by Andy on November 24, 2008
Friday night saw the return of Graham Lineham’s excellent ‘
The IT Crowd‘ for it’s third season. Over the past few seasons I think I may well have enjoyed all the geeky in-jokes, references and props more than the storylines and acting (though I still enjoy that too), and it seems that this year is no exception as the IT department has had a makeover that seems to involve even more stickers than the
back of my laptop.
Following on with a grand tradition, I Sky+’d the episode (though forgot to record the HD version) so that I could go back and chronicle the tees Roy wore in S3E1. The first one was really easy, I’d actually already spotted it in the advert. It’s a bit of a classic in the indie tee world, “
Musical Elitism Venn Diagram Shirt (Music I Used to Like)” by
Diesel Sweeties, who I noticed also have an ‘I [screw] robots’ sticker lurking in the background too.
The second was a bit harder, a black and orange tee where you never really got a decent look at the design. I was about you give up hope when I noticed that there was a shot taken from behind Roy’s head that revealed a
J!NX logo on the neck of the tee, which actually made it very easy to find the tee. It’s called “
The Cake is a Lie,” which is a statement that left me slightly perplexed, so I Googled it as they suggested, and now I get it. What? You thought I was going to explain it to you?
So, not exactly a huge amount of tee-sleuthing to be done this week, a nice gentle starter I guess, let’s see what comes up next week in episode 2. There’s not too much else in the gallery, just a few shots from different angles, but I figure that since I’ve taken the pictures I might as well upload them.
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by Andy on November 24, 2008
Split Reason, the great store for gamers and geeks, has teamed up with Hide Your Arms to give one lucky reader a $25 gift certificate. As usual, it is spectacularly, almost insultingly easy to get yourself in with a chance of winning the prize.
All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me who your favourite band is or a song you like, or maybe a band that you think I might like, basically, tell me what rocks!
I’m going to keep the competition open until midnight (GMT) this Friday, November 28th, and the winner will be announced on Monday. For those of you that are wondering the band in the picture are my good friends Decorate in Flames (MySpace link), who do rock.
by Andy on November 24, 2008
Wowzers, Threadless’ holiday sale has kicked off, which is hardly a surprise, but the fact that they’re selling tees for $5, and that they aren’t the crappy designs, certainly is a bit of a surprise. Other tees can grabbed at the $10, and $15 mark. I dunno when it will end, but these things tend to last a couple of weeks, right>
Threadless
by Andy on November 24, 2008
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Much like my
last review, you can’t actually buy this one either (sorry, again), but this time it isn’t because the tee being limited edition, it’s because
Go Ape Shirts got a friendly letter from CBS, who own the copyright to Star Trek, asking them to stop selling the tee. To me, this is quite clearly a parody, and there are lots of shirts out there for
sale that are far more blatantly ripping the intellectual property of Star Trek, but Goliath tends to beat David in these situations, which is why I ended up receiving one of these tees. Even if you can’t buy this tee, it does serve as a good reminder that
Go Ape consistently release some fantastic designs and have the print quality to do them justice.
Go Ape Shirts
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by Andy on November 24, 2008
I got an e-mail from Nestor over at
Tolky Monkys about some new
hoodies that they’ve got on
sale, and I just expected to find their regular designs has been transferred over to a
hoodie. That would have been perfectly fine, its what most people do, but TM decided to put a little bit more effort in and have come up with this absolutely awesome collection of hoodies based on three new characters, with a re-editing of an older one called Hikiko Pacman.
Perhaps I’m going a little bit overboard with the hyerbole, but I am seriously impressed with this collection of hoodies, hell, I might even buy one myself.
Check out all four hoodies here and weigh in at under €50 a piece, and click through to the gallery for a boatload of pictures.
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by Andy on November 24, 2008
I still think that its quite odd to buy a tee which is seasonal, which is ridiculous considering that I can go for a year without wearing some of my tees. However, I really like this design from
La Fraise, and it isn’t so seasonal that you can only wear it in December.
If you are in the mood for some Christmas designs which don’t suck, they’ve got some great ones in their store. There’s a couple of close ups of this tee in the gallery.
Costiness=€22 Buy it at laFraise
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