Saturday, July 21, 2018 9:45 AM

Almost all of the writing on the t-shirts here is in English. The only Hebrew is on a few teenagers' identical shirts. Each shows a white shield on a deep blue background, but all of these teens wear backpacks obscuring the text. Many of the English shirts are for rock bands. I see Judas Priest, AC-DC, Jethro Tull, and lots of Metallica. Several kids wear iconic Joey Ramone shirts. Few had been born when he died. Many women's shirts shout slogans in bold block print. "Start Your Revolution" walks past "Dance Dance Dance" and "Most Quiet Weed." Two men wearing "Not Your Toy" and "Stupid Boy" walk hand in hand. I can't figure out what one woman's shirt is trying to say. I get closer and see that the shirt is splattered with arbitrary streams of letters, a bit like Cage's "Mesostics re: Merce Cunningham", though I doubt the designer had heard of that. Still, there may be a hidden message. As in Hebrew, I just have to throw the right vowels at it. It may eventually make sense.