That Star Wars Thing

I have become something of a t-shirt connoisseur (I almost spelled that right without spell check lol). I've collected so many over the past couple of years I'm running out of space and will probably have to think about giving some of them away at some point. I was folding them up the other day and it occurred to me that I had enough between ones I bought and ones that I created to not have to repeat any for a few months... like literally months. That's not a ball park figure. So I started looking at all of them and realized that my t-shirt game isn't a random collection of things, it's a collection of everything that I like and being the mostly introverted person that I am, I allow a lot of those things to represent me, my personality and my mood instead of me having to explain audibly. Someone suggested that maybe it would be worth it to start a t-shirt blog and talk about each t-shirt a little bit (You know...NERD STUFF lol) and I figured, why not? So I'll rock a different one everyday and blog about it until I run out which I'm not sure when that will be because I have such a habit of buying them in and out of season (insert shrug emoji)Being from New England, everyday is definitely not t-shirt weather lol but I'm gonna hang in there as long as I can.

Since as long as I can remember, I pretty much have done my own thing. Not that it didn't matter what people thought but I cared less about that when it came to the things that i liked. That was the cause of me having to hear things like, "grow up" or "you're too old for that" waaaaay more than I wanted to in adulthood. I never really understood why I couldn't be an adult AND enjoy cartoons, action figures, science fiction etc. I love those things now maybe even more than when I was a kid. Sure, nerd culture is getting more and more popular now, but that hasn't always been the case. I came from an era where black nerds were the token friend to white boys in movies but in real life you didn't truly fit in anywhere and you'd get laughed out of the cafeteria if you preferred Ace of Base over Das EFX (maybe rightfully so on that one lol). Anyhow, I've always felt like the epitome of a "Blerd" which looking back makes me wish the culture was as accepting when I was growing up not just for me, but for all the Toys R Us kids of my generation. All of us who said, "I don't wanna grow up, who wants to grow up?" and didn't realize there was space in our adult selves for the kid in us to be a functioning part of our personality in a good way. Given the right balance, being a responsible adult should have no bearing on the things you're into (let's argue) ... soooooooooo that being said, I...LOVE... STAR WARS. I mean, I love it like the President loves to see black people struggle (too dark? Lol). Ok, I probably don't love it as much as he loves that BUT I love Star Wars as much as fat girls love to wear stuff that doesn't fit in the summer time. That better? Cool lol. Star Wars always made feel like the things you imagined didn't always have to stay imaginary. Obviously there are some ridiculous aspects of imagination but also among those are things that only SEEM ridiculous because they haven't been created yet and the notion that people not believing in your ideas but having no effect on you actually being able to make it happen has always been something I felt applied to me specifically. Maybe that's why I was so into the story of Noah's Ark too. Star Wars though, was everything. My favorite character was and still is Darth Vader. I won't get too deep into it in this entry because I have a few other t-shirts I'll blog about that he's the center of but in the history of cinema, there aren't as many popular figures as layered as he is. Of course that's just my opinion but it holds weight from the standpoint that as a true movie buff, I can separate the things that are actually good from the things that I like because I'm into it lol.

I've basically run out of things to say and my social battery is running pretty low. Trust, it's not you, it's me haha! I'm not even sure if people read these or will even read this lol but hopefully they do and maybe you'll come back to check out tomorrow's t-shirt.