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Once they have had 50 RT’s (which they probably will have in minutes once this post goes out) the discounts begin. Here’s a few tees to jog your memory or even introduce you to what Simplified Clothing do so well…

Tiger Tee

Take Care Tee

Obama Tee

Free shipping and (most likely) $5 discounts on them all this weekend at www.simplifiedclothingdesign.com.

The FP offer a strong commitment to their local community, and have hooked up with DonorsChoose.org in order to support public school teachers requiring funding for independent projects. The Fineprint have already provided funding for a project that will give young men and women from the Hyde Park Academy High School access to “the Art of Airbrushing”. They aim to fund many more projects for the future with your support.

Artistically The FP’s aspirations are just as lofty with a strong collection of cultural and political tees and prints that reflect Chicago, America and global ideologies in equal measure. Ranging from urban culture to city scapes, the famous and infamous, our relationship with nature and both historical and contemporary art and literature, The Fineprint offer a unique yet eclectic broad brush of ideologies rarely seen as subject matter for the humble tee. Their handmade product range are of a high quality, all hand printed and highly desirable for those seeking alternatives to the mainstream fashion scene.

Chi Scraper Tee

Chi-Scraper offers a dynamic view of the economic schisms that exist in Chicago. Whilst certain areas have economically boomed, others are still in decline, with a string of notorious gangland shootings following much the same tradition as that in the history of the area, the juxtaposition between the blue chip corporate skyline and decay encapsulates much of the world’s problems to this day. In addition the title for this tee is somewhat intriguing, shortening the city’s name to ‘Chi’ brings up a gamut of fascinating references, such as Ch’i or qi (Ê∞î), “life-force” in Chinese culture, corporations literally scraping away the very life-force of the city. Perhaps I’m off track here, but still a fascinating line of enquiry all the same. Chi-Scraper for men is available in Maroon/Orange or Grey/Charcoal prints on either white or silver tees for $19 each in M to XL sizes.

TypeSplatter Tee

Highlighting both the great literary traditions of Chicago with eminent writers born in the city such as Philip K. Dick, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Michael Crichton, as well as those who relocated to the windy city such as Saul Bellow, as well as perhaps the frustrations of those who endeavour to create literature for their generation and beyond, this powerful design encompasses everything one perceives as the experience of the novelist and screenplay writer. Typesplatter features a handmade five colour silk-screen print, this limited edition tee is available for both men at $19 (S to XL) and women at $24 (XS to M).

Great Scott Tee

Okay it’s sold out, and yes I’m a Brit with no idea about basketball, but I still love it. The back detail is a killer, it’s a superb concept and really nicely printed. There’s something of a similar style available here that features Obama doing his thang on the court, but man, Great Scott is such a cool idea. Makes me think they could knock out a few more like this, it’s like the conclusion to a story, a really nice way of using the both sides of a tee, I do hope their artists think of more along these lines. As far I know this print features Scottie Pippen (Thanks to Michael Jordan for the correction), He was a seven-time NBA All Star and was the NBA All Star Game MVP in 1994. He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the 1996‚Äì97 NBA season, and is one of four players to have their jerseys retired by the Chicago Bulls. To me it doesn’t really matter who the guy is, it’s just a very very powerful image and concept altogether.

Blagojevich Tee

It doesn’t matter where you live, you’ll recognise this guy, Serbian born, former 40th governor of Illinois was arrested on federal corruption charges December 9, 2008. The charges involved conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. The Justice Department complaint included attempting “to obtain personal gain … through the corrupt use” of his authority to fill Barack Obama’s vacated United States Senate seat. In a press briefing on the investigation, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald characterized the scheme as auctioning the seat off to “the highest bidder”. Now there’s a real joker. Blagojevich (The Governor of Gotham) tee is available for men for $24 in sizes M to 3XL.

Support Chicago’s thriving arts scene and help FP support local public schools at the same time – check out the whole collection of art shirts and prints at www.thefineprintchicago.com today. Also make sure to keep up with all the latest on FP at Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and their Blog too!

No one likes to be naked in public, well except exhibitionists and nudists, and especially not on such an auspicious occasion as the first inauguration of a black president. So if you’re stuck with a heap of cheesy Obama t-shirts in your wardrobe and are desperately looking for something that stands out for this special event you had better hurry up and get yours too!

