#99

Oh hey another shirt with a big heart on it. That was unintentional. Anywho, this is another shirt from Diesel Sweeties. Seriously, I wish that comic was half as good as its apparel. This shirt is special because it glows in the dark. (OooooOOOooooh). I'm wearing it today because I'm attending what is apparently a glow in the dark party aka, someone owns a blacklight party. In the dark a hidden message pops up on the heart that says "If you can read this, it's dark and you should kiss me". Thanks Tinker the True Love Tortoise! Find it here.

#98 I Heart Cliches

For a somewhat avid shirt collector such as myself, it seems fitting to snatch up the classics of the genre. It's like a comic book collector owning Amazing Fantasy #15 or a baseball card collector owning a Honus Wagner card. Shirts I would also classify as classics are the "Frankie Say Relax", the tuxedo t-shirt, "Kiss me I'm Irish". There are also your passing shirt trends such and Urban Outfitters classics such as "Everybody loves a _____ boy/girl" and "Jesus is my Homeboy" or passing pop culture memes like "Make 7 Up Yours".

Anywhoozle, I've really only been to New York once for a grand total of maybe 24 hours. I went as part of a trip to the east coast in the 8th grade. Saw the Lion King on Broadway, ate at the All Star Cafe in Times Square (I'm pretty sure those don't exist anymore), went to the top of the Empire State Building, it was a fun time. Oddly enough that's not when I got this shirt. Instead I got this shirt at the end of my roadtrip with Bstark in the JFK airport gift shop before I flew back to California.

#97

This was the shirt that my elementary school band wore when we played at our little concerts. We also were in the Mira Mesa 4th of July parade at least once. I really don't know why this shirt is so big. It's big on me even now. I must have been just swimming in it when I was in the 5th grade. I guess I was already starting to get taller then, but still.

I can't remember much about band in elementary school. I just remember being very excited by the prospect of being able to play TLC's "Waterfalls" on saxophone because that was the song that the director and his friend came in and played for my fifth grade class. At the time it was my favorite song after all. Really that silly story is rather appropriate. I joined band because it sounded like fun and I kept up with it because it continues to be fun for me.

Anywho, the anteater band played at the UCI women's soccer game today and they won 2-0! These women's games are starting to make me come around to the whole idea of watching soccer I think. Somehow I've managed to have fun and stay entertained during a game that I normally loathe. The fact that we're a pretty good team certainly helps. Plus on a more shallow level, soccer players are hot.

#96 More Punny Business

It's a hawk...and it's mowing...so it's a mow hawk...mohawk. Yeah? Yeah. Anywho, I thought it was pretty funny so I picked it up from Threadless.

Um. The end.

#95 CIA MIA?

Sorry for the poor lighting, but I don't really care that much, at least not about a CIA shirt. I believe this one is from my junior year. I never really understood why there was a splashy water pattern behind the CIA logo. Lots of ridiculous things happened that year band and basketball wise. Our men's team was undefeated at home, we traveled to the LBSU pyramid and played at a game there, then we lost to LBSU in the tournament off of a crazy three point shot at the buzzer. That was also the year that I learned that a lot of LBSU fans are kind of dicks.

Tonight the women's soccer team won in the first round of the NCAA tournament (they got a bid because they were ranked 11th in the nation) against ASU. We were down by a goal in the first half but we finally scored about 25 mins into the second half and then got another goal in about five minutes after that. It was actually a really fun game once we finally scored because the crowd was super into it. I mean, I barely give a shit about soccer, but that was pretty entertaining.

#94 Har Dee Har

If you can't quite read it the text reads "WISCONSIN Smell The Dairy Air". Oh, puns. This falls into the tradition of fake souvenir shirts such as "Tijuana: City of Tomorrow", "New Mexico: Cleaner than Regular Mexico", "Caucasia knows how to party", etc.

I think it's time for a haircut soon. I've got a bit of a Prince Valiant thing going on right now. Not attractive.

