Shirts come with tags that tell their stories.
Hipsters with a need for irony are flocking to a non-profit group that's figured out how to get people to buy all those T-shirts nobody wants: Wait until they're sent overseas in charity shipments, buy them back, then sell them here and use the proceeds for non-profit work.
That's the goal of Project Repat, a new Boston-based effort trying to turn old T-shirts into money for non-profit work in the developing world.
UPDATE: This may all be moot since evacuees don't seem to want to spend the winter on a frozen Cape 1,500 miles from home.
UPDATE UPDATE: Some of them came after all.
The cancerous Eabo meme is spreading:
EaBo is broken up into 3 major sections: Eagle Hill, Orient Heights, and Jeffries Point. I guess you could call Maverick a small area as well.
Spotted by the ever vigilant Marilora, who notes that, unlike EaBo, East Boston has FOUR major areas. She adds:
Carmeller spots the following ad on the hipsterati watering hole, i.e., craigslist:
East Boston (EaBo) loft coming in several months, 14'+ ceilings, walk to airport station, 800 square feet + 400 sf mezzanine, AC, roof rights, all stainless steel appliances, brand new. Don't wait to inquire. Come to Boston Magazine "hottest city neighborhood".
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