Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #638 - Easter 1963 - photo series one #19

Mom and Me Easter April 14 1963 14-15 months old

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #638 - Easter 1963 - photo series one #19

Hi Mom,

I am in catch up mode as I have fallen behind, so I am going to post some pictures and mostly let them speak for themselves.

Obviously, this picture proves that early in my life I was introduced to dogs and loved dogs, which is why I have come to love dogs so completely and totally now many years later.

You always did a good job with my outfits. Good one. I like the hat.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1704.05 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #637 - Atomic Blonde

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #637 - Atomic Blonde


Hi Mom,

This is a quick cut and paste job because I am in a hurry and have tons of work and classes and whatnot.

I am almost gave this one the title: "The Atomic Blonde is coming (to a theatre near you this summer)," but I tire of the sexual innuendoes. Still, I snuck it in, just not in the title that I blast to the world.

This one looks good.

I saved it for blogging a few weeks ago. I am hyped.

And I agree with the article I pasted below by Ruffman.

Charlize Theron deserved an Oscar for her performance in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.

Sure, she already has one.

So what?

She was spectacular in that role.

And she didn't even get NOMINATED??

That was some genre hating bullshit.

The upcoming film, Atomic Blonde, is based on the comic book The Coldest City by Antony Johnston.

Atomic Blonde hits theaters on July 28th. 

Atomic Blonde

2017 ‧ Thriller/Action ‧ 1h 55m

Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on an impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to retrieve a priceless dossier from within the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through a deadly game of spies.

Release date: July 28, 2017 (USA)

Director: David Leitch

Music composed by: Tyler Bates, Ennio Morricone

Producers: Charlize Theron, Beth Kono, A.J. Dix, Kelly McCormick, Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin

Distributor: Focus Features

FROM - http://consequenceofsound.net/2017/03/heres-your-first-look-at-charlize-theron-in-atomic-blonde/

Here’s your first look at Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde

David Leitch's adaptation of graphic novel The Coldest City looks sharp as hell

BY MICHAEL ROFFMAN

ON MARCH 08, 2017, 11:25AM

Fact: Charlize Theron deserved an Oscar in 2016. Her performance as Furiosa in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road goes right up there in the upper echelon of all-time female action heroes, right alongside Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley, Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, Pam Grier’s Foxy Brown, Michelle Yeoh’s Yu Shu Lien, and Uma Thurman’s The Bride. Hell, she’s one of the only reasons why this writer has any interest in sitting through the forthcoming sequel The Fate of the Furious.

Needless to say, Theron’s in demand right now for the genre, and one project of hers that has this writer spinning in his seat is Atomic Blonde. Directed by David Leitch, who was half responsible for 2015’s John Wick, the film adapts the graphic novel The Coldest City and finds Theron playing a spy who’s been sent on a dangerous mission to Berlin. James McAvoy also co-stars, coming off one of his strongest roles to date in M. Night Shyamalan’s surprise hit Split.

Here’s the official synopsis:

“The crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.”

Today, Entertainment Weekly released a few photos from the film, which debuts this weekend at South by Southwest (look for our review on Sunday night), and also spoke with Theron about the role. “Let’s be honest, I got my ass handed to me every day,” she told the publication about her training. “I cracked through two of my teeth in the back of my mouth from clenching so much that I had to have massive dental surgery right before we left for Budapest to shoot the film.”

some linky things:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Blonde

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/charlize-theron-atomic-blonde-cinemacon-1202019011/

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/sofia-boutella-talks-atomic-blonde-love-scene-with-charlize-theron-shes-gorgeous-so-that-wasnt-too-hard-212209986.html

http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1642840/one-thing-about-atomic-blonde-that-will-be-cooler-than-the-action-according-to-david-leitch

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1704.04 - 8:17

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #636 - Voodoo In My Blood - Musical Monday for 1704.03

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #636 - Voodoo In My Blood - Musical Monday for 1704.03

Blog post edited for unavailable videos on 2606.19.

This one is for Jane who I disbelieve has seen even all my music posts let alone all my posts, so though I am reprinting this one June 22, 2026, it may be the first time she's seen it. Let's see if she sees this note.

ORIGINAL POST

Hi Mom,

Welcome to another edition of things you would not really care about but would pretend to care about because I care about them, and you love me, Mom.

This is another in a series of playlists built while I hang out in the Star Trek rooms in Sangren and study Calculus, mainly, but also do various work things.

