A Sense of Doubt blog post #3491 - SoD Reprint of #2898 - This day in T-shirts - January 24th - 2014 - T-shirt #309 - TPTA Corporate Olympics - Shirt A - AND Comic Book Sunday

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3491 - SoD Reprint of #2898 - This day in T-shirts - January 24th - 2014 - T-shirt #309 - TPTA Corporate Olympics - Shirt A - AND Comic Book Sunday

This the first post since Dad died that does not feature a picture of Dad, but it is a Dad post.

That's a picture of the TPTA Corporate Olympics t-shirt.

This post also contains comic book content making it suitable for COMIC BOOK SUNDAY, which is today.

It's also fun to publish a reprint of a reprint of a reprint.

This post was originally published in 2014 on my t-shirts blog -- 365 T-Shirts -- and then in 2023, I reprinted it here on Sense of Doubt, and now I am reprinting it again.

With this post, I am caught up to today as I am still on the plane just about ten hours after the time stamp on this post.

I am a little tired. I have been in Michigan for two weeks. Now we return home.

When I flew to Michigan on August 26th my Dad was still alive, and now, he's not.

It all seems a bit hard to believe still. Surreal. Unreal.

When Mom died, I was not away from home. I was surrounded by family and friends.

When Dad died, I was away from my new home, and we were alone. Well, actually, his roommate qwas in the room, but he couldn't see, and really, didn't know what was happening.

I am watching the Lions-Rans game as Dad would be if he was still alive.

I want to pick up the phone and talk to him about it.

In these later years, I would have to jog his memory a lot. He forgot things or maybe fell asleep.

But then the game before this one, about two weeks and few days ago, Dad knew what happened in that pre-season match against the Steelers. He wasn't gone yet. He was not yet actively dying.

The Lions better win this game for Dad. They are actively losing right now. By Three.

Dad, I miss you.

Thanks for tuning in.

COUNTDOWN!!!

https://www.270towin.com/2024-countdown-clock/

057 DAYS TO THE ELECTION

The link to the original post that I am reprinting below:

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2898 - This day in T-shirts - January 24th - 2014 - T-shirt #309 - TPTA Corporate Olympics - Shirt A

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2898 - This day in T-shirts - January 24th - 2014 - T-shirt #309 - TPTA Corporate Olympics - Shirt A

Welcome to reprint week.

I write to you from the future on February 03, 2023 to be exact, meaning that at this moment I am eleven days behind on my blog, so not setting a new record.

Record days behind is THIRTEEN as revealed in this post:

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2762 - REPRINT WEEK #02: Hey Mom Reprint #431: Star Trek 50th Anniversary

So, for today's post, I start a week of reprints: seven in a row. Four from T-shirts and three others.

For those unclear on what "T-shirts" means outside of it being a simple word for an undergarment that has become a stand alone garment, I started my daily blogging with a blog about t-shirts that ran exactly 365 days straight from March 22, 2013 to March 21, 2014, though there have been a few posts since:

https://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/.

I called it 365 T-Shirts just to be clear about what I was doing.

This post featured a t-shirt from my father's company and the Corporate Olympics in which they engaged and so needed team shirts.

The posts might start with a shirt like that, one about which I did not have a lot to share, and then branch into whatever other content I wanted to explore, kind of how this blog evolved through the HEY MOM years to now.

Some other features I would like to point out.

1. I liked to recap my comics for the week. I did those recaps frequently. I actually have month-to-month collections of comics and reading orders saved in my drafts here at SENSE OF DOUBT. One of these days, I may publish them all.

2. I had a t-shirt countdown to when the blog would end. I started this countdown at some point, not sure when, but I did not run it through the entire blog series.

3. Around this time in January of 2014, closing in on the end, I started a series to explain WHY I was writing about t-shirts. Since these reprints all come from that week in January nine years ago, you will see other parts of that series. It occurs to me that a post collecting them (if I did not do that already when I finished the series) might be a nice feature.

Thanks for tuning in.

Here's the original post:

Friday, January 24, 2014

T-shirt #309 - TPTA Corporate Olympics - Shirt A

T-shirt #309 - TPTA Corporate Olympics - Shirt A

Today's shirt is another gift from my father from the years that TPTA participated in the local Corporate Olympics. I have two, so expect to see another.

Not much to say, hence the ...

