Month: September 2011

  • Celebrity Round Up 9/2/11

    I keep thinking I am done with work on my float but things keep popping up in my head and I'm going to be doing more work.  Great.  At least today I didn't get burned when I used the hot glue gun.  I really need to remember to charge my batteries so I can get some photos.  Anyway it's time for the round-up.

    NSFW and NSFL


    There have been many rumors floating around that state that Tupac Shakur is still alive.  Well members of his former rap group, Young Outlawz, made a video this week stating once and for all that he is dead.  They have proof.  They took his ashes, rolled them with some marijuana and smoked Tupac.  They said they did it because in one of Tupac's last "songs" he said that his last wishes were for n-words to smoke his ashes.  Well I guess that solves that although I'm sure there will be people that will deny that they smoked his ashes and claim that he's still releasing songs.  Well when all you do is rhyme words it's not that hard to put out hundreds and hundreds of songs.

    You better not mess with Steven Segal because if you do he'll shoot your puppy and run over your roosters.  While filming another season of his reality show, Lawman, Segal and the police department were going to take out a farm that was allegedly raising roosters for fighting.  Well the police decided the best way to take out this cock fighting ring was to drive their tactical tank to the farm.  They ran over a wall and actually crushed the chicken coop killing multiple roosters.  Also when police left the vehicle shots were fired and they killed a dog.  The owner of the roosters and dog is now suing the police department and A&E and Steven Segal for $100,000.  The guy's name is Jesus thus proving once and for all that no one fucks with the Jesus.  All of that for a Big Lebowski joke...I rule.

    While everyone was bracing for Hurricane Irene no one was planning on Hurricane Shia.  He proved once and for all that he is a terrible dinner guest.  He was dining with Marilyn Manson and Manson's girlfriend and Shia's girlfriend Karolyn Pho.  Shia took a drink from his water bottle and spit it all over his date.  He then took another drink and spit it all over Marilyn Manson.  He then started screaming at his date and became very angry and got up and left and tried picking fights with people in the crowded venue.  He eventually left even after strangers tried to hold him back so he wouldn't hurt someone.  His date quickly followed and Marilyn Manson remained seated.  People should have spit water at him because he always looks like he needs a shower.  I think Hurricane Shia blew more than Irene.

    Say what you will about Marilyn Manson, but you have to admit that he dates the most graceful and demur flowers.  Manson was spotted with this new girlfriend by the paparazzi and she donned a mask and showed off her brand new merkin.  Sweet Lord!  A MERKIN!  How awesome is it that I am writing about merkins?  One of my favorite characters in cinema was named Merkin Muffley...true story.

    Robin Leach turned 70 this week.  When I was a kid I always dreamed of being on his show.  Does that antiquate me?  Well I never made it on his show mostly because the decade of decadence came to an end and people got pissed about the super wealthy.  Now I will mock him.  Have a happy fucking birthday you fucking limey jerkwad.  There, I showed him.  Suddenly I am in the mood for cupcakes.

    Richard Gere turned 62 this week.  I don't know how he celebrated but you can't find a gerbil anywhere.  Seriously, I wonder if he'll ever live that down.  I bet when he dies, the cable news networks will have experts on to discuss whether or not he shoved gerbils up his ass.

    If I had a dollar for every time Minka Kelly acted like she wanted to fondle me, I'd be pretty rich.  Actually she's just showing of how big of bats Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were packing.  No way I could date her after she dated 2 Yankees...wait, who am I kidding?  Beggars can't be choosers.

    If you had any plans of making out with Michelle Branch...DON'T!  It looks like she has a case of the Paris Hiltons.  Just wait a few days for that to clear up.

