Kaleidoscope Eyes

Some interesting confluences today:

On this date in 1974 the fossilized remains of "Lucy," a 3.18 million-years-old female hominid, are found in Ethiopia; she is named after The Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. On the subject of skies — and the things that sometimes fall from them — today in 1954 a nine-pound meteorite slams into the home of Liz Hodges in Sylacauga, Alabama, striking her. Talk about paths crossing! (It is the first such incident involving a person.) Still looking skyward, Halley's Comet whizzes by on this date in 1835. And finally, with shooting stars and flashes of orange in mind, today in 1940 actress Lucille Ball weds Cuban musician Desi Arnaz.

This shirt somehow brings it all together. From the CafePress.com Rockalicious shop, filled with lots of rockin' stuff praising people, places and things.

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Ink, Inc.

On this day in 1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink. In an ink-filled counterpoint, today is Newspaper Day. And, apropos of same, on this date in 1870 Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune, dies.

Bill Gates first uses the name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") in a letter — presumably one somehow employing ink — to his best friend Paul Allen on this day in 1975. Perhaps that is why today is also known as Electronic Greetings Day. And, while E-mail was supposed to virtually (no pun intended) eliminate piles of paper documents it has only made them taller, since many E-mails are printed out.

This simple ink blot shirt is one of the many fine wares in the CafePress.com shop of Hurricane Eye Brand, as part of their Hurricane Eye Inked Series. The ink will not disappear.

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The Writing of Letters

On this date in 1922, Captain Cyril Turner, British Royal Air Force ace pilot, flies into position over New York City, spelling out "HELLO USA CALL VANDERBILT 7200" in plumes of white smoke. Over 47,000 people call. The telephone number is that of the Vanderbilt Hotel, where George Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, is sitting with skywriting pioneer and RAF pilot John Savage. So convinced is Mr. Hill by this exhibition that he lets Savage use such skywriting advertisements to promote Lucky Strike Cigarettes and the first widespread commercial use of skywriting is born.

If you prefer your letters on paper instead of floating and fading into the blue, today you are encouraged to indulge in the epistolary art form — it's Letter Writing Day!

This Air Mail tank top — from CafePress.com's shop The Post Office — is imprinted with the sticker one places on envelopes destined for faraway places, a plane icon nicely incorporated into the label, pointed aloft — at once an homage to sky- and letter-writing.

It is also Red Planet Day, should your letters be sent a bit further — morphing into something akin to The Martian Chronicles.

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°

Today marks the 1701 birth of Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, after whom the Celsius temperature scale (Degrees Celsius — symbol: °C) is named. Speaking of heat, on this very day in 1826 English chemist John Walker invented the friction match. And, as it happens, this is also the birthday (1942; Seattle, Washington) of Jimi Hendrix — extraordinary rock singer, songwriter and guitarist, one of whose notable songs is named Fire.

The frigid Absolute Zero (a Celsius joke) shirt above — full inventory here — can be seen in the Geek Gear sector of The Odd Matter Gift Shop at CafePress.com.


For something warmer, this phallic thermometer shirt is among the goods in the white T-shirt aisle of the CafePress.com LiveVillage Icon Store.

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Creamy or Chunky

The Daily Shirt apologizes to its readers for another Evening Edition. New computer decision-making and buying time is here and we are — in the complicated, endlessly frustrating process — going nuts.

However, we are not the only ones headed in that direction, as these are the waning days of National Peanut Butter Lovers' Month. So, if you haven't already, please go make yourself a nice PB sandwich.

And, what a coinkidink:

On this day in 1922, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz is born.

Timewarp Tshirts Design Lab offers this beautiful "Charlie Brown Classic Yellow Tshirt (THE ORIGINAL)" — the whole CB "Zig-Zag" line is here — in the "Vintage and Retro" corridor of their CafePress.com shop; some products are filled with large doses of "adult humor." What a beaut, right?! (The zig-zag is printed on front and back.)

