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Yesterday I posted a bit about Gooey Gus but today you get the unabridged explanation. This is also the only place I'll be posted the corrected work, since yesterday's version had the numbers "045" instead of "0451"

If you want to be schooled regarding my childhood trauma here is the lesson.  However if you've watched that video in it's entirety you should know I was younger than the people who were capable of repressing the memory.

I spent months living in fear of my safety. I required someone to be in the room with me at all times. Something like the dripping of a faucet would make me scream. My parents - even now - found my emotional unbalance to be more of nuisance than a cause for alarm.

But all symbols can be reclaimed.

I was thinking many weeks ago about "Pepe the Frog" and how the original artist created the character as a mascot for, well? being stoned. But then the mascot was altered and corrupted to be a symbol for: GamerGate, white nationalism, neo nazis, the KKK etc etc etc...

To this day the original artist is fighting to reclaim his art but? the damage has been done (or has it?)

And so I summoned this demon to serve me.

This is non-violent protest art. It's a way for me to use my old fear, to express fear. So for example this was from yesterday (click the photo for the full affect).

And you know what? if it happens to terrify some people? welcome to the club.

So without further adieu here are ALL of the references on Gooey's jacket:

• "Miracles" - what can I say? I'm down to clown.

• "No DAPL" - refers to No Dakota Access Pipe Line

• "Covfefe" (everything written in purple, Gus added itself as a laugh)

• "Why So Serious" - told you I was down to clown already. Gus interrupts The Joker's slogan with its own because of the fact that of the many things The Joker represents, people fail to acknowledge that he's the most celebrated person who beats/abuses Harley Quinn.

• "SURJ" - stands for Showing Up for Racial Justice. It's kind of like BlackLivesMatter except it's White folk putting up with other White folk's shit instead of the BLM having to stop every 30 seconds to dry the tears of White "allies."

• "Give Peace a Chance"  - I mean, that's all we're saying?

• "Or Get Punched In the Face" - honestly I've been punched in the face, and lived? Which is by far a better alternative than how I was trained (by Wolfenstein 3D) to deal with Nazis.

• "Never Forget Maus" - here you go!

• "Good Night Alt Right" - I don't mind it when Nazis get punched. I can't make that more clear. In Wolfenstein 3D you didn't even have the option. Your one melee attack had a knife. Which I only find amusing because in DOOM you can punch a demon to death. Backwards.

• "Liar" - contains the lyrics "I'll tear your mind out, I'll burn your soul." But of course Gus added an "E" because it Feels the Bern (Bernie Sanders) but also it's canonical. Reference within a reference, within a reference.

• Updated Pride: the Gay Pride button has Black and Brown because Black and Brown people exist. Also "Gay" now currently means "queer" (which I personally prefer?) but yeah. It's really gay, these days.

• Feminist Frequency Logo - if you don't know about Feminist Frequency, and the legally protected domestic terrorism that formed in response then maybe start here?

• "No fate but what we make" - this is a reference to Terminator 2 but also we are closer to a nuclear holocaust than we have ever been. Which is why I wrote the letters in black, as a memento mori.

• "We The People" - refers to the Preamble to the United States Constitution which reads "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - Gus writes it in slime here because the United States Constitution is just a piece of paper that has no meaning. After it was formed it was still legal to own a person as if they were property. Women couldn't vote. And the entire time (even now) "the only good indian is a dead indian."

• "E1M1" - this is as Satanic as I was willing to get. Plus you know. It rocks.

• "D20" - just kidding I lied. Don't look at me like that. I already wrote my reference to Henry Rollins. Hail Satan.

• "0451" - this gaming reference is my favorite. But more specifically it's a reference to Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Normally I'd put in a reference to Margaret Atwood's "The Hand Maid's Tale" but most people think that's a TV show now. And you can forget about Octavia Butler. I am not a good enough artist (yet) to pay homage to her.

• "General Moses" is hands down one of my favorite warriors from history. People still don't quite grasp what she did. Literally a level 30 Lawful Good Paladin.

• Eurypterid - in my family the Trilobite was the coveted being of the Precambrian. But I needed to strike out on my own and so I chose one of the apex predators of that time. They're also my state fossil anyway, so it checks out.

• "Overcompensations for Misery" - honestly this music gives me a near instantaneous headache. But I love Kayla Phillips, so. Eat shit.

Only other references on this New Wave Jacket are my own (JH) logo and a scratched reference to DragonSword (and if you don't know? you've now read of the legend)

Now if you'll excuse me. I'm going to poop. Add these letters to the jacket. And then eat.

Holy shit that took me a long time to write. And I can't believe I forgot to include a nod to Godzilla UGUUGUGGGGGGGGGGG