Another thing that I have become very passionate about is This American Life.  This American Life is a weekly radio program on NPR, each week they offer 60 minutes of stories about all sorts of interesting things.  I started listening a little over a year ago and I have become a huge fan.  Listening to This American Life has helped me to see the value of story telling and I have come to look at blogging as a way pf telling an ongoing story.  My first blog, IheartPGH, is an ongoing story about Pittsburgh.  This blog is an ongoing, sometime rambling, sometimes silly story about things happening at Spreadshirt.

I live about 45 minutes away from the Spreadshirt production facility - while I am not the biggest fan of driving - I secretly enjoy the trip because it gives me the opportunity to listen to an episode of  This American Life.  I even went to see the live season premier of the This American Life tv show.  Both Wordpress and This American Life are things that I would like to have on a t-shirt (or tote bag - I am really big on tote bags).  So I am super super excited about the This American Life t-shirt contest.   I have had a few good t-shirt ideas in my head for some This American Life t-shirts.  The winning design will be the thank you gift for the next pledge drive and the winner gets $1000.  Check out the rules here - you can submit up to 3 designs.  If your design isn’t the winning design - I would still like to see it because I will probably want to order at least 1 of every This American Life design I can get my hands on.

I like the pixelated look of the Classic Invaders

This shirt is simple - but it is very video game

I think this Insert Coin design is also mighty fine.

What is your favorite video game t-shirt?

Check out the t-shirt banners handing above the street…

In November I wrote about the Hide Your Arms mega list of 65 t-shirt blogs. Andy the amazing author behind Hide Your Arms has updated the list to an amazing number of 149 T-shirt Blogs. I am trying to update my google reader to see which ones I am missing.

This list is amazing, thank you Andy for providing a short bio and an update frequency for each of the blogs.

What are you favorite t-shirt blogs?

Here are 3 things I learned about the t-shirt from this article:

• there are many theories about what it is called a “t-shirt”
• t-shirts did not become a wardrobe staple until after WWI
• the first campaign t-shirt was created after WWII

Here are some other places that sell shirts with a history:

• Re-Shirt (via Swissmiss)
• Tee-Cycle
• TinyPony

It turns out that many of these t-shirts are from the shop WornFree.com - they resurrect and sell vintage t-shirts.

What other tv shows and movies have great t-shirts?

Twitterfeed lets you add an RSS feed that automatically updates your twitter feed.  Plus it lets you customize how often updates are posted.  I have set this up for the Spreadshirt blog.  I haven’t tried this yet but I think you could also add your rss feed for your shop to Twitterfeed.

How are you using twitter to promote your shop or talk about t-shirt?

I just found this scarf featured on the Craft blog.

Since we are big fan’s of *text t-shirts here at Spreadshirt, I thought this was worth sharing.  I really like  the way the letter look when they are smooshed together like they are in the scarf.  I think you could so some really great t-shirt designs with some text like that. (more…)

Here is the Spreadshirt tent:

Here is a happy t-shirt lover with their t-shirt.  Check out some of the other t-shirts that people ordered here.