The Sockpuppet Asylum

( It's finished )

( A piece I'm working on )

They say that a man like Ric Flair is such a great wrestler, he could wrestle a broomstick and still get a four star match out of it.

Kota Ibushi of the "Dramatic Dream Team" company in Japan took it one step further.

Below the cut is a video of him wrestling "YOSHIHIKO," the current DDT Ironman Championship.

It's an incredibly dramatic 30 minute match (give or take,) with tons of action, amazing moves and many near falls.

Did I mention that "YOSHIHIKO," the DDT Ironman Champion is a blow-up doll?

That looks like Hulk Hogan?

( Japanese Comedy Wrestling )

Made a new icon.

Decided to post it.

Brian's idea, my GIF handiwork.

Okay, so, about two months ago, my grandmother was taken to the emergency room. She was let go, then a few days later went back in. The doctors told her that she should probably have a double bypass. It wasn't to the point where it was completely necessary, but if she got it done sooner rather than later, it would go a lot better. So she had it. A week and a half later, they moved her to St. Anne's, a nursing home across the street where she could rehab for a week or two. But instead of getting better, she still felt miserable. They took her back into the hospital because she had fluid in her lungs and legs. They drained it (an incredibly painful process,) and after a few days, sent her back to St. Anne's. Well, it happened again, she she needed another draining. Yesterday, they finally moved her back to St. Anne's, she was in the best spirits she'd been in in a long time, (my mom said she'd never seen her that happy in her entire life,) and things were going well.

This morning, my grandmother fell and broke her nose.

And now she's back in the hospital for a few days.

(She's really doing fine, but still, it's kind of hilariously aggravating what happened.)

( spoilers for new comics, not really that anyone who reads this cares )

Wait, today is Guy Fawkes day?

But I thought we totally celebrated that on Tuesday. (In the "we're not afraid, they should be" kind of way.)

( The Transformers Jack O'Lantern that Kurt, Owen and I made (pics inside) )

It's in two pieces: the pumpkin (with head and arms attached,) and the legs (attached to a board for stability.)

All in all, I'm incredibly hyped. These pics don't do it justice. I'm hoping we win (our only real competition is Sign Shop, who we have developed a rivalry with.) We'll find out Friday.

Person A has a story published about them. Several quotes are attributed to that person at a certain time and place. The problem is, he never said anything like that. It gets repeated over and over. The quotes are so controversial, it Person A kicked out of a group. Weeks later, a retraction is made, buried in small print with a "sure we can't prove he said it, but we know that's how he thinks."

Person A takes another story, stirs up a bunch of controversy (over the course of an hour show,) about something Person B was supposed to have said. At the end, reveals it was a fake, but he "stand by it because he knows that's how Person B thinks."

Now stories are going out about how horrible Person A is because he's accusing Person B of something that's patently false, completely missing the fact that it was flippin' satire.

-_-

Humanity is so stupid sometimes . . . .

The other night, some anti-war protesters start impeding traffic downtown (including a fire truck) then harassed and threw things at the police when they tried to clear the road. People got arrested (and several tried to resist arrest) and now there's a bunch of idiots crying for the police to be "held accountable" for "mistreating" the poor, poor protesters.

It's pretty simple . . . Don't harass the police, you won't get arrested! If they had moved out of the street peacefully and, oh, I don't know, didn't throw things at the cops and then resist arrest, they wouldn't have gotten roughed up.

I don't give a crap if you protest the war, but do it peacefully, y'dumbasses. I've been to protests (for more important things,) and they've never had problems like that with much larger crowds.

I'm pretty much in smacking stupid people upside the head, and these idiots totally got what they deserved.

Well, today there was an interesting little incident at work.

First off, I'd like to say that I'm like, six-foot-two. I'm a big guy. I'm not super skinny, and I'm not particularly heavy. While I cannot grow any facial hair that looks good, I do have a light gotee type thing on my chin that is very hard to see because it is very, very blonde. I also currently have a ponytail. Just try to keep these facts in mind while I relay my story.

I was talking to my coworker Damon this afternoon when an elderly man rolled up in a Mart Cart. He asked for artichokes in an Italian accent. I pointed behind him and showed him what little we had left. He told me "you've got to be kidding. Go get more." I kindly explained to him that our truck hadn't shown up yet, and that was all we had. He told me that I must be joking and that I had to go get him better ones. I told him that our truck would be showing up any minute, but until then we wouldn't have any other artichokes. He then started demanding to see the manager. I looked around and where there had been three managers, suddenly there were none. I managed to track down Jamie, the new Team Leader, and told him that an angry customer wanted to see a manager. While Jamie headed over to talk to the customer, I bolted to the back because I had a few other things I needed to do. When I came back out, the customer was gone, but Damon called me over.

