Author Archives: TexasGI47

T 033 Life could be a beach

According to Rolling Stone Magazine, The Beach Bash Music Fest is the “biggest daytime beach party in the USA!” This 2018 event features the biggest national performers performing on the largest stage on the beach for two consecutive days. Whether you’re on Spring Break in Panama City Beach or Daytona Beach in Florida, or South […]

T 032 Making elementary political points

Paul Joseph Watson (born 24 May 1982),[1][2][3] also known as PJW, is an English YouTube personality, radio host, writer, editor, and conspiracy theorist.[4][5][6][7] He has been described as ‘alt-right‘ by multiple sources,[7][8][9][10] though he does not associate himself with that label,[11] instead identifying himself with the “New Right“. He publishes content that is critical of […]

T 031 Are you a child of the Korn?

How is it possible that the album that inspired this t-shirt is 15 years old? Do you know when you start to feel old? When the music you grew up with migrates to the oldies station. Not that that has happened with this group, but music I grew up with is so old that it […]

T 030 Swinging toward the fences

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.[1] Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers […]

T29 I don’t know jack about working this joint

One of the first jobs that I had in Austin in 1981 was working at Jack-in-the-Box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_Box.) This was after my job after my time at the Brownville Herald as a sportswriter. It was a step-down, as you can imagine, but I was trying to survive my first year at the University of Texas. I […]

T28 Might be corny, but I like it

T-shirts at concerts are expensive, but I wanted to go in a matching outfit with The Wife. Instead of getting one at the Boston vendor both, I decided to get a matching set of these for our date night. We both some nice comments as we walked to the Majestic Theather, avenue in San Antonio […]

T27 This iron horse​ eats no hay

I normally link a story related to my t-shirts to entries in Wikipedia. There isn’t one for Austin & Texas Central Railroad, so this blog will not be as info-rich as some others. The Wife and I took this train from north Austin to Llano. It a pleasant ride. Riding on a train, unless you […]

T26 More traditional colors

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor.[3][4] He has starred both in blockbuster films and smaller projects from independent producers and art houses, according Wikipedia.  Bale went on to receive greater commercial recognition for his starring role as Batman in Christopher Nolan‘s Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The […]

T25 A ship was sunk but not hopes

USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state‘s recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of “super-dreadnought” battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. […]

T24 Orange is not new on this black tee

The fictional superhero Batman, who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, has appeared in various films since his inception. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger,[1] the character first starred in two serial films in the 1940s, Batman and Batman and Robin. The character also appeared in the 1966 film Batman, which […]