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sitproperly on Oct 15th 2007 at 8:30 am New Vrndavana,Random LJ

New Vrndavana Tshirts that should exist (Random LJ #5)

The first time I showed up at New Vrndavana, they still had a few “New Vrndavana Inmate” tshirts. Loved it. Wish I would have bought one. But maybe this is the next best things…

Last year I spent a lot of time at NV and I was feeling rather snarky, so I made some tshirt ideas. These aren’t real shirts, but I supposed they *could* be if I was poked enough to do them.



New Vrndavana Accordion Ensemble – This is a real picture of the famous New Vrndavana Accordion Ensemble! They really existed. Too bad they never made tshirts. I love the heavy metal lettering. I wish I would have put umlauts over one of the vowels. Party on.



Best. Dham. Ever. – I think the “Best. _________. Ever.” thing is from Comic Book Store Guy on the Simpons. At any rate, Jayalila, Radhanama and I coined the phrase. Well, one of us did. I can’t remember which. It’s true though. New Vrndavana really is the Best. Dham. Ever.

Olivia wants me to make this on a green shirt with yellow lettering. That’s possible. I wouldn’t mind seeing a few of these around.



If you like lunch…. – Last summer, while I was there, New Vrndavana had this weird habit of serving for breakfast whatever was for lunch the prior day. Meaning if you had that weird beige/yellowish stuff for lunch on Wednesday, you’d be graced with it again for breakfast on Thursday! It’s a find tradition and I hope that it continues evermore! Just another endearing quality of New Vrndavana.

And while the first three tshirts were tributes to the quirkiness of New Vrndavana, pure silly fun with the place that I love most, the last one is a bit more serious.

Upon the walls of many ISKCON temples there are menus. On these menus, you can order different ceremonies. You pay a certain amount and you get a car puja or a grain ceremony or any other number of Hindu ceremonies that Srila Prabhupada didn’t introduce to us.

Or, you can get your thread…

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And Srila Prabhupada was right! $251 is not cheap!

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12 responses so far

12 Responses to “New Vrndavana Tshirts that should exist (Random LJ #5)”

  1. Nitai~NealNo Gravatar says:
    October 15, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    I love the last one…
    …so funny lol

    ericNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 15th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    Thanks! These are a bunch of fun! :)

  2. somaNo Gravatar says:
    October 15, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    Nice blog prabhu,

    to bad you missed the oatwater for breakfast era. my favorite meal ever.
    ys, soma

    ericNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 15th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    Thanks, prabhu!

    I’ve had oatwater once. But I was lucky, I got a big chunk of ginger in it!

    :)

  3. MichaelNo Gravatar says:
    October 16, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Have you seen this Flickr set? http://www.flickr.com/photos/navadvip/sets/72157594503851450/detail Some great t-shirt material here.

    ericNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 16th, 2007 at 8:09 am

    Those are all shots from the movie Holy Cow Swami. Have you seen it? You would enjoy it.

  4. jayalilaNo Gravatar says:
    October 16, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    i do believe Radhanama coined the phrase. fun times.

    ericNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 16th, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    I bet it was.
    Man, that weekend.. hell, that summer, was awesome. One of my favorite times ever.

  5. RadhanamaNo Gravatar says:
    October 21, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    OH WOW!!!! I forgot about the shirts. I don’t know if I can take credit for NV BDE though, I think the credit goes to the weekend.

    Heading out next weekend for a quick day trip to have darshan before winter hits.. Stoked to be going even though I don’t know a soul there anymore.

    ericNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 8:06 am

    Ohhh never forget!

    I wish I could remember the story behind BDE. But you’re right, it belongs to the weekend. I think that weekend saved my life. So.. um.. thanks!

    You sure you couldn’t wait till Nov 2nd to head out? I think that’s when I’ll be there.

    RadhanamaNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 25th, 2007 at 12:21 am

    YES! I sure can. Although it will be less definite, but I’ll shot for that weekend. Super.

    ericNo Gravatar Reply:
    October 27th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    awesome! i’m 90% sure that i’ll make it. let’s keep in touch about this.

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