I always wanted me one of these. Maybe then I'd get some respect.

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Moved?

The Daily Shirt is publishing later than usual in honor of Blasé Day.

For those with more motivation it's also the 5th annual International Aura Awareness Day. (Mine is yellow in case anyone cares.)

And if one really wants to harness their energy for worthy things this date was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 as the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. On an appropriately related note, today Gloria Steinem — feminist, writer and founder of Ms. Magazine — was born in 1935.

So, somebody out there — go do something, or not. I am going back to bed.

This "I'M APATHETIC AND I DON'T CARE" shirt pretty much sums it up for me at the moment — I could even buy a yellow one to match my aura! All variations of this theme here. It's in the "Wicked Funny T-shirts & Stuff" area that is within the "Lots and Lots of Wicked Funny Stuff" zone of the Full Moon Emporium CafePress.com shop (some adult content here and there), which offers a full range of products for those blasé and well beyond.

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Onward and Upward

Today in 1938 Clifford Odet's play Rocket to the Moon premieres in New York City and on this same day in 1969 NASA's Apollo 12, the second manned Moon flight, returns to Planet Earth.

In other news of the cosmos, the Ukrainian Sect White Brotherhood predicts that the end of the world will occur on this date in 1993. Apparently they were wrong.

Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection on this day in 1859. I wonder what he would think about the progress of our species, from a non-physiological point of view. Well, it's National Flossing Day so maybe we are getting somewhere after all. Human evolution is such a mysterious thing.

This lovely shirt, with its simple photograph of the Moon — taken by Astronauts aboard the NASA's first Moon mission, Apollo 11 — is from CafePress.com's The Ultra Geek Store; the full line of moon wear is here within their "Space Stuff" offerings. (I especially like the close-up view of an Astronaut's boot print on lunar soil — the mouse pad shows it best!) The Ultra Geek Store has everything your little geek heart could desire, and more!

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Pluck

Today all across America millions of plucked turkeys are roasted, carved and served to millions of people giving thanks, perhaps for not being cooked themselves from simultaneous nuclear testing done on this day in Nevada and the USSR in 1976.

And, on this date in 1888 Harpo — né Adolph — Marx, who plucked not the feathers of fowl but the taut strings of a harp, was born.

Duck Soup, not Turkey Soup, for The Daily Shirt.

Fish Pie T-Shirts & Gifts offers this "Harpists are Plucky" Baseball Jersey — I could see Harpo sporting one; the complete harpist line is here — among their many musically themed wares (with similar pithy — and sometimes naughty — sayings such as Guitarists Are Picky, Drummers Like A Good Bang, and Pianists Love to Tinkle). Their entire CafePress.com shop is most worthy of a click.

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486 Frames

On this day in 1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th US president and the first (and only) Roman Catholic to hold that office, is assassinated in Dallas, Texas at the age of 46 — one bullet piercing his skull in a lethal trajectory — while riding in an open-top Lincoln Continental limousine as it moves slowly through the city streets, surrounded by adoring crowds.

Oddly, there was no live broadcast of the assassination by radio or television stations because the area through which the Presidential motorcade was traveling was not deemed important enough for such documentation.

Yet one film records the history-changing moment — made by garment manufacturer and amateur cameraman Abraham Zapruder, who happened to be standing almost exactly in front of the limousine at the exact instant the President received his fatal head wound. This silent 26.6-second 8mm piece of color footage — 486 frames taken before, during and immediately after the assassination — became known as the "Zapruder film," key evidence in chronicling the events of that black day. It was used by the Warren Commission in their investigation of the assassination — the frames involved totaling less than 1 second of the entire document.

