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AWWF Wednesday Night Raw

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Nov 282012
 

“Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday Night Raw! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with Popkin “The King” Lawler!”

“Pickles!”

If you repeat a lame joke often enough it becomes funny. My whole comedic career is based on this premise. Anyhoo, it’s time for new mash-ups. More wrestling this week (don’t worry, there’s only one week left after this one). Let’s send it back to our ring announcer shall we? As always, click to embiggen.

“WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” “From Calix’s Cross, ‘The Nature Girl’ Nek Flair!” Originally I was only going to do two weeks of wrestling mash-ups and Ric Flair was going to be in that set. Then I decided that I was going to do good guys and bad guys. Ric Flair was going to be in the first set, but Flair only became a good guy in the later part of his career. In my golden period of wrestling, he was “the dirtiest player in the game” so I moved him over to the bad guy set which is how Warrior made the cut in the first set. I didn’t know which robe to use. This wasn’t my first choice, and I even started drawing a different one, but I didn’t like how I was drawing the patterns on it, so I switched to this one which was easier to draw.

“From Bree, the Honkytinker Fur!” Don’t you just love his ear sideburns? Again, this track suit wasn’t the one I originally had in mind. To me, the classic Honkytonk Man track suit is his blue one with the floral patterns, but I really didn’t like how it turned out. I moved on to the next mash-up, but I couldn’t get over how bad the blue suit turned out so I did something I rarely do and went back to a finished drawing. I erased the colour layer and started over with this notes and records suit. It looks a whole lot better trust me.

“Shinies Shinies Shinies Shinies Shiniiiiiiiiies!” “From her summer home in Northend, the Million Shiny Fur, Sass Dibisassy!” The Million Dollar Belt wasn’t fun to draw. The rest was fairly easy.

“It’s time for the Sister Love Show!” I really struggled finding a heel for Deema. I feel the love theme works for her, but in her case, she would have been sincere.

“From Verdant, Mr. Perfect, Tod Hennig!” Mr. Perfect never had elaborate wrestling gear, but he was too cool to pass up. His trademarks were the towel he always carried with him to the ring and how he could spit out his gum and swat it in mid-air with his hand, so that’s what I tried to depict here.

That’s all for this week. Come back next week for the final wrestling installment.

I Could Have Made It This Year!

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Nov 262012
 

Every year the challenge I set for myself is to make it to the end of November riding my bike to work. The conditions I normally set though are that if I get a flat after October, or it snows (whether it sticks or not), my biking season is over.

Every year I come up short. Last year, my bike was stolen in September, and I decided against buying a bike until the spring, so that cut my run short. In 2009, there was an early snowfall in November, so again I came up short.

This year, I had decided that unless there was snow that stuck, I was going to continue. There was no snow, and it was really mild. It looked like I was going to make it. Then on the 15th, two weeks shy of my goal, I blew out my tire as I was just heading back home from work leaving me to walk the rest of the way home. Foiled again.

Before this year, I had no clue on how to fix a flat on my bike, so I would have to bring it in. The reason I wouldn’t do it in November, is that the bike shop closest to me closes in the fall, and the one downtown is just a pain to get to. By the time I could get my bike downtown and repaired, the month would be over, or just about. This year, I finally learned how to fix a flat myself. Therefore, I could have gone downtown and just bought an inner tube and fixed my bike so I could ride out the last two weeks, but I decided against it. My faithful steed would be stabled with a hobbled leg once again.

Oh well! There’s always next year. My cunning plan for next year’s attempt is to buy a couple of inner tubes during the summer so I have one readily on hand if I get a flat in the fall. Where was this genius idea in July?

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