    This is Matthew Fox.  He played Jack Shephard on LOST.  He is currently filming a movie in Cleveland.  Last Saturday Matthew was out drinking because apparently there isn't anything else to do in Cleveland.  He then tried to board a private party bus but the bus driver told him that he couldn't board.  The bus driver repeatedly tried to tell him to leave but Matthew was slurring all his words and she couldn't understand what he was saying.  She finally understood when he started throwing punches.  He punched her in the breasts and then he threw a few punches and they hit her in the vag.  He was drunk so they weren't great punches.  The bus driver reared back and cold-cocked him in the jaw.  He fell backwards and started coughing up blood.  Unless you're Chris Brown, what sort of asshole punches a woman in the vagina?  Prosecutors in Cleveland have charged him with assault and he was arrested.  The bus driver is also in the process of filing a civil suit.  I don't understand the whole punching thing and I probably never will.  Sure I punch women in the cervix but that's because I'm a romantic.  I just don't see any love in the world these days.

    Whitney Houston was discussing a time she ate at Michael Jackson's house this week.  She said that while they were eating she dropped a knife and Michael quick jumped under the table to retrieve it.  Then Whitney claimed she felt something take off her shoe and start sucking on her toes.  She said Michael's name and he popped up and asked what she wanted.  She looked under the table and there was Michael's chimp, Bubbles, sucking on her toes.  I wonder if she had peanut butter on them.  I'm not shocked by this story.  Maybe all the molestation accusations against Michael were wrong and Bubbles was the naughty one.

    Malin Akerman loves me!  She really loves me!  Oh you didn't know but my name is Matthew Oswald so she had to share her love for me in shirt form.  OK so maybe my name isn't Matthew Oswald but for her I'd change my name so she could show her love for me on a t-shirt.  T-shirt expressions of love are the purest form of love.

    Madonna made an appearance at the Venice film fest this week.  Aging and Kabbalah water haven't been too kind on her.

    Lindsay Lohan got herself a new tattoo.  I almost thought about sharing it in my Terrible Tattoo post but I thought it would be better here.  In case you can't read that because Harvey Levin has to stamp his brand everywhere it says "Clear as crystal sharp as a knife I feel like I'm in the prime of my life".  So how do we interpret that tattoo?  "Clear as crystal"...clear as a crystal meth pipe that she shared with multiple people at her last party.  "Sharp as a knife"...that she threatened to stab herself with the last time Sam Ronson broke up with her and also the knife she used to kill her career.  "I feel"...like going to the bar and getting blitzed.  "I'm in the prime of my life"...LOL you call this the prime of your life, please, you haven't been popular for anything positive since Herbie and that movie blew.  In other destructive behavior, Lindsay tweeted Chris Brown at the VMAs and asked if he wanted to meet-up with her.  OK, Lindsay, that may just be lust but if you want to pursue a relationship with Chris Brown, here are some tips.  First, you have to stand up for yourself because he hates passive women.  Next, don't be afraid to voice your opinion no matter how much he disagrees with you because Chris enjoys a good debate.  Finally, if you have to criticize him, do it in a disrespectful manner because he loves to be corrected by his girlfriends.  He will fall madly in love with you if you follow these simple steps.

    Leann Rimes was spotted frolicking at the beach this week.  Did you know that for just 25 cents a day you can sponsor a starving former celebrity?  God, I would crush her. 

