Thursday, August 10, 2006

Free Don't Suck

Sometimes people like to send me t-shirts, which are, of course, delightful things to receive in the mail. I love the promotional blog-related tees. Even when I have to pay for them.

Danny from Dad Gone Mad is currently -- what's another word for pimping? I know that I speak for most middle-aged, middle-class white folk when I ask, Can we be done with all things comically pimpish now? -- Danny is currently persuading people to buy this particular style of shirt on his site:



I do like the fit of a men's shirt once in awhile. The teeny-tiny tees you still see all over Southern California, occasionally it's good for a gal's soul to take it all off display for a day or two.

But then, refreshed! I can slip my milk bottles back into something more sex-predictable -- say, an American Apparel tee from Monkey's Cafepress store -- and then attack with the same pose:



O, the Warholianism of it all. I much prefer sporting a terry cloth primate on my bazooms than that tired, old, pink-skinned Liz Taylor anyway.

But the winner for labor intensiveness goes to Deb!


Can you see where she's embroidered W,T,F and O,M,G on the keyboard? Inspired details, Deb. Love it.

PART TWO! WHEREIN I ASK THE Good Lord if is this what they're asking of today's preschoolers, that they start writing sci-fi short shorts?
Jackson and Sophia's Story

Once upon a time there were two people who went to Egypt. They ate fish. They said they didn't like fish. They bought a house, it was on fire. It was made of metal.
Well, apart from the sheer Tarkovskian brilliance of buying a house that's on fire -- a metal house that's on fire -- I feel disappointed at the characters' limited palates. I mean, okay, some people don't like fish, but if you've got the money and the desire to travel to Egypt I'd think your tastes would be a little broader. But maybe they were desert tribespeople, Nuer, perhaps, who had traveled up from the Sudan, and though they had a well-developed taste for the Nile perch of their homeland, in Egypt they were offered a plate of, I don't know, eel perhaps, and politely rejected it in favor of boiled grains of some sort. Hard details to fit in when you have to keep it under 35 words. And you're five years old. Still, bravo Jackson and Sophia! I see a great future for you both, as soon as you learn when to use WTF and when to keep it to a simple OMG.

14 Comments:

Blogger mom on a wire said...

Ah, but you pimp it so well, Eden...

August 10, 2006 7:00 PM  
Blogger Lori said...

Funny, I was planning to send you a t-shirt (though it'll be in Jackson's size), but I've been slow getting through my post-BlogHer to-do list.

August 10, 2006 7:50 PM  
Blogger Mel said...

Ah, you chopped the hair off again!
I love the OMGWTF detail. That rocks.

August 11, 2006 3:30 AM  
Blogger clickmom said...

Thanks. Now the competitive part of me now feels like I have to have a t-shirt (and a logo.)

A blogger's work is never done!

I'd probably have to give mine away too. I wonder of all 5 of my regular readers would wear one.

August 11, 2006 6:43 AM  
Blogger Bethiclaus said...

The children's writing is brilliant! I think it needs a picture of the metal house on fire.

August 11, 2006 7:29 AM  
Blogger juliloquy said...

I hope you got copyright clearance to post Jackson and Sophia's story. Maybe you can pay them in monkey flips?

(Sweet story!)

August 11, 2006 7:35 AM  
Blogger mathew said...

a g4 tower?

August 11, 2006 7:42 AM  
Blogger hi!monkey said...

the t-shirt was a small token of appreciation for the fabulous fudge that mrs. kennedy sent me way back when. (thankfully, fudge has not yet been banned in carry-on luggage!)

August 11, 2006 8:13 AM  
Blogger the patriarch said...

Jackson is smart buying a house on fire. He can put it out, slap a new coat of paint on it, and flip it for a nice little profit.

August 11, 2006 8:16 AM  
Blogger Josephine said...

Jesus Christ, you should copyright that scifi short short and make a childrens book out of it.

I love it!

August 11, 2006 8:37 AM  
Blogger Amy said...

I just saw I license plate yesterday that said OMG WTF.

August 11, 2006 9:26 AM  
Blogger Editrix said...

I second your vouchage of Debbie's talents -- she rocks so mightily, it's frightening!

August 11, 2006 4:57 PM  
Blogger jess said...

Debbie's shirt is awesome. I love mine too - one of a kind -woot!

Jackson's story is amazing. Really. He seems like such a precocious.

August 12, 2006 9:30 AM  
Blogger debbie said...

OMG, i'm so glad the shirt fits! though i can't tell how it makes the boobs look? WTF? you must fill me in on that. heh.

oh, and that story is brilliant. truly. and in case you were wondering, i love fudge. ;)

August 12, 2006 1:41 PM  

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