In my quest to raid your blogs, pillage your photos, and Photoshop them into something weird, I have run into many snags. Some of you have no pictures. Some of you have pictures that are already pretty weird. But today was particularly challenging. Because this guy just doesn’t take a good picture. Something about his skin tone just doesn’t work on film or digital imagery, like a vampire with a mirror, I guess.
Say hello to my little friend;
http://mooselicker.wordpress.com/
Now with a name like mooselicker, you would assume that he lives somewhere where there are actual mooses…moosi?… to lick, like Canada maybe…
But he doesn’t. (You see what I mean about his photographs, right? I stole two pictures from his blog. One has this weird greenish-yellow tint to it, and the other one makes him look pasty. I didn’t mess with the colors at all)…
Now I want to say that this guy is one of the most fearless bloggers I know. I want to say that he will take on any subject without worrying about repercussions or fallout. I want to say that he battles on the side of free speech and a world free of censorship…
But to be honest, that would be stretching the truth. What he likes to do… besides wiping his tongue on large mammals… is to go out of his way to offend people. Oh, not for his own sick amusement. He does it to be funny. And to make us think. To get us talking about issues. You have to bear that in mind.
If he didn’t have a blog, I like to think that he would be out doing something like this…
So for cryin’ out loud, visit his blog so he doesn’t get frustrated and stop blogging. (I just noticed that this picture of his head, the pasty one, is actually the same skin tone as that guy I stuck his head onto… or at least the same skin tone as his butt… I am sure that this is just s a coincidence)…
I promised the moose-man that I wouldn’t go out of my way to embarrass him here. But if I was going to do that, I would have just put the other picture of him I found on his blog up here on my blog, without doing anything to it in Photoshop…
And make him explain what the heck he was doing with that poor little dog…
Pouring My Art Out 
Well he was asking for that first picture! 😉
Maybe.
You’re a vicious man, Art. Picking on poor Canadians. I’m sure the Moose is embarrassed now.
At least I didn’t set him on fire…
Hmm. I suppose there’s a certain kindness in that.
I hardly ever set large mammals on fire… anymore…
I know what you mean by him being offensive for a joke!
Sometimes I wonder why he isn’t getting death threats.
I am not a violent person, but I did unfollow after telling him what I found offensive & giving him a chance to say sorry.
Oh… what did he say to piss you off? You can tell me while you look at your new Gravatar image.
He was addressing complaints about a stadium where there was a complaint about the seats. His response was to assume the people who complained about the seats must be obese otherwise they would have nothing to complain about. Basically he said something like obese people have no right to enjoy public entertainment because the seats weren’t made for them & they take up too much room! I know he was trying to be humorous but I think he went too far & I felt his remarks were offensive rather than amusing.
Comedy always runs the risk of offending. And very few comics can work completely upbeat. Cosby, a few others. I am not defending his stand on this. Just pointing out that if you watch any comic on HBO, you will end up being offended sooner or later.
Most jokes I can take, it just seemed like he was purposely choosing to pick on a group of people, often these people have no choice in their condition, they may have a physical disability (like me) or they may have some psychological problems (like me after my rapes). This is a very painful condition for a lot of people & they struggle with it. I think very few people choose to live their lives this way.
I totally understand and support your right to not like anything anybody says. A mean spirited joke can be hurtful. I try not to be mean spirited. I love you man.
OK, I’m confused – you think I’m a man? I am definitely a female, at least until the hormones run out, 🙂
When did I ever say that???
Your last comment to me “Love you man.”
I figured it out. We just say man and dude in Califonia… to everybody. I call my daughter when I’m drunk and say, “I l;ove you man.”
Oh… I see… the I love you man… it is a California thing. I also call everybody dude.
Go look at your new wiener dog image.
O.M.G. I love it when you bring the photo-shop out to play.
Awwww… shucks.
ahaha! butt face..
Just the same color… not quite the same thing…
there was an implication there…
really?… see, two can play at that game…
yes but i’m better..
of course you are…. oh, I am good…
pft snarkle
oh yeah
We Canadians are not amused. We are regularly sauced. But not amused.
No we are not…lol
I am getting mixed messages.
oh shoot i forgot what we were talking about again..lol
sighpft
Psssst, fellow canuck… let’s send in the beavers on this chap, I think he has it coming. But let me finish his book first and see if he’s up for a sequel.
I write poorly when I am on fire.
Does it depend on which part is a-flame?
Not in the least, as it turns out.
I’m with you but we have to be on the down low, there’s ears i tell ya ears…
America had nukes… just so you know…
it seems someone is ease dropping on a private conversation…
We wire tap and torture our own citizens… have you met us?
well there’s a little de ja vu going on here
Ha!
I have noticed that… ha!
You are calling on the fire, sir. Flaming beaver fire.
The richest kind!
You are lucky you said that. I will call off the attack for now. And oh by the way, in this respectable part of the world it is after 10 pm. I’m sure your evening is just getting started, but us sophisticates and upper-tier folks from the great plains of the frozen north will now collectively turn in (after a few more beers anyway).
Okay, but some day you will have to describe, at great length, what a flaming beaver is supposed to look like.
We have flaming beaver lift off!!!
Oh my gosh. While that is a very tasteful picture, this is not what a flaming beaver looks like at all. And I can’t believe you spilled the beans on the revolution. Now they will almost certainly arm up with anti-beaver guns and other miscellaneous rodent traps. The revolution has failed before it began! But I believe in my commandante – lead on!
That is what an American imagines a flaming beaver to look like. We hunted those things to near extinction years ago.
Hahaha love it. I think a lot of my pictures have a weird tint because they are taken from video, I tend to use really soft light bulbs, and indeed I have a vampiric skin tone.
vampiric skin tones… good name for a band.