    A mystery buyer approached Vivid entertainment this week and said they wanted to purchase the rights to Kim Kardashian's sextape.  They want to purchase everything, including the footage that wasn't included in the original release.  The owner of Vivid, Steve Hirsch, said this buyer doesn't intend to broadcast or sell the tape but to completely remove it from the market.  It looks like Kim's mom finally unveiled her wedding present to Kim and Kris.  I guess that's the great part about giving the rich tax breaks.  They can buy up all the rights to their child's sextape.  Hirsch said the buy offered $5million but he said that he won't sell it for less than $30million.  I have a feeling that this is just another publicity stunt by both Vivid and the Kardashians.  They don't want the tape off the market, they just want people buying it again even though the tape is like taking Ambien.  I had more exciting sex last night and I was all by myself.  I'm pretty sure they know this tape won't completely disappear but if they talk about it it will sell.  In fact, this story was a #1 story on CNN a few days ago.  I know one person that hasn't seen that sextape.  It's Kris Humphries.  Just this week he was on an airplane flight and was seated in first class next to Kim's sextape partner Ray-J.  Ray-J asked if he knew who he was and Humphries said he didn't and Ray-J told Kris he used to date Kim and Humphries just stared at him blankly.  Kris Humphries should send thank you cards and flowers and chocolates every day for the rest of his life to Ray-J since Ray-J made sure Kim's vagina was lined with gold, both money and the gold he showered her with.  I'm glad Ray-J showed restraint.  If that was me, I would've whipped out my dick on the tray and said, "This is what made your wife rich.  All that stuff you now married into, it's because of this."  People are saying that Kim and Kris are no trying to have a baby.  I suppose that's the next step in this relationship.  No, it isn't welcoming in a new life into the world to lavish it with love but it's so they can exploit a new human being on E!.  They'll sell exclusive photograph rights to everything for that kid.  Afterbirth...dirty diapers...breast feeding...yep, just prepare yourselves for the onslaught.

    Julianne Hough, of Dancing with the Stars, had her phone stolen and intimate photos she took for her boyfriend Ryan Seacrest posted online.  Well this is probably the most intimate of the photos.  She sure does know how to use a camera phone.  Does anyone else remember when cell phones didn't have cameras?  Do you remember when there weren't any cellphones?  Do you remember when there were only rotary phones?  God, I am really antiquating myself in this post.

    A judge this week ordered that Jon Cryer must pay his ex-wife $8000 a month in child support.  Here's the kicker, his ex-wife doesn't have custody of their child, Cryer does.  His ex was deemed an unfit mother.  This is totally fair.  It's really expensive these days to raise a child who isn't in your custody.  Wow, I think his character on Two and a Half Men is less of a loser than the real life Jon Cryer.

    This is for @raiderjester because he likes hearing about cancellations.  Sad news, everybody, TNT canceled Jada Pinkett Smith's TV show, HawthoRNe.  Mark Anthony was also in the cast.  Poor Jada, last week she endured all these rumors about her marriage ending and this week her TV series ends.  Somewhere Xenu is laughing and is set to launch an attack on mankind. 

    OK this is the most bizarre thing I have ever written.  Jack White, of every good band of the past decade or so it seems, and the Insane Clown Posse have collaborated on a cover song.  That's not the bizarre part.  The song they covered is a song that Mozart wrote.  See music teachers try to deny this and they won't talk about it in classes but Mozart was really freaky and wrote a lot of dirty songs.  The song that ICP have covered is called "Leck Mich Im Arsch" which literally translates as "lick me in the ass" and probably is our idiom "kiss my ass".  Anyway, this is just so weird.  You can give it a listen over here at Soundcloud.

    To combat the leaked photos of the next Batman movie, photos this week were leaked from the set of the new Superman movie.  I don't know about it but it looks sort of weird.  All I can think is "Bow to the cod-piece."  I think the movie will have a legal fight on their hands for rights to the name ManOfSteel69 on most adult dating websites.  OK quick question about Superman, how did people not know that Superman and Clark Kent were the same person?  I mean it's pretty obvious since he doesn't wear a mask.  Are people just that dumb?

    Hayden Panettiere was showing off her skills at a premiere.  Trust me, Hayden, it will fit once you start working.

    This may be the saddest story I've ever written.  David Hasselhoff was spotted buying wrapping paper for his daughter's birthday and then he ate at a Chili's...alone.  Oh that's so sad.  David, I'll be your friend...as long as you pay for our meal at Chili's.

    Courtney Stodden turned 17 this week.  Her husband is still 51.  She told everyone on Twitter that she was going to spend her birthday with her husband.  She also tweeted this: "While I lie beneath this sizzling-sun, the popsicle that I am sweetly sucking on begins to melt & drips irresistibly all over my moist body!"   And this: "Celebrating the last night of being sweet-n-sexy 16 by wearing NOTHING but my tasty bday-suit! Mmm; Yummy! "  I think she's trying to hard to be cast in a new movie based on the Nabokov novel "Lolita".  I hope I look that good when I turn 17 for the 30th time. There is no way she is 17 but I guess that won't stand up in court but it will get her married.