This top selection of t-shirts aren’t your usual run-of-the-mill “Change” tees, these are definitely something with a little extra oomph and when it comes to political street wear we all know how important it is not to blend in with the crowd, besides the fact that everyone knows you did the right thing at the right time, you stay ahead of the crowd in style and take that credibility all the way to the kudos bank ;)

So without further a due here are some top Obama tees for that big week and you’d better rush it’s coming real soon (now lol)! T-shirts to celebrate seven days that will change USA history and you won’t be embarrassed to wear them once it’s over either!

Barack Obama T-Shirt – “A More Perfect Union” by John Sokol

A portrait of Barack Obama, rendered in the words of his “A More Perfect Union” speech in Philadelphia by artist John Sokol. Sokol, a nationally renowned artist, has been doing word portraits of writers for over 30 years. The Obama portrait is the first politician that Sokol has ever drawn in their own words. Available in men’s shirts XS to XXXL, women’s fitted shirts XS to XXL. Available at http://www.lascauxeditions.com/catalog/i3.html

Obama T-Shirt (unofficial) by OBEY at Moeshwag

Shepard Fairey, the creator of Obey, has requested that Moeshwag place a disclaimer on their site saying that he’s an Obama supporter and approves of the shirt… but it was not designed by him. Also, he requests a click thru to obey giant to see his work. However I can’t seem to find an official OBEY Obama t-shirt like this anywhere but here’s a real OBEY Giant Obama tee that rocks!

YES WE DID By OBEY Giant @ OBEY Clothing

I mean you can’t get more inaugurated that this! Once again Shepard Fairey out does himself. This is a classic design!

Now here’s a funny one for you if you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by the whole week and want to show the world you still have a sense of humour.

Prosper Obama T-shirt by Paul Baines

Yes a little self-publicity, but why not it’s selling well so I know someone out there likes it? Okay it’s a little Trekkie for some people’s tastes but it makes me laugh (still).

Now for another “Wordy” Obama tee, this one’s at Skreened.com and incorporates the Oath of Office, using typography (again) to create the image. Is this a new craze?

Barack Obama Oath of Office T-Shirt at Skreened.com by Irregularwear

Under New Management @ Print Liberation

This one’s pretty cool too, and if you’re looking for a President Obama tee that doesn’t actually have his face plastered all over it, this is probably your best bet.

History Made T-Shirt at Zazzle by VoteObama

Yep another typography classic, what’s up with me today? I don’t know, it just works doesn’t it? Great colours, bold text, superb concept all round ;)

Before I get any complaints yes I’ve left this late but was nagged by a number of fans to mark the occassion. I could say it’s because I’m British, or have just reopened the blog, but all in all I have no excuses, call it a post for posterity? Still there’s no reason not to buy an of these after the inauguration – after all Obama is going to be around for at least a term (maybe another if we’re lucky!). :D

This coming week Scribtee.com sends out its shirts without any shipping costs for you

Just enter the code SCRIBTEES at the checkout. Offer expires Friday Nov 14th.

What’s more if you’re new to Scribtee add this coupon for £2 off!

Obamania Continues!

On Nov 5 Scribtee’s main site Shirtcity.com experienced a lot of orders for Obama tees were placed, not only from the United States but also from all over Europe. Unsurprisingly this week’s Shirt Of The Week is an Obama tee. Classic portrait, no clever slogan, just one black design. They really are cheap at only a paltry $5 this week according to Rob Goldbach – however I can’t seem to find it – if you know let me know! To counterpoint the rush for Obama tees it seems the fashion for anti-Bush tees is finally tailing off!

However most people with a political opinion don’t particularly like the opposition, I doubt that many Americans out there who’d vote for Obama would have any kind words for McCain and vice-versa. The truth is electoral politics lives and breathes the antagonism of difference, without it the debate becomes stale, although it could be said that parties in power immediately switch to a politics of indifference in an effort to avoid being torn apart by the arguments of an unsatisfied and even angry electorate. I can’t think of a single political campaign that hasn’t sunk to the depths of bickering, sniping, and personal insults that CF obviously want to avoid.

At least CF give you the option to skip a candidate, say you don’t want to vote between two t-shirts of McCain or Obama there’s an option to move ‘to the other side’. But deep in my heart this isn’t a judgement in fair play, it’s censorship. People love to hate, it’s a fact of life, there will be some ardent politicos out there pummelling the vote buttons trying to increase the popularity of their favourite candidate, but eventually they know they can’t ‘win’ anything over the competition, this isn’t a political contest, it’s a t-shirt vote. Still, it’s nice to have a break from all the back-stabbing out there at the moment.

