The RBAM T-shirt Quandry

RBAM would be Red-Blooded American Male, in the most stereotypical sense, for the record...

In the interest of finding places to put stuff, I've decided to spend my Tuesday evening going through every article of clothing that I have here in this house. What I have found is that, it's true, I've been to enough cool events and had such excellent taste in my life that I have WAY too many excellent "shirts as mementos" to want to get rid of much. Here's an inventory, including some non-t-shirts:

• Tim Hardaway #10 blue Golden State Warriors jersey


• Chris Mullin 1992 USA Basketball "Dream Team" blue jersey


• Middle-Earth CCG "Lidless Eye" t-shirt


• 1995 NBA All-Star Game (Phx, AZ) t-shirt


• Free promo t-shirts from various sports card companies (Upper Deck, Playoff, more)


• Chicago White Sox gray baseball jersey, with 1991 "New Comiskey Park Inaugural Season" patch


• Another White Sox jersey... a hockey jersey


• New Edition reunion tour t-shirt, U2 Popmart tour t-shirt, and several other concert tees I won't mention (Billy Joel and Elton John? I didn't actually pay for this, did I?)


• Emmitt Smith blue Cowboys authentic jersey (boo Cowboys, yay Emmitt)


• Authentic (read: expensive) Vancouver Canucks jerseys: Black Bure #10, White Bure #96


• Arizona State University t-shirts featuring places to get drunk that have very long-since been shut down by the cops for serving underage alcohol to minors... the original Dash Inn on Apache Blvd? Cluck U. Chicken Company, now known as Acme? Good stuff!


• Assorted C/TCG t-shirts, such as shirts for each Wars TCG faction, dAgent, dGamer, .hack//Enemy prize shirts, DGMA Judge t-shirt, Spycraft CCG, L5R, more randomness


• Islanders 1993 Eastern Conference Champs t-shirt (shoulda been cup champs... DAMN YOU, DALE HUNTER)


• Knicks 1994 Eastern Conference Champs t-shirt (shoulda been world champs... DAMN YOU, JOHN STARKS! And you too, Hakeem Olajuwan, who said you could be the best basketball player in the world after Jordan retired {the first time}?)


• A Big East college basketball t-shirt, circa the mid-1980's, featuring the St. John's Red MEN, etc. We're talking the oldest of old school here


• Awesome t-shirt of Fat Albert, AND the ENTIRE Junkyard Gang!


• Assorted vacation souvenier shirts from trips I never took, mostly from ex-girlfriends. For better or worse, none of them still smell like any of my ex-girlfriends.


• My personal favorite, my UPS t-shirt from when I worked loading some trucks on the overnight shift for about 2 weeks. Good times... I think. Don't really remember it.

The question is, HOW DO I THROW ANY OF THESE OUT? I lubs 'em too much. *sigh* This inability to get rid of clothing reminders of days gone by is a relatively recent phenomenon that's creeped up in males around my age, and I'm totally biting into it.

No matter what, the Big East one is staying.

Time & Space

I have a lot of crap.

I'm not trying to say that's how I feel about the stuff I have, but I feel that "crap" is the best way to summarize the cornucopia of toys and trinkets I've obtained from my travels. There come times when I take a look around at all this stuff, though, and really ask myself why it's here. Point being that I think it may be time for it to NOT be here.

I don't have that lovin' feelin' for my old "stuff" any more. 20+ years of nerdy Star Wars affection collecting has left me with quite the bookshelf full of books, quite the closet full of toys. Years of being a game nerd have my home literally covered in cardboard, awash in a sea of games no longer produced, in many cases by companies no longer doing any producing.

Enter money: my main source of income these days is assembling/repairing PC's. As one might imagine, having the parts on hand to make such things happen is pretty essential to the whole gig. Having a place to put all this stuff is also a fantastic perk. Being awake 'til 6 in the morning looking for a mobo driver CD which SHOULD be easy to find is not something I need to have happen in my line of work. What makes it doubly frustrating is having to toss aside the same Chewbacca figure 11 times while hunting.

That's it, I'm done, it's Time to make Space.

I've got some cool neighbors here, some of the handful of people in this town who speak English. As the parents of two young kids, and semi-nerds themselves, we always find ourselves stealing obsessions from each other: they made me start buying Sideshow figures, I made them start buying FMA TCG cards. They've been trying to get me to get in with them on the creation of an ebay store for some time now, as they already buy and sell (and use my scanner and wireless connection for :P) all sorts of stuff on ebay. I'm thinking the time has come to take them up on this.

I've got all this stuff that's representative of the things I've enjoyed for a long, long time now. I guess, in time, your love for this stuff just goes away. Or maybe it's just 3 poorly-written prequel films? Who can say. All I know is that I've got to suck it up, invest a little Time, and make a little Space. Some extra $ is nice, too.

Oh, and the desire for, say, a 1080p HiDef TV doesn't hurt your desire to get rid of some stuff, either, does it.

Maybe it's just Time for new toys... that take up less Space :P

Eengreesh 107

Should've, would've = should have, would have, NOT should of, would of

Looser does not = one who does not win. Loser = one who does not win. Looser = what your sister is when I am through with her. (see also loosing)

Accidentally = by accident. On accident = not something one should ever say.

Carrie and Keri are not the same name.

Oil has 2 syllables.

"Do what?," while charmingly cute... well, what does it mean, exactly, and why is it so pervasive? Explanations please!

Carry on!