    Last week Chelsea Handler was escorted out of a private party at a nightclub because she was caught in the men's bathroom in a stall with a guy who was wearing gold shoes who wasn't her boyfriend and had been suspected of selling coke.  When will people learn?  You don't use toilet seats to snort that good shit, you use a mirror you keep in your purse.  GLAAD was offended by Handler this week when she made jokes about Dancing with the Stars cast member Chaz Bono.  She said, "The Dancing with the Stars cast has been announced and, this is season 13, it includes Chaz Bono, otherwise known as Chastity Bono [laughs] before she got her penis".  GLAAD is demanding an apology and also for Handler to have transgender celebrities on her show so that she will be able to know the hurt she has caused based on her punchlines.  Look, I don't find her that funny and she's sucked off half of Hollywood because how else would you explain how she got on TV and she treats everyone like shit.  Apparently Chaz doesn't have a penis...yet.  Maybe Chelsea can wait for when Chaz gets his dick so she can see if she recognizes it.

    Beyonce debuted her new addition to the world at the VMAs.  That's right, Beyonce is pregnant and Jay-Z is the father.  If Jay-Z says he still only has 99 problems then he probably isn't that good of a father and we better call CPS on him.  Apparently Snooki approached Beyonce at an after-party and had Beyonce her Planned Parenthood frequent buyer card and said that if Beyonce wasn't sure about keeping it she should use Snooki's card so Snooki can get her next mistake taken care of for free.  And let the hate poor in...email me at thetheologianscafe at yahoo dot com.

    And as I mentioned earlier, Dancing with the Stars announced it's next cast this week.  I kept seeing DWTS everywhere this week and I once again thought it stood for "Dining with Tartar Sauce".  Here they are: Nancy Grace (you know she's going to give that evil glare at the judges every week and she'll have to make comments about Casey Anthony and thank her because without Casey Nancy Grace is nothing), Chaz Bono (Cher's daughter who became a guy and who FOX News is trying to crucify), Elisabetta Canalis (I think the only thing she's famous for is boning George Clooney), Carson Kressley (He's one of those gay guys that try to prettify straight guys...sweet Jesus, prettify is an actual word, spellcheck accepted it), Rob Kardashain (Just another Kardashian trying to be an attention whore), Chynna Phillips (Member of Wilson Phillips who I really don't know), JR Martinez (he's an Iraqi war vet who became a daytime soap opera star), Ricki Lake (She will win this mess because just look at her dance in Hairspray), Ron Artest (I won't call him Meta World Peace until he legally changes his name, he couldn't change his name because he had unpaid traffic tickets, since the NBA is on strike he has nothing better to do than to dance on national television but then again that is how I view basketball), Kristin Cavallari (some hoe from The Hills who was dumped by Jay Cutler, he can't see anything through to the end, can he?), Hope Solo (She's Han Solo's love child with Princess Leia and she plays a sport where she slaps balls, how could I not be in love with her?), David Arquette(Former WCW wrestling champion turned alcoholic).  I may actually have to give this season a viewing or just when Hope Solo and Ricki Lake dance.

    Video Section:
    Kim Kardashian is now whoring herself in the music industry.  Here's a preview of her music video.  It hasn't been fully released yet because the Kardashian Klan know how to pimp themselves out to the world.

    I need to wrap this up before this thunderstorm hits.  Have a great weekend.

  • Lukewarm Links 9/1

    So here we are with another links update.  My cat is going insane tonight yipping and jumping around.  She caught herself some sort of bug and is playing with it.  I got to see a little of the Badgers dominate because I was working at my church on our Labor Day parade float.  After this weekend I'm retiring from the world of crafts.  I burnt myself so many times with a hot glue gun.  I'll get some photos of the float so you can all marvel in my artistic side.  I have a few more things to do with the float and then it will be set.  Well I guess it's time for links.

