It could have been a contender

 

All the way back at the beginning of April I posted a design with a boxing raccoon (actually three different boxing raccoons) who happened to be called Rocky Raccoon. I half way expected them to be pulled because of the crap weasel intellectual property police but I figured if they did get pulled it would because of Paul McCartney's "Rocky Raccoon" falling into the room only to find Rocky Balboa. But the designs have stayed up all of this time until a couple of days ago when MGM complained and teepublic.com yanked them down. I would like to think it was because I'd been selling hundreds of them but nary a one flew off my virtual shelf. So MGM was just being spiteful. And come on, they are images of boxing raccoons named Rocky. It seems to be a stretch that they would threaten the Rocky Balboa franchise.

But, I am learning to get knocked down and get up again.

So I repurposed my fighting raccoons. Because screw MGM. They may own Rocky, but they don't own boxing raccoons.

Not that there is a big market for t-shirts with boxing raccoons on them, but when there is, I'm ready. And you know why I won't quit even when the intellectual property pigs come oinking at my door? Because I'm a wiener.

These are collaborations with Gemini Cricket who can spit out a mean wiener but can't fathom how to create an image of a person. I realize that "spit out a mean wiener" might be misconstrued by some, but I am not talking about wholesome meat wieners made with real lips and spleens and other animal parts people won't eat unless they are ground up and packaged properly.

I'm pretty proud of this one because Gemini Cricket may have come up with the wiener in a chef hat image, but I added my own text and turned it into a pretty bitchin' spoof of "Frankenstein." Now watch the intellectual property bastards come after me for ripping off "Frankenstein" or try to accuse me of violating Tim Curry's Frank-N-Furter from "Rocky Horror Picture Show."

That sounded pretty disgusting too, but stick a fork it it and get your mind out of the bun.