The film shows Jacqueline Kennedy, in her pink Chanel suit (which her husband had chosen) and matching pillbox hat, scrambling across the back top of the automobile in primal desperation, towards a Secret Service agent who had jumped onto the car's runner. She wears the same clothing — splattered with her husband's dried blood — and a blank dazed expression hours later while standing aboard Air Force One by Lyndon B. Johnson's side as he is sworn in as US President #36 — his hand on JFK's own black bible (taken for the ceremony at the last moment from the white box in which it was kept on the nightstand in the Kennedys' private cabin) — before departing the Dallas Love Field Airport, the dead President in a coffin at the jet's rear. Despite repeated entreaties to do so Mrs. Kennedy refused to change her bloody clothes.

Dallas radio station KBOX-AM later recreates the sounds of the shooting on an LP-record using excerpts of news coverage of that day.

On this very same date in 1968 The Beatles release their White Album.

Bang bang shoot shoot....

This shirt, with its simple white black-bordered box — reminiscent of a film frame, an obituary notice, or a rifle's front sight — is one of the offerings in the Dimosio Clothing & Accessories CafePress.com shop. (Some items suitable only for grownups.)

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(((((sending beams)))))

Today is the 34th annual World Hello Day. To participate simply greet ten people — "Greet Ten People for Peace."

World Hello Day was begun in response to the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the Fall of 1973. Since then, World Hello Day has been observed in 180 countries.

People around the globe use this day as an opportunity to express their concern for world peace; a simple greeting sends a message to leaders, encouraging them to use words rather than force to settle conflicts.

Speaking of communication this is also World TV Day. If you'd rather not say hello to ten people in the name of world peace you can stay at home and turn on the tube.

This "Hello, I'm Radioactive" NAME TAG T-Shirt brings together the two celebrations in one tidy HazMat lime package. (The early versions of television sets aroused worries re the effects of emitted radiation on children.)

The CafePress.com shop of FULL AUTO T-SHIRTS (some items contain "adult humor") offers other styles of this shirt in lime (men) (women); and in blue (men) (women). The full panoply of NAME TAG T-Shirts ("Hello, I'm insert word with attitude here") is available for men (lime) (blue) and for women (lime) (blue). So, don't check your attitude at the door and make sure to say hello to at least ten people while you've got your shirt on.

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Stoplight Spotlight | Red Curtain

AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

On this day in 1923 African-American inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan — born in 1877, the son of former slaves — is granted the first patent (U.S. patent No. 1,475,024) for an electric automatic three-way traffic signal, an invention inspired by his witnessing the collision of an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage. The Father of the Stoplight, Morgan later sold the patented technology to the General Electric Corporation for $40,000, a huge sum at the time. Shortly before his death in 1963 he was awarded a citation for his traffic signal by the US Government.

Today in 1989 the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czechoslovakia comprises an estimated half-million assembled peaceful protesters, up from 200,000 the day before.

On this date in 1992 a fire breaks out in Queen Elizabeth's English estate, Windsor Castle, raging for 15 hours and causing serious damage. An investigation determines that the blaze was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with drapery.

Lastly, but not leastly, on this day in 1945 the Nuremberg Trials begin against 24 Nazi war criminals, for many of whom it is, ultimately, "curtains."

These varied events converge unwittingly in a conceptual way with the design on this Show Black T-Shirt, available in the Alcreations CafePress.com shop.

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Have a bad day! :(

If you tire of hearing "Have a nice day" every time you leave a store today is dedicated to you. It's Have a Bad Day Day — where service industry personnel are encouraged to use this more cynical sendoff.

This day is pretty bad indeed for Sammy Davis Jr. in 1954 — he loses his left eye in a California automobile accident. In ear news — on this date in 1998 a painting by Vincent Van Gogh (who surely had his share of bad days), Portrait of the Artist without Beard, sells for US $71,500,000 at Christie's New York auction house — not a bad day for them.

Designed for YOU, whose work I've admired before, offers this FROWN Black T-Shirt in the Misc. Dark T-Shirt area of their CafePress.com shop.

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M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse is 78!

Disney celebrates our beloved rodent's birthday today as it marks the release of MM's film debut — Steamboat Willie (1928) — the first fully synchronized sound cartoon.

