This is the one where we all pretend I was not obviously over-inspired by a certain canned water company with excellent marketing lawyers.
No names. No problems. Moving on.
The 148 Years Later Tee is for anyone who saw the phrase “148-year quarry project” and thought, “Cool, so we’re measuring bad ideas in great-grandchildren now?”
It has everything a cheerful community awareness shirt should have: smoke, machinery, skulls, an excavator demon machine, a cute little foreboding sign, and the general energy of a county file that starts whispering your favorite ’90s rap song backward the second you leave it open on your desk.
Is it dramatic? Yes.
But you do not put “148 years” next to “quarry” and reasonably expect everyone to respond with a tasteful logo polo, a spot of tea, and a neutral stakeholder statement delivered by the bellboy.
Sometimes the correct civic response is a black shirt that looks like it was dragged back from some dystopian future by a local Wrightwoodian raccoon with an axe to grind.
Wear it when someone says, “I’m sure there’s a process,” and you need fabric to do the eye-roll for you.
Wear it when you want to support the Lone Pine Canyon Protection Alliance but also look like you might know which drawer that cursed document was kept in.
Protect Lone Pine Canyon before this shirt becomes a historical reenactment that the pissed-off, time-traveling Wrightwoodian trash panda is still laughing about 148 years from now.
This is the one where we all pretend I was not obviously over-inspired by a certain canned water company with excellent marketing lawyers.
No names. No problems. Moving on.
The 148 Years Later Tee is for anyone who saw the phrase “148-year quarry project” and thought, “Cool, so we’re measuring bad ideas in great-grandchildren now?”
It has everything a cheerful community awareness shirt should have: smoke, machinery, skulls, an excavator demon machine, a cute little foreboding sign, and the general energy of a county file that starts whispering your favorite ’90s rap song backward the second you leave it open on your desk.
Is it dramatic? Yes.
But you do not put “148 years” next to “quarry” and reasonably expect everyone to respond with a tasteful logo polo, a spot of tea, and a neutral stakeholder statement delivered by the bellboy.
Sometimes the correct civic response is a black shirt that looks like it was dragged back from some dystopian future by a local Wrightwoodian raccoon with an axe to grind.
Wear it when someone says, “I’m sure there’s a process,” and you need fabric to do the eye-roll for you.
Wear it when you want to support the Lone Pine Canyon Protection Alliance but also look like you might know which drawer that cursed document was kept in.
Protect Lone Pine Canyon before this shirt becomes a historical reenactment that the pissed-off, time-traveling Wrightwoodian trash panda is still laughing about 148 years from now.
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