackson shirt. Maybe it's the fact that their eyebrows match. Judging from the whore posters on the wall, this girl better get used to being called "Miss Jackson".
7. Busta Rhymes
WOAH. The artwork on this is pretty bad ass, but Busta looks like he's going to bust out of the shirt and swallow you in his enormously giant mouth. This one should be worn during making out, while your girlfriend wears the Paula Abdul, making for one truly bizarre four way. And why did they airbrush the herpes on his lip?
6. Madonna
Madonna's the constant. From the white trash days to today's fancy airbrushings, Madonna's always been there. She even signed this one, which makes it just that much more ridiculous.
5. The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers? You got the body part all wrong. Get yourself an extreme airbrushed crotch, and get back to us. It'll be just like Playboy magazine. Sluttiness. You're doing it wrong.
4. KISS
What's with all the airbrushed tongues? After about three washings, it's going to look like Gene has a giant slug coming out of his mouth. Or a penis. Or a slug penis.
3. Bob Marley
As if reggae wasn't bad enough, you have to mix it with The Pink Panther? The white trash aren't going to give up the airbrushing easily.
2. Biggie
The artwork's pretty good here, but it looks like a scene straight out of Tales from the Hood. Biggie's going to eat your whole soul in one sitting, and call it an "appetizer".
1. Tupac
Tupac may have surpassed Betty Boop as the most airbrushed figure of all time. With all that practice, you'd think people could get it right. This shirt looks like what would happen if Marilyn Manson and Gollum had a black baby. You better send in that drawing of the turtle and get yourself an art scholarship, quick!
Honorable mention, Tupac AND Biggie
What's better than one creepy airbrushed rapper on a shirt? TWO airbrushed rappers on a shirt. Especially two that hated each other, in life. In death, they live side by side, hanging on a booth in the mall.
‘Black Shirts’ - Just Words or Scripted Talking Points for VP Biden?
We took note last week of Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks to the political and legislative conference of the Communications Workers of America, checking to see what he had to say about the Employee Free Choice Act. (Transcript.)
Amid the expected exhortation, one phrase jumped out when the Vice President attacked union opponents generally and the Bush-era National Labor Relations Board specifically for being biased against union organizers.
You know, the National Labor Relations Act says we should “encourage” – paraphrase – “encourage” unions, not mandate them, encourage them. Why? It’s good for the economy. It’s gotten lopsided, folks.
The guys who were supposed to be wearing striped shirts have been wearing black shirts the last eight years. We don’t have referees out there doing it the right way. We’re switching out the shirts, because we’re switching out the people wearing the shirts.
Black shirts? Black shirts? That’s the term used to describe the Italian paramilitary squads and bully boys who helped Mussolini’s rise to power after WWI. (Oswald Mosely’s fascists in England were also known by the term.) If you call someone a “black shirt” you’re calling him a fascist.
We chalked the use of the term up to rhetorical haste, a confusion of black hats — bad guys — and striped shirts — referees. True, you would think someone with vast foreign policy experience would be sensitive to a term like black shirt. Still, a mistake.
But the Vice President has used the term in other speeches to union groups. It’s obviously part of his stump union speech. At some point he or his speech writer said, “Yeah, black shirts. That’s good. Put that in.”
From Vice President Biden’s remarks to the 2009 Legislative Conference Of The American Federation Of State, County And Municipal Employees, May 12, 2009:
There has been a steady drumbeat. The guys wearing striped shirts were wearing black shirts, not striped shirts as referees. They’ve done anything administratively, legislatively and creatively for someone who wants to join a union to join a union.
Black shirts AND drumbeats.
And, Vice President Biden’s Speech to the AFL-CIO Executive Conference, Miami Beach, FL, March 5, 2009:
[In] the early ’70s, some parts of the business community decided that labor was the enemy. They supported politicians who felt the same way, and they began to fix the game, so that the refs — the NLRB, to name one — weren’t calling things — being square and fair. They started wearing black shirts instead of striped shirts.
