I got my Father's Day present at Raygun. These guys are way too hipster for me to know about them, but twice in two days I was confronted with great homegrown T-shirt art. Iowa. We are what are fondly known as the fly over states. No one plans to come here. We are on your way to someplace else. Preferably someplace that does not require you to stop here, much less be here. People are a little fuzzy on exactly where we are, as well. Iowa, Idaho, Ohio, it is all just a little too confusing for some. But those of us who live here know what it is we love about it, and we don't go around trying to get more people to come. Best of all, the weather keeps most of the riff raff out.
I am constantly amazed by how many beautiful women live here. It is a Scandinavian thing. More blondes anywhere outside of Sweden, with the possible exception of Wisconsin. But another shirt touches on a less savory fact--we are winners in the per capita methamphetamine arrest numbers, and we have been for a long time. So the Iowa: Don't Meth With Us shirt is clever, sad, and true.
The Raygun guys have some very funny apparel that doesn't require you to have midewestern roots to appreciate--
My favorite would be America! Only the Insured Survive. Followed by
Make Awkward Sexual Advances Not War.
But they really excel at poking fun at the locals.
"Iowa: Let us exceed your already low expectations!"
"Actually, we're just outside the middle of nowhere" (with clever graphic to demonstrate).
They concentrate their best stuff on Iowa, but North Dakota and Wisconsin have some winners.
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