This design comes from a doodle I did during one of my staff meetings… I truly try my hardest not to doodle during meetings and often take copious notes as a doodle-deterrent… but somehow there’s always two or three drawings that end up in the margins.  

Not too much else to say on this… just a chain-smoking kitten with a disproportionately large head… this, giraffes with glowsticks, gnomes riding atop a llama; these are the things that populate my mind.

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I would like to say here, to the person who purchased 11 Meat Tornado shirts this past Sunday evening: You are awesome and I very much appreciate your patronage.  I hope the shirts turn out well.  The only thing I can imagine that would justify such an order is using them for some sort of sports team, so I wish you and your fellow Meat Tornadoes the best of luck in all of your future endeavors.  

Continuing my proclivity for anatomy-based tees, this week’s design focuses on the skeletal system… more specifically, the ribs.  I have an older version of a ribs shirt (blue plaid pattern on a yellow shirt) that I made several years ago.  But rather than just putting up that old design, I decided to give it an overhaul.  So if you happen to like groups of concentric circles, boy howdy, do I have the shirt for you!

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Not feeling particularly creative for this week’s caption, so I’ll just echo last week’s:

I like ice cream sandwiches.  I love 2001: A Space Odyssey. Combining the two seemed only natural.

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(Oh, in case you were wondering, it goes: giraffes < ice cream sandwiches < 2001: A Space Odyssey < glowsticks)

I like giraffes.  I love glowsticks.  Combining the two seemed only natural.

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There are kids who pretend that the carpet is lava and there are kids who pretend that the carpet is shark-infested water.  There is also a third group of kids who pretend that the carpet is neither lava or water, but rather something else entirely — personally I was sometimes partial to invoking a bottomless abyss.  But pay no mind to that third group of kids; we’re here to talk about the first two.

I liken the debate to the great cola debate of Pepsi vs. Coke.  Each side has their fervent devotees; absolutely unwilling to acquiesce to the other and able to generate a multitude of reasons for the superiority of their own side.  Lava is inescapable… once you fall in you’re done for.  Being eaten to death by sharks is a worse death because you feel the sharks ripping at your flesh and you don’t die immediately.  

But each side also has its more passive followers.  Those who have chosen a side, but are not fanatically devoted.  Perhaps they see merits to both sides and do not understand the need for dichotomy.  Or perhaps they are just unprincipled and shifty.  

I fall into the first group of passive followers.  Ultimately, between the two, I come down on the side of lava. While I could generate a list of reasons for choosing lava, I could just as easily generate a list of equal length for shark-infested water (not to mention a similar list I would be able to generate for the aforementioned bottomless abyss — I kinda just like lists).  

So I would like to address both the fervent and the passive:

• To you unyielding lava and shark enthusiasts, select your side and wear it proudly.
• To those less devoted to either side, select either shirt and wear it as a mere celebration of imagination and the carpet being anything other than carpet.

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Team Shark-Infested Water: Purchase your shirt here!