SoloPress cleverly gets around all trademark issues with this slyly worded comic book style graphic that could be describing no other, except, at times, perhaps Michael Jackson.

This shirt design appears on other items in the Silly Fun Stuff division of the SoloPress CafePress.com shop.


And who couldn't use an empty word balloon to convey one's speechlessness? Hogan's Alley, the shop for fans of vintage comic art and advertising images, offers this shirt and much more — "…new merchandise from cartooning's yesteryear … updated for today's fans who appreciate a fresh twist on old classics!" — in their CafePress.com shop.

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Outta Here

On this date in 1820 Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to sight Antarctica.

Coincidentally, today is Take a Hike Day!

While we're on the topic of walking sticks, getting lost and compasses — of the moral variety — on this day in 1973, during the Watergate scandal, President Richard M. Nixon declares "I am not a crook."

Later, he took a hike.

To get your bearings, locate this T-shirt in the Strange and Unique section of the Yazooy CafePress.com shop.

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Pushing Buttons

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On this date in 1963 Bell Laboratories introduces theTouch-Tone or push-button telephone, replacing the rotary dial model.

Speaking of touch, today in 1906 opera tenor Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the Monkey House of New York's Central Park Zoo.

This kid's T-shirt is imprinted with the American Sign Language chart for finger spelling numbers, nearly analogous to the Touch-Tone keypad layout. Liquid Arts sells other ASL products and more in their CafePress.com shop.

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Stars and Fellow (Time-) Travelers

On this day in 1946 fervent anti-Communist Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) interrogates noted astronomer (and political liberal) Harlow Shapley, known for his correct positioning of the Sun — 27,000 light-years away from the center of our Galaxy.

In a kind of political, scientific and cosmic time shift — light-years, in fact, from 1940s McCarthyism — on this day in 1995 the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the orbiting Russian Space Station MIR.

And, to further expand our intergalactic theme, on this date in 1997 Star Trek actor William Shatner weds his third wife and today in 1999 the transit of Mercury is visible in North America.

One can imagine that Harlow Shapley might have echoed the sentiments expressed on this sun-yellow T during his HUAC trial. From the "Alien Shirts" series of the PLAYERZ INTERNATIONAL CafePress.com shop.

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You go (wherever), girl!

Greetings
from
"The Elm City"
NEW HAVEN
Connecticut

Today in 1968 Yale University announces it is going co-educational.

This T-shirt, emblazoned with the image of a classic colorful 1950s vintage postcard, is among hundreds of wearables (and other gifts) in the RetroAmerica CafePress.com shop — representing cities in every American state (except Hawaii), as well as Canada; the Caribbean;
Havana, Cuba; Mexico and Puerto Rico.

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Where to wear it is up to you...

On this day in 1987 BBC Television airs the first condom commercial.

Today also marks the beginning of National Geography Awareness Week.

This shirt from the Funny City Tees CafePress.com shop unites both events via a highway sign graphic announcing a curiously-named — at least to English speakers' ears — actual destination (Funny City Tees' specialty), in this case the town of Condom, in the county of Gers, France. In fact, though the French word for condom is préservatif, the town is a popular target for street sign stealing tourists.

Funny City Tees' provocative place name "adult humor" products — many of them quite naughty — are sure to be a hit on college campuses coast-to-coast. For their complete inventory click here.

Really, dudes, use those condoms.

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I (Heart) __________

On this date in 1938 Hermann Goering announces that Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland." Would things have turned out differently? Would they have had Madagaschambers there? Who knows…?

The CafePress.com I Heart Shirt shop offers Love proclamations singing the praises of every imaginable place, including this Madagascar shirt.

Their shop proper has an entire sprectrum of "I Love (Heart)" product categories to keep everyone happy. From soup to nuts, literally.