HIATUS TEXT: I am taking a short hiatus. A "hiatus" for the 365 T-shirts Blog does not mean that there will not be shirts or that I will skip posting on any forthcoming day. There will be shirts. But the shirts will not be exciting or the featured shirts will not require me to write a small novel to properly generate the content I feel is sufficient. I created a category for my hiatus so as to group together those "easy" shirts that I consider to be "hiatus shirts." The goal of the hiatus is to fill in many blog days with easy shirts in order to complete longer love letters to beloved popular culture icons on more special shirts and to write more complex entries AHEAD OF TIME. The daily grind is becoming too much and causing me to fall behind and to be forced to post incomplete entries. I am hoping that a series of hiatus shirts will allow me to catch up, get ahead, and stay ahead. Ideally, I would like to be writing the bulk of each entry three days ahead while always working on at least one other. I have a lot of great shirts to share before the end of my blog year (after all I was just given SIXTEEN shirts for my birthday). Stay tuned. I promise to post the more interesting and longer T-shirt entries as I finish them. Thanks for reading. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.

Have we established that I am not always wearing the shirt I am featuring that day? Below I have assembled seven images of the shirts I have worn this week, including the one I am wearing right now (the United Federation of Planets Logo).

Perhaps, this is interesting...

Maybe I will do this kind of thing more often.

THIS WEEK'S SHIRTS

 
WHY T-SHIRTS EXPLANATORY BLURB

I am doing a series of snippets that will add up to a larger whole answering the "Why T-shirts?" or "What's with all the T-shirts?" question. I have also decided to include the previous items in an ever growing list, hence the "previous items" section next.

PREVIOUS ITEMS
#1: T-SHIRTS ARE COOL

TODAY'S ITEM - WHY T-SHIRTS #2: I BE BRANDED - CHOOSING TO ADVERTISE

When I taught media studies, I taught from a book called No Logo, in which the author, "took aim at the brand bullies" and discusses the impact of brand-oriented corporate activity and the ways in which people have chosen to fight back, such as Culture Jamming.

Since I was in a different T-shirt in every class, always showing off some comic book logo or musical artist, I would have been a huge hypocrite if advocated for NO LOGOS. Instead I advocated for making conscious choices and owning one's choices. After all, wearing a T-shirt with something printed on it is choosing to be a walking, traveling, interacting billboard for whatever "brand" is displayed on the shirt. I talked about why I wanted to promote this comic book or that musical artist, and I asked the to question if they really wanted to pay their own money to advertise that beer, that school. or that clothing company. Because that's what this is all about: we spend our own money to advertise for other corporate interests.

The above set of shirts from last week show that I paid (or was gifted) about $140 worth of clothing to advertise a podcast, a TV cartoon character, a VERTIGO comic book, a phrase from a set of fantasy books, a comic book character in a logo style of a TV show from the 1960s, a magic company, and a fictional organization in a science fiction TV show. I am purposefully not naming them all in my list to see if you can figure them all out. If you care that is.

So the question is: why would I choose to spend my own money to be an advertisement?

I mean if I am going to pay to have the privilege to advertise I better have some damn good reasons for doing so, and thus I will explore these ideas more in tomorrow's WHY T-SHIRTS post. Also, postscript, it is possible that I will add to this posting after I publish it. After all, I added I sentence to yesterday's, which means I should post the entire WHY T-SHIRTS? essay all together when it's complete.

WEEKLY COMICS LIST

I gave a lot of thought to keeping The Walking Dead in my number one slot. I almost dropped it. This week made for many tough choices. I loved the first issue of Black Widow (even though I suspect Marvel of trying to compete with Image's Velvet), and as you can see, it jumped from the seventh slot two weeks ago to number two and almost number one.

Excited for the new Invaders comic and with good reviews by some tough readers at the comic book store, I log in the All New Invaders comic at number three. The rest of the top six-seven all look good and were close calls in the rankings. Batman falling to ninth may change as I start to work my way through the stack.

I am proud to have cleared the back log enough that there are no issues from this week that go straight to back log.

And on the strength of many recommendations, I am buying Unwritten to give it a go. I just finished Nowhere Men last night and added it to my large stack of comics and graphic novels that I want to review on my blog. For now, just this week's list.

COMICS FOR 1401.22

The Walking Dead #120
Black Widow #002
All New Invaders #001
Mighty Avengers #005
All-New X-Men #022.NOW
X-Men #009
Captain America #015
Hawkeye #016
Batman #27
Avengers World #002
Avengers #025
FF #016
Iron Man #020.INH
The Man of Bronze: Doc Savage #2 (DYNAMITE)
Deadly Class #1 (IMAGE: Remender, Craig, Loughridge)
Justice League #27
Birds of Prey #27
Wonder Woman #27
Cataclysm: Ultimate Comics: X-Men #003
Indestructible Hulk #018.INH

NO BACKLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPECIAL PURCHASE

Unwritten volume one (Carey/Gross-VERTIGO)

COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 56 shirts remaining

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.