Amber & Novelty T's

I have decided to make this Novelty T Week and feature, on my person, a different novelty t-shirt from my extensive collection. Really, I had started this theme week without thinking about it, but it's working so well for me, I decided to run with it through Friday, especially since crew necks cover up the fact that my odd anti-antibiotic rash has moved down my neck to my chest and upper arms.

I love novelty t-shirts. Back in the Avenue B Days, CRD and I used to come up with different slogans that we thought we should put on shirts. They were super witty and funny. But, I can't remember any now. And, I used to make t-shirts featuring illustrations of Amy drawn with crayons: Amy as an astronaut, Amy wearing a birthday hat, Amy as a chef. Etc. (If any of those still exist, I would love reader-owner photo submissions. I would also be pleased to feature reader submissions of your favorite novelty t-shirts.)

Yesterday, I wore this great shirt from BoyGirlParty that Nick gave me for an occasion.

This shirt does what every great novelty shirt should do: it raises questions. Where are the kitty's legs? What's he doing with that yarn? What's he looking at? Why is he so cutie and round?

Today's shirt was a birthday gift from CRD.


I don't know if you noticed, but that's a raccoon buddy playing the drums! But his drums are garbage cans! And he has a crazy look with pink eyes and some of the sound effect illustrations say "BOOM." ! What's going on there?

Of course, you've already seen some of my collection featured on this blog. My very third post ever featured CRD and I wearing our matching brown smoking bird shirts on a DC edition of Awesome Club.And, I added this timely one to my collection in January 2009.


I had blogged about that one before it was given to me by Nick on a trip to Boston. At the time, I even made a crack about not wearing novelty t-shirts to work. (Those were the old days.) I bet you can't wait for tomorrow's shirt!

Amber & Nuggets of Goodness

Nick sent me to this page where you can hear our Commander-In-Chief say naughty words, and I found, on the site, a link to this page where you can hear a man make romance with a food, slow-jam-style. The page is worth visiting for the comments alone.

Here's a little taste.....

Amber & When Dreams Become Real

Remember this?

Well, I gotz it.

Amber & Obama Dreams

Collectively, we're all excited and dreamy-eyed about our new President. Even if he dances just like me and steals my signature move.

Our new President creeps into conversations, our Hulu.com, and little kids' homework, and I'm sure it's only a short time before he starts making guest appearances in our nocturnal memory filing and brain clean-up activities, known as "dreams."


The clever folks over here at I Have An Obama Dream.com are ready for us. You can add your dream or, once one of my friends enters his own dream where he is browsing real estate and Obama comes with the apartment-- and then the apartment is the White House!--but it's in Murray Hill-- you can read the dreams of others.

Amber & Spoilers

No spoilers, people! I am not watching the inauguration until tonight, so don't tell me how it turns out. I want to be on the edge of my seat.

This t-shirt says it all.

Yes, we can wear novelty t-shirts (but not to work)!