"You'll never believe what that guy said after you went over there."
"What?"
"He asked me if you were a man or a woman."
"You're kidding me."
"No. I told him that you're obviously a guy, but he said that he didn't believe me because you had long hair."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah. He tried arguing with me about it."
". . . . You're joking, right?"
"No."
"That's the first person above the age of three who needed to be told that I'm a guy."
"Well, he was acting like he was three, so I guess it fits."

So, yes . . . I was either confused for a girl by a cranky old Italian man, or he was desperately trying to insult me because I didn't have any more artichokes. What a day.

On the bright side, there's a new STL (Night Manager) who was being trained by one of the current STLs. The current STL, Dan, introduced me as a "backup." I'm not a backup, I'm just a clerk, but I do a lot of backup work, and I guess it shows. That was nice.

Were if I of the shorter haired variety, I would totally do Tallahassee for Halloween.

Zombieland is one of the best movies I've seen all year, and with Star Trek and Up on that list, that's saying something.

If you liked Shaun of the Dead, you won't be disappointed.

Highlights (which are vague as to not be spoilers:)

- Dueling Banjos.
- The 6th person left alive.
- THE RULES!
- The scene after the credits.
- Little Rock.
- Columbus.
- Wichita.
- Tallahassee.

(In other words, just about everything.)

If I scored movies, it would be a 10 out of 10, five stars, A++ and so on.

In lieu of actual content, a meme...
( The 100 Worst Movies Meme )

Wow, 4 out of 100. . . . I have a good taste in movies, apparently.

Why are people so shocked when I'm honest? It's not like I'm good at telling lies anyway, so why would me telling the truth be so weird? (I got done really early with the load at work yesterday, and I tried to do some extra stuff that I normally don't have time for. When I told someone I had two and a half hours to kill, they were shocked that I wasn't going to use that time to goof off or milk it.)

I mean, it's not like I go around bragging that I'm some super-honest guy and then go around doing other stuff when no one is looking, I just try to let my actions speak louder than words (which is why I'm caught off guard when people assume I'm going to do something incredibly out of character.)

I dunno. Just something that's been on my mind.

Okay, so, I read a geek blog called "Topless Robot."

Every Friday, they run something called "Fan Fiction Friday." It takes a really bad fanfic and kind of presents it to the audience as to mentally scar them.

This past Friday, a Pokemon fanfic was posted. Not the scariest thing they've ever posted, but it is by far going to be the one everyone remembers. The author of this disturbing little fic found out TR was making fun of it and started posting in the comments and unwittingly started a new meme. That meme? "WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?"

The post discussing the original post. (Trust me. It makes sense.)

The follow-up post "We're all in trouble now!

( My contribution to the meme. )

Just got an email I've been waiting for. I commissioned something for Rin at Connecticon, and it's done. I just have to send in the second half of the payment, and they'll send it to me.

Huzzah!

(This is sort of a teaser, just in case Rin or Noa sees this. Ha Ha! I know what it is! And you doooon't!)

My mom called me at work today to tell me that she had taken my grandmother to the emergency room. She was having breathing problems (not that unusual, she smoked heavily until about ten, fifteen years ago,) and apparently her heart rate was up really, really high. They gave her meds, she was able to breathe again, and her heart rate went down, but every time she tried to move it spiked back up again.

They moved her out of the ER, and now they're keeping her for a few days. My mom doesn't know if it's just for observation, or if she might need a pacemaker.

Kinda scary, to say the least.

(In other news, tonight I experienced prison-style hard labor by moving heavy rocks.)

Got bored the other night and only had a pencil and post-its.

Broke the site. Now fixing it. It's "up" but not lookin' pretty. I'll be fixing it as best I can after work.

Fell to peer pressure and joined . . . . "twitter." Guh. Not sure how I feel about it, but it's apparently a good way to promote the site\keep people informed when I do things like break the entire thing. I'm @TheCowComic (I think. Oh, and what's with the "#" stuff?)

Also started a The Cow facebook page. Thinking of revamping the Forums too. I'd like to get this stuff together by the time I'm done with issue 3, because I'm gonna try to advertise and get new readers and stuff.

Had a pretty crappy day, but this video cheered me the hell up. Sounds kind of like my "Power Rangers Project" from when I was a teen . . .