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  • http://shenuts.com Sarcastic Journalist

    santa!! what happened?

  • http://a.wholelottanothing.org Matt

    Santa was frozen in carbonite by Boba Fett.

  • http://dirtyfloorsandfilthyjokes.blogspot.com/ dave

    Looks like the cowboy in the bowling alley in “The Big Lebowski”

  • http://wanna.have.asite.like.this.but.not.creative.com Charlie

    I’m gonig with the wind dude that is always blowing in your children’s books talking about the wind with the picture of him there blowing some poor rabbit away from his mommy.

  • http://moxiemoron.diaryland.com Moxie

    What archeologists would have found if Vesuvius had exploded on Sam Elliot.

  • http://www.julienet.atfreeweb.com/retreat/ juli

    We have a lot of old limestone buildings where I live and I recently noticed the county courthouse is just covered with all sorts of pagan looking carvings. I will investigate more thoroughly with a camera when it is warmer than 3 degrees outside.

  • http://aredeaf.blogspot.com Coelecanth

    Doric, no thanks. Ionic puleeze! Curmudgeon capitals are where it’s at.

  • http://throughlife.blogspot.com kEma

    Jon.
    I dk if the problem is in me or not, but i cannot view your previous >blurb<, instead of it some partial script appears

    Anyway the wind dude resembles my Granpa… Following that logic i should be popular too :}

  • beachgal

    I can see the face. Weird things are afoot at blurbomat for past posts, tho.

  • beachgal

    Can’t post, get error.…what’s going on?

  • http://humanwrites.blogspot.com Dr. Johnny Fever

    “Pay no attention to that man carved in stone!”

  • beachgal

    sorry for multiple posts…nothing was working for a while, now they both show up. Strange strange strange.

  • http://www.blurbomat.com Amanda B.

    Maybe Jon is doing the uh, computer stuff he’s been talking about to get the site straightened out with the spam and whatnot.

  • Maria

    I live in Lubbock, TX and they are constructing a new highway here. As part of the design for the retaining wall, they were including the “windy man” character (since, well, Lubbock is so damned windy). Anyway, some zealots here threw a huge tantrum because Windy Man looked a little pagan to them. So, they start pissing and moaning and demanding that the one that had already been installed be taken down, and that no more be put up. When it didn’t happen fast enough, guess what happened in the middle of the night? Yup, someone smashed poor Windy Man’s face in. http://​kcbd​.com/​G​l​o​b​a​l​/​s​t​o​r​y​.​a​s​p​?​s​=​2​397323

  • http://mihow.com mihow

    How charming. I love how the article mentions that it was right across from Chuck E. Cheese.

    I would have taken a hammer to Chuck E Cheese instead. And then claim I got the idea by playing “Hit The Gopher”.

  • http://www.blurbomat.com dj blurb

    Maria, do they have college or university anywhere near Lubbock? Or have the born-again Jesus freaks taken over?

    And I thought Utah was bad…

  • http://mihow.com mihow

    Say it had been pagan, does Jesus really want his fine followers beating its head in? Does Jesus condone this sort of behavior? And so close before his birthday, too. What if he had been celebrating across the street at the time and witnessed such a harsh act?

    People are so weird.

  • Maria

    Jon– Lubbock is home of Texas Tech. This is a pretty conservative town, but probably not as bad as most places in Utah. I’m surprised it came to smashing Windy Man’s face, but I guess every town has it’s psychos. Believe it or not, most of the Christians around here saw nothing wrong with Windy Man and were pretty pissed about the whole “drama” surrounding it.

    Mihow– love the Chuck E Cheese comment. Funny, I used to love that place as a kid. Now, when I take my kids, it takes all I have not to claw my eyes out in agony the entire time I am there (although playing Hit the Gopher might help me release some of the anger next time).

  • Maria

    They never found out who did the damage, so it is very possible it was a few drunk TX Tech kids. Those whacky kiddos do crazy things like (my personal favorite) paint the outside of their rent houses bright purple with multicolored polkadots to piss off the neighbors that reported them for having one too many roommates.

    And yes, this was a big newsmaker in Lubbock. The landlord helped them do it.

  • http://schmutzie.diaryland.com schmutzie

    That photo makes it look like God’s chortling at you. I bet you think chortling went out of fashion in the eary half of the twentieth century, but God’s bent on bringing it back in the early twenty-first, and he’s starting with you.

  • http://holyschmidt.blogspot.com Melanie S

    Jon,

    That reminds me of the Stone King on Return to Oz. A great movie to watch when you’re tripping on acid, or so I’ve heard.

  • tpaquin

    mark twain meets the holy roman empire

  • http://badgermeetsworld.blogspot.com Badger

    Oh, poor Windy Man. It’s hard to be a pagan in Texas.

    I thought the photo was a self-portrait of sorts. There’s something about the eye area. Only I guess Column Guy can’t hold the smoke in as long as Jon can.

  • http://staysix.org Ali

    Has anyone see “Return to Oz” with the pre-Craft not-so-freaky Fairuza Balk? That reminds me of the stone man at the end who sucumbs to…

    …eggs. His weakness is chicken eggs, which is a bit bizarre, but I always assumed it was some commentary on premarital sex or something.

  • http://r80o.com Mark

    Ganja Claus

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