Today my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge has returned to English soil and it has gone from T-shirt wearing weather to everything-I-own-on-top-of-a-T-shirt wearing weather. There are no dragon flies to be seen, there are no pine forests on my commute and there definitely isn't champagne around every turn.
It's depressing.
It's also Thursday and so today's T-shirt offering will need to come from the Mystery Package* following its recent streak of improved Thursday output. I believe the current slate for T-shirt extraction stands at 3-2 to Matt, but since the switch I've been closing the gap.
Let's see what the Mystery Package has in store for me this week.
Please be a Rancid T-shirt. Please be a Rancid T-shirt. Please be a Rancid T-shirt.
Well, this is not a Rancid T-shirt.
This is a T-shirt promoting the unconventional band They Might Be Giants and you know what? I quite like it. Granted I haven't heard anything about the band since their daily playback on the opening credits of Malcolm In The Middle, but the design of this T-shirt is actually quite attractive, so I'm already going to cast my verdict and chalk this up in the win column.
The design depicts a skull wearing what appears to be an American football helmet made of glass; some sort of comment on vunerability or self-deprecating futility - the ultimate fail - or something...
Furthermore, only two colours are used in the print which against the white canvas makes for a very striking image, and the band name is written in tidy left aligned Helvetica across the visor to cap it off. Not bad for the 150th T-shirt to pass through my challenge!
SO, the Mystery Package has generated yet another glorious victory over at Camp Andi, bringing the scores up to 3-a-piece. I'm not sure what it is that Matt's doing wrong lately but he certainly isn't the boss of me now.
And he's not so big.
*For a proper introduction to the Mystery Package, have a re-read of the post just after Day 102.
