Iconic tee shirts and light sabers? Count me in.

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…and as much as I’d like to, I can’t take any credit for this.

Our very popular Toxic Waste tee was used last week by online media behemoth Gawker as a visual accent in a blog post riffing on fallout from the market meltdown. The piece doesn’t really address the shirt in any way — it’s a metaphor, you see — but any press is good press (or so the mantra goes). We commend Gawker, apparently the site for NYC-related gossip, for their good taste in tee shirts.

Major props to FIC superfan Anne Lewis for bringing this to our attention here at It Goes To 11. On a related note, let me use this as a convenient opportunity to segue into a final word on FIC tee-spotting. If you scout our shirts somewhere cool (in print, on-stage, the web, tv, etc.), please, by all means, let us know. Photographs, video clips, links — the more specific the evidence, the better. If it’s something we don’t know about or arranged ourselves behind the scenes, we’ll hook you up with some FIC swag. No joke, yo.

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Loyal readers of It Goes to 11 know that we heart 1985’s Teen Wolf here at FIC. The implausible story, the inspired comedic performances, the side-splitting dialogue, the feel-good conclusion — this fine flick has it all in spades.

Michael J. Fox is certainly the star of the film, but in many ways Jerry Levine’s Stiles character (pictured below) steals the show with his self-assured preening, cocky chutzpah, entrepreneurial spirit, and rich, fantastically colored wardrobe. (Shameless reminder: we sell two of his attention-grabbing tees here and here.) For a more in-depth discussion of Stiles’ cultural significance, I urge you to read this informative, expertly deconstructed piece of film criticism that I stumbled across while researching this post.

In any case, I’ve compiled a list of Stiles’ best, most memorable lines. Enjoy!

10. “Are you gonna tell me you’re a fag?”

9. “Surf’s up…”

8. “That’s my middle name.”

7. “What’s it like coming out of the closet?”

6. “You looking to catch something?”

5. “What can I say — you’re beautiful.”

4. “I heard Mr. Johnson from shop class got his dick stuck in a vacuum cleaner.”

3. “Hey baby, nice hair cut. Be all you can be…how was Grenada?”

2. “So, what can a teen wolf do?”

1. “Can you do that anytime you want?”

Honorable mentions: “All sizes, no waiting!” and “How do you think he feels? He feels like a WINNER!”

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By now, most of you have heard about the release of downloaded “Chinese Democracy,” Guns N’ Roses’ (err, Axl Rose’s) long-awaited, much-delayed magnum opus, an event 13 million dollars, 14 studios, 17 years and 30-some backing musicians in the making. Take that, Kevin Shields!

The cool kid critics haven’t been particularly impressed, but John Pareles’ hit-piece-cum-review in the NYT was a funny and amusing cut-up of an admittedly easy and bloated target: 

“[This album] is the Titanic of rock albums: the ship, not the movie, although like the film it’s a monumental studio production. It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era. It’s also a shipwreck, capsized by pretensions and top-heavy production. In its 14 songs there are glimpses of heartfelt ferocity and despair, along with bursts of remarkable musicianship. But they are overwhelmed by countless layers of studio diddling and a tone of curdled self-pity…”

The CD has been selling well, apparently, but not at an astronomical clip. What actually surprises me the most is the lack of any related merch. The GN’R site is almost completely bare in this regard; the webstore is still listed as “coming soon.” What, like 2025? I figured a tentpole release such as this one would be accompanied by a crush of ancillary products, but one of the few images of a “Chinese Democracy” tee I could find online is embedded below.

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We love rabbits here at FIC. Aside from the fact that they’re soft, adorable and totally loveable, they also make for cozy slippers.

Gratuitous plug here: if you didn’t already know, we sell six varieties of bunny slippers on our sister site, Bunnyslippers.com. Among our most popular models is this pair which kinda bucks the traditional perception of rabbits as innocent and harmless creatures. Fans of English comedy will no doubt recognize them from the seminal film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

It seems that others have recognized the duality of rabbits as well. Over at Threadless, there’s a great new tee this week that riffs on the same source material. Printed with a special UV-sensitive ink, some elements of the design are visible only in the sun, which means your top changes appearance as you come and go — a neat magic trick indeed. No hat necessary…

See for yourself:

Outside (with blood)

Inside (no blood)

Superzoom:

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