So what’s on offer? Well for the voters there’s a chance to vote and consequentially buy an Obama or McCain t-shirt when the contest is over. However for the designers, there’s a $250 prize and 20 free t-shirts plus tons of recognition for the winning designs (one for each candidate), and 10% of the profits from each t-shirt sold. I appreciate what Jimmy Hendricks (wow nice name) and his team are trying to do at CollarFree.com, I know how frustrating the backbiting in politics must seem to the majority of everyday people looking for a fairer deal, equality or perhaps a few tax breaks. However if CF’s model was to be taken on by government, you’d have two Americas, Donkey USA and Elephant USA. Which isn’t exactly united is it? The political fires are inevitably stoked by the media, and those corporations with enough vested interests, such as oil refineries and car manufacturers who regularly throw money in an attempt to avoid the problems rather than fix them. Besides the media has it’s own unique agenda, the agenda of fighting the boredom of a generation with the shortest attention span in history. I’ve said it many times before, good news = no news. A ‘pig with lipstick’ makes the headlines not ‘candidate makes a valid point about macro-economics’.

They’re using the popular ‘crowd sourcing’ model that many market research companies have taken up off the back of sites like Threadless.com, and I can see this having a big future in politics itself…

The only way we can take the electoral process to the next level is to remove the media from the process altogether. Get the voters to click on their TV remotes and tally the results. No fanfare, no ticker-tape parades, no public advertising. Everyone knows we’re always going to get the same thing. One loves big business and war, the other favours the poor and human rights, one wants to reward the winners, the other wants to help the losers. If anything I think society is almost ready to drop government altogether, they’ve privatised enough of the services and utilities in the USA and Europe as it is. The rich have private security and the poor are more often abused by the police than protected by them. Perhaps I’m leaping ahead by a few decades again, perhaps we do have to keep going through this ritual for a little longer, but never forget, the only people who truly control the electoral process are the media, financial markets, manufacturers, retail giants, and energy and arms barons. The rest of us are only here to make up the numbers.

No person, no party, no government can fix our current situation. The electoral process has been reduced to a market research tactic, and the swaying motion of the undecided is merely economic. If the economy is doing well we all want to be humane and benevolent, if it’s not we become selfish and opportunistic, just the way that politicians do.

Still, I fully appreciate CollarFree.com‘s admirable intentions, I’d rather CF were in government, at least there would be far less argument (and plenty of great t-shirts for every voter). If you feel the same, go and check out CollarFree.com right now and have your say.

Again they’re featuring some US political icons from the past, it would be nice to see them expand their horizons and venture beyond the shores of America, perhaps it’s all down to supply and demand, I know that Margaret Thatcher (ex UK PM) has had as much influence on political history as Ronald Reagan, in fact they were close allies and friends for many years, and even Ronnie remarked upon the importance of Britain’s first female Prime Minister on the world stage. Even today, at least in a majority of European political circles, the term ‘Thatcherism‘ is still widely used to describe the trend towards privatisation of most privatisation of public services and infrastructure, entrepreneurialism in a perspective of the aggregation of personal wealth and self-responsibility, be it on an economic level or one’s interaction within society and state.

I grew up through the Reagan/Thatcher years, and learned to hate that time, it was oppressive, materialistic, politically paranoid and filled with grand gesture which in the long run failed to achieve much. The Star Wars Program was one example of Reagan the actor ousting Reagan the politician, another was the Falklands War and in particular the furore surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano overridden by a cult of personality, a more sophisticated circle of political pr experts and high economic forecasts for the UK at the time. But the worst of all must have been the infamous recording of Ronald Reagan announcing the beginning of WW3 for a laugh. Prior to his weekly radio address on August 11 1984, Reagan uttered this on what he assumed was not a live microphone. “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

It might have seemed funny then, but when you place this kind of thinking in a modern context (consider the current situation with Russia and Georgia), it doesn’t take much imagination to assume there are plenty more world leaders who secretly think on much the same lines, (including Putin). Power corrupts, there’s no avoiding it, this goes beyond breaking promises, essentially, to think you can lead your country, good or bad, you’re an egomaniac. If all people behaved like politicians, there’d be no constructive conversation; businesses and friendships would collapse left, right, and centre, and we’d all be declaring war on this, that, and the other at the very first possible opportunity.

I dream of a world of collective self-responsibility, where we rely on the neutral advice of a body of recognised experts in everything, be they great scientists, creatives, business tycoons, humanitarians, diplomats, and so on. But the final vote on everything should be left to the people. We have the technology already, consider interactive TV, more people vote for American Idol than the US elections. Many wouldn’t vote for every issue, that is human nature, but the right to vote on each and every law should be the future of democracy, not the past. Britain hasn’t even been allowed to vote on our future in the European state, without real democracy their is no real accountability.