    11.  I'm not much of a fan of Eric Cantor and have often thought some of the things he has said could be treasonous.  Anyway here's a tumblr devoted to his bitch face.

    4.  I was doing a Tumblr search for Little House on the Prairie stuff...no I was really looking for porn when I found this site that is apparently Willie from Little House who is still living and making hilarious drawings.  OK I was really looking for Little House stuff I just said porn to make you think I was a badass after all that talk about burning myself with a hot glue gun.

    3.  Since college football kicked off this evening here's a fun little quiz.  See if you can identify the college team based on their helmet.  It took me 2:20 to get that one.

    5.  And since the NFL season is right around the corner I thought I would get myself a personalized jersey and then I remembered this list of banned names.  Boy my neighbor, Charles Cumshot, is going to be disappointed he can't get his name on a jersey.

    8.  Since the summer is pretty much over, here's a collection of the best summer mugshots.  #9 is the absolute best mugshot. 

    12.  I love reading police blotters and this has to be one of the better stories of the past month.  Notice he didn't deny pressing his ass against the window but he denied gyrating.

    9.  Last week I posted a site about the Last Meals Project.  Here is a blog called Dead Man Eating.  It features many last meals.  It's so hard to imagine that those are some of the things that people chose to eat before they died.

    1.  Here's a fun website.  It's called Bad Translator.  You enter a phrase into the text box and then it translates the phrase through multiple translates from different search engines.  I took the quote "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."and translated it through Bing and Google through 56 languages and the quote changed to "We see that it exists."

    2.  I saw this one someone's pulse either today or yesterday.  It's David Bowie's "Space Oddity" as a comic.  It's so sad.

    10.  I did a random Google search of my name and found this website called Where the Hell is Matt.  That's not me but I am envious, not that he traveled all over the world but that he can dance. 

    7.  I don't know what to think of this website other than this guy really wants to kiss me and that he looks pretty creepy.

    6.  Do you have a Twitter?  Do you like celebrities?  Now you can stalk celebrities on Twitter with this site called Celebrity Tweet.  It contains links to numerous celebrities and it will rate how often they would reply to you or even follow you.  I've wasted so much time there.



    Those are for @raiderjester


    They are going to badge all over the Big Ten.  Or is it the new Big 12?

    Here we see Paris Hilton in the year 2025.

    It's no use, Mr. Squirrel, he's extinct.


    Yes!  I wanna play!

    Have a great night.  I'm going to have to go play video games by myself.

  • Terrible Tattoo Thursday

    It's Thursday and that means it's time for another round of craptastic tattoos.

    Really, a lawn chair.  Were you drunk or high or both or just plain stupid?

    Connect the dots...la la la la la...connect the dots.

    That is a better arm band than those tribal ones.

    Can anyone tell me what this is?

    A crazy tattoo of a guy with a crazy tattoo.  It would've been better if he got it tattooed on his face.

    First it was Favre in a Packers uniform and then it was Favre in a Jets uniform and then it was Favre in a Vikings uniform.  I hate to see how much that guy will pay on tattoos if Favre still comes back.

    I bet that guy has removed that tattoo in the decade of Raiders feebleness.

    I hate the Raiders organization like most people but no way would I get a tattoo of John Elway urinating on the Raiders shield and the collected urine is pooling in the words "U Suk".

    That apple won't lead many into temptation.

    Even I'm tempted to give a squeeze.

    He's really a rock-it man sporting that tattoo but who knew Shatner had so much acne.

    Your body is a Lego Wonderland.

    OH NO! It's Zombie Jesus and he's here to forgive my sins and eat my brains!

    It sort of looks like Fozzy Bear chocking a shark.  I don't get it.  Wokka wokka?

    I think he got that tattoo as a cheat sheet for his butcher's exam test.

    A Napoleon Dynamite tattoo?  Heck yes!  I think it would look better if the person was wearing some moon boots.

