OK, whose big sister (brother?) just got into Stanford?

[ellenkushner]

Nestled in the Stanford Alumnae Bulletin's collection of First lines from the application essays of Stanford's freshman class, amongst descriptions of battling cancer, paralysis, 9/11 and Charlie Brown, we find:

My younger sister, Jessica, arrived home one day reeling about the shirt that her friend had worn to school. It had simply read, “Genocide, Homicide, Suicide, Riverside.”

It was minami_nekko who first pointed this out to me, and together we cooked up one that read Suicide, Homicide, Regicide, Riverside - and spawned a host of other designs of great splendor. Unfortunately, her original T-shirt collection seems to have been taken down - But, wait! The other version (by copinggoggles) is still up! I'm going to remember to order one this time - and you can, too!

Thanks to rm for the heads-up on the Stanford article.

Comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I have the Suicide, Homicide, Regicide version, and I love it!

[minami-neko.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I had to take the store down... it was a paid store and I was losing money like mad keeping it up. I will put up a new store (a free-for-me one, with less options on my end for product choosing but there's ways to get around that) if there's interest in buying things again. However, I hadn't sold anything since May on the last one...

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You were losing money?! That's awful!! I am so sorry. You had such super-cool stuff. If you find a new store, please let us know - there does seem to be a lot of interest, and I'll make sure people know about it.

[nohwhere-man.livejournal.com]

Sigh, wherever I wear that shirt, the Great Unwashed (& Unread) think Riverside, CA. While apt, it's rather depressing.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

A whole lotta Regicide in California. Yup.

But keep on doing - someday a Swordspoint fan will see it and immediately fall in love with you.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Stanford (the university in Palo Alto) not Stamford (the town in Connecticut), surely?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oops. Crap. That'll teach me to check my sources. We drive past the CT exit pretty often, and I've only been to the CA one once . . . . Duly fixed. Thanks for keeping the egg off my face!

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! That's exciting! Do you know how long the ones that are up are going to be up? (Due to increasing poverty and a bare minimum of self-restriction, I can't buy one until I get a paycheck in two weeks, arg!)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

They've been up for months, so I don't think they'll go down anytime soon.