If Blair and Bush were tried for war crimes I’d then believe that democracy as it stands, works. If they’re left to their own devices from now on and even treated as heroes for the rest of their lives, something has gone seriously wrong within the heart of modern politics. Hence the clamour for Obama, a seemingly just and righteous man who for all appearances seems to wear his heart on his sleeve. I’d love to believe he will be different, a president unlike any before, someone who tells the whole truth and nothing but. It’s an unrealistic expectation, it would take super-human control and nerves of steel to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, to all of the people all of the time; an omittance is a lie, a half-truth is a lie, ‘dressing the truth’ rather than the naked truth, is always the more viable option for any leader past and present. There will be a time when even Obama will be tested, I doubt it will be any different. I am sure that one day the spectre of truth will ruin politics, in our recent collective cultural history, the rise of the spin doctor has put paid to that; if the people don’t like it rewrite the terminology, if they’re still not happy, lie. The future will be far more difficult for all politicians, the people are informed and empowered by their knowledge, and what’s more they share it with each other (unlike politicians).

What’s most depressing (for me) about politics, are those who stand out from the rest and put their moral backbone on the line, their head on the proverbial chopping block, and swear to improve life for one and all. Few ever achieve much, and those that do are least able to accept when they’ve lost their magic touch, Tony Blair (ex-PM of the UK) was riding a crest of a wave of adulation until he decided to back Bush and his illegal and pointless war against Iraq. Remember this is the war that Bush had to get his secret service agents to defraud the world in order to gain a little legitimacy, there were no weapons of mass destruction, Iraq had no connection with Bin Laden, and essentially the whole thing was a horrible mistake. If you want to take out a tyrant, pay a hit man, it will leave the country in chaos, but at least you wouldn’t have had to kill a hundred thousand people first.

There are no angels in politics, some have done more good than others, although I’m speaking from a humanitarian viewpoint, not economically or tactically in a world-wide theatre of war, I mean food, health, human rights, dignity, fairness. The problem is none of that makes money, what does make money are weapons technologies, energy concerns, heavy industry, the money markets, and the rich.

Politicians by nature exist between a rock and a hard place, they have to persuade a raft of nobodies that they will represent them, and then spend their term in office negotiating with overlords of an international economy to cut them a break and help them save face in front of their increasingly impatient public. Promises are cheap, breaking a promise ruins credibility, but dithering and fudged reports and vague press announcements can last until the next election comes round.

I truly believe that historians of the future will view our current age of war and exploitation with the disdain it deserves, the gullibility of the voter, the recklessness of political use of military power, corporate greed, the ongoing and savage decimation of our natural environment. Perhaps if enough time has passed they’ll even be amused by the hypocrisy of this highly politicised age, where every thought and action is bombarded by an alternate view, demonised by those who believe otherwise, and in turn rejected by the intelligentsia for fear of cultural retribution.

State and religion must never mix, yet as the so-called War on Terror drags on another year, the evangelical nature of politics becomes ever so apparent. I’d rather live in a society that instilled self-belief, not an enforcement of a belief of convenience, a biased diktat, or compliance to an economically-inspired credo of intolerance and short-term gain.

We cannot live by inspired speeches alone, they can initiate change, and sometimes, if the argument is far and just and a true reflection of a changing public consciousness, society does improve. I recently created my first full-scale artwork for sale online, it’s called Black Christ and is available at ImageKind.com – I was referring to the future of Obama’s career, and the prospect of yet another media martyr, the economy survives off contrition not appeasement, court controversy, stir public opinion, boost ratings, sell products. However politicians can push the agenda into a far more powerful echelon of society, the movers and shakers of all they survey, the sellers of dreams, the economic giants of the world, they are (for now) all we have to influence change in this world where less ‘have’ than ‘have not’.

“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” (Robert Kennedy).

I suppose the British equivalent of the Republicans is the UK’s Conservative Party, but in truth I’m sure most Brits would say that Tony Blair (Ex-Labour PM) was probably the most right-wing leader we’ve had since Margaret Thatcher! The fact is the few times a Conservative MP has tried to look funky (take William Hague – their last failed Shadow Cabinet Leader – who sported a baseball cap whilst he ‘got down with the kids on the street’, his political campaign failed shortly after that, coincidence? Either way, most Conservative and Republican men would rather wear a suit any day, so the argument is rather inconsequential anyway! On to the tees at Thriving Ink, all available at $21.95 and good quality tees they are.

