0183b — The BAND that EATS a FACE !  (Patreon)

As you have probably guessed, packing hundreds of t-shirts this week had me musing on what it means to wear a certain t-shirt. Is it for you, or is it for others? What are you advertising about yourself with the printed decoration? The answer is, I suspect, subjective, but at the root is an expression of identity and values, which affirms the self, but also provides a shorthand which enables potential molecular pair-bonding with another member of your rarefied tribe. A t-shirt says what our face cannot, especially if we wear a heavy beard. It is hard for me to imagine someone in an Achewood shirt seeing a stranger at the airport, also in an Achewood shirt, and not offering a delighted "hello." Have you ever come across a stranger in an Achewood shirt, out there in the wild?