Print or Trash? Two “On the Road” Designs Need Your Vote.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Brian @ 9:29 pm January 12, 2010

Our newsletter has known for a while, but now it’s official: our next shirt is from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” But – surprise - we have two original designs! Whichever gets more votes by noon EST on Friday, Jan 15 will be printed.

That’s just 60 hours – if you like one, tell your friends to vote because the loser ain’t comin’ back!

Which is your favorite? Mañana, man. Mañana.

And everybody goes “Awww!”


Mañana, man. Mañana.

Sal’s girlfriend, Terry, introduces him to a pair of happy-go-lucky Mexicans: Ponzo & Rickey.
“We go find a farmer with some manure laying around. Tomorrow we drive back in the truck and pick it up. Man, we’ll make a lot of money. Don’t worry about nothing.”
A few days of drinking later, Sal thinks,
“It was always mañana ["tomorrow" in Spanish]. For the next week that was all I heard  - mañana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”
This shirt is for everyone who feels GTD’ed out – because sometimes you deserve to do jack.

And everybody goes “Awww!”

Taken from one of the book’s famous passages, this shirt depicts Dean Moriarty and all the mad people in our lives.

“… the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”"

This design uses the same font as the original “On the Road” scroll (Kerouac wrote with an Underwood Portable typewriter). I took the photograph myself this New Years on a beach in Florida.

Which is your favorite? Mañana, man. Mañana.

And everybody goes “Awww!”

For more shirts like these, check us out at kafkacotton.com.

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