Captain Obama T-Shirt - what a great name! I used to read Marvel and DC comics as a kid, they were really expensive here in the UK in the 1970′s, I’d probably not get more than a few a year and most newsagents seem to frown upon 7 year old kids buying them, I’ve no idea why? Perhaps it’s the same thinking that went into banning a Transformers T-Shirt at Heathrow Airport recently! The rough and ready design truly appeals to me, an example of real grunge rather than just a few vector effects, absolutely mad looking I grant you, but truth be told I love it.

Let’s not get into a Barrack Obama love fest here, I’ must remember I’m reviewing t-shirts, and not the future political direction of the USA. I just hope that America has better luck than we did with Tony Blair. Perhaps the comparison is slim but I do remember a lot of hopeful messages for the future, yet plenty of promises were broken. Then again Labour did splurge most of their budget (profits from the Conservatives selling off the nation’s assets in the 1980s and 1990s) on the Iraq War, so I’m thinking Obama won’t break the bank by beating up on any country soon. Fingers crossed the US has a potentially great president in the running, if he can back up his message, which so far seems to be about ‘change’, then perhaps something will. I like a change now and again, although changing your mind too often isn’t a good thing.

08ama is ‘def’ as they say in the hip-hop world, again the treatment is great, very grainy, very ‘Straight Outta Compton’ – although I don’t know how appropriate it is for a potential president, I am hoping it’s more than a happy coincidence that the dripping lines look like a barcode, it would make a snazzy subtext about personal liberty. Who knows I could be wrong.

Pop Goes Obama hasn’t quite captured the Warhol look that the designer probably anticipated, in fact it looks a little lame to me, more like something from Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in than a happening, but I get the point. Pop icon for the millennia, nice idea:/

There are plenty of cool grunge tees at ThrivingInk.com, check them out sometime.

Well we all know how politicians kiss babies to enhance the caring side of their political campaigns so it’s only right I mention the latest sale on at Threadless.com

Threadless are holding a Baby Shower Promotion at the moment.

July and August have the most number of births than any other month in the year. To help celebrate the arrival of all of those little bundles of joy our next promotion is all about the baby and mommy too. Save 15% off any product in the kids and baby category or the maternity t-shirt. Minimum $10.00 purchase required. Discount is not valid on shipping.

Your Coupon Codes: BABY208 & CADBABY20

Political Tees Wanted!
As a matter of fact Threadless.com have also given a shout out to all their best t-shirt designers to start submitting more political tees for the contest, they say that demand is high, so get cracking and make sure you have a winner on your hands by checking out the competition first!

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Take a look at this pair of sardonic beauties…

I adore wordplay, Justin has it down to a tee in these two designs, politics is one of my pet love/hates, and hes’ really managed to capture the essence of a lot of people’s political beliefs these days, i.e it’s all spin – so what’s the point? The colours and grunge effect print have really brought the quality of the designs to a perfection. They work so well as a pair I’d not be surprised if he doesn’t receive quite a few orders for both

The truth is that only politicians and their PR agencies honestly care to the core who wins or loses, the rest of us are keeping our fingers crossed that whoever leads a country next doesn’t start mentioning God, or the need to find a backwater country to introduce the delights of democracy (which in reality seems to mean a market economy rather than human rights – Britain is the most recorded nation state in the world – where’s the democracy in that?).

The bold fonts and rough hewn print of these two reminds me of the early pop-art prints of Robert Rauschenberg – the evoked political nostalgia makes the message all the more succint. The truth is we’ve been electing leaders since year dot and yet none of them can ever get it right

I am suffering indirect US Election burnout – yes I get quite a few USA news channels here – hence I follow the results when I can. Barrack has a great voice, he booms, unfortunately his crazy preacher has messed up his pitch; Clinton can rely on her hubby for the same, plus both are ripping apart their own party in one last ditch attempt to grab the limelight, and the prize of leading the Democrats into the next election. I could never imagine that happening here. Then again I could never imagine America putting up with Bush appointing his own successor without an election (RE: Gordon Brown’s succession to Tony Blair – did I miss the Coronation?).

There are plenty more fabulous tees to choose from at ShortBusClothing.com – and all at only $16.95 each (add a dollar for XXL). I’ve added a few more snapshots to give you an idea of their range, I especially appreciate the retro-look grunge style shirts, something I should try more myself, I just think certain images benefit more from the “tattered look” than others. It is so appropriate for political t-shirts right now – it hurts.

