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Posted on November 15, 2017 by Heather McTammany

WTF Wednesday: Unicorn Cat, College Basketball Petition

Hello Wednesday! Hello WTF!

Hello mystical magical unicorn and cat combo!

Last but not least, hello petition I started this morning to ban alumni from announcing their own team’s college basketball games! Enough with the major network-sponsored Duke propaganda!

Check out the details here, and please sign if you are so inclined:
Stop assigning alumni as commentators for their own school’s College Basketball games

As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions.

For more vintage wtf wonders (for sale), click here: vintage wtf

New WTF this week:

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Heather McTammany

hootie & the rebel flag

In a UNC dorm room in 1994, I listened to the the South Carolina band Hootie & the Blowfish CD “Cracked Rear View” many, many times.

One song, “Drowning” was about racism, but I never understood the first verse clearly, Darius Rucker kind of mumbles through it.

But 21 years later, it’s timely. Very timely.

Trouble with the world is we’re too busy to think about it, all right
Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?
Tired of hearin’ this shit about heritage not hate
Time to make the world a better place
Why must we hate one another?
Well no matter what we gotta live together
Just that you don’t look like me, tell me what do you see
When we pass on the street what do you wanna see
P.E.’s coming is all I gotta say
Wanna turn and run away
They’re just telling you how they see it
Right or wrong they don’t care, you wish that they would quit
chorus:
Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
Cause they don’t look like you
Nanci singing it’s a hard life wherever you go
About some fat racist living in Chicago
Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone
Well tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?
Why must we hate one another?
When the people in the church, they tell me you’re my brother
You don’t walk like me, … you don’t talk like me, saying
Go back to Africa, I just don’t understand
(chorus)
I’m trying to be someone that he could look up to, but
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see
I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a man
No I’m not like you
Why do you hate me so
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
Hating everybody else cause they don’t look like you

This week I found an authentic vintage 90s Hootie & the Blowfish tour t-shirt with that lyric on back “Cause they don’t look like you.”

I am glad there is no longer a rebel flag hanging from the statehouse walls. It’s a start.

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Heather McTammany

my old clothes: tarheels edition: part 2

when last we left, i’d shown 5 of my favorite vintage unc t-shirts.

here are 5 more favorites – all basketball-related.

soft, thin, and true. carolina basketball is a perennial power.

looks pretty basic here – carolina basketball school – vintage t-shirt from the summer camp:

but it’s a champion blue bar tag, dating it to the mid 70s. sweet!

here’s another of the softest silkiest t-shirts i own. love the repeated graphics and the hair on the player. michael jordan era – ncaa champions 1982.

this must be one of the most obscure carolina basketball t-shirts ever made. gastonia, NC – city of the all-americans – russell athletic from the late 70’s. honoring james worthy (UNC) and sleepy floyd (georgetown) – who both grew up in gastonia.

last but not least, coach k drinks winecoolers. this is not as old as the others, probably only 15 years or so, but it makes me laugh every time.

you know he does!

although the tarheels did not advance past the sweet sixteen this year, it was a great season, and we can all still find pleasure in the remaining games by rooting against duke.

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Heather McTammany

my old clothes: tarheels edition part I

a few months ago i admitted my vintage t-shirt addiction and promised to share a few of my personal favorites here.

then nacho died, sugarhoney arrived, and the second busiest month of the vintage year (october) steamrolled along, but here i am today with the first real glimpse into my own closetful of vintage treasures.

i spent 9 of my most formative years in chapel hill, nc. i love love love love UNC basketball. (i don’t care about football. get rid of the team, fine by me). my tarheel ardor is diminished not one iota by the recent academic scandal – i truly believe athletes at every college in this country get special treatment. every single college. we have all heard of ‘rocks for jocks.’ not that 3 million wrongs make a right, but i am just not shocked or appalled by the news. the issue is complicated, and i am not judging.

i’ve been collecting UNC t-shirts for 20 years now. i have about 15 of them. i’ve sold many over the years that did not fit me, and i don’t keep every UNC shirt i see. the ones i do keep are extremely soft and comfortable. they may be the best collection of North Carolina vintage t-shirts in size Medium in the entire world.

they are not for sale.

first up is this paper thin, soft Carolina Tarheels t-shirt with grumpy Rameses on the front.

made in the early 80’s with a Signal tag.

this fits like a dream and is silky soft. perfect summer t-shirt.

next up is this North Carolina Tarheels Coca-Cola reminiscent design on a poly-cotton-rayon blend heathered gray t-shirt.

made by velva sheen in the early 80s. again, soft and thin and broken into perfection. versatile.

number 3 is this Carolina blue gem with a rainbow chest print from the 1982 NCAA National Champion Men’s Basketball team. (hello Michael Jordan).

i love how the basketball is swishing. it’s so soft. so festive.

number 4 is similar, but in a baseball raglan ringer form:

the word National is the net. it is so comfortable and thin.

last, and definitely not least is this gem of a UNC Chapel Hill t-shirt from the freakin 1960’s.

extremely broken in heathered gray. classic.

ooooold velva sheen tag:

there you have it. 5 of my most prized t-shirts of the UNC variety.

thanks for following along and stay tuned for more of my favorite t-shirts in months to come.

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Heather McTammany

good night march madness

the only action PJ Hairston saw at the Dean Dome this season

well, the unc basketball season came to an unceremonious close on sunday night.

it was very sad and confusing at the conclusion, and i had tears coming down my face, but the tears were not of sadness, they were leftover tears of joy and pride from when james michael mcadoo hit both of this free throws! after a season-long horrific charity stripe struggle, what may have been the first time ever, he HIT THEM BOTH. to tie the game, in the last 10 seconds, when it really mattered, he hit them both. way to go j’michael!

too bad it didn’t matter and the end was terrible, turble, terrible, but i am looking forward to seeing these guys play again next year. i believe marcus paige is an outstanding human being. and at least they made it further than dook. success!