WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
The “JUST SAY NO” T-Shirts: Order Here [BUMPED — Need to make size estimates]
byVanderleunonNovember 10, 2021
The folks making these shirts need to have the sizes specified before going ahead. I can see I will have to guesstimate but I hope to do it wisely.
If you want one of these make sure you specify the size in the (almost invisible) Box on PayPal.
If ordering via the Mangrove Address make sure you mention that as well. Thanks.
For this project to work I have to keep it very very simple since I am the one who wraps, addresses, hauls to the post office, and knocks.
PRICE: $25 (Tax and shipping included) For the money to work out at the 100-250 shirt level I have to print in one color on (I’ve had to choose) white cotton. The shop I’m using is a very good local shop ( Silkshop Screen Printing) but they are very busy and I am learning about this as I go.
FABRIC: 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, 32 single 4.2 oz. I have touched this shirt and it is quite soft with a bit of comfortable stretch in it.
SIZING: I have to give a range of sizes before they make the shirts. I’ll probably just guesstimate when I order up and have Small, Medium, Large, XL, 2XL, and 3 XL. [They can go up to 5XL so shout out early]
How to Order via PAYPAL –NO ACCOUNT NEEDED — DEBIT AND CREDIT CARDS OK.
USE THIS BUTTON TO CONNECT AND DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR SIZE NEEDS AND MAILING ADDRESS.
How to order by I AM NOT PAYPAL
Send cash, check, or money order to…
Gerard Van der Leun 1692 Mangrove Ave Apt: 379 Chico, CA 95926
WHEN: They tell me that shirts will be ready on November 19 if not earlier. I will ship them as soon as I have them.
ORDER EARLY. ORDER OFTEN. CHRISTMAS, THE HIGH HOLIDAYS, AND ENDLESS VACCINE AND MASK MANDATES ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER.
And if the note doesn’t show, it’s 2XL. Many thanks!
John FisherNovember 2, 2021, 6:06 PM
Ordered via Paypal but didn’t see a size check off. I need a large. Thanks!
timNovember 3, 2021, 5:12 AM
There is an optional “note” section which is not very visible at the top that you have to write in what size. (I didn’t see any other option.)
Gerard should mention this, I can see how it can easily be missed.
NoriNovember 2, 2021, 7:46 PM
Nancy Reagan’s Ghost approves this message.
Well done,Mr V. I’ll be ordering 2 forthwith.
AnneNovember 2, 2021, 10:03 PM
Is the print red or black, or do we have a choice?
Couldn’t help but notice all the xxl and xxxls being ordered. Leads me to believe everybody here’s at least 6.5 tall.
VI
Phil_in_EnglewoodNovember 10, 2021, 8:58 AM
$$ in the mail to Mangrove, if it hasn’t arrived should very soon. I am ordering two XL. Wanted to post this note so you can plan better if you haven’t gotten my snailmail yet.
pfsmNovember 10, 2021, 10:00 AM
I left my XL size request somewhere on the paypal page, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it here too.
Cheers!
MattNovember 10, 2021, 4:45 PM
Hey Gerard, can you find out if the cotton is pre-shrunk?
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VanderleunNovember 10, 2021, 6:05 PM
They are pre-shrunk…
Rob MuirNovember 10, 2021, 6:29 PM
Forgot to include my size: XL please.
Thank you so much, Gerard!
HumdeedeeNovember 10, 2021, 9:21 PM
I ordered from Paypal – I wanted to buy 2 but for some reason, either I missed the place to do it, or it’s not there, I didn’t see a quantity selection. I figured I’d just go through the process a second time, but I got a screen that said my purchase was complete???? I’ll try again tomorrow. Thanks, Girard. It will be fun wearing the shirt. I bought Babylon Bee’s “I Identify As Vaccinated” tee and wear it to my appointments.
Daniel K DayNovember 11, 2021, 6:57 PM
Two L’s. I’m sending a check to your Mangrove address. Thank you in advance!
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate – you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH
ARTIST: CASEY KLAHN
from The Painter by Neil Young
The painter stood Before her work She looked around every where She saw the pictures and she painted them She picked the colors from the air Green to green Red to red Yellow to yellow In the light Black to black When the evening comes Blue to blue In the night
To the Stonecutters
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Search American Digest’s Back Pages
Contemplation of the Sword
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
from Preludes
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
Ferreya
ARTIST: GIBSON
Edwin Deakin, American
Hillegas
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
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Gerard Van der Leun
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
The scientists are in terror
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Done. And thank you for doing this project.
And if the note doesn’t show, it’s 2XL. Many thanks!
Ordered via Paypal but didn’t see a size check off. I need a large. Thanks!
There is an optional “note” section which is not very visible at the top that you have to write in what size. (I didn’t see any other option.)
Gerard should mention this, I can see how it can easily be missed.
Nancy Reagan’s Ghost approves this message.
Well done,Mr V. I’ll be ordering 2 forthwith.
Is the print red or black, or do we have a choice?
Check for $25 in the mail today. Extra-large.
Beautiful!
Placed a PayPal order, didn’t see the comment line & will email size – thanks very much Gerard for taking this on, and may it all go smoothly!
Just can’t do a white T-shirt *sniffs loudly*
Donated instead, but I’ll keep hoping for a hoodie in the future.
Just send via PayPal.
Please check the note, but if it doesn’t show – one XL.
Couldn’t help but notice all the xxl and xxxls being ordered. Leads me to believe everybody here’s at least 6.5 tall.
VI
$$ in the mail to Mangrove, if it hasn’t arrived should very soon. I am ordering two XL. Wanted to post this note so you can plan better if you haven’t gotten my snailmail yet.
I left my XL size request somewhere on the paypal page, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it here too.
Cheers!
Hey Gerard, can you find out if the cotton is pre-shrunk?
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They are pre-shrunk…
Forgot to include my size: XL please.
Thank you so much, Gerard!
I ordered from Paypal – I wanted to buy 2 but for some reason, either I missed the place to do it, or it’s not there, I didn’t see a quantity selection. I figured I’d just go through the process a second time, but I got a screen that said my purchase was complete???? I’ll try again tomorrow. Thanks, Girard. It will be fun wearing the shirt. I bought Babylon Bee’s “I Identify As Vaccinated” tee and wear it to my appointments.
Two L’s. I’m sending a check to your Mangrove address. Thank you in advance!
Drop me a note if you can to the wrsa@hushmail.com address. Hate sending $ through the US mail. Worst case is that I iterate 10 times through paypal.
In for the 10 2XLs discussed previously.
Thank you, sir.