Militant Geek Custom Shirts

This TShirt from Threadless is for fans of CBS’s upcoming new drama - CSI - Vice City. While getting David Caruso to guest star in the pilot was a bit tough (the avatars kept polling in the focus groups as more believable than the original) the show has been green lighted. Every week we can expect the kind of pulse pounding adrenaline-fueled romp that is criminal forensics. The first part of season one has a story arc involving Mario and an increasingly troublesome mushroom addition. From there we shift into some heartfelt explorations of Jack’s attempts to rebuild his life after plasmids nearly destroyed everything.

8-bit Investigation TShirt from Threadless for $20. Affiliate Link: Threadless. Non-Affiliate Link: Threadless.

Pooby5 is a bit unique. Rather than create their own tshirt designs the site serves as a clearinghouse for failed Threadless and Woot designs. It should be clear, however, that one person’s failed design is another’s treasured tee. They’ve got this fantastic Internet Precautions tee. What’s more is that its a very attractive $11.

Recently Glenn wrote to me with the 411 about his TShirt site, Glennztees. Upon arriving I found a number of relevant and interesting designs including ‘Scrap Metal‘, shown on the right. All shirts are printed on American Apparel and this beauty sells for $19.95. Honorable mention goes to the diet coke and mentos space shuttle.

Glennztees is the first custom T-shop from New Zealand that I’ve featured (that I know of). Don’t let the possibility of overseas shipping scare you though. While Glenn is a New Zealander the shop is in the US with the help of Despair (the guys who do the funny de-motivational office poster parodies).

Ok, so there are a lot of caffeine molecule tshirts on the Interwebs. They are nearly as ubiquitous as the ‘No Place Like 127.0.0.1′ apparel. (Did I miss the memo that every geek is supposed to create that when first let loose in CafePress?)

So why am I featuring this particular version from Digital Militia? First, the design is nice and big: caffeine’s effect isn’t small and neither should its representation. Second, they picked a nice Matrix/Xbox’y green that screams geek cred. Finally, I have to tip my hat to the name ‘Digital Militia’ - it’s got a certain ring that hearkens back to another TShirt site I’m particularly fond of. Put that all together in a package that checks out at $17.95 and you’ve found the best of a very, very trite design.

Given the other Back-to-the-Future Tees featured on Militant Geek you could guess that I’m a bit of a sucker for Marty McFly. There’s nothing like radio-active, flux capacitor powered, crazy scientist engineered homages to get me throwing my wallet at the monitor. This latest Tee from Split Reason is no exception. $19.95 but be warned, time traveler - if they’re out they may advise that you come back yesterday.

Via Fashionably Geek comes a shirt from 80’s Tees that has one of my all time favorite Simpson’s quotes. Or, more specifically, it was a quote from episode 192 entitled ‘Das Bus’. It was spoken during the 9th season of the long running series and first aired on Sunday, February 15th, 1998. That, my friends, is some geek worthy research for a geek worthy shirt.

Available for $20.

I want to make one thing very clear: if, at some future date, grainy home footage of me bawling my eyes out while watching ET should ever surface I have a very good reason. You see, I had salt from the popcorn on my hands. During that whole “look, they’re riding their bicycles through the air” bit I had rubbed my eyes in boredom. I ended up getting salt in my eyes and, by golly, it stung like Jimmy Wales’ ex. And just because it happened yesterday doesn’t mean I’m some emotional man-child stuck in a state of arrested development - I’m just big boned.

Intergalactic Friends is from Team Space Pirate for $24.99. Found via the excellent TRoundup.com.