Political Parody

[firstfrost]

justom had a "running for president" party. He had campaign posters saying things like "Giordano for President: A Stichelton in Every Pot" and "Giordano for President: Pants you can believe in". I brought picket signs against him, which ilhander and shumashi helped wave for a bit. It's hard to picket inside a party, though.

I am very pleased with how the Tom/Hitler photomorph came out. Anyone else feeling like being morphed into the celebrity of their choice? Whee!

Alas, the Omen is too obscure a cultural reference, unfortunately.



I had Hitler, Antichrist, and Teabags covered; harrock went with another variety of political crazy, Truther, in his tinfoil hat. Everyone said he made a very good crazy, though on our way there, someone looked amused and asked what the sign said (it's an Oath reference), so I guess he wasn't completely convincing.

Comments

[desireearmfeldt]

Or perhaps your presence ruined harrock's cred as a crazy. :)

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

Also... how many tin-foil hatters actually wear tin-foil hats?

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

Pretty brilliant though - i wish I could have been at the party.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I did see a guy on the T once with a tinfoil hat, though his looked like a baseball cap carefully covered in tinfoil.

[twe.livejournal.com]

Hilarious. I'm sorry we missed it.

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Did you find an Omen font, or did you do that from scratch, or what? It's very good.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The bowling-ball-of-666 is taken from a movie poster and vectorized; the rest of the letters are a font called "butterbrotpapier", which isn't as nicely creepy as the real Omen font, but is irregular enough to look spooky. :)

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

For the Philistines for whom The Omen is obscure:
(http://www.impawards.com/1976/omen.html)

[mijven.livejournal.com]

So having gotten lost in your album, I clearly need to go make an icon of the vomiting pumpkin. (Which I typed as pumpking.)

Drat, but not today.... Field trip to a water-based wheat/corn mill from 8-11:30 (completely fascinating... as well as very allergy shifty), school lunch amusements from 11:30-1:30, home for my own lunch, and now back to school because on Tuesdays I DRIVE (much to the commentary of my friends) because the boys have 3:30 music lessons the next town over. :)

[mijven.livejournal.com]

Can you explain tin foil hats to me?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

They protect you from orbital mind control lasers, alien telepathy, the government beaming radio waves into your brain, etc.

(It's kind of a stereotype for paranoid schizophrenics)

[mijven.livejournal.com]

Right. That's what I thought. But... I think other people do not think it means what we think it means. Gosh, that was a bad attempt to channel Inigo. :)

Anyway - glad you had fun!