Old T-Shirts Part 4 - The Goofy Shirt Legacy

Over the next little while I'm going to be throwing out some old shirts that are worn out.  I hate getting rid of old shirts because they hold so many great memories for me.  I've decided, for the next little while, to post short stories about each shirt so they can be remembered forever... or at least until the internet is obsolete.

This shirt itself isn't really anything memorable, however the fact that it's a Goofy shirt really is.  When I was younger, and really into old time Disney cartoons, I loved Goofy.  Don't get me wrong, I still love Goofy, but I was a Goofy fanatic.  I used to go to the Disney store regularly to see if they had any new Goofy stuff in stock.  The employees at the Disney store knew me and would often pull stuff from the back for me, a new Goofy shirt was always the crown jewel.  At one point I owned more than a dozen Goofy shirts and I loved each and every one of them.  Well this shirt represents the last of that line.  I have since expanded my t-shirt fanaticism but I'll never forget the Goofy era.

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Jonny Quest, The Character No One Knows

I once won a costume contest dressed as Jonny Quest.  I'm convinced that the only people that knew whom I was dressed as was the judges and one cartoon fanatic in the audience.

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Have You Ever Wondered What's Inside Those Giant Round Poster Displays On The Street?

The answer... Cigarettes.

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Monumental Rock Star

One thing can be said about the city of Vilnius in Lithuania, and that is it's strange love of weird art.  Take for example this statue of a dog wearing glasses.  One can hardly call that normal.

But you can't say it's a modern art thing either, take a look at this old statue of a knight that appears to be covering his man bits.

But nothing is stranger, or even more grand, than Vilnius' tribute to rocker Frankui Zapai (or Frank Zappa).

Sure it might not seem strange on its own, but in context it's freakin' bizarre.  First of all he's never actually been to Lithuania... ever.  He's never written a song about Lithuania, and I'm willing to bet that if you handed him a map he might not have been able to find it.

It might have been helpful if they put up some kind of plaque to tell you why it's here.  However I think in the spirit of Frank Zappa, the random weirdness of this whole thing is very appropriate.

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South Of Athens Bathrooms

Added a bunch of new bathrooms on the Bathrooms I've Been To Map, check them out.

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Old T-Shirts Part 3 - Willam Black

Over the next little while I'm going to be throwing out some old shirts that are worn out.  I hate getting rid of old shirts because they hold so many great memories for me.  I've decided, for the next little while, to post short stories about each shirt so they can be remembered forever... or at least until the internet is obsolete.

This shirt is a drawing of a character based on the animated series "Clerks" by Kevin Smith.  I like obscure characters from cartoon shows, and this one is so obscure that he didn't even really make a full appearance in the animated series at all, but that's not what I remember about this shirt.  This shirt was in fact the first thing that I ever purchased on the internet.  I remember the day that I went online, filled in my credit card information, and hoped to god that no one was going to rip me off.  I remember getting the shirt in the mail and I was so happy.  Since then I've made a few more internet purchases, some good, some bad, but none with the memory that this shirt delivers.

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Sad Beer

 This beer is sad.

 Sad, sad, sad.

 He tried to drink away his problems.

And it just made him sadder.

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Old T-Shirts Part 2 - The Gotham Girls

Over the next little while I'm going to be throwing out some old shirts that are worn out.  I hate getting rid of old shirts because they hold so many great memories for me.  I've decided, for the next little while, to post short stories about each shirt so they can be remembered forever... or at least until the internet is obsolete.

This is actually Allison's least favorite shirt that I own, and I can understand why.  The memory I have with this shirt comes from the day I bought it.  I was digging through the shelves of my favorite comic shop of all time, Silver Snail in Toronto.  It was the day that I was going to go pick up my regular batch of comic books, a Wednesday, and I saw that this shirt had just come in.  I'm a huge fan of Bruce Tim's artwork (he's the guy who drew the image on this shirt) and I love the female characters from Batman, so it was a perfect fit.  I bought this shirt before they even put it out on the shelves.  This memory is fond for me because frankly I'm not really into comics the way I used to be.  I don't hunt out the latest titles, and more so, I don't live in Toronto anymore home of the best comic shop in the world.  So I've changed interests a little, moved geographically, but I haven't grown up I swear.

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Signs I Like

 How can you not giggle when you read this?

I love this guys mullet so retro.

I'm thinking that disease is the last of your concern, maybe manners is a bigger problem for people that put their turkey, cheese, and ham hock directly on their carts.

The greatest thing about this sign is that it isn't the name of the store, it's just how you spell alcohol in Poland.

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Giant Smurf

At first you may not think this giant inflated Smurf is strange at all.

On closer inspection though, you might be creeped out to know that he's been tied down by his nipples.

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