WHAT IS THIS?

I have a lot of t-shirts. I mean A LOT. And I usually wear a t-shirt every day.

At the end of 2005 I had the idea for this blog - starting January 1st, 2006 I would wear a different t-shirt from my collection every day until I ran out of shirts. Shirts could not be repeated. Each day I was to take a photo of that particular day's shirt, tell everyone a little bit about it, and then post it all on this blog. I also encouraged my readers to send me shirts to keep my streak going, but that didn't work out so well. I think I got two or three in the mail. The rest of the shirts were mine.

The SASHDISH experiment lasted from January 1st, 2006 to June 5th, 2006, or something like 152 shirts! Was this pointless? Probably. But so is most of the stuff on the internet.

After SASHDISH ended, I got lazy and stopped checking in on it. Then the company that owned the server that stored all of my images went out of business, and all of the photos were lost. Someday, when I'm bored, I'll go back and repost the images. Until then, I still have all of the individual shirt descriptions up, so you can read about each one. And here's a photo of the first 100 shirts: SASHDISH 100.

In case you're wondering, I got rid of most of these shirts. However, I'm still a t-shirt-a-holic and now own just as many (if not more) than I used to.

Thanks for visiting,
Aaron Popp
aaronpopp.com
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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Tenacious D -- Dickso


Front: Tenacious D
Back: Nothing

Back in '98, I was in college. With 8 guys living together, we could afford to split the premium cable package, so we had HBO and Showtime in our house. One night, up late drinking, I stumbled across two guys playing acoustic guitars on a comedy show. They were singing a funny song about "karate" and they were cursing and it was hilarious. I found out they were called Tenacious D and my love affair with the D began that day. The problem was that no one had really heard of them (unless they had HBO), they didn't have any videos or DVDs or CDs or anything.

By the summer of '01, the D had a website and some fame. I took advantage of special on their site. If you ordered a t-shirt, you would save a few bucks on their upcoming CD when it was released. Or something like that. So I ordered the shirt you see above. The design is called "Dickso" because.....well, you can figure it out.

"He asked us: be you angels? And we said 'nay, we are but men.' Rock."

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