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Remembrance Day

In Canada (and elsewhere) it is Remembrance Day; in the United States Veterans' Day — also Armistice Day or Poppy Day, depending on where you are. Begun in 1918, to commemorate the end of World War I, it is observed each year to honor the sacrifice of life and limb made by veterans and civilians in all wars since.

There is a beautiful symmetry to the ritual played out that morning — two (II) minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month; the time — in Britain and France — when the armistice became effective. Wreaths of poppies are laid (I still have the faux lapel poppy from when I happened to be in Canada one year on this day) and a trumpeter ends the silence by playing Reveille.

If one wishes to go a step further beyond remembering the dead — communicating with them — T-Shirt Fetish offers something that might help: A Ouija board mousepad. I find it quite moving.

Investigate all the products in the T-Shirt Fetish CafePress.com shop. Some items may be considered offensive — T-Shirt Fetish admits to being very offensive, in fact — falling properly in the arena known as "adult humor." Mothers — cover the eyes of your children!

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The things that yo' li'ble to read in the Bible...

Today in 1908 the first Gideon Bible was put in a hotel room. For the non-believers amongst us, a ticket in the form of a shirt to another, final destination, from the CafePress.com emporium of Barry's World. His complete "Ticket to Hell" line can be found here.

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Kristallnacht

Today is the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht, officially known as Reichskristallnacht, translated as "The Night of Broken Glass." From November 9-10, 1938 the Nazis launched a rampage against Jews throughout Germany and in parts of Austria. Jewish homes and businesses were ransacked and destroyed — the name Kristallnacht refers to the shards of glass from the broken shop windows covering the streets afterwards — Jews were beaten to death, 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps (one of them my grandfather, from Vienna to Dachau), and 1,668 synagogues were looted or set on fire.

November 9 also marks my grandfather's arrival in Auschwitz in 1942 and, you might say, his departure — he went up the chimney that same day. He was 56 years old.

When I lived in Berlin I made myself "The Yellow Star" out of colored paper and took a series of photographic self-portraits with it in place on the upper left front of my flea market raincoat — whose armpits were impregnated with pungent perspiration that probably could have been carbon-dated back to those very years. I wanted to do a performance piece, riding the Hauptstrasse bus in my outfit, from the beginning to the end of the line and back again, ad infinitum, but I didn't have the guts and was getting pretty unfriendly looks already so the performance never left the apartment. The badge above might have come in handy had I embarked on my intended project and certainly would have been more durable.

I took many such photographs during that year and had them developed at a nearby black and white laboratory. Each week the photographic contact sheets were presented to me quite formally, by a tall German woman with no facial expressions, a shiny empty table between us. The pages were removed from a sheath of waxed paper and presented for my examination and approval. The encounters were uniformly strange and impersonal. No words were ever spoken. It was as if we were having a secret banking transaction. I always wondered what she thought of the photographs, or whether she questioned what I was up to, but never had the courage to ask her.


For those with more chutzpah who wish to relive the sad past
and/or spread Holocaust Awareness (your choice), Hebrew American offers this Yellow Star Sticker among the many fine Jewish-themed items in their CafePress.com shop.


If it happened again maybe I'd be wearing one of these. Name Fan Club makes personalized HELLO MY NAME IS ___ T-shirts for men and women in their all-occasion personalized name oriented CafePress.com shop.

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X-rays

On this day in 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a German physicist, discovered X-rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. The Daily Shirt presents a duet of designs to mark this momentous event.

GeniusWear does it straight up. This design also works very nicely on a
mug, so you know exactly where to put your hand. Their whole line of radiology-inspired items is here. GeniusWear's CafePress.com shop offers goods on medical and scientific themes.



Of Yore reproduces cool vintage ads from classic mail order "miracles" — on this shirt a "Wonderful X-Ray" gadget for ten cents. Other products (wears and wares) with the same motif here. Their "Twenty Five Cent Classic" vintage ads are all very groovy indeed as is the entire Of Yore CafePress.com shop. "Cool old images on cool new stuff!"

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Erection Day.

