#153 Old Booty vs. New Booty

Today was the Lambda Alpha 1st (and likely, last) Annual Alumni vs. Actives Basketball game. The Alumni got their butts handed to them. Oh well. The Alumni team had a stat sheet asking which position we'd like to play so I put down that I'd play center since at 5'6" that one seemed funniest. I was doing my best to keep up with the stats on the sidelines and added in whatever color commentary I could. I'm sure we missed a lot. We also wrote in the non-traditional stat of Number of Airballs Shot since there were probably more of them than baskets made. Ryan shot an impressive 7 airballs in total. Clearly he was the MVP...for the opposing team.

Afterward we gorged ourselves on pizza at Lampost and went home and stayed as prone as possible on the couch watching Bones, George of the Jungle, Wipeout, Sabado Gigante, and WWE Smackdown.

Mark and Stacey made all of these shirts for us. One of the original designs we had was simply something that said "Alumni, bitches!" and jokingly the actives were to be given something that said "Alumni bitches". Oh grammar, you make semantics fun.

#141 Don't stand so close to me. Don't. Stop it.

In 2008 for my birthday, Elaine Murphy (aka the best friend ever) surprised me with tickets to see The Police in concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The Hollywood Bowl is just an awesome venue in general, the stars, the hills, the acoustics, just gorgeous. I've only been there twice. The other time was when I went and saw Holst's Planets suite performed by the LA Philharmonic. It was about as magical as you can imagine. The only sad part was that Pluto was still a planet at the time so it ended with a non-Holst piece for Pluto.

#128 Title!

Today the band played at a mens volleyball game against USC. We got whupped. This is a shirt that long-standing USC rival UCLA's chapter of KKY sold one year as a fundraiser. If I've learned anything from the chapter at UCLA it's that that they take their rivalries very seriously.

#119 Utensils

This is a shirt I got from a Kappa Kappa Psi Western District convention one year. Boise State made them as chapter shirts the previous year and I was excited to see them selling them the next year. Just a simple, cute, shirt.

The Iota Kappa chapter at Boise State kind of had a reputation for being a little weird. My first convention they had a twister board set up near their merch table. They had modified it with some sort of Halloween theme so you'd randomly hear things like "left hand pumpkin" and "right foot Frankenstein". This might have almost made sense, but convention is held in the spring every year.

#109 Your love for me is like a truck, Berserkerrrr

This is a shirt I got at comic con one year. I purchased it during the height of my Kevin Smith mania. It's one Jay wears during Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back a great movie if you're a nerdy teen who loves dick jokes and boobs. The shirt is actually a callback to a minor character that pops up in Clerks who is a Russian immigrant that comes up with a song called "Berserker", a lyrical chef d'oeuvre featuring lines such as "My love for you is like a truck, Berserkerrrr. Would you like some making fuck, Berserkerrrr." Magnificent.

#107 & 108 I either need to get better looking or stop taking pictures of myself.

You may be thinking, "Did Allison just post the same exact shirt twice? That's cheating! I shall report thee to the high council of blogging elders! I demand satisfaction!" But hold your horses there, anachronistic internet so-and-so. They are in fact two different shirts. The first one is black and it's the free Eater Nation shirt that they gave out to all UCI fans in '08. The second is actually Navy Blue (clearly the next thing my blog needs, other than a better blogger, is a key grip) and is the fancy Anteater Band version of the Eater Nation shirt. I guess they allowed clubs to get their own colors and logos on variations of the Eater Nation shirt that year, which is actually pretty cool.

I figured since I missed the blog yesterday I might as well just double post today. Plus what more am I really going to be able to say about the same shirt in a different color. Uh, this one reflects light at a different wavelength than the other.

I don't really wear the shirt out much. Partly because I feel like if you're not familiar with the fact that UCI's mascot is the Anteater and that it shorts to Eaters it just looks like I'm a competitive eating enthusiast (aka a fatty. Though fatties are more like, "I'm going to compete with myself to see how much I can eat of...everything." They're more embroiled in a battle against early onset diabetes. fat jokes!).

#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.

My Humps

Today's shirt is one of my favorite Kappa Kappa Psi (National Honorary Band Society) shirts. It's a play on the song "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas, hence the camel. The back of the shirt says "We don't want no drama. No no drama. No no no no drama," which is a line from the song.

I'm gonna rock your body 'til Canada Day!

This is a shirt from glarkware. It can be found here. It's a reference to the greatest comedic episode of television ever produced, which is of course, the "Slap Bet" episode of How I Met Your Mother. This episode if also the first appearance of Robin Sparkles a teenage one-hit wonder from Canada known for her song "Let's Go To the Mall". The back has a bunch of tour dates held at Canadian malls.

