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Today’s Philies T-shirt of the day is more of an anti-Rockies shirt, but hey, we’re feeling a little anti after last night’s 49584739820-hour game, even if the ol’ Phils did pull it out in the end.

The Ruck Focktober T-shirt, seen briefly on-screen during last night’s this morning’s telecast, is available in Phillies red/white, Dodgers blue/white and Giants orange/black (aw, remember when the Giants had playoff hopes?), and has its own Facebook page. (Rocktober, of course, is the annoying Rockies’ October baseball motto.) This is, of course, one of those shirts with a very limited relevance window, and given that the eBay site where this is being sold offers Priority Mail as its fastest delivery option, you’d really need to hate the Rockies — and really, why wouldn’t you, I guess — to order this given that the series will almost definitely be over by tomorrow (rain, snow, sleet, hail notwithstanding).

Speaking of lousy game conditions, how much of last night’s game did you tough it out for?

Today’s Phillies T-shirt of the day is an oldie but goodie: The Birdland/Fightins.com Matt Stairs Moon Shot shirt (submitted by friend of the Clog/CP contributor Matt Hotz)  that’s an appreciation of the take-and-rake slugger’s mammoth home run and subsequent ass-hammering in last year’s League Championship Series vs. the Dodgers.

However, we’re making special notice of the available Moon Shot hoodie, given that the whole team could probably use one or four of these tomorrow night in Denver where the high temperature is predicted to be 34, the low 28 and, oh yeah, there’s snow in the forecast.

All of which makes this armchair analyst a little suspicious of Charlie Manuel’s burning potential game-3 starters Joe Blanton and J.A. Happ in yesterday’s loss, meaning that the guy they’re now more likely to start  (unless Manuel pulls another trick from up his sleeve) is Pedro Martinez, a frail, aging hurler who hasn’t thrown more than four innings in a start since tossing 119 and 130 pitches in back-to-back starts Sept. 8 and 13.

Granted, that would seem to make Kyle Kendrick Pedro’s caddy should the great one get bumped early (or should his arm, say, freeze, drop off his body and shatter), and given Kendrick’s ground-ball tendencies, that might actually be the decent Plan B for (given that yesterday, original plans A and B limped off the field and threw 19 pitches respectively). Though, now that we think of it, pitching at Coors is probably Kendrick’s main role on this roster.

Anyway, back to shirts: Let me add that I’ve always appreciated the clever way the people at Birdland/Fightins get around the licensed team logo issue by just popping the player’s uniform number on the front panel of the hat/helmet.

Got a nomination for a Phillies T-shirt of the day? e-mail it to bhoward (at) citypaper (dot) net.

And don’t forget, Phils play again Saturday at freaking 9:37 on TBS (unless, y’know, it’s snowing).

Let’s try to do this every day of the Phillies playoff run:

Today’s Phillies T-Shirt of the day comes from woot.shirt.com Todd Marrone, was submitted by CP’s own Drew Lazor and depicts Big Phoot, the Phillie Phanatic’s wild cousin:

Todd Marrone | woot.shirt.com

Big Phoot

Got a nomination for a Phillies T-shirt of the day? e-mail it to bhoward (at) citypaper (dot) net.

And don’t forget, Phils play again this afternoon at 2:37.

CP contributor/friend of the Clog Jesse Delaney writes sharing these two T-shirt designs from excellent T-shirt site Philavania.com:

If I see someone wearing this shirt I might have to beat him down on sight.
Such is my disgust with SEPTA.

This one, too.

What say you? Do these threads make yr blood boil?

Thanks to our friend Kibby for grabbing this video of elderly (probably Italian) women dancing to a cover band rendition of Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” during this weekend’s St. Padre Pio Festival. SOUTH PHILLY Y’ALL

Photo | Mark Maglio

Daryl Hall and Angelica Huston?

The only good things about The Spectrum’s closing are the memories it’ll conjure the closer to implosion, and the rash of wildly amazing shows (Maxwell with Robin Thicke, Leonard Cohen, Halloween with Pearl Jam) in the wake of its finale.

And though we were excited by the notion of Hall & Oates playing out their hits on Oct. 23 in accordance with its first ever box set Do What You Want Be What You Are. We got triply thrilled when we heard that Todd Rundgren was on the bill.

Not only did the Upper Darby/Philly boy trio form what would be the Seventies Blue Eyed Soul Axis (all due respect to Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan). They all worked as one when the Runt produced H&O’s War Babies album 37 years ago. If you don’t know from this oft-maligned personal fave of mine,  oh ye “Kiss On My List” fans, dig this: Tonight (Wed. Sept. 15) you can catch Rundgren and Hall on the web series Live From Daryl’s House (livefromdarylshouse.com).

Reunited for the first time in eeooooooooooons doing “Better Watch Your Back” from War Babies, seven of each other’s best and a few covers by The Soul Survivors and Average White Band, this promises to be just a lick and a taste of the Philly brand cream cheese to come. Yum.

A few weeks ago E. James Beale chose the top five Phillies T-shirts.

