The best part of these photos is the fact that the shirt matches the booth and the painting behind me. These were taken at the Perkins in Ames on 3-16-08. We tend to go to Perkins a bit too much, but the girlfriend likes breakfast and I have an untreated crane game addiction. This time of year I can win her bunnies, so it’s a triple win!

This shirt is nearly really very unique (so I guess it’s just unique, sure wish it was a one of a kind though) in that it doesn’t have a collar. I have a couple shirts sans-collar, but this is the only Ugly Shirt I have lacking one. This shirt, like many of my first Ugly Shirts, is starting to show its age. I don’t think I will obsess on trying to find a replacement for it. Any other shirt will do.

So I bid $11.01 on a shirt today on eBay. This violates one of my tenets of these shirts in that I will be paying more than $4 for it, but it is a paisley that I think will be worth the cost. I probably won’t get it, since I won’t bid any higher, and I know someone reading this will outbid me out of spite. I can only rest comfortably in the knowledge that paisley karma will rule out in the end. You may spite me, but look at the shirt you will be getting:

Once, I saw the coolest Ugly Shirt. This old blind guy was getting it. Seriously. You would have had to be blind (or me) to want this shirt. He had his wife along, and I was hoping more reasonable minds would prevail, but to no avail. I didn’t get the shirt. I can’t remember much about it, other than it was brown. I am pretty sure I would get the shirt above either, but this way, I can at least have a picture to remind me of what I could have had (if some blind guy doesn’t outbid me on eBay too).

So I am starting to worry about if I will be able to make it 52 weeks. This seemed doable when I started, but the land of hideous shirts is going through a global warning. They are getting harder to find. I had a couple years to collect what I currently have. Now I have like 30 weeks or so to find another 22 shirts! We’ll see. I may have to start using Photoshop. Or I may have to start violating rules. Some of the shirts that I like, and pay like $4 for, I can find for more money than I have ever spent on any single item of clothing. $124 for a shirt? Same world, different planets.