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September 01, 2007
shop updates (go dawgs, or whatever)
Today was game day madness here in living-on-campus land, the first game day of the season. For some reason parking services didn't block access to the parking lot behind our studio like they usually do, so I got to wade through tailgate parties on our loading dock to get in and out of the building. After two years here I'm still rather baffled at the football culture; I don't give a rat's ass about football, and where I come from most others don't either. Here the stadium seats nine times the student population and they fill it, every time. From early morning the air is thick with the stench of lighter fluid, charcoal briquettes, and charred flesh. All day long red-flag-bedecked cars whip up and down the streets, hordes of drunken teenagers squeeze into and flop out of the backs of speeding pickup trucks, young women in red and black dresses hobble up and down the sidewalks in spiked heels, and there are people older than my parents out on the loading dock at nine o'clock in the morning setting up a television and satellite dish so that they can watch football-related programming all day long while they wait for the real game to start, and they are all wearing red, their tents are red, their folding chairs are red. And they are everywhere and they are in the way and they will follow you and try to force you to shout "go dawgs" at them and THEY ARE WATCHING SATELLITE TV OUTSIDE, PEOPLE. And drinking beer on campus. I want to take pictures of them but something always stops me. They're too easy to make fun of, maybe.
I've been working away on some new items for ye olde etsy shop, because y'all know I had almost enough saved up for that Lendrum wheel and then spent it on other things. Fabric and living expense-type things, but still.
There are five different style of wee notebooks, with more to come just as soon as I get the edges trimmed on the next stack:
Today I printed up a batch of brand-new shirts, crazy multicoloured ones using some of the motifs that show up so often in my sketchbooks. I'm hoping to photograph and upload the new line to the shop tomorrow night, and in the meantime have knocked a third off the few remaining of my older designs in order to clear up some space. Here's a sneak peek of some of the new shirts in progress:
These are some crazy-ass shirts. I will be wearing one tomorrow (isn't it a nice surprise when the one whose shoulder you blob ink all over is one that's your size?), so if you're so inclined you'll be able to see a picture of that over on my other blog.
Posted by jodi at September 1, 2007 10:39 PM | categories: athens : capitalist pig : dumbass : school
Comments
By far the worst of those football games is the Tennessee/Georgia one.. what a horrific nightmare. I used to make sure we had a few of those 'game calendars" that they give away so that I knew which days to not even think about trying to leave the house. The whole UGA football thing is one of my only major 'cons' to moving back to Athens - though you'll be safely tucked away back in Canada by the time we start looking for a house down that direction.
Posted by: mouse at September 2, 2007 01:42 AM
TheBoy and I live about a mile [as the crow flies] from the University of Oregon's football stadium. On days that they have home games we try to leave town in order to avoid being stuck in our apartment listening to the roar of the crowd. But we can't go anywhere before or after the games because of traffic. And if the Civil War Game is here, we hear cannons and crap for hours and hours. [The civil war is a yearly match between the university of oregon and oregon state university and it is a fiercely attended game, moreso than the regular ones.] I went to a whopping 3 football games when I was an undergraduate student in the midwest and I only went because a. my friends wanted to b. it was free and c. we never stayed for the whole game because it got boring early on. The only football game I've ever seen all of was a high school game of 9man football. That was kind of fun, in a weird way.
Posted by: TheBon at September 2, 2007 02:48 AM
ohhh, I'd not visited your store before, there are some lovely things in there! It seems that I my taste is for the more expensive artwork though, I thought I'd treat myself after payday and then realised that the ones I love are all the $250 ones, perhaps I will need to save up a bit! :o) Love the notebooks as well, they're lovely, will check back in to see the t-shirts, I must refashion the one you sent me soon too so I can wear it.
Posted by: Anna at September 2, 2007 04:20 AM
Come on, Jodi! Football to Americans is like Hockey to Canadians! There's a connection, really--they're the only sports that aren't played with a round ball.
Go Dawgs. Or something.
Posted by: NWJR at September 2, 2007 07:16 AM
Go Lions! There was a big game at my University on saturday too. I think I saw a guy jump in another guy's face trying to get him to scream Go Lions! Our colors are navy and white and everybody was dripping in it, except me of course. I have a school sweat shirt but it was a bit too warm for it yesterday. Lucily I managed to avoid the drunken tailgaters but there is always next weekend, that is the big Big BIG game!
Posted by: Cheri at September 2, 2007 09:26 AM
When I was in grad school, I had to plan my study times around the Boston College football games. There was no getting near campus to do schoolwork or meet with people on those days. I am not a football fan either, so it all seemed like a huge PITA to me.
By the way, I am a tennis fan and have been watching the US Open on TV. John Isner, who plays for Georgia, just got beat by Roger Federer, but certainly played well and the crowd was with him! Maybe you can root for him instead.
Posted by: Kathode Ray Tube at September 2, 2007 09:54 AM
jodi, love love love those new shirts! will they come in a 40" inch chest size by chance?
Posted by: brenda in toronto at September 2, 2007 01:41 PM
Cannot wait for the shirts! And there are many of us who lay low during football season, dodging flying turd-like things (footballs, fans, etc.) and wondering, "What the hell?" Whenever asked about "the game" or "this year's lineup" or other cryptic questions, just reply, "What do you think?" Saves you from getting abused, and keeps them happy. It's all about self-preservation :)
Posted by: nstssj at September 2, 2007 03:24 PM
I spent my freshman year in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It has taken me 20 years to get over my aversion to red clothing, which was purged from my closet at that time lest it be mistaken for Razorback red. No, American football fanaticism is not like Canadian hockey culture. You have to have lived in the U.S. ...and probably in the South...to understand.
Posted by: Kikipotamus the Hobo at September 2, 2007 03:36 PM
I think the reason that football seems so strange to us is because of the tailgate parties.
Take a moment to picture a tailgate party for a hockey game. All I can imagine is party goers with their lips frozen to their beer cans.
Posted by: Steph VW at September 2, 2007 03:57 PM
You know, you'd probably make a killing printing stylized bulldogs on a red t-shirt. Enough to buy a years worth of supplies. JK. That would be like selling your soul to the devil. Kai had no idea what tailgating was until he moved here. But most importantly, your work looks great! I wish I could make to your crits. :(
Posted by: euni at September 3, 2007 05:56 PM