I once wrote here that, in addition to not being televised, “Nor will the revolution come through t-shirts that proclaim that ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.’” It was a rambling, barely coherent post with links that no longer point to anything, so I’m not sure why I linked to it. I suppose it seemed worth acknowledging, anyway, because a new t-shirt company seems to disagree. Part of It (dot org) may not be angling for a revolution, but the plan is, at least, to address some of the world’s ills through t-shirts. I’d probably just mock them if they figured that a t-shirt that says “library” would actually do anything for libraries (despite that I think it’s a bomb shirt and I’d like to buy one). As it turns out, though, the proceeds from designs go to charities of the designers’ choices, so buying a “library” shirt might actually help libraries after all.

This is the same sort of strategy that GOOD Magazine used to wrangle twenty bucks from me: Get a magazine subscription (and entrance to a party I was too sick to attend) for twenty bucks, all of which goes to one of their partner charities. I don’t actually read the issues they send me because I’m apparently less interested in reading about people doing good stuff than in knowing, in the abstract sense, that they’re out there, so I probably won’t renew my subscription.

I really like the design sense of the magazine, though, so if they could leverage that to make some cool t-shirts, which I’d actually get some use out of, I might just buy those. You know, for charity.