    Yes, finally a dryer.  Why tattoo an appliance on your body?  Maybe he is the Maytag man. 

    AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH Look out guy!  You have a zombie tattooed on your shoulder!  What?  That's your daughter?  My condolences.  I don't know if I will have kids but I do know that I would never have their image festooned upon my body.

    This is the epitome of a crappy tattoo...get it? 

    At first I thought this guy got in a real bad fight but no, that is a tattoo.  What place would hire someone with that on his face?  Hmmm...a morgue...a halloween makeup factory...and the most obvious...a tattoo parlor.  I do have to admit that this tattoo is pretty creative and not your typical Jesus or cross.

    Hope you enjoyed.

  • Checkerman

    I was looking for something to write about this evening and I was going through my word docs of things I have written and intend to share eventually and one stuck out.  It was titled "Checkerman".  I opened it and there was nothing inside.  Apparently I just titled the document "Checkerman" and left it at that.  I'm trying to remember why I did that.  I have a feeling it's because I wanted to share the tale of Checkerman with you but I didn't have time to write it and I just sort of ignored that document.  Well that is about to change.

    I went to a Lutheran grade school in what is considered south central Wisconsin.  I really love that area of the state.  It's so rural and removed from what people consider the big city.  I rode a bus to this school every day.  I lived about 10 miles away from the town where the school was located. This particular town had a population of 216.  I remember that because it was the number of a hymn in a hymnal that I rather enjoyed.  Anyway the location of my school was ideal.  It was a one story school located right underneath a bluff.  We would always try to climb that bluff at recess but the teachers would be other there and scold us if we got too close.  After school was a different story.  On top of the bluff there was a camp that supposedly trained people to become witches.  This always led to some interesting encounters like the one time a group from the camp came to worship one of the trees on our playground.  They considered it to be the oldest living thing in the state of Wisconsin.  They were idiots because even I as a grade school student could tell this was a young tree.

    The school had 5 classrooms.  Each classroom was split between two grades.  In one room at the end of the building was the kindergarten and preschool room.  Back then kindergarten only was in the morning and preschool was only once or twice a week.  Then there was 1st and 2nd grade.  When I was in that classroom the teacher became pregnant and was out of school for a while.  She had a boy and gave him my name.  That was sort of odd.  When people realized what sex was they asked if it was my child.  The 3rd and 4th grade classroom still gives me nightmares.  The teacher was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 300lbs.  She was so mean.  I think she had issues with males because only boys got in trouble.  I remember forgetting to put my name on a paper and I had to run laps around the playground which was about the size of a football field.  A girl forgot to put her name on the paper the same day and the teacher told her to remember it next time.  She also made boys do push-ups if we didn't sing.  One day I couldn't sing because I had a sore throat.  I actually was diagnosed with strep throat the next day.  She stopped playing piano because I wasn't singing and told me if I didn't start singing she was going to make me do push-ups.  I told her I couldn't sing because my throat hurt.  She said that I could sing if I tried.  I said I couldn't.  She told me to do 20 push-ups.  I threw my hymnal into my desk and cried.  I was then told to go to the principal's office.  I was sitting there and he asked what was wrong.  I told him I couldn't sing because I had a sore throat.  He felt my forehead and said I had a fever and so he called my mom and she came and got me.  I never had an apology for that either.  My only fond memories of 3rd and 4th grade was recess.  The teacher liked to build classroom unity so she had us all play the same thing every single recess.  In fall we played kickball.  When the weather got bad we would go to the gym to play dodgeball.  Then in the spring we usually played softball.  She also picked the teams and batting/kicking order.

