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The shirt does not show a wolf. It shows a small tan chihuahua in red boxing gloves, planted in front of a brick wall, and behind it a black wolf-shaped shadow, many times its size. Above the dog, in cream…
The first thing I notice is the hand. Not the words, though they are loud enough — NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH, set in the flat, institutional lettering of a warning sign, the kind you see on a gate in…
There is a period after the word. That is the first thing I notice. Not the word itself — meh has been worn thin enough that it barely registers as language anymore — but the full stop sitting at its…
The shirt does not say Cat Daddy in one clean line. It arranges the word around the animal. A C on the left, a T on the right, and between them a cat silhouette, sitting or standing in profile, light…
The first thing I notice is the soil. Not the words, though they wrap the whole design in a tidy ring — LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW — but the fact that the four vegetables…
The shirt does not whisper. That is the first thing to notice. The lettering is large, bold, lowercase, white against a dark ground — meh. — with a full stop that lands like a door closing gently, not slammed. There…
GOT TOO SILLY. The words sit above a white bird — goose-like, round-eyed, absurdly calm — dressed in an orange prison uniform and holding a black mugshot board. The board is blank. The bird is not. That is the whole…
The shirt says I HAD POTENTIAL in white capitals. Beneath the words, a white curved ramp descends from left to right. At the top left, on the upper ledge, there is a dashed empty circle. At the bottom right, on…
The shirt says FORCED FAMILY FUN. The words sit in red and white lettering, and around them runs a string of festive lights — the kind drawn in a loop, bulbs spaced evenly, as if the sentence has been framed…
The shirt says COUSIN CREW in red and white capitals, the letters stacked and sturdy, holly leaves tucked into the corners, snowflakes scattered like someone shook a paper punch over the design. There is a Christmas decoration — a bauble,…