On the shirt, the words I HAD POTENTIAL sit in white capitals above a white curved ramp that descends from left to right. At the upper left ledge, a dashed empty circle marks where a ball once rested. At the lower right, on the flat run-out, a solid white ball sits still. The ramp is […]
The artwork is a ring of capital letters: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. Inside the ring sit four root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each with a small smile and each drawn with its roots visible in the soil. The phrase wraps the […]
The Question That Hides Inside the Word ‘Basis’ When a person dies owning an appreciated asset — stock bought decades ago, a building, a family business — the federal income tax does not ask what that asset gained in value over the owner’s lifetime. It asks a different question: what is the asset’s basis in […]
The native garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No slogan in a banner font. No exclamation point. The word sits in the middle of the chest at a scale that asks you to lean in, and the period at the end does the work that a […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The garment preview shows a dark shirt carrying large, bold, white lowercase letters: meh. The word is set in a heavy sans-serif, the letters tall enough to read across a room, and the period is not decorative. It lands. That period is the whole […]
The first thing the shirt does is borrow authority. Across the chest, in the block lettering of a hazard placard, it reads NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH. Above or beside the words sits a yellow caution triangle, and inside that triangle is a hand with a diagonal bar through it. The grammar is not conversational. […]
Two circles sit on the shirt, and only one of them is real. At the upper left ledge of a white curved ramp, a dashed outline marks an empty position — a circle that could be occupied but isn’t. At the lower right, on the flat run-out, a solid white ball rests where it stopped. […]
On a dark shirt, centered, in very small lowercase letters, the word appears: meh. No illustration. No animal. No slogan in a second line. The period is there, and the period is doing most of the work. This is a shirt about scale. The lettering is small enough that a reader has to be close […]
The shirt’s printed text reads, in full: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. Around those words sit four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in soil. The apostrophe in “LET’S” is printed. The ampersand is printed. The […]
The Mechanism First, the Slogan Second Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code is usually described as Congress “closing the carried interest loophole.” That description is wrong in a way that matters for anyone trying to trace where money actually goes. Section 1061 did not end the preferential treatment of fund managers’ compensation. It re-timed […]