Fighting Desperately the Need for Excitement
And Other T-Shirt Slogans

Set grid coordinates for the obscure t-shirt producing planet known as earth.

I buy most of my clothes on the street. Tonight, on the way home from work, a tight sleeveless shirt with lizards caught my attention. I stooped over the plastic tarp and bartered the price down to five bucks for two shirts, the lizard one and the title of this post, a masterpiece of nonsense in graphical form. "Fighting" is splashed Superman-style across the chest, with "the need for excitement" as the subtitle. It's good because it almost makes sense and almost fits my toned down sense of adventure-seeking. Anyone who spends as much time in a lotus position looking at the back of his eyelids as I do would probably come to the same realization: that excitement isn't a need.

Regular Oblique: Basic Concepts

This cost eighty cents on the streets of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It's baby blue with flashy surfer designs in orange and black. I wear it to the gym because I want people to know I ain't no special kind of oblique.

No Sex, Just Masturbration

This I stole from a Thai lover's closet. I figured I needed it more than he did. I haven't "masturbrated" once since then.

Another Skinhead for Peace

That's me since I shaved my head again. It's got Gandhi on the front. Chinese ask who it is and then tell me there's a resemblance.

May t-shirts continue to lead humanity into the future they so boldly herald!