T-Shirt Week: Kitties and Birdies and Black Flag

Three short stories about Black Flag:

1. When I was a young punk, I used to really like Black Flag, but then I interviewed Henry Rollins. He was a giant, self-involved dink. Then I no longer liked Black Flag at all.
2. I grew to dislike Rollins so much that another time, when I was interviewing Kurt Cobain and he mentioned that he wanted to get the Black Flag logo tattooed on his arm, I gave him the advice that there was a good possibility that he would meet Henry Rollins, who would be a jerk to him, and then he would regret having this reminder inked into his flesh permanently.
3. A few years later, my friend Rob and I were driving back from Ottawa. It was a beautiful night and “Rise Above” was playing and I saw a shooting star. And then I was able to separate my appreciation of the music from my dislike of the man again.

Here are two takes on the classic Raymond Pettibondesigned logo. On the left, Cat Flag by Etsy seller Sleazy Seagull. On the right, Songbird, from the old Vice store on Queen Street West