At the British local elections before last I voted for a third party, it turned out the leader was a drunk, he resigned and was replaced by an elderly gentleman of a by-gone age who couldn’t appeal to anyone under 65. He reminds me a little of the Republican candidate for the next US elections, John McCain, another out of touch guy but pitching himself at the extreme opposite of the spectrum. The truth is that America is soon to lose its crown as the primary economic powerhouse of the world. The Euro is now the favoured currency for a vast swathe of international traders, China is fast catching up on everything from import/export to luxury goods spending and even computer literacy. Sounds like one vast Stock Market in the making. He’s got a tall order to fill, follow Bush’s failed Iraq and economic strategies, plus appear like a new alternative whilst the possibility of either the first black or female President of the USA emerges on the horizon

I really appreciate the simplicity of Justin’s Terrorist T-Shirt, it gets straight to the point (yet again). If only we’d stayed out of Iraq, I’m sure the Worlds’ economy would be in a better state right now. I don’t know what Bush spent on it, but Britain is flat broke now, Gordon Brown the PM looks like a fool, an ex-Chancellor without a penny in the bank. Of course Tony Blair is laughing his head off.

If all the politicians want to talk about the same subjects in slightly different ways, they are still controlling the complete exchange of information, they are limiting the argument from the outset. Imagine a world without politicians… a world where people used good judgement instead of belief, where no man or woman, no matter their war record or high-powered connections could be trusted to run everything by proxy, according to their own emotional state, personal interactions, experiences, or beliefs.

There are no super-humans or demi-gods on this planet. Al Gore isn’t going to save the world, nor is the Dalai Llama , the only way anything is going to change is if we all admit we’ve screwed up and take a step back. It’s like each generation has a quota of resources and we’re way over ours – we’ve probably stolen enough for generations to come. We’re so out of touch with nature now that we’re relying on politicians to explain it to us.

I love this tee, “Make it Rain” – if only we could do that on command, it would certainly help Africa for a start! This is yet another beautifully textured design, I suspect Justin is overlaying grainy clip art and vectorizing the textures, I could be wrong. I’ve tried it myself a few times and it can take a while, so you know you’re buying from a quality t-shirt designer when it comes to Short Bus. Gold and dark blue is always a winning colour combination

As the world’s resources run dry I predict a near collapse of most Western electoral systems, as the spin revolves faster and faster, whilst that rare ability to simultaneously outline practical and adaptive policies, as well as implement them, withers away in a television sham of political debate. Oh well never mind, I’m sure the weather will finish us all off first before anyone really crazy jumps into the driving seat. At least you can still buy all these great tees at www.ShortBusClothing.com – if the world ends – at least you can go out in style…

]]> http://buy-tees.net/2008/05/t-shirts-at-shortbusclothing/feed/ 0 http://buy-tees.net/2008/05/american-pi-latest-buy-teesnet-t-shirt/ http://buy-tees.net/2008/05/american-pi-latest-buy-teesnet-t-shirt/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 03:36:34 +0000 admin http://buy-tees.net/?p=70 At last a new Buy-Tees.net t-shirt! I’ve become so hooked on blogging and all it entails, plus with the debacle with SpreadShirt.net I’ve been forced to hold back on the tee shirt designs for a while, but even though it’s still being submitted to Spreadshirt (I’m hoping both sites will accept this one!), I’ve made sure you can buy it from both CafePress.com and RedBubble.com – the screen-printed versions should be available soon (fingers crossed :p)

American Pi T-shirt

American Pi Organic Cotton Tee

American Pi by Paul Baines of Buy-Tees.net

American Pi T-Shirt

American Pi came to me whilst I was working on another t-shirt submission to the dreaded SpreadShirt.net submissions service. The image is rather straight forward, the references range from ideas as disparate as the declining USA (and therefore world) economy, the new faith in science and number (I was wondering the other day if history will view our age as ideologically fanatical as many of our predecessors, times of bloody religious war, greed, conflict, sounds familiar?), the recent reference by Obama to 57 states and just how much I suck at maths myself, and of course all those other “pi” t-shirt designs out there that really could do with an update.

I suppose it would’ve been more timely to have launched it on the same day that “American Pie” the movie was released, or perhaps the day that Don McLean’s single “American Pie” hit the charts, but I don’t have a time machine, only the pointless gift of hindsight which seems to exist only to chide those too slow on the uptake, myself included.