{"id":156,"date":"2004-01-26T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=156"},"modified":"2005-05-01T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T17:28:03","slug":"evilmarty-2004-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/evilmarty-2004-world-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"EvilMarty&reg; 2004 World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m bored.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has known me for longer than 10 minutes knows that can ony mean one thing: <\/p>\n<p><b>Mischief and Mayhem.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ok, that&#8217;s two things.  Sue me.<\/p>\n<p>As everyone knows, usually some evil twisted bad guy\/gal becomes that way because of a tragic unjust miscarriage of justice in the antagonist&#8217;s past that scarred him\/her forever&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, it&#8217;s because nobody ever trusted me with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=flat+stanley&#038;btnG=Google+Search\" target=\"offsite\">Flat Stanley<\/a>.  You know the cute little paper guy that gets mailed around the world and everyone takes pictures with him.<\/p>\n<p>Well, nobody let me play.<\/p>\n<p>(<b>Everyone:<\/b> &#8220;AWWWWWW&#8230;..&#8221;)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EvilMarty&reg;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/evilmarty\/evilmarty_sm.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anybody up for some Photoshop fun?<\/p>\n<p>I propose we circulate <b>EvilMarty&reg;<\/b>.  Flat Stanley&#8217;s no good, welfare recipient, beer guzzling cousin from the trailer parks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/evilmarty\/em_template.zip\">Photoshop PSD<\/a>, and we can circulate him around notorious crime scenes, mass murderers and politicians. Post it in your blog, and ping me.<\/p>\n<p>Then we can have a vote, and the winner will get a premium copy of <a href=\"\/lotsafonts\/\" target=\"offsite\">LotsaFonts!<\/a> on CD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LOOKIE!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/evilmarty\/bush_marty.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"171\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\n*holds back tears* *sniffles*<\/p>\n<p>Then maybe&#8230; just maybe, I&#8217;ll <strike>find something else to blame for my sorry state of bitter bastardhood<\/strike> be a better person.<\/p>\n<p>(<b>Everyone:<\/b> &#8220;AWWWWWW&#8230;..&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Would you do it for me?<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWow.  Who knew there were so many problem adults that are handy with Photoshop out there?<!-- <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EvilMarty&reg;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/evilmarty\/evilmarty_sm.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/> --><\/p>\n<p>Just mere hours after announcing the <a href=\"\">EvilMarty&#0174; Photoshop Contest<\/a>, we&#8217;ve already got our favorite flattened redneck showing up everywhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<li>He&#8217;s over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justdonna.com\/archives\/000321.html\" target=\"offsite\">Just Donna&#8217;s<\/a> making a Public Service announcement about oxy<u>morons<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.affectiveartistry.com\/personal\/archives\/00000023.html\" target=\"offsite\">Kendra<\/a> has him too&#8230; at the Democratic Debates! (Who knew he was running for office?)<\/li>\n<li>The hilarity ensues over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mykeru.com\/forum\/ikonboard.cgi?s=2651919d2987464dcf675a276bbb4bf3;act=ST;f=7;t=11\" target=\"offsite\">SALON DES REFUS\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd<\/a> forum, where Reverend Mykeru  and his band of merry elves are REALLY cranking them out&#8230;\n<p>(As you can see by his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mykeru.com\/assets\/images\/jebus\/\" target=\"offsite\">Gallery of Jebus Art<\/a>&#8230; he&#8217;s just warming up)<\/li>\n<p>No rush, kids. I haven&#8217;t set a deadline yet&#8230; make as many as you want&#8230; but let me know if you have EvilMarty&#0174; up somewhere, ok?  JOIN IN ON THE FUN!!!<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Update<\/u> 8:16 PM:<\/b> EGADS, he&#8217;s now been spotted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carla-online.com\/kissthis\/archives\/2004_01.html#000371\" target=\"offsite\">Kiss This<\/a>! He&#8217;s spreading faster than the My Doom worm!!!! Good Lord! What have we DONE??!!??<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Yet another Update<\/u> 1\/29 @ 5:33 PM:<\/b> &#8211; His invasion continues at <a href=\"http:\/\/talkwithdesiree.typepad.com\/desitalk\/2004\/01\/theme_thursday_.html\" target=\"offsite\">Desiree&#8217;s<\/a>, where he shares a brewskie and stock tips from Martha Stewart!<\/p>\n<p>Double whammy at Dee&#8217;s: at last Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassy-eyed.com\/archives\/000221.html\" target=\"offsite\">blogger meet-up<\/a>, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassy-eyed.com\/archives\/000222.html\" target=\"offsite\">moving in on J-Lo<\/a> now that Affleck is out of the picture&#8230; ZOINKS!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;m bored.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has known me for longer than 10 minutes knows that can ony mean one thing: <\/p>\n<p>Mischief and Mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, that&apos;s t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-skewl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EvilMarty&reg; 2004 World Tour - SoApBoX<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/evilmarty-2004-world-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EvilMarty&reg; 2004 World Tour - SoApBoX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&amp;apos;m bored.  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