    My 5th and 6th grade teacher was the principal and usually every day he went into a rant and he usually ended it with talking about how horrible drugs and sex were.  There was the one time we had to take a county mandated sex survey and he apologized for it before we took it.  I was in 5th grade and had to answer if I had ever had someone stick their genitals in my butt.  Yep, that was a fun survey.  The teacher also smoked like a chimney.  He would walk outside the classroom between classes and would smoke his pipe and he would stand outside the classroom windows to make sure we were doing our work.  My 7th and 8th grade teacher was a lovable buffoon.  We called him the Excited Southerner because he was originally from the South and had a very noticeable accent.  It was very present when he said the word "peanuts".  We were in geography class learning about South America and it came time to talk about each country's exports. 
    "OK, class, the chief export of Brazil is peanuts."  But it didn't sound like "peanuts".  With his accent it sounded more like "penis". 
    Then he at the end of class he did a little review.  "What's the chief export of Brazil?"  No one knew. 
    "It's penis."  HAHAHAHA. 
    "What's so funny?" 
    "Mr. S., what is Brazil's chief export?" 
    "Penis." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
    "What's so funny about penis?" HAHAHAHAHA
    "Penis." HAHAHAHA
    "Alright if anyone laughs about penis I'm taking away you recess.  The chief export of Brazil is penis." HAHAHAHAHA 
    "THAT'S IT!  Y'ALL ARE STAYING IN AT NOON TO EXPLAIN WHY Y'ALL ARE LAUGHING AT PENIS!"  It was worth it.

    So I just had to give you a little background of my school.  This one kid who went to my church was odd and saying that he was odd is an understatement.  He was a foster kid and I guess his family had issues.  All his siblings were split up.  I remember they would come to church with him maybe once or twice a year.  All I can remember is his sister always looked pregnant even though she was only 10 or 11.  It turned out that she was a nervous eater and would chew on her hair.  She ended up having surgery and they removed a ball of her hair that was about the size of a softball.  I also remember she wore the same t-shirt every time she came to church.  It was an old school glittery screen print shirt that had a photo of J.R. Ewing and said, "I Love to Hate J.R."  Her brother also had the same habit of wearing the same clothes over and over again.  It wasn't that his foster family didn't provide for him.  He just loved wearing the same clothes over and over and over again. 

    Lucas' favorite outfit was a white t-shirt and red, black, and white plaid checkered pants.  I think he wore that outfit 4 school days and then for Sunday church.  Well when we were in 6th grade and Lucas was in 4th grade, his first year at our school, my friend Steve took a look at Lucas after about a quarter of school had passed and said, "God that guy is weird.  He wears the same outfit all the time." 
    I replied, "Yeah, he even wears that to church.  Maybe he's some sort of crime fighter and that's his uniform."  "What kind of hero is he?  A checkerman?"
    Well the name stuck and soon we were calling Lucas "Checkerman".  He actually dug the name and told me on the bus that he was going to debut his crimefighting outfit at church on Sunday.  I just said, "Oh God."
    Well Sunday came and he Lucas comes running in his white t-shirt and checker pants but they were a little different and he also was wearing a black and red cape.  Lucas came up to me and screamed, "DO YOU HAVE ANY CRIME THAT NEEDS FIGHTING?  CHECKERMAN IS HERE!"
    I was staring in disbelief.  Lucas had taken a white t-shirt and wrote "Checkerman" on it with black marker and he also drew a few black and red circles on the shirt.  His cape was interesting.  He said he cut a pillow case and colored it with red and black markers.  He also glued a few checkers on the outside.  Lucas looked exactly like what you'd think a superhero named Checkerman would look like.

    Well had Sunday school and all the grades met together for a brief devotion and introduction to our lesson.  I can't remember how it started but Lucas got up during the middle of the devotion and started hooting as loud as he could and he jumped up on a church pew and started throwing checkers at people.  Yes, he carried checkers with him and threw them at "evil doers".  Well a Sunday school teacher didn't cotton to Lucas throwing checkers at evil doers so she grabbed him and pulled him out of the church.  Then we didn't see him for the rest of Sunday school but when church was about to start here comes Lucas running into church acting as if he's flying and he screams, "HAVE NO FEAR, CHECKERMAN IS HERE!"  Surprisingly he didn't do anything weird during church but you could just tell he had big plans for school.  After church I went home with my parents and called my friend Steve and told him all about Checkerman and told him to be ready for tomorrow. 

