Scary Christmas

 

I think ChatGPT and I make a pretty good team. I suggest an idea and it enhances it. And it is so damned quick. I suggested making me into a scary Christmas clown because it is Christmas Card Day and Weary Willie Day according to the National Day people who have been commenting on my feeble attempts to sell t-shirts using their National Days on social media. 

If you don't know what Weary Willie Day is, it recognizes the art of clowning. It was named for the character made famous by Emmett Kelly who was born on December 1898. There is no clown like an old clown. Weary Willie was the first sad clown. So I imagine Emmett Kelly realized that he was making his living as a clown and got depressed about it.

I have to admit that when I saw "Weary Willie" I wasn't thinking clowns but the National Day people are pretty wholesome so I don't think they were trying to glorify the tired Willies in the way I was thinking.

Regardless, I was inspired to combine clowns with Christmas and thought Scary Christmas. ChatGPT suggested the "He sees you when you're sleeping" line (which I think it genius) and the rest is history. I have yet another poster and t-shirt design that no one will buy. 

It is also Lutefisk Day but I am not a big fan of the Norwegian delicacy which is mushy fish cured in lye. It is pretty disgusting. But I'm not a big fan of fish anyway. Though I suppose a Lutefisk t-shirt would appeal to a niche Norwegian market even though it basically looks like something your dog threw up and ate again only to throw it up one more time.

I is also National Pastry Day and I suppose I could have combined a Christmas clown eating pastry with lutefisk on it to check all the boxes. 

Naw....I'll stick with Scary Christmas. I think it speaks to the season.