Desteenation is awesome. I love tee shirts even though I rarely wear tee shirts. Why? Well, it's kind of a personal issue, but I guess we're all friends here. Because I have an aversion to tight fitting, body hugging shirts. Honestly, I'm not that secure in my own body and don't like to wear clothes that call attention to the fact that I'm a little heavier than I think I should be. Even though I think I'm heavier than I want to be, I still don't have the motivation to get off my tail and do something about it. That, and food just tastes really good. Lots of food tastes even better!
So, where were we? Oh yeah, tee shirts and all that jazz. I like them, the tee shirts, that is, but don't wear them often. It's a little thing I'm working on. I'll let you know if things change. But don't hold your breath. So why am I talking about tee shirts anyway? Because I want to tell you about the coolest tee shirt company I've ever known. Well, the only other tee shirt company I've ever known is from those fruity guys. Have you seen that commercial where the fruits are singing about over loving your underwear? That's some funny stuff there, my friend, that's some funny stuff. You can't over love your underwear!
Sorry, lost my train of thought again.....oh yeah, the coolest tee shirt company I've ever known. It's called Desteenation and you can find out more about it at www.desteenation.com. The first time I heard about Desteenation? It was from a friend of mine who will remain nameless. So Chris was talking about Desteenation on his podcast one day and I thought it sounded really neat! Apparently at the time Chris knew the Desteenation guy or worked for the Desteenation guy, or wanted to know the Desteenation guy or something in that neighborhood of thought. The deal with Desteenation is not that they have funny tee shirts like, "That's what she said!" or "That's what your mom said!" or "That's what [insert random name of late 70's/80's cult sitcom star here] said!" Dynomite! You can find those tee shirts anywhere. Well, not anywhere, but mostwhere.
No, the Desteenation tee shirts are the real deal, whatever that means. The idea behind the tee shirts? What separates Desteenation from the rest of those tee shirt guys? (or gals) The Desteenation guys (oh yeah, my friend Chris is now a Desteenation guy) go out and find businesses that have (or should have) a cool logo. Take that logo, slap it on a shirt by means of modern screen printing techniques, and offer it to you so for you can have a cool tee shirt from a real place that you can actually go too! Well, you can go there if you live in Hawaii, California, Seattle. I live in Seattle, so I can go there, so ha! Real businesses + real logos + tee shirts = something really really cool. What is that something? Oh yeah, Desteenation!
My favorite Desteenation tee shirts are mostly shirts featuring Seattle businesses, like the Sunset Tavern, 74th Street Ale House (although I would much prefer going to the Park Pub nearby,) and Blue C Sushi, even though I don't like sushi. I have been to Blue C Sushi. It's a cool place but I really prefer my food cooked. I do like the fact that at Blue C they play mildly inappropriate Japanese video games on huge screens on the wall while you eat. Well, they aren't huge screens, they project the image onto the wall. It's all about the full disclosure, baby!
I also like the Kisaku shirt, but it's black print on a white tee shirt. I don't know about you, but I don't want to get caught in Downtown Seattle wearing a white tee shirt when it starts raining (can someone say "nip-nips!"?) I also went to the Westwood Ale House last night with a friend. Cool place with a cool bar, but the Long Island Ice Teas leave something to be desired. The Neumo's tee shirt is ok, but I only mention it because Neumo's is down the street from my apartment and I can walk there anytime I want and, well, you can't. Unless you live in my neighborhood, or in Seattle I guess. Sometimes I walk by Neumo's on my way to the 7-Eleven when I want a Slurpee. I also sometimes walk by Chop Suey, that's another place where cool bands play, but they don't have a Desteenation shirt. Maybe they should get one (hint hint Desteenation guys!) I've never actually been inside either of the two, but chances are you haven't either. Also, I don't walk that way very often (to get a Slurpee, that it) because it's an uphill walk, and, well, refer back to the first paragraph.
I have no idea what Prost! is, but I like the shirt. Yellow is very nice this time of year. I walked by the Tripple Door the other day on my way to apply for a job. I didn't get it. The job, not the tee shirt. Well, I didn't get the tee shirt either, but I might one day. Ok, I guess I'm done telling you about the cool tee shirts at Desteenation (and www.desteenation.com). Not because those are the only shirts I like, and not because these are the only shirts Desteenation makes, I assure you there are many many more, but I would rather you discover them for yourself. Yourselves? Yourself.
Do I work for Desteenation or www.desteenation.com? No, I wish! I have a friend that does did I mention him earlier? And I met the guy who does the fancy screen printing. He was nice. He had red hair. I have red hair, sorta. So why am I sounding like a 2am infomercial screaming about the joys of owning a Desteenation tee shirt? I just wanted to tell you about a cool place to go for good quality tee shirts. Am I getting paid to tell you this? I don't think so, but if anyone from Desteenation wants to float me a little advertising dollars I wouldn't complain! Come on people, I have a readership of 2-3 people on this blog!
I have one myself, you know. A Desteenation tee shirt, not a blog. Well, I have one of those two, sorta. I'm taking some time of from blogging right now, except to write this blog! Anyway, back to my Desteenation tee shirt. My wife got it for me a year or so ago, probably closer to so ago. I don't wear it very often though. Not because it's not cool or even because I usually don't wear tee shirts in public. It's a tee shirt I would wear in public. It's not a Seattle shirt, it's one advertising a surf shop in Hawaii. I don't surf, but I own a surf board. I won it in a contest and it's signed by a band. Probably not a band you've heard of, but it's a band I like. So why don't I wear my totally awesome Desteenation tee shirt in public? I would, except that bleach got spilled on it. And it's not even like those cool looking (but cheaply made) shirts with bleach spots you buy at Target. (I'd stay away from those and buy a Desteenation shirt instead.) It's just funky bleach. In fact, it looks like I threw up bleach while I was wearing the tee shirt. Man, that would suck - throwing up bleach? But anyway, the shirt is still in great shape. Except. For. The. Bleach. But I'm not bitter.
So do yourself a favor (did I say that already? well I'm saying it now) and go get you a Desteenation shirt. And get your loved ones a Desteenation shirt. Get them many. Many many. And if you have a large dog like a labradoodle, get one for him (or her) too. Just tell them Tim told you to get it. Uh, I was thinking you would tell the Desteenation people, but you can tell your loved ones or your labradoodle too.
Maybe if I get another Desteenation shirt, I'll wear it. In public. Maybe.
