Nothing Mundane

April 1, 2014 In Amusing Things, Booze, Pop Culture, Prints

We’ll Live Like Kings

If there is one thing that more than three decades of life has made indisputably clear for me, it’s this: I don’t want to have to get up. And since I haven’t yet mastered Homer Simpson’s move…

the only rational conclusion is that some sort of ambulatory assistant is essential. However, as previously established, I don’t trust robots, even robot housekeepers.





: Plus, the cost of oil these days! It just doesn’t fit in the budget. But there’s one choice that is both adorable AND willing to work for fruit: monkey butlers.*

How many monkey butlers will there be? One at first, but he’ll train others.

Our newest design will class up your life and help you dream really, really small. Available as a poster, t-shirt, or phone case. It’s alright.

* An anthropologist sister of mine tells me this is a chimpanzee, and that chimps are apes, not monkeys. This is an important distinction that I definitely care about even a tiny bit, so please feel free to imagine the “The More You Know” rainbow and music in your head. This post already has enough irrelevant graphics.

March 18, 2014 In Amusing Things, Prints

One Fish, Two Fish

Some people have more cowboy in them than others. But everybody has water in them, except for mummies. That’s the reason why we made this sea cowboy graphic, and definitely not something I just made up.

Get your print, postcard, or t-shirt here.

March 18, 2014 In Amusing Things, Pop Culture, Science!

I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

Robots.

It seems like they’re everywhere these days. Washing our cars, policing our streets, even entertaining our cats!

I’ll tell you, life sure was easier without them. Not in a literal sense, because who would vacuum the carpet?! But in a thoughtless, preachy, I-have-a-blurb-to-write sense, which I think is more meaningful.

But we know what the future looks like.

And we’re nothing if not attuned to the way the winds are blowing, so we’ve decided to jump ahead of the curve and curry some favor before everyone gets on the killbot bandwagon. We have a variety of options for the discerning robot, including t-shirts, ties, mugs, and cards featuring this vision of NEXT YEAR:

For the robot on the domestic front, we have this t-shirt of a robot doing his grocery shopping (I think we captured this terminator’s likeness perfectly):

It’s certain to persuade those meddlesome meatbags that you can be trusted with their EMP pulse generator, because no reason, you’re just curious about what’s inside, and you definitely won’t smash it beneath your mighty robo-feet.

If they’re still not persuaded, just hit them with this second robot grocery-store related item, a tote bag! It’s a design so nice we accidentally made it twice.

[Ed. note: The best part of this post is that we somehow got to re-use the “grocery-related designs” tag]

March 17, 2014 In Amusing Things, Pop Culture

Ford That River

If you grew up when we did, playing Oregon Trail was pretty much mandatory. At least we learned a lot of survival skills from our play: ammo is more important than food; rabbits are impossible to shoot; and there is no way to get a wagon across a stream without potentially killing somebody. In fact, you pretty much can’t do anything without potentially killing somebody.

Well, we made a series of designs reflecting some of our favorite Oregon Trail moments. There’s the “Rampage” (don’t pretend like you haven’t done it):

(available as a dark t-shirt, light t-shirt, mouse pad, mug, notebook, bag, and playing cards)

The “Superman” (no human could manage such a feat!):

(available as a colored t-shirt, white t-shirt, apron, bag, and bumper sticker)

And the “Inevitable” (sorry about the cholera):

(make and customize your t-shirt here)

Get yourself some classic Oregon Trail gear, and don’t forget to pour a little out for all those buffalo left along the way.

March 16, 2014 In Amusing Things, Pop Culture, Television

Loose Seal!

[Ed. note: We are enormous fans of Arrested Development. We apologize in advance for the number of show references we are about to make.]

Caca-caca-caca-caw!

The Arrested Development chicken dance is one of its best gags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf2e8z7EoF8

We love it so much that we made a design showing off each family member’s signature move, available on t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, and ties:

Maybe you could wear a tie to your new job as Mr. Manager? (We just say manager.) Or even better, show up in this spiffy t-shirt with this spiffy mug. You’re Mr. Manager now: the choice is up to you.

And last, but not least, it’s The Final Countdown. (Doo do doo do, do do doo do do.) Wearing this shirt can give anyone the illusion of success, since it has the kind of style you otherwise can only get from wearing a $3,000 suit. C’mon! Buy one.

And that’s why… you always buy Arrested Development products.

March 16, 2014 In Amusing Things, Pop Culture

I Wish…

We all have something about us that we wish was different. Maybe you’re too tall or too skinny or too in love with sloths* to feel comfortable with yourself, and you just wish you could make a change.

That’s ok! We’re dreamers too here at Nothing-Mundane. That’s why one of our favorite old-school jams is Skee-Lo’s “I Wish,” and that’s why we made this design.

Available on t-shirts or a mousepad.

* Just kidding, you can’t actually be too in love with sloths. They are adorable. We saw some at the Costa Rican sloth sanctuary and Jake’s mom made some Zazzle products out of the photos she took. We’re like a Zazzle family band!

March 14, 2014 In Amusing Things, Memes, Pop Culture

Wow. Such meme.

wow.

much funny.

so majestic.

Don’t know doge? Well, thanks to the strange place that is the internet we present to you Shibe Doge:

An image displaying the profound thoughts of a Shiba Inu, written in comic sans.

such internet.

Now usually, I will never, ever, condone the use of the font comic sans in any design. Blue comic sans was my font of choice on AIM 10 years ago, and I regret it everyday. Comic sans is the worst.

But Shibe Doge makes it work. Maybe it’s the horrible grammar. Maybe it’s the neon colors. Whatever it is, it is so bad that it is good.

However, this meme is more than an amusing picture. It has taken it’s popularity a step further than reddit and facebook posts, and it has spawned a legitimate cryptocurrency called “dogecoin.” One man is even selling his vacation house for 100,000,000 dogecoins (approximately $135,000).

With that much clout, how could we not honor the Shibe Doge? So we made some t-shirts. To the moon!