Nethead t-shirts

Here's a thumb of the design on the front: Here's a thumb of the lettering across the back shoulders:

CONTEXT: I'm just an, um, ah, "experienced" DeadHead hoping to make it easier for folks to make connections at shows. The nethead t-shirt was a spontaneous creation of my ex-wife, Maya, a few years ago. When I first wore it to a show Dave Gans, Marty Lefkowitz, and Rea Simpson saw it and I met them for the first time. If I hadn't been wearing the nethead t-shirt, I would have just walked by them in the crowd, and our meeting might not have happened.

At the same time, there was a lot of net.discussion about somehow making a r.m.gdead t-shirt of some sort. Somebody mentioned the nethead t-shirts Maya had made. Things snowballed from there.

These t-shirts are intended to help folks find each other at shows, regardless of how they communicate through cyberspace. The access method/net isn't important, the communication is. Therefore, please feel free to distribute this nethead t-shirt offering announcement to any list/machine you feel would have an interested audience on it.

PURPOSE: Meet'n'greeters so folks can find other netheads in crowds. Otherwise, a couple of netheads might just stumble^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hglide gracefully by each other.

DESCRIPTION: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, pictures are available above, but I'm still going to use a few words to describe 'em :-) Mr. Bones (me, or is it you?) is at a terminal. He has a garland of roses on his head. He's turning to look over his right shoulder, as if someone has just walked into his area. He's raising his hand in greeting. The terminal has a lightning bolt down the middle, with one side of the screen being red and the other blue. Over his head are hand composed letters forming the word "Nethead". Below Mr. Bones is a crescent of red roses with green leaves. The design uses four colors. On the back of the t-shirt it says "Nothin' left to do but :-) :-) :-)"

What is a Nethead? you might ask. It's a word I invented in January of '86, when I first logged in to the net. My interest in fast machinery makes me a "gearhead". I've been a "Deadhead" since before the word was invented. It seemed natural to me to extend the head-ness into the net. Thus, "nethead". The subject line of my first post to rec.music.gdead was "Hail Netheads".

The t-shirts are 100% cotton. Preshrunk. Major brand (Fruit of the Loom usually). The design is printed on a white t-shirt. White is easier to find in a sea of tie-dyes, or a dark room. Besides, we could never dye them just _exactly_ the way every "picky deadhead" would want it ;-)

Kids can get by with a size Small, btw. They make grate jammies ;-) The design is about 12 inches across, so it won't fit on a "real" kid's size t-shirt, but they can usually get by with a Small.

HOW TO GET ONE: Send something, (a receipt from a Chinese (or other) restaurant, a cookie recipe with your SIZE on the back, a copy of the cover of your dissertation, a piece of paper, a picture of a dancing elephant at the National Zoo, a tape label (attached to a tape is OK too ;-) ), the doodling from that boring required class you just got out of, by now you get the idea) with (at least) the following information:

Name
Address
Size
email address

Include a check or money order for $US24 per t-shirt. If US currency is a problem for you (like if you don't live here) I am open to considering trades of local stuff for nethead t-shirts. Think of chocolate from Switzerland, Beer from Germany, wine from France, GP cars from England, or something else that seems appropriate to you :-)

Once you have all this figured out, contact me to get my current mailing address.

Overseas orders must send a little bit more, for shipping, and it must be sent as an American Express money order. To cover long distance shipping, I need a total of $US35 per overseas order t-shirt.

I have never received a bad check from a nethead, so I will continue accepting them, as long as the check is drawn on a U.S. bank. Besides, if anyone should send rubber instead of paper, they would generate a huge amount of bad Kharma. That much bad Kharma would prevent them from being able to score a show ticket for at _least_ a whole year.

If you have any questions, please contact me
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