If you’ve ever attended an All Y’all live storytelling event, chances are good that you know the Treme Family. How could you miss them? Nathan not only creates beautiful music and helps run sound at many of our events, he and Amy regularly inspire us to continue making art, supporting others in their creative journeys, and wearing our love of this community on our sleeves.
Speaking of sleeves: Nate works for the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of Northwest Louisiana (CADA). CADA is one of a whopping 255 nonprofit organizations that are fundraising via Give for Good 2020, and Nate recently hosted a Twitch live stream to raise money for his employers. During the live-stream, Nate made illustrations requested by folks who contributed.
Sara from All Y’all requested an illustration of “Captain Henry Miller Shreve riding a narwhal, eating a Sweep the Kitchen from Johnny’s Pizza House.” And, Nate being Nate, he freakin’ made it happen. You can support CADA’s Give for Good 2020 campaign here, if you’d like to, and now you can also purchase Nate’s illustration on a shirt! There’s also a “censored” version, in which the Captain does not curse in his lambasting of logs.
Nate also—at long last!—revealed the controversial true origins of the founding of Shreveport and the clearing of the Great Raft. Here’s Nate’s discovery, in his own words:
“In 1972 Captain Henry Miller Shreve and his business partner, Heliopolis the narwhal, punched 1500 logs and invented Shreveport. Then they invented pizza cut into long rectangles to more resemble logs so they could imagine destroying logs with their teeth.
This history has been covered up by the Elite Literate Class but it’s now time for the truth to be told.”
Our guess would be that a young family like the Tremes could use some extra cash in the coming months. So, if you’ve been strutting around the house bare-chested during quarantine, and you’ve realized that you need a shirt, please consider buying this one.
But, don’t feel bad if you can’t. A lot of us are worried about our ability to make ends meet in a post-COVID-19 reality, so if you can’t afford to buy a t-shirt right now, well that’s completely understandable.
TL;DR: This shirt’s fantastic, and so is the guy who made it.
