Scanning the Chicago Trib this a.m. while swilling my joe. Not in a hurry to do anything productive, I find my eyes falling upon an article in the LIVE section (is that a long or short i?) about the E-Trade baby calling a golfer a shankapotamus.
Tracing the roots of opatomus usage, it cites OpalCat of opalcat.com: “When my ex-husband and i were dating, we were obscenely sweet and cutsie … Somehow we ended up applying the syffix ‘opotamus’ to words - ‘sweetopotamus’ instead of 'sweetie. …”
My friends, need we any clearer sign that we are truly in the year of the cat?
Some of you may have waded into the morass that is my expansive and exhaustive (and exhausting) website before, but sometimes someone hits on something in there that even I’ve forgotten existed. This was the case this week when I was contacted by a writer for the Chicago Tribune. The article he writes is E-Trade baby ad puts ‘shankopotamus’ in play and is apparently from the Superbowl.
It’s weird the way things work sometimes. The most popular page on my website is a listing of Toronto DAB stations that I put together back in '04 or so. It doesn’t even link to other pages! I can only conclude that people are googling it.
Oh wow it never even occurred to me that anyone else would have seen it! I started my own thread about it. Heh. I think it’s pretty damned funny, myself. Hooray for being one step closer to world domination!
Oh crap! Well the bronze isn’t done so it’s a painted rough-plaster body but let me go take a picture real quick. (I had planned on waiting until it was finished finished to take photos, but let me go snap a couple real quick just to show ya.)
OK here are progress photos. I took the most recent ones 5 minutes ago, but keep in mind the finished piece is going to look better (and be better photographed… no,uh, kittens in the edges of the frame, for examples :X
aww thanks! I’m hoping to make a career out of it. But so far the only things I’ve sold are a print of this painting–to a friend, no less–and this sculpture to some doctor I never met while it was on display at a gallery.
