One thing I forgot to tell you about in last night's ramble... during our lunch break (which fell at roughly 3:00 p.m.), we came inside and watched the last half of one of my all-time favorite comedies, Real Genius. This is easily one of the best roles that Val Kilmer has ever played (second only to his take on Doc Holliday in Tombstone which was sheer genius).
But for years, the one thing that I have wanted was to obtain many of the great T-shirts that Val's character, Chris Knight, wears throughout the movie. They are some of the strangest and coolest shirts I've ever seen and have never been able to find. "I [heart] Toxic Waste" ... "International Order for Gorillas" ... and my absolute fave "Surf Nicaragua." There are others, but those three are the best.
I've been looking online for about five years and have come up completely empty. Nobody ever bothered to make them.
So while we're watching the movie, Katie comes over to the PBook to check her e-mail, or so I presumed. Instead, she Googles "Real Genius" and comes up with a Google Image Ad for Real Genius T-shirts. This never came up for me in the past... what the heck?!?!
The resulting site, founditemclothing.com, has taken it upon themselves to recreate T-shirts from movies and TV shows in painstaking detail and sell them to the public. Not just Real Genius, but also Revenge of the Nerds, The A-Team, Strange Brew, The Big Lebowski, UHF, and Kids in the Hall. Some truly great stuff here.
So we ordered an International Order for Gorillas and Surf Nicaragua T-shirts for myself and an Adams Atoms shirt (from Revenge of the Nerds) for Katie. Since her maiden name is Adams, it works quite well and will be a conversation starter at her family get togethers, for sure.
If you want a cool T-shirt, and no one else can help, and if you can find them (well, just click here), maybe you can hire founditemclothing.com. Tell them I sent you and they... probably won't care a lick. Yeah, I don't get anything out of it at all, but it's still a worthwhile site to visit and, potentially, support.
