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Monday, July 17, 2006

Fantastic Typewriter

Fantastic Typewriter - Threadless, Best T-shirts EverI love typewriters. I use them to type letters to friends, type stories to myself, and type conversations (back and forth, over several days) with my siblings. They are fun, they are wonderful, they are old fashioned, and they click and clack with a satisfaction that cannot be achieved with a computer keyboard.

This design is everything I have ever wanted in a typewriter. It is lovely, heavy-duty, old-fashioned, and equipped with enough keys for a typing hyperactive squid. The line art is intricate and perfect, and the colors woo me with their dream-writing potential. Look at the birds! The spottings of color! The wonderful Seussian arrangement of the keys! Oh, heaven.

I would prefer this without the caption, since I think explicitly saying "dream writer" takes away from the fantastic possibilities of what the image could be. The artist has already commented that the text (and signature) are as good as gone, and I feel bad that people are still complaining about them after the fact. That is too bad, but hopefully it will not hurt the score too much.

The design is one that I enjoy on a white shirt, which is rare. (The artist has also offered blue and pink as colored-shirt options, but again, people continue to complain about the fact that the submission itself features white.)

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