Why is this man frowning?

 

Well, first he has no beard.  And second, the intellectual property Nazis struck again. Teepublic.com pulled down three of my National Leathercraft Day designs. Perhaps you remember:

Okay, it proves you don't really have to mention something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Leatherface to be censored. I would technically say that this looks more like Michael Meyers than Leatherface even though Michael Meyers preferred to use Chef knives rather than chainsaws and let's face it, Michael Meyers would never wear overalls or be caught dead in Texas. Not being caught dead is ironic considering Michael Meyers is the Boogie Man and can't die.  But let's say this was an image of Michael Meyers with a chainsaw. Could they claim intellectual property violations? Because the mask they used in the original Halloween was apparently a Captain Kirk mask turned inside out. So wouldn't it fall into this weird gray area where the John Carpenter stole the image of Captain Kirk and by default William Shatner and used it in the Halloween movie for Michael Meyers. So if I used a Michael Meyers image with a chainsaw to represent Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre then technically I'm violating the intellectual property of someone who violated someone else's intellectual property.  

It's all kind of a shit show. But even if this is a violation of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre intellectual property rights (which again is kind of an oxymoron since there wasn't anything intellectual about Texas Chainsaw Massacre) what do they stand to gain by having three of my designs pulled from the teepublic.com site? Basically, I was just messing around with the National Leathercraft Day people. I didn't seriously think that anyone was actually going to buy a National Leathercraft Day t-shirt with an image of Leatherface or Michael Meyers brandishing a chainsaw threatening to make leather goods out of people's skins. And even if someone did buy one of the t-shirts, I would have made $2 since you only make $2 off from a t-shirt sale when they are on sale and they are always on sale at teepublic.com. So the bastards at Exurbia Films could ask for a cut of my $2. Let's say I am feeling generous and they get 25 percent.  That would be fifty cents. 

The other irony here is that Exurbia Films is a documentary film company that organizes virtual events and reunions for the cast and crew of the original 1974 film. So they didn't even have anything to do with the making of the original film. They are just leeching off the franchise by pimping out what is left of the original cast and crew who, let's face it, must be in their 70s. Leatherface likely doesn't even need to wear a leather mask. 

See how ridiculous this is? 

On a brighter note, today is National Tooth Fair Day.

Let's see what bastards come out of the woodwork to scream intellectual property rights violations or me exploiting the tooth fairy.