Every now and then I think I should take the easy road with this funny blog thing, maybe just write about fake events,just make stuff up and call it good. Nah, not when things like this are going on. Not when people keep supplying my punchlines.
Let's see, over the past couple weeks, Batman was questioned by police for allegedly assaulting his mom and sister, some schmoe dressed as Superman threatened to kidnap a kid, and now this joker shows up, trying to steal Dark Knight posters from a Michigan theatre.
After decades of art imitating life, suddenly we're being overrun with no-lifers imitating art. Used to be we had something called "the crazy season", but like global warming's potential to create permanent summer, the loons are flocking year-round.
I don't know if it's the pressure of life today that's causing this. It's pretty hard to tell, because these folks have a none too firm reality grip to begin with. Years ago, geeks and nerds donned the costume of their favorite fictional hero and began gathering in enclosed places where the rest of society could keep an eye on them. We called these meetings "conventions", and the fictioneers accepted that. What they didn't realize was these fests were run by a top secret government agency, and as the conventions grew in popularity and attracted more and more citizens in search of a personality, the feds were compiling data on them. Needless to say, there's quite a few pretty thick files on these crazed crusaders in DC, which is a very appropriate place to keep them.
What I want to know is how did Superschmuck and laughing boy escape the net? I thought the government was supposed to protect us from people like these. Perhaps the supersleuths are too busy watching the Capitol Hill lawmakers' chapter of the Injustice League of America.
Copyright © 2008 thehumorsmithchronicle
Let's see, over the past couple weeks, Batman was questioned by police for allegedly assaulting his mom and sister, some schmoe dressed as Superman threatened to kidnap a kid, and now this joker shows up, trying to steal Dark Knight posters from a Michigan theatre.
After decades of art imitating life, suddenly we're being overrun with no-lifers imitating art. Used to be we had something called "the crazy season", but like global warming's potential to create permanent summer, the loons are flocking year-round.
I don't know if it's the pressure of life today that's causing this. It's pretty hard to tell, because these folks have a none too firm reality grip to begin with. Years ago, geeks and nerds donned the costume of their favorite fictional hero and began gathering in enclosed places where the rest of society could keep an eye on them. We called these meetings "conventions", and the fictioneers accepted that. What they didn't realize was these fests were run by a top secret government agency, and as the conventions grew in popularity and attracted more and more citizens in search of a personality, the feds were compiling data on them. Needless to say, there's quite a few pretty thick files on these crazed crusaders in DC, which is a very appropriate place to keep them.
What I want to know is how did Superschmuck and laughing boy escape the net? I thought the government was supposed to protect us from people like these. Perhaps the supersleuths are too busy watching the Capitol Hill lawmakers' chapter of the Injustice League of America.
Copyright © 2008 thehumorsmithchronicle
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