Being Amber Rhea

Which shirt should I wear to Sex, Wine and Chocolate?

• Sex nerds know how to do it (official Waking Vixen Productions shirt!)*
• I support sex workers’ rights (designed by Ren!)
• Strippers are feminists too
• I -heart- Obama (get your own here)

Too bad I don’t have this shirt anymore.

Input please.

* Can’t see the shirt as well in this photo, but I like it better because of the sign I’m standing next to (to which…).

My friend/sister (long story!) Crystal, along with the help of Rusty’s Photoshop skills, designed these “I Heart Obama” T-shirts. She had 12 protoype shirts made in Augusta a few weeks ago and gave me one:

Now she has a CafePress store where you can buy them yourself. I told her she needs to make business cards w/ the URL on them, because when I wore the shirt last weekend somebody at Lowe’s asked me where I got it. He asked if I had gotten from the campaign… ha.

Check out my awesome new shirt.

Outtake for May 20 self-portrait

Originally uploaded by Amber Rhea.

I’ll be wearing it to pole dancing class tomorrow night.

We have T-shirts! Be sure to get there early Saturday morning to get yours - there are (as of this post) 165 people registered and we only have 150 shirts. All the cool kids will be wearing a PodCamp Atlanta T-shirt; dona??t you want to be one of the cool kids? (Correct answer: yes.)

[Cross-posted on the PodCamp Atlanta blog]

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I took about 15 photos trying to get a decent shot of myself wearing my awesome new shirt… and, yeah, this was the best one of the lot! Self-photography can be a real bitch.

I’m also now the proud owner of a Georgia Podcast Network hoodie and mousepad.

This concludes your Thursday edition of “Whoring Shameslessly for the Georgia Podcast Network.”

Dammit. I knew I shouldn’t have worn this shirt today. It always makes me sweat like a whore in church. And there’s no good explanation; it’s just a simple linen button-down shirt. I’ve had it for 2 years, and without fail, every time I wear it I feel like someone’s filling a couple of swimming pools in my armpits. Hmmm, writing this kind of makes me wonder why I haven’t gotten rid of it.

I take issue with the placement of buttons on women’s button-up shirts. There always ends up being that space between the 2nd and 3rd button that bulges out slightly, so that from the side anyone can get a glimpse of whatever is (or isn’t) under your shirt; and sometimes it looks weird from the front, too. The bigger your boobs are, the worse it is. Why don’t they just adjust the spacing/placement of the buttons and be done with it? All my female friends and acquaintances have this problem… it’s exasperating.

Look who’s all up in ThinkGeek’s grill.

That’s a screen shot, but the real thing currently lives here (and, more specifically, here). The narcissism never ends, does it?

Now, go buy stuff from ThinkGeek!

Today I went to Ross and bought two awesome t-shirts. (I almost bought three, but reason prevailed as I realized I would never actually wear the “Got Jesus?” shirt, so there was no point in buying it.) I know, I know a?? more t-shirts is the last thing I need in my wardrobe. But I just can’t help myself.

The first is a kick-ass Super Mario shirt… see for yourself:

• Front
• Back

Next we have an awesome Slinky shirt:

• Here ’tis

I also took a couple pictures of me actually wearing them, but I was vacillating about whether to post them, because it might 1) make me look even more “self-absorbed” than I apparently already am, and 2) appear to be merely an excuse to post gratuitous boob shots. Then I decided, fuck it, it’s my blog and I can post boob shots if I want. So here you go:

• Gratuitous boob shot #1 (Super Mario shirt)
• Gratuitous boob shot #2 (Slinky shirt)

So there you have it.

My [new] stuff from ThinkGeek came yesterday: this and this and these. I’m rocking the first shirt today.

Update: You wanted modeling, David? How’s this?

Both Target and Urban Outfitters are selling knock-offs of those “I’m a Pepper” t-shirts from the late 70s/early 80s. But guess what? I have an original. I bought it at a thrift shop in the East Village when I was at NYU (early freshman year, I think). It’s red with the familiar “I’m a Pepper” deal on the front, and some kind of radio station logo with a big ol’ 1982 emblazoned at the top. You know what, I think I might wear it tomorrow. And Tuesday I’ll wear my authentic, early-to-mid 80s Mello Yello t-shirt. I bought that one in Athens in May 1998 — at Go Clothing, which is now Go Bar — when I was doing my senior project (we’re talking high school here), interning at Flagpole and living at the Holiday Inn Express. That’s when I learned that I did not want to pursue a career in journalism. I did help Ballard with a few of the music reviews, though. It was fun pretending to be a music snob — an Athens one, at that! — if only for a few moments.