…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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…but we have a relativey new FIC shirt for depressed, heartbroken cynics everywhere.

This top was worn by the fashionable Stiles in Teen Wolf. Take it home for $21.95, plus shipping, from our webstore.

Coping with the pain: travis@founditemclothing.com.

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Last week, I wrote a post about embattled United States Senator Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska that was in a tight spot, steering down a double-barreled shotgun of federal ethics charges and a bitterly contested bid for reelection against a spirited Democratic candidate, Mark Begich.

Stevens’ colleagues at the Republican State Party, observant readers will no doubt recall from my earlier blog entry, had these shocking, but poorly designed, garments printed for a Welcome Home rally just prior to the election.

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Sad news this week.

Gus (pictured below), a pedigree Chinese Crested crowned by a discriminating committee of canine enthusiasts as the world’s ugliest dog earlier this year at a contest in Sonoma, California, has succumbed to the effects of cancer and passed away.

According to a tear-jerking A.P. news brief, the hairless Gus lived an unbelievable, only-in-America, made-for-the-movies existence:

“[He] came from humble origins. His adopted family in Gulfport, Fla., rescued him after learning he was being kept in a crate inside someone’s garage. He had one leg amputated because of a skin tumor and lost an eye in a cat fight.”

His greatest moment came this past July when a jury of his peers anointed him as the worst-in-show, overcoming his illness, his past, other contestants and previous champions. In addition to the title of World’s Ugliest Dog, Gus also collected a check for a cool $1000, which was used to defray his sizable medical expenses.

Asked to comment on this tragic loss, “Fluffy,” the world’s ugliest cat, responded with a melancholic but noncommittal “meh.”

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Lost in the white hot glow of Obama’s election night victory was news that United States Senator Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) was locked in an exceedingly tight contest with his Democratic challenger, Mark Begich, the Mayor of Anchorage. Even now, more than one week after the election, no winner has been named in what is shaping up as a crucial race that will help determine control of the Senate.

Stevens, an icon in his state who has held federal office since 1968, was convicted on federal ethics charges the week before the election, having failed to disclose a number of lavish gifts bestowed upon him by friends, lobbyists and contractors. This development prompted the majority of political pundits to write him off and other politicians to call for his resignation.

On the weekend before the election, Stevens returned to Alaska and addressed his followers in an airplane hanger. Ever the pugilist, the Senator defended his record and defiantly proclaimed his innocence (”our founding fathers knew that mistakes could be made and innocent men could be wrongly convicted…this is one of those times”) which provided some red meat for his Luddite supporters. As the New York Times reported, Stevens spent more than half of his 8-minute speech besmirching the prosecutors in his case.

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