About
Keep Being Awesome is a podcast. That’s mostly what I have worked out so far.
I have two goals:
- Talk about awesome things, and/or how I’m staying awesome.
- Do ten podcasts.
After that it sinks or swims. We’ll both know by then which it is.
Actually I do sort of want to have an overarching theme: being awesome. I’ve spent so much of my life with self-inflicted insecurities, and now I’m trying to see what it’s like when I don’t put them there. I know I can be awesome, but the trick is doing it on purpose. And holding on to it. I’m going to try taking optimism for a spin.
As for the name itself, I originally got it from this picture:
Oh, you’re an aggressive meat eater. Explains why some years back, you caved in to Bill Keane by ceasing your excellent sado-masochist parodies of Family Circus. (I suspect, however, you were handsomely paid off.) And why you consequently denounced my gay parody of Peanuts, because you were secretly jealous that I remained firm in my stand against Schulz’s attorneys, and WON. (There is also the likelihood your homophobia got in the way, too.) My site with that particular comic remains online, as brazen as ever. You really jumped the shark when you caved in to Keanes…you site has never been more than mildly non-boring ever since.
Missed your time, man. Your last chance to hurt my ego with this was like four years ago.
Thanks for reminding me, though. I miss the goddamn weirdos I’ve seen over the years. You got Mahir in there?
There was a time when /you/ were called a weirdo for your Family Circus parodies. To be specific: right-wing fundamentalist Christian types were calling you “weird”. I certainly see no pride in moving over to their side. In fact, better to be called “weirdo” by those kind, than “friend” or “ally”. So call me all the names you want, it’s a true compliment, when you consider the source.
So where are all your Christian fans supporting you for your conversion? Where are the favorable comments? No wonder you’re shutting down. And to think it all goes back to when you caved in to Bill Keane. LOL
I’ve changed so much over the last decade, it’s always funny to see people who haven’t. Especially the angry ones.
p.s.: still hilarious you think I’m a homophobe just for thinking you’re not funny
Oh, I don’t think you’ve changed one bit. False accusations, defamation of character, bullshit remarks…yep, it’s all still there, like a nasty old scab that never healed. Nothing awesome about you, or your site. In fact, it’s all rather dreary and uninformative. I conclude that selling out to Bill Keane impacted your creative juices in a most negative way. He now owns your sorry soul, too bad.
FYI, my reason for calling you a homophobe has nothing to do with jealousy issues. Has everything to do w/your own gay cartoon sketch, which filename you gave of “knocknuts”. That surely smacks of anti-gay bigotry…otherwise you’d've name that file “gaycartoon”, “zekescartoon” or something equally inoffensive.
Your flippant critique of my Pee Nuts cartoon was poisoned by your bigotry, and was not a fair evaluation. Many people have enjoyed my Pee Nuts parody, and gotten a good belly laugh out of it.
That fact that you accuse me of being motivated by anger when there is no evidence of this, speaks volumes. I am simply amused how I stumbled onto your more recent online ventures, after all these years. Reminds of that old saw:
“The chickens came home to roost.”
Or even:
“What goes around comes around.”
I’m sure Mr. Keane appreciates having his arse licked. I’m sure you do a pretty good job of reaming him, too.
Since I’ve NEVER sold out to anyone, my writing has not been sacrificed to the Demons of Obeisance, but has instead flourished. My latest is also comedy, and writ as yet one more satire of heterocentric dogma:
Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus is Gay
http://tinyurl.com/8xl4nrl
Errata:
I meant “rimming” not “reaming”. lmfao
Come to think of it, if I followed the same road to a dead end like yourself, none of my satire would ever see the public light of day. For example: if some Santa Claus organization requested I remove my essay “Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus is Gay”, precisely because it offends some of their customers (or hurts their feelings), I’d never post it anywhere in cyberspace. Same goes for an earlier anti-holiday piece called “Another Hetero Xmas”:
http://gay-bible.org/write/3_another-hetero-xmas.htm
It is totally disingenuous of Mr. Keane’s attorneys to request you remove your Family Circus parodies on the absurd claim that it hurts the feelings of his fans who simply adore that comic strip. As if any of those folks would ever bother to view your site, let alone that particular parody. Maybe they found it via a search engine, and got their Fascist brown panties up in a bunch.
Your Family Circus parody was brilliant and a delight. Certainly worth defending against the legalistic hegemony of certain people of power and influence, that seek to wipe out any form of free speech that should flutter into their radar zone like a happy little butterfly…and get instantly squashed by their pudgy little greedy little fist.
Had you stood your ground, most likely Chicago’s Legal Comic Book Defense Fund would have take your case gratis, and won…just as they so expertly did for my Pee Nuts parody. In acquiescing so swiftly and obligingly to Keane’s un-Amerikan request, you also weakened the rights (to free speech and fair use) of all artists of satire, everywhere. Way to go, sparky!