Here's the music video:

It's just one of the most apt 80s parodies I've ever seen. It's also ridiculously catchy. The creators of the show are also musicians in their own right. [things you don't care about alert!] Their band The Solids wrote the show's theme song (the signatures ba ba ba bas are near the end of the song). They've produced several other songs for the show including a Robin Sparkles ballad and a song that Barney dedicates to his love for suits.

Another Stroll Down Memory Lane

Here's another shirt in honor of UCI's welcome week. This is the shirt that our dorm had printed up my freshman year. I lived in Crickhollow which was in the Middle Earth housing area. I pretty much only decided to live in Middle Earth because it just sounded like it would be an interesting anecdote to tell in the future. I haven't really gotten much mileage out of that one though and I ended up living pretty far from most of my classes so maybe that wasn't the best decision in retrospect. I'll pretty much do anything if I think it'll make a good story later though.

Anywho living in the dorms was interesting to say the least. We never saw our RA and she ended up leaving school before Spring Quarter. One of the other housing people that lived in our dorm filled the traditional RA role and we actually ended up doing a lot of fun activities with her (e.g. iceblocking, snowboarding, volleyball). She remains one of the most amazingly positive people that I've ever met. As bitchy as I am, I've got to respect that. Several people ended up leaving the dorm (e.g. quitting school, kicked out for streaking across the entire campus, baby). And I made a few friends that I quickly lost contact with after that first year was over. So it goes.

Zot You Like A Hurricane

This the UCI pep band shirt from the 2008-2009 school year. Mark actually came up with the original Zotband logo, but this shirt was designed by the lovely Brandon M. There's actually a back to this shirt, but I couldn't for the life of me capture a good photo of it. It's a list of the UCI home basketball games that we performed at listed as if they were concert dates. I wore it today because I went and hung out at the club fair booth with the other band kids.

I met some new people, played catch, sang "Bye, Bye, Bye" at a karaoke booth, forgot most of the dance moves to "Bye, Bye, Bye", and tried not to go deaf with Leon playing the bagpipes in my ear.

Yes. I did say bagpipes. He also started the day with a German flag tied to his bagpipes. To get you up to speed, this is an Asian guy who was also wearing a kilt, playing the bagpipes, flying a German flag. None of that makes sense together. It's sort of like that Starburst commercial, but weirder.

Hopefully we didn't scare too many people off with the bagpipes.

Amended Here's a link to a photo of the nonsensical mishmash of ideas that is Leon http://yfrog.com/my3r5yj.

FOOTBALLLLLL

This is a flag football shirt that I got from a thrift store mainly because it's purple. The back has a number 30 on it, but no silly name or anything, so not terribly exciting. Um that's pretty much all there is to this shirt. I've worn it a bunch just because it's one of the few purple shirts that I own and I can't think of any interesting stories involving it.

I'll talk about my day instead. Ali and I went to lunch and when we went back out to my car, my battery was dead. I called AAA and they came out and everything's all good now. Anywho, the not shitty part of that is that my car alarm went off while the battery was still wonky and it was so low on energy that the horn just sounded really low and whiny and sad. It reminded me of the sad donkey boys from Pleasure Island in Pinocchio. /ramble.

Nerd Alert

This shirt is one that I got when I was shopping for gifts for my twin lil' bros for their second degree. So we each own one. I actually got it without knowing there was anything on the back, which kind of makes me like it less, but it's still pretty cool. It's apparently a Revenge of the Nerds shirt which explains why it says "BOOGER" (one of the character's names) but not why it says 69 (other than the obvious cultural connotations of that number).

Other notable times I've worn this shirt is under my nerd costume that I put together for camp. There are pictures online which are pretty epic. I own a surprising amount of nerdy clothing (short sleeve dress shirt, red bowtie, propeller cap). The only things I had to buy for my costume were dinosaur suspenders.

And I wonder why the ladies aren't all over this?

This shirt might be nerdier

Okay so this shirt might be nerdier than the Glee one. That or it's about as nerdy. I'll at least come off looking lamer at the end of this story. If it's hard to read it says "Support Cedric Diggory the Real Hogwarts Champion" and the back says "Potter Stinks". I made it for a Wizard Rock concert. Wizard Rock is Harry Potter themed music. At the time I was sort of dragged along by Jaime and Brandon as I hadn't read the books at the time (though I had seen and enjoyed all of the movies). Jaime wore her Gryffindor uniform so I guess I decided to make a shirt so I wouldn't feel left out? Perhaps I figured it would help me blend in and look like less of a tourist. Despite not getting some of the in-jokes it was a pretty fun concert and I actually got complimented on the shirt by some of the people there.

I ended up finally reading the books after attending the concert. I was sort of against them for a while because I really didn't see the appeal or care for all of the speculation about the mysteries within them. I did however see the appeal of reading the books after making friends with a girl that I thought was cute at the concert and deciding I should probably catch up (which would somehow be less lame?). Oh, the things that have been done in the name of impressing a girl. In any case, I actually quite enjoyed the books. They're fun, quick reads.