This one started with the startling eponymous track "Voodoo In My Blood" by trip hop pioneers Massive Attack and the hottest band in Scotland, if not the world, Young Fathers.

This video is amazing and very cinematic. It plays like a short film.

It's based on Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 film Posession, which was banned in the UK until 1999. I will share a video clip of the inspiring scene as well as a link to the entire film at the end of today's blog entry.

The video is chilling. I included several stills and one GIF from it. Wow.

Also, this edition of Musical Monday and its playlist was built mainly with the Google Algorithm that suggests other videos based on the viewing habits of other people who watched "Voodoo In My Blood." Pretty much all the music is new to me, but I did dump in some other tunes, such as Gabriel's "Rhythm of the Heat." There's a little incongruity here (Ed Sheeran), but I like it.

I kept to 13 videos, though I was trying to keep to 10. That's so tough.

I am still on my Sevdaliza kick, expect that to continue.

So multiples with Sevdaliza, Massive Attack, and Young Fathers.

I think it's a good set.

Feeling rather possessed this days as I try to cope, like the rest of you, with the State of the Hate Nation.

White men suck. I know. I am one.

I will let the music do the rest of my talking for me.

VOODOO IN MY BLOOD PLAYLIST ON YOU TUBE

POD PLAYER FOR PLAYLIST

PLAYLIST TO ALL MUSICAL MONDAYS MUSIC

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/30051/1/the-cult-inspirations-behind-massive-attack-s-new-video

http://pitchfork.com/news/63707-massive-attack-and-young-fathers-share-sinister-voodoo-in-my-blood-video-starring-rosamund-pike/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/massive-attack-recruit-rosamund-pike-for-haunting-new-video-20160223

MASSIVE ATTACK & YOUNG FATHERS - "Voodoo In My Blood"

DOPE LEMON - "Honey Bones"



FKA TWIGS - "Water Me"



SEVDALIZA - That Other Girl"



PETER GABRIEL - The Rhythm of the Heat"



ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud"



MASSIVE ATTACK - "The Spoils" featuring Hope Sandoval



MASSIVE ATTACK & AZEKEL - "Ritual Spirit"



THIS MORTAL COIL - "Song to the Siren"



CHVRCHES - "Clearest Blue"



SEVDALIZA - "Marilyn Monroe"



YOUNG FATHERS - "Shame"



YOUNG FATHERS - "Low"

JOY DIVISION - "She's Lost Control"




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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1704.03

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #635 - Featuring Ellory Queen

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #635 - Featuring Ellory Queen

Hey Mom,

Just some simple show and tell, today. Lots of VIDEOS.

I love my dogs. Today is dedicated to all ELLORY QUEEN TOWER, our new curly-haired LabaCoon.

Please note some things:

• The dates under the picture are in yearmonth.date form = 1701.19 is my BIRTHDAY!! January 19, 2017.
• This a SELECTION of photos and videos not ALL the videos and pictures in my archive that I have not yet shared.
• For more videos, see my YOU TUBE CHANNEL.
• Um. I think that's it.
• Ellory is a goofball. Goofy. Dingus.

We love our Ellory the Queen.

Ellory 1701.01

Ellory 1701.02

Ellory 1702.27

Ellory post vet 1702.01

Ellory on her Just Ellory walk 1701.19

Ellory 1703.08 sad with new bed and toy but misses her MOM

Ellory likes her water bottle 1701.26

Ellory post vet 1701.09

Ellory wants in 1701.19

Satchel and Ellory 1701.06

Satchel and Ellory post walk 1702,19

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1704.02 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #634 - Welcome Back Baseball

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #634 - Welcome Back Baseball

Hi Mom,

April Fool's!! Tomorrow is actually the start of Baseball season.

I went out to visit Dad today, and we walked to the church. We visited your Memorial, Mom, and where we buried your ashes.

Then we had breakfast and did some things back at the condo.

We talked about how we missed you, Mom, and how we wish we had diagnosed you better in 2000 to avoid all of this that happened to you.

I miss Baseball, too, but it's hardly the same. Not even in the same league. heh.

Still, Baseball is an easy thing to miss because it always comes back in the spring. My, my, how metaphorical. It dies in the Fall and is reborn in the Spring. Gee wiz.

Whizbang.

I am still on a Cubs kick because, well, you know, THEY WON THE WORLD SERIES!!