#93 Stunner

Much like every other little girl I grew up with a love for professional wrestling. Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Randy Macho Man Savage, Rey Mysterio Jr., The Rock, they were all fantastic in my young eyes. I was also into Stone Cold Steve Austin for a while. I don't really know why, he didn't really have as cool a personality as the others. My guess is that like a lot of things I liked when I was younger (South Park, the Wu Tang Clan, basketball) these were things that my older (and thus obviously cooler) cousins liked so I glommed onto them too.

#92 Ew, Chafing

This is a shirt that I got my senior year of High School. I was in the psychology club that year. Not so much because I'm a fan of psychology (though I am) but because a good amount of my friends were in it. One of the things we did as a club was community service and at least twice we volunteered at marathons. This mainly involved handing water to runners and by this I mean mostly getting splashed with water as runners hastily grabbed at paper cups as they ran past.

#91 Wizard What?

This shirt is from a Wizard Rock show that I went to back when I'd only seen the movies. My best friends Jaime and Brandon were super into Harry Potter and found out about Harry potter inspired rock bands (also known as wizard rock) and dragged me along to a concert. It was in this small cafe with a small stage set up and a bunch of couches and chairs placed in a corner. The two bands (which were both single artists) were the Remus Lupins and the Hermione Crookshanks Experience. It was pretty fun. She shirt I'm wearing is for the Hermione Crookshanks Experience. It was her first performance I think and she was pretty nervous and awkward but still pretty funny. So clearly I found her adorable.

Honesty time: For a while I was a snooty snoot snoot about the Harry Potter books. I was never one for reading fantasy novels even as a child and I didn't really see the appeal of a child oriented book to a person older than 14. I was also pretty sick of the whole rabid fandom so that turned me off to it as well. At the time of the concert I was starting to come around to the idea of the books, but wasn't quite sold yet. After the concert, in the grand tradition of doing things in order to impress a cute girl, I read the books. Much to my surprise they were pretty entertaining and I breezed through the whole series rather quickly. I never really did much more that chat her up a little bit online but I'm pretty glad I read the books anyway.

#90 Three Months of Shirts? Madness!

This is a shirt that I got from Stacy after she accidentally dyed it pink in the wash. It also explains why it's a little small on me (though how she fit her chest in it is beyond me, but I digress). Anywho, I spent my morning watching the UCI women's soccer team face off against LBSU. We very sadly lost. I don't normally care that much but I particularly hate losing to Long Beach (their fans are quite mean and scary). I also don't really like when it becomes this thing were fans start cheering against other fans instead of just supporting the teams themselves. Though of course I've totally made signs that make fun of schools and fans which goes against my previous statement, but I'm not one for personally attacking fans. It's just not worth it and not terribly classy (which probably doesn't mean much from someone that makes as many dick and fart jokes as I do, but still).

But hey, enough of that. Who else is excited that Conan O'Brien's talk show starts tomorrow night? He's legitimately my childhood idol (I first watched his show sometime around when I was in elementary school and I watched it any night I didn't have school the next day) and who I want to be when I grow up (much more than like, Indiana Jones or Han Solo or The Green Ranger). Plus Lea Michele is going to be on as a guest. That's just almost too much awesome all at once. Anywho, tomorrow night. 11pm. TBS. Be there.

Alternatively for those without cable it'll also be online at teamcoco.com the next day I believe. So be there as well I suppose.

#89 GEORGE NO!

This is another threadless shirt which you can find right here. It may be hard to see but it's Curious George a la King Kong clutching the man in the yellow hat and fighting an airplane. No real rhyme or reason to wearing or having this shirt, I just think it's cute.

[awkward segue time] In other news I was dragged along to a lesbian bar/club last night. I say dragged along because as one of my friend's put it "Bitch, I will disown you if you don't come." I'm not really one for the club atmosphere (shocking, I know) it's loud and crowded and just a little too crazy for me. But it was pretty fun. There were scantily clad dancers and set times when they would clear the drinks off the bar and dance on it and later choose a random girl to give a ridiculous lap dance. The last dance of the night also included a lot of water getting splashed around. I guess they make it worth the cost of admission there. Oh, and the name of this place was Truck Stop, which even for a lesbian bar is a pretty gay name.

