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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest $4 @Amazon & Bear Apparel





















Veckatimest is an awesome album that received near universal acclaim--an 85 out of 100 at Metacritic. Get this album, put on a sweet bear-related outfit, and get your harmony on.



In fact, with all the money you'll save on the album, you might as well put together the most ridiculous bear-listening outfit you can conceive.  Below are some helpful suggestions.

Head:  Bear Hug Hat $15.99

Neck:  Bear Claw Pendant $8.99

Torso:  Threadless' "The Eating Habits of Bears" $10

Pelvis:  Nude American Apparel Trunks


Legs:  Pink Bear Socks (with shipping it is too much $16.68)

Feet:  Grizzly Bear Slippers $28

Throw in a case of honey beer, and I should be ready to party after that.  What would your bear outfit be?

Here are some other suggestions:

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

My Top Ten "The Mountain" T-shirt picks

Wear your totem animal on your chest as the ultimate metaphor for those nuanced emotional states you have been struggling to signal with normal clothing, overlooked actions, and ineffectual words.  Yes, "The Mountain" t-shirts will make you look sweet.  The real challenge here is to pick the shirt that will express your identity and not merely craft a persona. Choose wisely.



10.  "Bark At The Moon" is "Three Wolf Moon" with range.  This shirt lets people know that you can express your emo side with more than moon-howling.  You are also good at staring introspectively at the vast, empty wilderness, and being silently bummed out before bedtime.  This shirt, like its more famous cousin, is an analog for our animal natures, which are passionate and yet vulnerable. This combination of power and sensitivity worn "on the sleeve" seems to confer uncanny competitive advantage.









9.  The overly dramatic "Werewolf Transformation" is a more obvious metaphor for "The Mountain" patron's seething beast, rabid with chesty muscles and lust, just underneath the surface of this cotton-thin t-shirt and his gentlemen-like persona. Gentlemen-wearers (were/wear homophone ftw) will intrigue the ladies with the promise that they are one full-moon away from careening madness, and ladies who don this can properly identify themselves as receptive to savagery.  Oh yeah, vampires drool; werewolves rule.







8.  "Breakthrough Deer"--Same as above except this time it is a deer and not a man-beast just underneath the surface of thinly concealing decorum.  This is good for the "I may be shy, but I also have a horny stag in my chest"-look.















7.  "Lightning Rex" may seem like a children's shirt, but there is nothing like staring extinction in the face, especially such a toothy one, to sober you from the draughts of childhood fantasy.  Though this shirt appeals to any crowd's inherent affinity for dinos and lightning bolts, it is also a shirt for the buzz-kill realist, awakening party-goers to an appropriate humility.











6.  "The Pegacorn" is so rare that it may exist only in the myths told "from the lips of a ghost in the shadow of a unicorn's dream."  Yet even in these thrice removed meta-myths their existence is dubious.  Is it even possible for a unicorn and pegasus to breed? How was the artist able to add wings and a horn to a horse?  Yet there it is before you.  Wear it and bewilder everyone.











5.  "10 Kittens" is an obvious choice for hairy bearded guys.  Through the power of suggestion your bearded face will attract cute-hunting stares and friendly chin pets.














4.  "The Cow";Cows are noble and delicious beasts.  Wear this and people's subconscious desire to eat you will hopefully translate into goodwill--a plausible scenario given the West's vast accumulation of gratitude and guilt for the hamburger, which its citizens will freely express when presented with a cow that they cannot immediately eat (yes, even the mere image of one on your person).










3.   "The Mountain Yeti" inspires me to stay indoors.  He looks cold, lonely, and monstrous.  His particular suffering is sure to express my tortured soul.  Plus, check out that groin-area back-lighting!














2.  "His Divine Presence" features the white buffalo.  These are by far the coolest animals in God's creation since they prefigure the second coming of Christ.














1.  "Loving Wolves" is my number one pick because it is purple and these wolves are clearly in love.  I wonder how many successful marriages this shirt is responsible for?  These wolfies mate for life.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

He's Back! Three Keyboard Cat Moon Threadless T-shirt Reprint

Behold Fatso the cat on the ebonies and ivories with those ivory paws!  times (x) 3, plus (+) Moon.  This shirt is a delicious meme mash-up of Keyboard Cat and Three Wolf Moon (a t-shirt on Amazon.com currently with 1,828 reviews reporting its unusually beneficial effects.  Believe it or not, I bought the shirt when it had a mere five reviews--I regret my hipster-kitty early adoption snobbery.  It is now sitting in 30th place for best selling clothing item on Amazon, and it has been up there for some time).  The lady-killing potential of Keyboard Cat plus the mysterious mojo of Three Wolf Moon make this the preferred uniform for the seduction community.  Be careful wearing this around mirrors, or you may seduce yourself.  If you missed out on the first run of these, now is your chance.  Sign up for their newsletter and get a 7 dollar coupon: worth it.  Of course, you could save the coupon for one of their 10 dollar t-shirt sales.