Tigers and Cubs.

These are my two favorite teams in both Baseball and in all of sports.

As a long suffering fan of both, I had seen only TWO World Series championships before last year. So, now it's three:

2017 Chicago Cubs
1984 Detroit Tigers
1968 Detroit Tigers

And I was pretty young in 1968. I really enjoyed that 1968 championship more when I got into Baseball around 1970-71.

Anyway, now I am a fan (a long suffering fan) of the WORLD CHAMPIONS.

It feels really good.

But I am not counting on a repeat.

Repeats are hard.

But Baseball is back. The Cubs have their first game of the 2017 season tomorrow, Sunday, night, against the Cardinals in St. Louis. The Tigers open the season Monday afternoon (4:10 p.m.) in Chicago against the White Sox.

I wish my teams well.

In celebration of the return of Baseball season, here's TWO T-shirts reprints. I could edit them and take out text about the T-shirt blog process, but I didn't; I won't.

These were originally presented in:

Saturday, March 8, 2014

T-shirt #352 - Cub Fan - Bart Man

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

T-shirt #341 - Chicago Cubs Blue Long Sleeved

T-shirt #341 - Chicago Cubs Blue Long Sleeved

As I count down to March 22nd, when it all began last year for this blog, there's going to be quite a few Baseball shirts (which if you recall I deify with a capital letter). Since I already shared all but one of my Detroit Tigers shirts, and I am saving that last Tigers shirt for the final week, you will probably see several CUBS T-shirts, as I have quite a few remaining.

Also, given that I am still behind, I am trying to avoid falling farther behind by not posting any more incomplete entries. To accomplish this goal, I have to keep it short and simple.

Baseball's spring training has begun. Players have reported and games begin soon.

I am starting to get excited again for Baseball season.

I am a bit of a stats nut, as I have mentioned before, so getting ready for Baseball season again means pouring over stats and planning my FANTASY BASEBALL TEAMS.

USA Today did a smart thing by hiring Ron Shandler and launching its own exclusive chats service with

BASEBALL HQ.

I am a subscriber both to this service, which means I receive the stats-tastic excellence of the BASEBALL FORECASTER book, AND a subscriber to SPORTS WEEKLY, which used to be Baseball Weekly, which I can now read on my tablet as well as in paper form.

I have spent many long hours considering complex measures of hitting and pitching to optimize playing Fantasy Baseball games which I do for free and for which I earn no money. Seems a bit crazy. I love it.

A friend of my wife's and mine is trying to engage in political debate on Facebook, and I care for very little for that debate or politics compared to Baseball.

Time for Baseball.

Let's PLAY BALL!!


THE BLOG'S FUTURE

Lastly, I have made an executive decision about the blog about which I plan to expound in future entries. This decision has to do with focusing almost exclusively on shirts I already owned when I started the blog to finish out my remaining, as of today, 24 entries. I over-indulged in asking for gifts of T-shirts for Christmas and my Birthday, and I now have far more T-shirts than I need to complete my remaining 24 daily entries.

So what's next? For the next three weeks and three days, I will continue to post with T-shirts from my collection for the most part from the time I started the blog. I cannot promise that I will not be inspired to share a new shirt, but I want to take my time with many of these longer essays that I have been planning and do not seem to be able to complete, especially since I am having trouble even keeping up with short to moderate daily entries.

Once I reach March 22nd, daily entries will cease. I will begin to work on these longer entries on the newer shirts and the remaining shirts that do not get posted and share them with you on a weekly basis. At least that's the plan. I may get inspired  and post more often. I may also take a break before the next T-shirt post. I suspect I will be a bit worn out after posting one T-shirt a day for 365 days straight!!

I am also going to devote myself more regularly to fiction writing, which will become part of my new blog and Internet presence post the year of T-shirts. This will also mean more regular blog entries (short bits) from the source blog, SENSE OF DOUBT.

Stay Tuned!

