If you have read my column for very long you are bound to have noticed that I tend to think a bit apart from the rest of the world. This column will be no different other than the fact that it ranges a little farther from the beaten path than normal. And if that doesn’t worry you – you’re my kind of people.
I like the classics and Lon Chaney is my favorite lycanthrope. A nice guy, even if he is slightly on the nervous side, becomes a horrible monster during the full moon. This is the same transformation college students undergo during spring break; shredding clothes, stalking along the bars and beaches, and culminating in a flurry of barks and howls at the end of their rampage.
Travel to Scandinavia and you run into their local variety of changing beast, the were-bear. Deep in the jungles of South America you might run into a were-cat of the jaguar persuasion. And should you find yourself in Beverly Hills, stay off the streets at night lest you come face to face with the devilish were-Chihuahua.
While it might be amusing to consider all of the region specific changelings and their peculiar habits, I am wondering why this phenomenon is limited only to animals. Why couldn’t there be were-machines, were-stories, were-moods, and most importantly (because that’s what my column is about) were-professions?
You heard me right. Were-professions. A person could be walking along, minding their own business when suddenly a new profession suddenly breaks out of them. Hopefully, not in a messy way.
Tempe,AZ - February 24, 2010. Doing their part to stimulate the "ecomedy," the crazy folks at Twisted Entertainment awarded over 5 trillion "dollars" to winners of the Obama Nation Card Game tournament at Pop Culture Comics. Other winners received free copies of the Obama Nation Card game and the new "Buddy can you spare a Trillion?’ Obama T-shirt - new from Twisted Entertainment!