Thanks to Jeanne it was a cool day today. Which gave me the opportunity to wear the very loud polyester shirt I bought at Pennies for Change earlier this year. I bought it right when it was starting to get warm, so I hadn't been able to wear it until now.
Sylvia stopped by the station during my show this afternoon. Based on the way her eyes bugged out when she saw my shirt, I thought she was just really impressed with my fashion sense. But no, it turns out that my shirt has a history. It seems that Niku bought this very shirt from a thrift store and gave it to Sylvia. It didn't fit quite right, so Sylvia gave it to Pennies for Change. From whom I bought it, making me the third XDU dj to own the shirt. That we know of -- there could be more!
I commented to Sylvia that the shirt is like the station's monkey paw: we can't get rid of it. But does it bring good or bad luck? She said that I should embellish the shirt's origin story, and Howard suggested I could say that I found the shirt in a basket, wrapped around a baby. And I took the shirt but left the baby.
But jeez, I think the shirt's true origin is interesting enough. It's the XDU communal shirt or something. I feel like I have an obligation at the end of the season to give it to another DJ, so it can continue its journey through the closets of all of XDU. Anybody want a really loud, slightly used, polyester shirt?
Wow, that shirt has seen more XDU racks than... umm... best not to finish that sentence.
Curses! Damn those internal sever errors! Delete one post, please (or, both, if I offend).
Duplicate post deleted! I hear that my hosting service is under some kind of attack, which is the reason for the constant server errors. I think I should put this in a separate post.
seriously? pair is under attack again? ug.
that howard. he cracks me up :)
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wow. that's a great story! I remember the shirt but cannot remember where I got it. It would be great if it was from pennies for change, but it's more likely it's from the nearly new shoppe or grannie's panties.
p.s. you look HOTT in it!
How cool. I found this when I googled "pennies for change"