Hey, kids: On this here post, MW commented that he wants us to sponsor a Dick Cheney photoshopping contest. Tortillas and Beef Baloney commented that they’d gladly enter.
So, it’s official: We’re sponsoring a Dick Cheney photoshopping contest.
The rules are simple: Send in a photoshopped work to mailbag@tucsonweekly.com, and we’ll post them on this here blog. (Maybe we’ll even find space for them in the print issue!) The crack Weekly blog staff will judge the entries, and as long as there are at least three entries (hi, MW, Tortillas and Beef Baloney!), we’ll get the winner some cool prize. For reals!
The rules:
- Submit your entries by the end of the day Thursday, June 7. That gives ya a whole eight days!
- Make the files no more than 1MB, so my e-mail doesn’t, like, explode.
- Keep the entries R rated or below, please. I do NOT want to see Dick Cheney in any fake poses nastier than that. I have eyes, you know.
- No stealing others’ work, kids.
So, you have your assignment. Have at it!
This article appears in May 24-30, 2007.
How do I photoshop Cheney making that squawk sound that Jon Stewart does when he parodies him? (“Waaah!”)
With a flash version — or heck, a YTMND (You’re The Man Now, Dog!)
That’s the thinkin’ MW. I anxiously await your entry!
I am going to do an image of Cheney, but I am having trouble thinking of a concept. The concepts I’ve thought of so far just won’t work within your parameters. One idea I have would be to do an image with Cheney’s head up his posterior, but then you wouldn’t be able to identify him. Also, this is not a terribly clever idea. Another idea I have is to put Cheney’s head on the Wizard of Oz and show him behind the curtain. But something about that rings false, since Karl Rove is probably just as appropriate and maybe Cheney would be better depicted as the Tin Man in need of a heart. I also thought of somehow incorporating the Robocop heart commercial where the doctor tries to sell a fancy mechanical heart and then at the end he turns to the camera and says, “And remember — we care.” Then I started thinking about Robocop and how it’s, like, my favorite movie ever. I love Robocop. Go Robo! Maybe I should photoshop a RoboCheney who is kinda pudgy and his mouth is always in a snarl, and he wears glasses over the front of his helmet. He could say stuff like, “Go f— yourself, creep” and “Don’t move or there will be…political trouble.” He would keep a hunting shotgun in his leg. Dude, I think I’m on to something here… Ha ha, I rule. Maybe I could run with that theme and do Dick Cheney in place of Chuck Connors as The Rifleman. Mmmmm…..no.