Shirts

Right now I am in air traveler´s purgatory, trapped in a hotel in Madrid as our airline (Aerolineas Argentinas -- avoid!!!) is apparently trying to build some planes to get the hundreds of us trapped here to Buenos Aires.

So about these shirts. Starting in Istanbul, I started seeing fashionable t-shirts splashed with any old phrase in English, much like the Japanese fashion. In one of the markets I spotted a portly middle-aged man waddling about sporting a red shirt emblazoned with ¨Looking for a one night stand.¨ I´m convinced many of the Turks with these shirts had little idea what their clothing was announcing. I´m still kicking myself for not buying a shirt I saw for sale that announced, in bold slanted writing ¨Alan Greenspan announces rate raises,¨ with the rest of the newspaper article it was taken from in smaller print below. For sale in Damscus, Kate spotted a brand of men´s button-up shirts: ¨Lesberado.¨ I can hear the song right now. There were also some shirts covered in Windows English, like ¨Ctrl-Alt-Dlt¨and various error messages. I finally got a shirt that announces ¨Ultra Violent Skin Block,¨ which is the only shirt I have to my name these several days I´ve been marooned without my luggage.

This mob of angry passengers is about to lynch me, so I will cede my computer.