Are we being too sensitive? After all, it’s a rare American who’s conversant in the rise of Italian fascism. Black shirts are, well, just a dated fashion look.
However, if you look around the web, you’ll see that the term is still in common use — especially among the left — as an insult, the same thing as calling someone a fascist. It’s in the news — a lot.
Retire the term, Mr. Vice President. Stop referring to employers, past members of the NLRB, and principled opponents of unionization in inflammatory terms favored by the left. Even when inadvertent, “black shirt” is a slur. It should not be used in speeches by America’s elected leaders.
Amid the expected exhortation, one phrase jumped out when the Vice President attacked union opponents generally and the Bush-era National Labor Relations Board specifically for being biased against union organizers.
You know, the National Labor Relations Act says we should “encourage” – paraphrase – “encourage” unions, not mandate them, encourage them. Why? It’s good for the economy. It’s gotten lopsided, folks.
The guys who were supposed to be wearing striped shirts have been wearing black shirts the last eight years. We don’t have referees out there doing it the right way. We’re switching out the shirts, because we’re switching out the people wearing the shirts.
Black shirts? Black shirts? That’s the term used to describe the Italian paramilitary squads and bully boys who helped Mussolini’s rise to power after WWI. (Oswald Mosely’s fascists in England were also known by the term.) If you call someone a “black shirt” you’re calling him a fascist.
We chalked the use of the term up to rhetorical haste, a confusion of black hats — bad guys — and striped shirts — referees. True, you would think someone with vast foreign policy experience would be sensitive to a term like black shirt. Still, a mistake.
But the Vice President has used the term in other speeches to union groups. It’s obviously part of his stump union speech. At some point he or his speech writer said, “Yeah, black shirts. That’s good. Put that in.”
From Vice President Biden’s remarks to the 2009 Legislative Conference Of The American Federation Of State, County And Municipal Employees, May 12, 2009:
There has been a steady drumbeat. The guys wearing striped shirts were wearing black shirts, not striped shirts as referees. They’ve done anything administratively, legislatively and creatively for someone who wants to join a union to join a union.
Black shirts AND drumbeats.
And, Vice President Biden’s Speech to the AFL-CIO Executive Conference, Miami Beach, FL, March 5, 2009:
[In] the early ’70s, some parts of the business community decided that labor was the enemy. They supported politicians who felt the same way, and they began to fix the game, so that the refs — the NLRB, to name one — weren’t calling things — being square and fair. They started wearing black shirts instead of striped shirts.
Are we being too sensitive? After all, it’s a rare American who’s conversant in the rise of Italian fascism. Black shirts are, well, just a dated fashion look.
However, if you look around the web, you’ll see that the term is still in common use — especially among the left — as an insult, the same thing as calling someone a fascist. It’s in the news — a lot.
Retire the term, Mr. Vice President. Stop referring to employers, past members of the NLRB, and principled opponents of unionization in inflammatory terms favored by the left. Even when inadvertent, “black shirt” is a slur. It should not be used in speeches by America’s elected leaders.
Rude and Funny T-shirts
Force 18 has a huge range of funny and rude slogan T-shirts that can be ordered through the site. These are grouped into categories such as “Beer/Drinking”, “XXL”, “Attitude” and the perennial “Ladies” category. There are likewise Mum & Dad T-shirts alongside geek & retro tees. One of the best aspects of Force 18 is that strives to create original slogans for its T-shirts, where many competitors choose to copy each other, resulting in little originality. The company does its best to get around such an issue When it comes to shipping and handling, there is free delivery on UK and Ireland orders. For its part, supported payment methods include the web commerce company PayPal. If you like the designs that are already featured, it is always possible to sign up for the provided newsletter and learn about new additions to the catalog this way. You can also learn about new products through the company’s MySpace page. A link is provided to these ends.
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