Election Day!

The Daily Shirt found so many nice and topical designs
that we decided to offer our readers freedom of choice.

Well, at least if they are not Republicans. :)


Halloween is still in the air for some of us. Designed for YOU offers beautiful gear for the activist — like this BUSH SCARES ME shirt — in their CafePress.com shop.



This subtle cryptic design by The Grafik Wit might go over many heads but those craniums it manages to penetrate will decipher a multiplex pun poking fun at George W. Bush, the Nazis — "When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun" — (look it up), "intelligent design," creationism and (gently) PC-users. For those whose alphabet has no W. For more wares along this line check out The Graphik Wit CafePress.com shop.


Another lovely shirt from Designed for YOU, with its refrigerator magnet style letters missing one of the 26. This visual needs little explanation and is the perfect complement to The Grafik Wit’s "intelligent design" T. See all Designed for YOU products with this motif in their CafePress.com shop.


CafePress.com’s Spoc Dept says it all with this one, and quite eloquently.


A bumper sticker palate cleanser, while we are on the subject, courtesy of The Lavender Liberal, whose CafePress.com shop overflows with "Progressive Messageware for Peace-Loving Lefties."

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Breast Cancer, a 1 in 7 risk...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month may be over but the disease isn't going away anytime soon. Mammoschewitz, a breast cancer survivor herself, offers this tough cookie black-humored T. See additional wares (same theme) from her CafePress.com shop here.

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Light My Fire

On this date in 1935 Parker Brothers introduces their board game Monopoly.

Also today in 1969 Jim Morrison of The Doors is arrested by the FBI after repeatedly prodding an airline stewardess (who could have used the shirt above whilst dealing with the particular Door in question).

This spoof on Monopoly’s Community Chest card seamlessly incorporates the Devil — drawn in the correct vintage style — grabbing the collar of the Old Man with the Moustache.

The card reads:

GO TO HELL
Go Directly to Hell
DO NOT PASS GO
DO NOT COLLECT $200

Find the graphic on shirts and other items in the L.A.S.T. T-SHIRTS Cafepress.com shop.

(In addition, today is the birthday of Bryan Adams, who wrote and sang the song Heaven.)

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The Crown Jewels

On this day in 1963 John Lennon — appearing onstage with The Beatles at the Royal Command Variety Performance, Prince of Wales Theatre, London, with Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret in attendance — introduces the songTwist and Shout by asking audience members in the cheaper seats to clap their hands, adding "and the rest of you — if you'll just rattle your jewelry. "

Today is also National Candy Day!

The candy necklace design above (the entire series here) is from the witty You’ve Got Some Food On Your Shirt CafePress.com shop which offers products imprinted with pure unadulterated photographs of every edible found on the food pyramid and then some.

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A Little Sandwich

Today is the birthday of John Montague, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who, in 1762, created the delightful comestible which now bears his name.

Ryan K. has this sweet Super Sandwich Toddler T-Shirt (in baby blue, pink or white) in his CafePress.com shop.

It’s a wee place with just a few well-designed items, one of which might be rated PG or R — you be the judge.

Lord John would have been 288 today. That’s a very old sandwich.

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Belated Halloween

I know I’m a few days late but it’s always Halloween for me. LMHDesigns Too offers this Jack-O-Lantern classic in their CafePress.com shop. They have other J-O-L shirts but I like this one the best. Check out their entire production. (Not all their goods are suitable for the younger set.)

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* A blog is born!

In Europe an asterisk is the symbol to indicate date of birth. It was developed by printers during feudal times for use in family trees. One finds it in obituaries of course and on gallery wall labels next to works of art. On American keyboards the symbol is askew, with a horizontal axis; in Europe the vertical is prominent. There are variations on this motif, having from five to eight arms.

I thought this an appropriate shirt with which to begin the blog. It’s from Niki Rae'S Neat Things CafePress.com shop.

So, a new day, a new shirt — maybe more.

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