Another week, another t-shirt controversy…

Earlier in the month, I ran a list of new Mike Vicks shirts. Some were supportive of the convicted dog murderer; others were not.

According to a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer, a fan attending an Eagles game — Vick’s current team — last weekend was refused entry until she agreed to turn her anti-Vick tee inside out. Apparently, the offending garment read “Losers fight pitbulls” on the front, with Vick’s name and No. 7 crossed out. On the back, there was the following text: “You don’t deserve a second chance.”

A little Google-sleuthing has turned up the shirt in question; FYI, click on the image to link through:

Questions of free speech aside, this is certainly a growing trend in sports of late. A number of professional squads have instituted policies that prohibit questionable or mocking designs on safety grounds (seems kinda dubious and over reaching to yours truly…). Like this instance in which a Texas Rangers fan denied admission to the ballpark earlier this year because she was wearing a “Yankees Suck” tee.

Thoughts, dear readers?

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Hey kids. Today, I want to trace a popular t-shirt trend from conception to parody.

Here is the original 3 Wolf Moon shirt, which for a time, was inexplicably the best selling garment on Amazon’s site. The tee went viral, thanks in large part to customer comments that ascribed it great powers of seduction.

Naturally, its unexpected, runaway success spawned a number of spoofs, most notably this design from Threadless, which incorporates yet one internet meme of note, the keyboard cat phenomenon.

And the pièce de résistance, the Three Teen Wolf Moon shirt, which riffs, quite predictably, on one of my beloved pop culture icons. (Karl Marx’s oft-quoted line about history repeating itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, seems particularly apropos here…)

UPDATE

A little Google sleuthing has revealed a fairly new homage to the 3 Wolf motif that incorporates (a) a mystical unicorn (is there any other kind?) and (b) E.T. on his bike juxtaposed against the silhouette of the moon. And on and on and on it goes…

UPDATE #2

Our friends over at Thunderfrogs are reporting that the original 3 Wolf Moon design is already poised for a comeback of sorts; it will make (or perhaps has already made?) a belated appearance on NBC’s wildly popular sit-com-cum-rom-com, The Office (screengrab attached below).

For my money, this is still the only (Teen) Wolf shirt worth wearing:

I’m sure there are other variants on the three wolf motif; readers, any suggestions?

The appropriate, lupus-themed soundtrack:

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My friend Shane — who’s already the excitable type as is — absolutely freaks for lasers. The proud owner of both a Bachelor’s and an advanced Master’s Degree in Material Physics, he installs and repairs million dollar systems around the globe for a variety of corporate clients, and he’s not shy about saying so. Nor does his love affair with beamed particles end when the work day is over; cliché as it sounds, he lives, breathes and sleeps lasers, 24-7-365, surrounding himself with accoutrements of the trade as a reminder of his intellectual prowess. In his honor then, here are 10 tees, arranged in no particular order, that incorporate or riff on laser motifs. As always, click on the pics to link through…

1. Via Busted Tees, we have “Racecars, Lasers and Airplanes.” Considering that Shane just purchased a brand new 2010 Chevy Camaro and that he routinely travels great distances for his employer, this tee seems particularly apropos.

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Representing a new high water mark for rock-rap relations, Kid Cudi performed on the Letterman show last week, backed by the totally mesmerizing Ratatat, a Brooklyn-based duo that has won steady acclaim for its signature mix of explosive guitar riffage and pensive, plinking electronica.

Watch the spectacle below:

(On an aside, you gotta love Letterman’s post-performance meet-and-great; he’s so enthusiastic! Understated refrain of choice: “That was great! Got a lot goin’ on there…”)

The cross-genre collaboration is nothing new for either artist. Cudi, best known for his mega-smash “Day N Nite,” has a forthcoming album set to drop this Tuesday (the curiously titled Man on the Moon: The End of Day), the likes of which will feature cameos and production from nostalgia-inducing, psych-pop practitioners such as MGMT and Emile; in a similar vein, Ratatat has churned out a series of genre-busting, hip-hop-approved edits and remix tapes in recent years.

Look closely and you’ll note that Cudi’s wearing some sort of doctored accented Ghostbusters tee. It appears eerily similar to this one that we sell at our Found Item site… just saying.

A classic Ratatat image, for the tee heads:

In other music news, yes, this is the new album art for Weezer’s soon-to-be-released full-length, Ratitude.

Oy vey!

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