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Welcome to the Club Justin!

GGM Reader and new friend, Justin, writes in to tell us about his new tattoo!

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A artist named Joe Madureira Drew the original piece.

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I gave my tattoo artist, Troy (works at a place called Sacred-X-Pressions in Ft. Walton Beach, FL), creative freedom on coloring.

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I gave him a general idea of what I wanted it to be like. The background is gonna be dark purple/magenta and the moon a bright yellow.

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Well it is fantastic work Justin! Welcome to the club of people who take this fandom way too seriously!

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On TMNT and Irony

So, I was watching the movie Marihuana as part of my recent MCubed theme of 1930’s anti-drug films, and it made me think of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, and also the extreme irony of it.

You see, in the bonus features to the new season 7 DVD set, David Wise put one of my TMNT conspiracy theories to rest: Michelangelo’s voice is loosely based on Jeff Spicoli from the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, played by Sean Penn who was an obvious recreational user of marijuana. So what? (If you don’t see the obvious, then read on.)

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When Cartoon All-stars was released, they picked characters from all the major cartoons of the day, including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And which Turtle did they pick? Why Mikey, of course. The one Turtle who’s voice in the toon was inspired by a character from a movie who used drugs. Talk about irony!