Wombat Boy

 

No, Wombat Boy isn't one of my superhero ideas. Actually, I think a wombat with a bat would be pretty formable. I think Piñata Man would be a little nervous if he met Wombat Boy, especially this one who really looks like can and will use the bat and not to hit a few fly balls and grounders. 

I have never met or actually seen a real wombat. I do like the name. Wombat just rolls off the tongue. Apparently the name "wombat" comes from the language of the Darug people, one of the Indigenous groups from the Sydney area in Australia. 

I tried having Gemini generate (a word Gemini really likes) an image for "The Wombat Who Laughs." But none of them looked like the wombat was laughing. Perhaps Gemini was being sensitive to the fact that wombats have those marsupial gnawing teeth and don't look particularly happy with their mouth open. Being AI, I was hoping Gemini could loosen up and give the laughing wombat an exaggerated fake smile. But Gemini is kind of a Polly Anna when comes to such things.

So I switched gears and had Gemini give me some wombats in baseball uniforms. I would love to seem actually working at a MLB game. I bet they would be pretty great Wombat Bat Boys (when they weren't gnawing on the bats). For tomorrow, I'm working on some "Wombats out of Hell" images. They are pretty hot (in a literal sense and not in a sexual sense).

Quickly changing the subject, today is National Red Wine Day. 

Of course, it is also National Thoughtful Day, National Power Rangers Day, National Bow Tie Day, Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day and National Cherry Turnover Day. None of these inspired me much to create a t-shirt design. I had to ask ChatGPT what Rainbow Bridge was. Apparently it is the idea that your beloved pets cross a Rainbow Bridge after they die and end up in a peaceful meadow where their health is restored and they wait for you until you die and then both of you cross the Rainbow Bridge together and go to heaven...or a farm...I'm not sure which. Regardless, it is way too much for a t-shirt. 

So instead of messing around with bow ties on cherry turnovers, I asked Gemini to riff on Dizgraceland Record designs because I'd only got Artie over at Ideaograms take on my blog name. And Gemini actually produced some pretty cool stuff.

Now doesn't that look like some cool old shop you'd want to go into and hang out for awhile discovering things like Wombat Boys and Piñata Man superheroes? And Gemini also spit out this nifty image of a a Shure 55 Fatboy microphone.

I just added the headline. I think Gemini does great work when you get it to pull its head out of its AI ass and have fun.

Wait, I think I here the Fatboy singing.