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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tee-Cember: It Begins!

OK. Let's get this out of the way right nownownownownow, so you can buy it. Christmas is now 24 days away. Now is as good a time as any to get gifts if you want them to get to their destination on time. So I figure, why not talk up the most likely tee to be a hot, unique gift piece early?

I'll never understand the power of memes, but I can appreciate that now and then, someone can take something tired and turn it on its head. So it is surprising to me that I have not seen today's tee concept, courtesy of Demighty, anywhere else, because it seems like the pinnacle of zombie parody. The graphic is the sort of crisp character piece that has always been classic for a tee, and while the idea of other sorts of zombies making their demands is not new (the vegan zombie demanding Grains, for example), taking it with a 100% reversal of roles made me honestly laugh in a way zombie jokes simply do not do. Your favorite zombie obsessed meme-nerd probably will get 14 copies of the Zombie Survival Guide, and likely already owns the Evil Dead movies. What they probably DON'T have is a good or original t-shirt (I've seen where they shop. It's probably true!) so while it won't stop your best buddy from his continual ranting about the zombie uprising which will never happen because we live in the real world, picking up Zombies will certainly up anyone on your list's fashion quotient (I especially like how it looks on the blue, shown), while still making them positively re-animated when they open their gift. You don't really want to see them pull out the ol' "This is not the shirt you are looking for" tee again, do you?

2 comments:

Julie said...

That brain is wearing socks.

Definitely prefer it on the black tee, I wish more places would offer those kinds of options...

B.D. Crabtree said...

There are way, way too many zombie t-shirts out there but this one has something new to say. I like.