HIATUS TEXT: REVISED 1402.18:  I have been trying to maintain a hiatus from large or over involved blog posts beginning with the start date of my hiatus on January 20th (almost a month ago) during which time I logged 21 posts, which I consider "Hiatus Shirts." By this term, Hiatus Shirt, I mean the shirt is not one that would cause me to write a great deal on the subject it features. These are shirts about which I can write anything, either a lot or a very little. The hiatus will continue, though as it has for the last few weeks, not consecutively as I will continue to mix Hiatus and Non-Hiatus shirts. The blog's year (365 shirts) draws close to a close. (I like the double word use in that previous sentence.) I hope to finish strong with some good entries with high quality content and imagery on some beloved subjects. To earn this time, I will need to intersperse shirts of little consequence, what I have come to call Hiatus Shirts.
My original goal of working ahead remains. I need time to write the enormously lengthy text to complete the extensive love letter to certain beloved popular culture icons featured on my many special shirts. Even with "Hiatus Shirts," I will try to share some worthy content as I have either an idea, a new suggestion of something to read/look at/listen to, or another installment of my various features, such as the WHY T-SHIRTS item, the WEEKLY COMIC BOOK LISTS, and the SHIRT I AM ACTUALLY WEARING TODAY among others. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.
Thanks for reading. I am always honored that people have taken some of their valuable time to look at my ongoing web writing project. Keep checking this address. I promise to make it worthwhile.

COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 24 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1402.25 - 19:49

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TODAY'S COUNT: 13 blog posts remaining in the T-shirt year!!

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T-shirt #352 - Cub Fan - Bart Man

Baseball season is upon us, and I am making my nefarious plans for my Fantasy Baseball Empire with my first draft tonight.

Actually, I am going to wing it. I don't have time to prepare my own stats log and analysis, so I am going with the work of Baseball Forecaster and my own reasonable intuition for this league, in which I placed eighth of twelve last year. I think I can beat that record.

I did not win any of my leagues last year. The best I finished was second out of eight. I finished fourth in the league I run (TIGER TOWNE), third of eight in a league run by my friend Craig, and sixth of twelve in a New England league. I was kicked out of a rotisserie league run by a crazy madman, so I decided to reboot his league with the other players who may well be disgruntled.

Today, I am renewing the "hiatus shirt" mandate in order to possibly catch up by Monday on the seven incomplete blog entries found elsewhere via my main address. They are now sufficiently buried so as not be so persistent to my psyche's wellness, and yet, I know they are there.

Several gravitational anomalies aligned in the galaxy to produce this blog, which originally had been schedule as not one other but two other shirts.

And then I saw this: 365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 66: The Finkatronic Ray, which reminded me of my Cub Fan Bart Man T-shirt as a herald (get it? If you're a comic geek given my picture of Homer-Galactus below, you will get it.) of SPRING and BASEBALL SEASON.

I have given shouts to both the BULLY SAYS COMICS OUGHTA BE FUN and the wonderful Pencil Ink blog, and this morning I decided to let those bloggers know of my appreciation for their efforts with comments on their sites.

Bully is doing a 365 Days of Kirby Tech series, which, yesterday, manifested as tech from the Simpsons comic. Wonderful stuff. Here's one of the pics he shared from Panels from "Captain Cupcake and Pieboy!" in Simpsons Super Spectacular #5 (July 2007), script by Mike W. Barr, pencils by James Lloyd, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Rick Reese, letters by Karen Bates.

Meanwhile, I decided to post -- pretty much -- just pictures today. So here, we go (with a little text in between, D'oh!!) Okay, Don't have a cow, man.

There are 21 entries (including today's) in my Baseball category, which is a sport name that -- as you may or may not know -- I like to deify with a capital letter.

I featured the shirt that goes with this hat in T-shirt #182.

Here's some text from that blog:

T-shirt #80: Detroit Tigers est. 1901 may be my best  Baseball post so far, though T-shirt #115: Chicago Cubs est. 1876 also shares a great deal of good Baseball stuff. I love the sense of history. I love the stats. I love my teams.

But it's all best summed up by this quote from the great Ernie Harwell:

"Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. A carnival without kewpie dolls. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season."

When I saw this T-shirt, I had to have one. I like the Simpsons, but I would not characterize myself as a massive Simpsons fan like some folks.

"Don't Have a Cow, Harry!" refers to Harry Caray, former announcer for the Chicago Cubs, who always used to say "Holy Cow!" and since Bart Simpson often says "Don't Have a Cow, Man" then this is a great joke connection.

Harry Caray died in 1998. Here's a little weird irony: in the 2003 playoffs, one of the Cubs few post-season appearances in the last 20 years. In October of 2003, the Cubs were playing in the National League Championship series against the Florida Marlins (who won the World Series that year), there's one incident that is defined as the losing moment for that Cubs team, preventing them from advancing to the World Series. It has come to be known as the STEVE BARTMAN INCIDENT.