I did totally have fun though. I get pretty nervous and shy around women I don't know so as per several people's suggestions I had some drinks beforehand. Elaine also bought me a drink there and I bought another one after to sort of keep myself drunk. I didn't really slip into a silly drunk state like I usually do, but I blame that on my overwhelming bashfulness around women. I still couldn't really get out of my own head. Various people also tried to dare me to make out with random women at the bar but that probably would have taken much more alcohol and women that were much more forward than myself. But still, I met and hung out with some cool people, got drunk enough to dance and oogled sexy dancer ladies so all in all a pretty awesome experience. I just wish there were more relaxed ways to meet ladies like lesbian karaoke night or lesbian Mario Party game nights.

#88 I'd wear a Back to the Future shirt if I had one

This is another shirt that I thought was funny in high school and quickly got over. It roughly translates to "looking for a Japanese girlfriend". A Japanese student that I knew actually did read it once and became slightly confused but then laughed. The weird thing about it is that Asian girls aren't normally my thing. It's probably because I'm an Asian person who grew up surrounded by Asians and currently lives in a place with a high Asian population. I just needs me some strange.

Perhaps that's why I never wear it these days. It sends the wrong message, haha.

#87 Oh Broken-Hearted-Hoover-Fixer-Sucker Guy...

It's time to hop in the 'ol wayback machine as this shirt is one that I got in high school. It was one of the first designs at the launch of the Atticus Clothing Line which was founded in part by Tom and Mark of Blink 182. The clothing line is named after the father in To Kill a Mockingbird and rather appropriately their logo is a bird lying on its back. They also used to have a women's line under the name Scout after the young girl narrator in that same book (so there's a bunch of shit you didn't need to know about a book that you probably dislike and a clothing line that is barely relevant. You're welcome!).

Um, anywho they apparently still make clothing so you can find their store here.

#86 COOKIES ARE AN ALWAYS FOOD

I can't really remember when or where I got this shirt. Anywho I'm wearing it because yesterday was apparently Cookie Monster day (it's also I guess his birthday).

I may not be big on sweets but I appreciate a good, soft gooey cookie. Crispy, hard cookies can go fuck themselves (well, unless a nice, cold glass of milk comes with them, then they're cool).

#85 Why Back In My Day...

This shirt is the chapter shirt from the first year that I joined the fraternity. The thing that kind of looks like an M near the anteater is UCI's chapter designation, Lambda Alpha. Jaime designed it that year and as was kind of the usual case, it was the only design that was made so it was printed.

Things I remember from that year: There were 17 members when I first joined, the meetings were ridiculously long, my candidate class was super competitive, and Brandon and I were the only regular alto sax players (Kaylene came when she could but there were a lot of games with just the two of us. The year before there were maybe four altos on average at games).

#84 "I've got a twenty dollar bill that says no one's ever seen you without make up..."

Here's another shirt from the webcomic Diesel Sweeties. You can find it right here. It's a mixtape shirt and another one that I got from a girl getting rid of stuff from an ex-boyfriend (but he might not have been an ex at that point, anywho). But yeah, hard to see but it's a pixely version of a tape.

Mixtapes/Mix cds are super cheesy and corny, so rather appropriately I love them. I'm a fan of making them for people and making them for myself. I make tons of playlists with different themes for different moods and moments (currently my itunes has 40 different playlists). I also make good use of the comments section of my itunes to quickly note little things I notice about various songs (if a song is a cover, if it's a demo version, if it's instrumental or acoustic, etc.). Um so there's a basic confession of my compulsions when it comes to music.

In other mixtape news, Sony just recently announced that they halted production on their Walkman line. This has already been said before but, Duh? I would have figured they would've stopped making them much longer ago. I don't think I actually ever owned a walkman as a child. The only tapes I had were a few Disney soundtracks. After that I quickly graduated to cds (My first one? Kriss Kross's Totally Krossed Out).