In the seventh season of the magnificent drama "The West Wing" by Aaron Sorkin, they flashed forward 3 years to the dedication ceremony of President Bartlet's Presidential Library. It was a tender moment, and well constructed too. At once, it answered questions about the future and opened new ones about what we would see in the episodes to come.
Overall it left the impression that, no matter what happened next, Jed Bartlet would leave a lasting legacy. His views, his politics, and his passion would live onward in this other world. This store is a chance to pretend that maybe, just maybe, that legacy lives on in this world.
We could use that now more than ever.
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president bartlet, donna moss, will bailey, charlie young, leo mcgarry
Boffers are a funny thing. Sure, some of them are carefully crafted replications of historically accurate weaponry, formed from high quality carbon fiber cores and meticulously carved foams, coated in complex formulations of latex and pigments.
Then there's the good old fashioned duct taped pool noodle over a PVC pipe.
Regardless, prepare to get thwapped.
Visit sunny Amity Island! The water's warm! Absolutely positively no chance of getting eaten alive by a giant mutant great white shark. Pay no attention to everything the chief of police is saying.
The Five Tones d-e-c-C-G are used in conjunction with Curwen hand signs to communicate with an alien mothership's tonal language in the 1977 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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80s movies, soundtrack, music, john williams, sci fi
Got a lot of people close to you that just like to spout whatever they most recently heard from some talking head on Fox News or random Infowars article? Add some shorthand to your life for demanding sources on wild internet claims.
In the style of Alphonse Mucha's Cycles Perfecta Poster, the last Princess of Alderaan poses across the back of a 74-Z Speeder Bike on the forest moon of Endor.
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r2d2, rebel, alliance, stormtrooper, han solo
In 2010 Tony Stark reopened the World Expo started by his father to feature all of the finest in up and coming tech. The expo ended when a destructive Hammertech malfunction and an attack by the criminal Whiplash were ended by Ironman and Warmachine.
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marvel, comic, avengers, superhero, stark expo
Five years after the Battle of Serenity Valley in 2511, often considered the lynch pin in the defeat of the Independents, a group of Browncoats founded the Serenity Valley Museum to commemorate the sixteen brigades and twenty air-tank squads lost those fateful weeks. On a visit to this museum, tucked on the lip of Serenity Valley itself, you picked up a little something for yourself as you exited through the gift shop ...
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tv, sci fi, malcom reynolds, kaylee, captain mal
Wisdom comes from strange places. Sometimes it is uttered from the wizened lips of a guru. Sometimes a blackout drunk idiot from Iowa screams it off a balcony at a Christmas Party because he has strong opinions about using an index card pinned to a t-shirt to represent "an Armani Suit."
Either way, that idiot's wisdom went viral in LARP circles and he's totally cool with me capitalizing on it.
Recommend Dark Colors
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geeks, tyson hood, minds eye, nero, the darkest venue
Were you LARPing before it was cool? Want a completely artisanal and handmade logo to express your interest in running around the woods in a costume hitting people with extreme pool noodles? Need a crosshairs target right on your solar plexus for someone hucking a cloth packet of birdseed at you? Well, have I got the shirt for you!
Have you ever wondered what you were going to wear for your NPC shift? They asked for theater blacks but you never remember to buy or pack a plain black shirt? Well, this black-on-black shirt will not just help you remember but also provide a little wit for what you wear.
Part one of Tentacle Week 2018! I recently visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium and marveled at all the tentacled critters on display, especially the Giant Pacific Octopus!
In my ongoing series (not really) of mashing up turn of the century paintings with pop culture references I give you La Trahison des Caltrops aka. The Treachery of Small Devices That Stab Your Feet in the Dark.
It was this or a d4.
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belgian, block, brick, ceci nest pas une pipe, french
Pictured: What it feels like to an artist when their head is so full of ideas that they can't get anything out and the pressure builds to the point their skull explodes.
Sometimes inspiration hits you out of nowhere. In this particular case I was enjoying a gyro when I noticed the cage-like construction of a chandelier in the restaurant ... bada boom ... Art.