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...what can be called one of the most blatantly ironic financial events in recent memory, the Everything’s Jake store at 36 JFK Street in the Garage—purveyors of the plucky t-shirt brand famous for the “Life is good” slogan—closed its doors last Sunday. According to store owner Glen Tompkins, the economy simply “knocked us out.” But silver lining isn’t hard to find for Tompkins, who has been surrounded by the brand’s optimistic stick figures...
...selecting a house t-shirt...few activities can so effectively divide a House while trying to bring it together. It's nearly the peak of shirt season, so we would like to share our picks of the winners and losers...
...Houses can sustain a 40-50 e-mail discussion without the posters lapsing into boredom (or the readers into self-immolation), but Adamsians can talk like few others can. While this week's flamewar over the House t-shirt probably won't go down in the annals of great threads along with the wrap-sandwich debate of early '09, it was marked by one of the "looser" e-mails we've seen go out to 200+ strangers. Some might say this intrepid writer was "having too good a time," others might flatly call it inebriation...
...Eliot resident took issue with the t-shirt design depicting Pertile as Vito Corleone, complete with the caption "The Housemaster." The Godfather, the resident wrote on the house list, portrays a "rather romanticized notion of mob violence that has helped propagate the stereotype associating Italians with violent crime." In other words, the mafia likes to kill people, and Pertile is certainly not the man for the job (he'd rather take a stab at Dante's Inferno, thank you very much, after the jump...
...these comparisons are a bit weak, and considering the myriad of nonsensical house t-shirts that have made their way onto the bosoms of many Harvard students, we don't think the tenuous relationship between Pertile and Corleone is a cause for concern. The real issue seems to be, is a comparison to Corleone necessarily a bad thing? Also, the t-shirt's a joke, if you didn't notice (via the Eliot list...