    Lucas and I rode the bus with a couple other students from my town and sure enough Lucas was dressed like Checkerman.  Brian, who was in my class, and I sat in back and wondered aloud what would happen once we got to school.  Well that was quickly answered.  Lucas ran off the bus and into the school.  He ran into the doorway of every classroom and screamed, "HAVE NO FEAR, CHECKERMAN IS HERE!"  No one had a clue as to what just happened.  I get into my classroom and the kids are asking me what Lucas was doing.  I explained how he thought he was now a superhero named Checkerman.  Everyone was thankful we weren't in his classroom.

    School started and everything was going swimmingly.  We were just about to start math class when we heard the 3rd and 4th grade teacher scream "LUCAS!"  It turned out that right at the end of their religion class he stood on top of his desk and screamed about being Checkerman, put on his cape, started throwing checkers at people and was jumping from desk to desk.  We could here the teacher yelling at him to get down.  The principal heard the commotion and he opened our classroom door and went to try to bring Lucas to an order.  Lucas was jumping around from desk to desk  The teachers tried to grab him but Lucas evaded them and he threw marbles on the floor.  Apparently he was a fan of cartoons.  He then came running into our room and threw checkers at some of us.  Then he took off through the principal's office which was attached to our classroom and he ran outside.  The 7th and 8th grade teacher tackled him and Lucas started screaming an ungodly death scream.  Lucas' foster parents were called in and he was taken away.  The principal came into the classroom and told us to pray for Lucas.  I raised my hand and asked, "What should we do with the checkers?"  The principal told us to bring them up front.  20 checkers were placed on the desk. 

    It turned out Lucas had a pretty severe case of ADHD and was put on so many behavior altering medicines that he was practically a zombie.  He didn't wear the checkerman outfit for a few months and then one day he wore the complete outfit but he was totally zombified and did nothing crazy.  Lucas had a pretty much uneventful rest of his academic career at that school except for one instance when he drew the name of his crush for secret Santa at Christmas time.  He didn't buy her a gift.  He made her present.  He recorded himself singing Achy Breaky Heart but he changed a few of the lyrics to make it personalized for this girl.  She was horrified.  She gave it to the bus driver and he played it on the bus's stereo.  Lucas had recorded himself singing Achy Breaky Heart for 90 minutes, 45 minutes each side.  I wish I had that tape because I would definitely upload it.  Then I graduated 8th grade and I didn't see much of Lucas.  Because I went away to high school I usually went to church where I was living so I didn't see him much.  When I was in college I found out Lucas had moved into an apartment across the street from my parents.  I asked him if he had come over and threw checkers at them.  Then one day I was visiting and I was outside enjoying a beer.  Lucas came walking by and said hi.  I waved and said hi.  He just didn't seem to be the same. 

    It wasn't until last year that I had my next run-in with Lucas.  It wasn't in person but through the newspaper.  It turns out Lucas went off his medicine and decided that he was no longer a crime fighter and he beat the shit out of his girlfriend.  The police were called in and that made Lucas furious.  He started beating police and their tasers didn't phase him.  He put one cop in the hospital because he beat him in the head.  Lucas was getting tired from fighting and the tasers so instead of kicking or throwing punches he pulled down his pants and defecated into his hand and then he threw his shit at the police.  Once he was out of shit he was tackled.  A cop had Lucas in a choke hold and Lucas lowered his mouth and bit the cop putting him in the hospital for 30+ stitches.  When they finally got him handcuffed and hog tied he attempted to urinate on them as they carried him away.

    Lucas is currently a resident of the state of Wisconsin in one of our jails. It was sort of sad when Lucas' foster dad died and he couldn't come to the funeral because he was in prison.  Anyway, I can't believe I hadn't shared my story of Checkerman before.  I hope you enjoyed and if it was too long for you to read, here's some photos.  I must admit I need to work on a better ending but then who knows what will become of him when he gets out of prison.  Maybe he'll go back to fighting crime.


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