Lifelong Cubs fan Steve Bartman interfered with a catch by Cubs outfielder Moisés Alou. Had Alou caught that ball for the out, the Cubs would have been four outs from the National League title and the World Series. As it turned out, the Cubs lost the game and eventually the series.

Get it? The shirt is "Bart Man" and is from Cubs merchandise no later than 1998 and possibly earlier, and yet it foreshadows the infamous "villain" of the Cubs' 2003 loss. Really, it's a sad thing. Steve Bartman is a well meaning Cubs fan who got caught up in the excitement of a ball coming his way and made a mistake, like we all do (make mistakes that is). It just so happened to be a mistake that is believed to have cost the Cubs a National League title and a shot at winning the World Series.

Remember how in yesterday's blog I mentioned saving time for date night with my lovely wife? Well, here's our sashimi/sushi dinner from Friday the 7th of March using a gift certificate given to use for Christmas.

We love delicious sashimi/sushi at KUMO.

YUM.

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This is the shirt I am actually
wearing today

OFFICIAL BOILERPLATE TEXT OF THE LAST TWENTY POSTS COUNTDOWN: Hi. Thanks for reading. I am posting this "boilerplate" text everyday for the last TWENTY posts in the T-SHIRT blog year, which started on March 22, 2013. I will close out daily transmission on March 21st, day 365 of my T-shirt blog-tastic extravaganza spectacular. I will give myself a short hiatus of total non-transmission or  publication for an as yet undetermined period of time, though I am estimating about two weeks. After my blog vacation hiatus, I will resume T-shirt posts on a regular basis, also as yet to be determined (weekly? Twice monthly?) to finish blogging about all the T-shirts that were not featured in the blog year. At some point, once I feel I am rolling along nicely, I will begin regular posting through my main blog: SENSE OF DOUBT. T-shirt posts will direct to the T-shirt blog from SENSE OF DOUBT. I will continue to post THE WEEKLY COMIC LIST, the features of occasional T-SHIRTS I AM WEARING THIS WEEK, book reviews, comic book reviews, and other popular culture nonsense as I have been for a year now but all will go up at SENSE OF DOUBT and some will direct back here to 365 T-SHIRTS. Ultimately, I will begin Internet publication of my fiction, primarily the comic book satire episodic story called POP! among other projects. So, in summary, 365 T-SHIRTS will continue though intermittently. SENSE OF DOUBT will host my main blog presence and fiction writing as well as links to any T-shirt posts shared here. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey as a writer and a content provider. Thank you for your kind attention and time you have spent with me on this and/or any other day this year. I am humbled and blessed by your readership. - chris tower, blogger, originated 1403.02
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HIATUS TEXT: REVISED 1402.18:  I have been trying to maintain a hiatus from large or over involved blog posts beginning with the start date of my hiatus on January 20th (almost a month ago) during which time I logged 21 posts, which I consider "Hiatus Shirts." By this term, Hiatus Shirt, I mean the shirt is not one that would cause me to write a great deal on the subject it features. These are shirts about which I can write anything, either a lot or a very little. The hiatus will continue, though as it has for the last few weeks, not consecutively as I will continue to mix Hiatus and Non-Hiatus shirts. The blog's year (365 shirts) draws close to a close. (I like the double word use in that previous sentence.) I hope to finish strong with some good entries with high quality content and imagery on some beloved subjects. To earn this time, I will need to intersperse shirts of little consequence, what I have come to call Hiatus Shirts.

My original goal of working ahead remains. I need time to write the enormously lengthy text to complete the extensive love letter to certain beloved popular culture icons featured on my many special shirts. Even with "Hiatus Shirts," I will try to share some worthy content as I have either an idea, a new suggestion of something to read/look at/listen to, or another installment of my various features, such as the WHY T-SHIRTS item, the WEEKLY COMIC BOOK LISTS, and the SHIRT I AM ACTUALLY WEARING TODAY among others. BTW, this is the standard HIATUS TEXT that I will include in every "hiatus shirt" entry.

Thanks for reading. I am always honored that people have taken some of their valuable time to look at my ongoing web writing project. Keep checking this address. I promise to make it worthwhile.
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COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 13 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1403.08 - 13:11

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1704.01 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.