Still a tad early, I know, but this vid is a cold classic:

Peep out this vintage-lite tee I discovered on eBay:

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Maybe you overlooked the outsized rectangular block embedded on our homepage, but there’s a big development here at FIC — we have 6 new shirts available for purchase!

In a Found Item first, we’ve hooked up with a trio of accomplished apparel designers whose style we dig — Poketo, Option G and No Star Clothing — to bring you some fresh threads as the holiday season nears. Option G and No Star kinda trend towards modern icons and witty pastiches; the Poketo approach employs hand-drawn illustrations and is by nature, a bit cuter and less scripted. There are two sides to every tee, yes?

In September, an exhaustive process of trial and error a field trip to Las Vegas yielded these designs as part of a valiant effort to expand our offerings for loyal customers (that’s you…).

In all seriousness, I urge you to buy these shirts now because they won’t last I will be fired if this experiment in web retailing goes terribly astray.

Obviously, we’re fishing here for some honest feedback here. Do you like these shirts? Will you buy them? If not, why not? Do you come to FIC for movie-centric shirts, or are you open to the possibility that our brand might feature other, non-celluloid-related garments? Are you still reading this? If so, why?

For the record, I’m partial to Loose Lips and Skull Forest (viewed below).
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With the Presidential election now less than a day away (thankfully), t-shirt entrepreneurs on both sides of the political spectrum are scrambling to milk the Obama cash cow for every last drop of cream.

Urban Outfitters, for example, peddles no less than 11 Barack-related designs. As it is, I’m rather partial to this one and its cute word play:

(The irony, you ask? The company’s leadership is rumored to shower politicians on the extreme Right with financial $upport. Commerce and politics have always been strange bedfellows.)

More examples of shirts in this playful vein are plentiful. Take these two, which riff on the same pun.

Still not convinced of Barack’s commercial potential? Take a peek then at Zazzle.com, which offers more than 30,000 Obama-related items that encompasses everything from t-shirts to skateboard decks. Not to be outdone, Cafepress.com also features a seemingly infinite number — 87,500, to be approximate — of user-submitted designs that can be individually customized with regards to color, size, text and image placement. As you might imagine, they range from creative to crass, stupid to smart and inspired to insipid.

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