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Well, it's been quite a while since my last update, sorry for all of you regular readers. I've started working as an apprentince for a man named Jim C., a local artist and a master silk-screen printer. For those of you who are not familliar about what silk-screening is, lemme fill you dumbasses in... Silk screening is when you take a plastic screen that has been developed with the desired picture or phrase, so that when you run your ink (or paint) over the desired t-shirt, backpack, hoodie, p***s, or police badge, it leaves the exact immage that was developed on the screen. And from here we run the shirt through a drying machine that heats the shrit to 350 degrees F. for about 30 seconds, and then fold it and ship it to hot-topic, spencers, ect.
Have you ever looked around while shopping, and you see a plain color shirt (you pick one, you need the exercise) and it has a catch-phrase from your favorite movie on it, so you are instantly drawn in like a moth to a light, and upon inspection IMMEDIATLY when reaching the shirt what is the first thing you check? The price, right? And you really like the shrit, but it costs 21$... what do you do? Well, since you wanna let everyone know EXACTLY what you like, and what you are all about, you instantly turn yourself into a billboard for others to see that you too like the same movie that hundreds of others also love, and will probably purchase the same shirt, but in a different size or color.
But look at the bright side, you get to walk around work or school and have strangers come up to you and say, "Man, I LOVE that movie!!" Or, "That movie ROCKED!" Believe me, it's worth it.
This excites me...But why, you ask? Why am I so excited that you, the consumer, is buying a t-shirt. Because I am the jackass that is making money for those shirts.
That's right! All those ******** shirts you see that have those witty sayings on them, or quotes from movies I have PERSONALLY toutched. I love this part... You know, when we order our shirts from the "fruit of the loom (r)" company it costs us about 25 cents to but the shirts in bulk, and the ink used to put your favorite saying on it costs, and this is a fact, literally FRACTIONS of a cent.
That's right, you heard it from me! The shirt you paid anywhere from 16-25 dollars to wear, actually costs roughly 26 american cents. I'd bet you fell pretty ******** retarded about now, don't you? But how much do shirts cost for me you ask? Well... THEY'RE FREE!!! But don't get me wrong here people, I love paying 18 dollars for a good shirt every now and then, but I love buying shirts for 25cents and getting them printed for practically nothing.
So the next time you are out school shopping, or just looking for a cool shirt, and you end up forking over a 20$ bill to the pierced up, tattooed cashier at HOT TOPIC, just remember your old pal Aaron Otterness made that shirt, at no cost. And now you are buying that "LAMB OF GOD" shirt for 20 dollars, which means I make a pretty fat profit off of your hard earned money. Which I will probably spend on a sprinkler system and lawn gnomes. Thank you for making my lawn look awesome!
Thanks for reading this, and remember, being naked is always free.
-Aaron Otterness A.K.A. Lewa Greenleaf
 Lewa Greenleaf · Wed Sep 13, 2006 @ 07:21am · 2 Comments |
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