La-Z-Boy Moonlight Madness Sale (Black)
Physical Description: The front design occupies the usual centered position. "LA-Z-BOY" is done up in their thick, but elegantly gothic font. "Furniture Galleries" and then a registered trademark sign are done in the same font, but with certain changes. First, the font point size is smaller, the letters are not as thick, and the initial letters (F and in particular on this shirt the G) are larger than the furniture galleries. All of this brand name business precedes a box of black which then has most of the idea content formed by the lack of screening. Four-pointed and dot stars begin the design. In total there are seven four-pointers and nineteen dot stars distributed throughout the front design. A crescent moon with a nose, eye, eyebrow and mouth that is facing right and which seems to be reflecting a sun off shirt on face side looks on to is placed to the left, but underneath an "M". The parts where there is overlap between the moon and the "M" are colored black; this affects the moon's lips, part of its cheek, and a tiny portion of the chin. The moon has two black dot stars on it; one is placed at a 45 degree angle from what would be the moon's pupil, and the other one is right near the bottom of the downward carrot on the "M". The "M" as spoken of above is the only letter in "MOONLIGHT" that has any black in it. Moonlight's letters are all of a "crazy, weird" triangle-based font. I mean these letters are really crazy and really weird going all over the place within limits. The slight tilt makes room for "MADNESS", which will prove to be the only word inside the box whose letters are formed by the paint. The font is some boring, but affirmative font that is full of straight lines that still have a round feeling to them. The placement of the letters is still crazy and weird, although less crazy then in "MOONLIGHT". The "E" has for the optimist an unexplained extra line on the top, or for the pessimist a line cut out of it near the top of the top horizontal stroke. The unpainted portion of madness is a result of not giving geniuses a palette nor canvas to work on. "MADNESS" has unpainted portions to form a thick outline. There is finally some order established when "SALE" comes into play in some serpentinesque font. The letters all have a thick left portion to them, and all have one star that is really a five-pointer, but has two points thrown in on the left for a cheap 7-pointer. The stars in the vowels all shortly extend past the border setup by the box into territory more accustomed to branding.
The back design again stars with painted starts. At the northwest corner painted there are two four-pointed stars and seven dot stars. The southeast corner again has two four-pointers, but eleven total dot stars. A circle shape replaces the box shape of the front, but fulfills the same purpose. The inside has a return to the absence of paint forming the stars, words, and additionally half-moons. There are five four-pointed stars. The top and the easternmost 4-points have four dot stars while the east-southeast star has three, and the remaining two 4-points have two apiece, for a total of fifteen dot stars. The half-moons are of three and function as bullets for the words. The words are split between two fonts and ideas. The first type of font used is some happy, squiggly font. The other typeface resembles "SALE" on the front, excepting that there is no left bias and those words are underlined. There is an "A" and an "M" that has their leftmost strokes go beyond the line. The words say "later HOURS lower PRICES definite PROOF that we've GONE MAD ".
A little bit after donating the yellow version of this shirt, Donor Mac informed me that La-Z-Boy had another Moonlight Madness Sale, and that although he had gotten another shirt it was mainly because he lost the other one. I could understand holding onto work shirts so that they do not give you even more guff. So I had figured that I had gotten the only Moonlight Madness Sale shirt that I was going to get.
A couple of years later, Mac wisely chose to move out of Ohio and go to California. After working at La-Z-Boy for a few years, it is easy to understand that going back to the same company that never gives raises would be foolhardy. Thus, I figure that he figured that he was not going to need any more La-Z-Boy shirts. This donation is when smart thinking leads to great donation.
Now, back when he was in town I moved a drum set over to the house to help to replace the drum set that his brother played but had also taken to California. With Donor Mac in California, my drumset sat dormant. I had finally gotten enough time to start moving my set out of Mac's old Ohio house the day that I had stopped by to start moving my set out. On the head of the floor tom were placed four shirts.
I went downstairs and asked his mother about them. She told me that those shirts were indeed intended for me. So I took them and added to my own material dominion.
