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why design t shirts?

the first question people ask me when hearing about/visiting this site is “why design t shirts?” the answer is not as complicated as one might think:

t shirts are awesome.

as i get older, i get fewer and fewer chances to wear them. these days, their rotation is down to casual fridays, after work, or on the weekends.

as the opportunity to wear t shirts has decreased, my love for them has exponentially increased. i like t shirts because they say a little something about me, and i associate a memory with each of them. below is just a small sample of what is currently in my closet.

clockwise from the top left:

green super mario 1 up t: i bought this shirt while i was visiting my sister for her surprise birthday party last year in la. all in all, it was a great time.

yellow throwback warriors t: i bought this shirt while i was watching the warriors in the playoff series against the jazz last year. this was during a fun time – it was my birthday week and i spent a lot of it at old pro.

red linkin park projekt revolution t: i bought this shirt during their 2007 tour. i have a couple of linkin park shirts. awesome show, partly because we sprang for the good seats (not on the lawn).

blue split t – i bought this sophomore year at cal when i was visiting my friend chris in orange county over summer break. i love the beach and i love surfing (poorly).

black linkin park t – i actually made this t shirt because i was unhappy with the selection of linkin park logo ts available on their band merch store. have i mentioned that i love linkin park?

grey vintage strictly for my ninjas t – bought this at urban outfitters last year. i like vintage ts because they are incredibly soft, and i like funny plays on words.

red santa cruz t – bought this while in santa cruz 3 years ago. i cant ever seem to visit santa cruz without picking up a t shirt.

black thundercats logo t – i actually bought this shirt last year at target with gookie. he ended up buying a “my nuts are bigger than your nuts” t shirt. i am a big big big fan of 80s cartoons – thundercats, voltron (cars and lions), transformers, tiger sharks, you name it, i loved it. looking back, they all seem so similar, especially the two voltrons and tiger sharks/thundercats.

angry ninja t in the middle. this one is probably pretty self explanatory. its the first angry ninja t ever made.

so what do these shirts say about me? i like video games, local sports teams, nostalgic cartoons, linkin park, ninjas, funny sayings, and all beaches. i dont think i could have summed myself up better in any other way. dress shirts, polos, or any other type of clothing woudlnt be able to say that much about me.

email post – well that was anticlimactic

background: i was testing out the wordpress email-to-post feature while i was getting my car serviced today. there i was, sitting at the service center, typing an email post thinking to myself, “man this is going to be so awesome. im going to be able to write on angry ninja without having to actually be in front of a computer.” if i have an epiphany while driving around, cruising on the bart, or sitting on the can, i can whip out my phone and write about it. sweet! i typed out the email, sent it, got back home and what do i see? nothing. zilch. nada.

conclusion: email-to-post feature in its current stage sucks. if anyone has gotten it working on their wordpress, let me know.

below is the post that i painstakingly typed out on my blackjacks tiny qwerty keyboard, risking carpal tunnel syndrome and my ps3 playing ability:

My car is getting serviced right now. Theres only so many times i can play solitaire on the cell phone, and nothing is on the slingbox, so im pretty bored.

So i thought to myself, “you know what self, this would be a great time to test out the email-to-post feature on wordpress.” Basically, if you knew the email address im using for this feature, you would be able to write for angry ninja too! Good thing i made the email address super secret and obscure. Take that you hackers!

Ive also realized that typing out an entire post on a blackjack is pretty intense. I think my thumbs might fall off.

Whats going on tonight? Im going to be going to the giants game. I believe its woody tony ravey night. Im excited that i get to eat hot dogs and garlic fries, and to watch the game at beautiful at&t park (might be even better than watching the game in hd). You should watch and look for me. I think ill be in section 119.

Theres also plenty of tv for you to watch as well, you know, if baseball isnt your thing. The warriors are playing the nuggets in a huge game with playoff implications (winner will probably make the postseason, losers wont), and for you non sports fans, scrubs, my name is earl, the office and 30 rock are all on. Gonna be working my comcast dvr tonight!

go sports!!

after last nights devastating loss, how could i not post about sports?

sung to the opening theme of salute your shorts.

my bay area sports teams,
i hold you in my heart,
but when i think about you.
it makes me want to barf.

warriors
last year a spent a magical two weeks at old pro drinking beerzookas watching the warriors go nuts in the playoffs. i really want to do that again this year. please make it happen.

giants
i hope we win 62 games this year. at least i still get to eat awesome garlic fries at att park on april 10th.

cal basketball
we missed the tourney, again – boo. then we fired our coach – yaay. then our best player made himself available for the draft – boo. we still dont have a coach – boo. thats 1 yay and 3 boos. not a very good yay to boo ratio. much like walking into suite 181 and realizing youre gonna be swordfighting.

49ers
wait nolan is still coaching? alex smith is still qb? do they still hate each other? at least dilfers gone. can mike martz help us put up some points in windy ass candlestick?

cal football
this is by far my most beloved sports team and we have been through a lot over the years. from the horrendous (holmoe, mack brown rose bowl snub of 04) to the stupendous (tedford, usc in 2003), so i have run the gamut of emotions with this team. we have just come off of a very traumatic season. the meltdown – going from #2 in the nation to the armed forces bowl. losing the big game. losing all our wide receivers. then losing our other rb. and dont get me started on those crazy tree sitters preventing us from building a real athletic center. and to top it all off, i find out that one of those tree sitters was none other than white mike from freshman year. what a horrible season. but not more horrible when we went 1-11 in 2001. if anyone can turn this ship around, its jeff tedford. maybe we can have him coach the mens basketball team as well.

so there you have it. all my teams in limbo. and although they currently make me want to barf, youll still be able to find me parked in front of my tv, old pro, or the boardwalk whenever they are on.