2one5, the people behind Beale’s #1 shirt, the Destiny World Series Shirt, have just come out with shirts for Philly’s two new high-profile acquisitions: Cliff Lee and the polarizing Michael Vick:

So what do we think, readers of the Clogosphere? My suspicion is that the Lee shirt will be better received than the Vick model.

MoveOn.org is giving them away (and then asking you for a donation to “keep the stickers free” or whatever).

It’s a nice follow-up to the “Yes We Did” Obama victory stickers Fairey did following the best day ever completely expected Obama win.

Hit it here.

My good-looking-dude-in-a-summer-suit radar went off about a half-block before I realized I was not-so-surreptitiously staring at none other than Terrence Howard. Oops.

Howard, who has a home in nearby Lafayette Hill, and another handsome gentleman were shaking fans’ hands outside the U.S. Customs House this morning at 10 a.m. (Fellow stalker Molly Eichel reports overhearing an older lady telling Howard how much she enjoyed him in Pride. Me, I’m a Crash girl.)

They took a seat on one of the benches on the southwest corner of Second and Chestnut to chat — maybe about the movie that’s filming (and disrupting traffic) on Chestnut between our Old City HQ and Broad Street?

Since the older lady and I have chimed in, it’s your turn: What’s your favorite Terrence Howard movie?

In the meantime, sorry for the ogle, Terrence. Also, you should never let anyone photograph you (see right) while your fingernails are that long.

Wow, talk about a goddamned sad day yesterday, huh? Local shop Print Liberation just started offering this T-shirt this morning, for a mere $16. If only they could make some for the three other legends — Farrah Fawcett, and our two Philly boys Irv Homer and Steven Wells — who passed on yesterday, too.

Avencia

Michael Nutter’s primary win looked like this.

Maybe elections aren’t your idea of a good time (though the last few have been pretty sweet). But if they are, then you will dig local software developer Avencia’s new election result mapping tool that culls voting info from millions of public records and presents it all map-like.

Want to find out where Ron Paul repped best in Philly? You can find it here. Want to know whether your precinct went for Clinton or Obama? Obama or McCain? You can find it here. But the tool’s not just for national elections. You can map mayoral, gubernatorial, city council, U.S. and state legislature, even voter registration.

The interface could use some de-clunkifying as it’s not supremely intuitive. But it’s hours of fun… depending, of course, on your idea of fun.

(Full announcement after the jump.) (more…)

Over the weekend, up at the Trenton Ave. Arts Fest/Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby, I ran into my friend Mike at Highwire Gallery. Mike was wearing the most amazing T-shirt, essentially a Phillies 2008 championship shirt done up in the classic Ramones design:

Chase, Cole, let’s go.

“Ramones” was replaced with “Champions”; “Johnny Joey DeeDee Tommy” with “Pat Cole Chase Jimmy Ryan”; the seal of the United States with Philadelphia’s; and, of course, the shirt’s red, not black.

Mike got the shirt at Shad Fest and didn’t take note of who sold it to him. Long story short: I need the Phillies Ramones/Champions shirt. Please tell me where I can get one.

UPDATE: Shirt Found. And there’s a 1980 version to boot. Not at all surprising to learn the folks at Birdland and The Fightins are behind this.

Does anyone actually prefer shopping in the real, live world to shopping online? OK, I do sometimes — when it’s in stores like Topstitch Boutique or Art in the Age, which have beautiful décor and cute, fun people manning the register. But, for the most part, waiting in line, trying on clothes and sifting through item after item is terribly boring. Which is why eBay, in all its quickness and easiness, is so great.

The only bad thing about most online shops is that they’re not Philly-based, and for those of us who both value the importance of supporting the local economy and are too proud to buy much of anything outside the city, this poses a problem. Thankfully, Made in Philly (madein-philly.com) solves this lazy man’s conundrum. Here’s their schtick:

Made in Philly’s mission is to provide a venue for the sale of locally designed and produced products. The success of our mission depends on more then just “selling products.” Made in Philly believes we must support the local designer-maker community. We will provide feedback from designers and customers and serve as a venue for product publicity. And most important, connect designers directly with customers.

It’s launching on May 22, but they’re still looking for products. In the meantime, we can dream up what local businesses will be hawking their goods there — Di Bruno Brothers?! Conspiracy Showroom, in a back-from-the-dead move??! Philly Flavors, in a how-the-hell-would-they-sell-ice-cream-online move?!! Out of curiosity, who are you hoping for?

Haute Trash

Uh, that “trash” is nicer than what I wore to my friend’s wedding.

Don’t know what to do tonight? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

I know we’re overloading you with fashion show and Earth Day events these days — and combinations of the two, for that matter — but here I come with another, cause it’s cute:  The Moore College of Art & Design kids are putting on a fashion show with clothing and accessories made entirely from recycled and/or reused items. Even cooler, it was all done for a class (that they got three credits for!) — Jack Thompson, professor of fine arts 3D and basics, had them make up stuff with electrical tape, soy packets, shower curtains, used candy wrappers, phone wire and old CDs. I totally give the girl at a left, who fashioned her dress out of old newspapers, plastic and other leftovers, an “A.”

Thu., April 23, 6:30 p.m., Moore College of Art & Design, 20th St. & the Parkway, 215-965-4065, moore.edu.