My girlfriend's first submission for the Zip it Hoodies thingamabob needs some love, you guys. And it's actually really good. Go forth! Mobilize! Get street teams! Tattoo it on your body! Shout it from the mountaintops!

Or, you know, just click the 5. Less effort.

Pretty please? ;)

And I really like it! Please like it too? Pretty please? Eh? eh?!

Though I feel like typetees aren't really cool anymore. Feelin' phased out.

Anyone else depressed that "select" now means "faded and expensive" instead of "by awesome invited illustrators?" Sigh.

Do any of you all have tumblrs?

These select things are SO SUPER GORGEOUS
(though I vote we get to vote what designs get to be made select, because I've got some choice morsels up my sleeve of favorites here)

and I WANT THEM SO BAD
(so bad)

buuuuuut

THEY ARE SO MUCH MONEYS

Seriously, this is absurd, I don't care how nice the fabric is. Urban outfitters does the same kind of thing for $20 (and I thought that was over priced.

This is me:



How about a super sale for my birthday on Monday? Eh? Eh?
I wish.

As in, "undergoing maintenance" forever? That would be sad. I guess I'll post my stupid twitter slogan on the slogan thing here that no one ever sees.

Because it really, really should.

My full world cup getup:



Well, congrats España!

Whooooo

Wearing my Clockwork Kit shirt to root for the Netherlands. I'm rooting for them because it makes no sense for me to be doing so:

1. They beat my team, Brazil
2. Spain's way hotter
3. Their uniforms are way more hideous.
4. The octopus said they'd lose.
5. They're not even vaguely latin-esque
6. They have a stupid chant
7. Both teams have never won a cup before so there's no underdog rooting

But they DO have a hot coach who looks like David Byrne and Iggy Pop had a love child...

So what the hell. HUP HOLLAND HUP

"Trending Topic" earrings from Modcloth. Must. Have. (God, I'm the biggest loser, aren't I?)


I am obsessed with Twitter. It is my new love. It's a vice, probably. I don't care.

I get a lot of people who scoff, and say, "Why are you there? it's so boring/pointless/etc."

And it is! Unless you use it right. Here's the deal. It's not just a Facebook status update (unless you're awesome at Facebook status updates) where all your friends can update crap like "just crapped LULZ" and "eating a baked potato!!!!!" and "luv my bff, bestiies heart heart heart." That's shit's wack, yo. Ugh. Of COURSE you don't want in on that mess.

It's not just to blabber topically about the latest pop culture gossip, either, even if I'm way more informed about pointless things like Lindsay Lohan and LeBron James than I ever have before because of the tranding topics (ha). Actually, you sometimes find good stuff there, too. But that's not the meat and butter.

It's also not just for following your favorite brands, so they can feed you their Important Updates for the hope you'll get a 50% coupon code. That's great, but that's not what's keeping me on the site day and night.

Here's the great part of twitter: if you follow the right people, it is nothing more than a humor machine. Lots of obscure comedy writers from places like Adult Swim and the Daily Show, as well as standups and everyday funnypeople use it to post jokes they couldn't otherwise use (my favorite are the too-offensive ones, of course) and to just play around. The best is when they spur each other on. I've spent evenings bantering with my friends on silly hashtags like #NPRporn and #ICKuplines (gross pickup lines, basically). I have a twitter list called "Twitters That Make Noise" for some of the silly one-off twitterbots like @shitmyducksays (modeled after now-famous twitter @shitmydadsays, which is about to become a terrible sitcom with William Shatner) and @the_vuvuzela. What happens is that your twitterstream becomes a bunch of shared inside jokes. That's stuff's been scientifically proven to set off the happy centers in your brain!

I know this all makes me seem like a HUGE dork. And...well, I am. But what isn't there to love about a huge community of friendly people who make jokes to each other? I couldn't tell you. I love it all.

If you want to find some of the best people to follow on twitter, you can look on my twitter list, "wit," and on the favstar.fm (a service that follows who "favs"--that is, stars--your tweets as well as who has the most favs) list, @Favstar/top-50-funny. Both of those and more can be found here.

If any of you have any questions about how to navigate twitter, I'd be happy to help!


By the way...I'm following everyone who gave me their twitter handles now (though, if you're boring...sorry, but I'm going to unfollow you, oh no, make some jokes)! I made y'all a "Threadlessers" list, so help me fill it up! If you'd like to follow me, I'm @CallMeQuell.

None of you know me so I guess it isn't that big a deal to y'all, but I've been trying for this for way too long...first, I had to get into the art school, which I did last year, and then I had to get into the Design major, which is super hard to do—and they only accept 12 people a year, tops. AND I DID! I'm so excited I could spit fireworks (happy fourth, you guys). Hooray!

I know a lot of you are probably already graphic designers (or illustrators)...any tips?

Because (as thoroughly ridiculous as this sounds), there is some hilarious world cup tweeting going on over there. Makes losses like Argentina's bittersweet (also: holy shit). My handle is CallMeQuell! Though I particularly recommend @warrenellis, @mat, and @Mike_FTW.