It's a new year.
Overall, 2007 was a good year for Respectful Insolence. When I first started this whole blogging thing, I had no idea that I'd still be at it three years later. Moreover, I had no idea that I'd still be able to produce posts good enough that people still want to read them. Heck, I even produced a fair amount of work in 2007 that I'm proud of and that compares well with anything I've ever done.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of a feature of this blog from the very beginning. Sadly, 2007 was not such a good year for this blog's mascot. It's not really his fault. It's partially mine in that I had what was perhaps a failure of imagination in figuring out new things to do with him. It was also a failure of Fleet Pharmaceuticals. Let's face it, the 2007 EneMonths calendar just wasn't up to the warped standards of years past, with perhaps one exception. Basically, I didn't have much material to work with.
2008 will be different. Thanks to Fleet Pharmaceuticals, EneMan will rise again. Oh, yes. This time, Fleet has come up with something truly, truly warped:
I'll admit that I kind of miss the guy in the EneMan suit showing up in badly Photoshopped pictures portraying him in various situations. However, there is a lot to make up for it in the new EneMan calendar for 2008, as everyone's favorite character with the orange protrusion from his head whose purpose you really, really don't want to contemplate too closely appears in some of the most famous movies in Hollywood history, starting with:
I have to tell you, some of these are so good that it's requiring all my self-restraint not to post them all right now. Indeed, the best one of all, the most seriously hilarious and warped examples appear in August and December. All I'll say is that some of the movies given the--shall we say?--"EneMan treatment" include one of the Star Wars movies, a little J.R.R. Tolkien, Ghostbusters, along with some unexpected, even artsy choices.
I guess you'll just have to keep checking in on or about the first of each month to see.
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for corrupting my weak, impressionable mind with your flashy lights, godless secularism, and enema memorabilia. I look forward to far more insolence in the coming year.
EneMan reminds me of my early adulthood days working as a nurse aide on cardiovascular surgery and orthopedics wards at a Big City Hospital. Not fondly, I'm afraid, since, as the lowest of the low part of the hospital hierarchy, it was one of my duties to administer Fleet enemas to patients. A character-building experience I'm sure, though-it's nearly impossible to gross me out with body parts and body functions.
Happy New Year, Orac!
The new EneMan looks truly demented: their artist's been taking cues from Doonesbury's Mr. Smoke....
The blonde in the Fast Times picture - is that Jenny McCarthy? Given some of the other things she's posed for...
I went to my doc today and saw this hanging on the wall of his exam room. I begged for it and he gave it to me. It's great. I will display it proudly on my desk next to my Viking Helmet, Pine box Derby car and pregnant woman coffee cup. I'm trying to take tacky to a new level.
to my great surprise today I got a parcel from the US: A fullsize Movie-poster showing Eneman as scarface.
Surprised as I live in Germany ( and meaning of "everybody" on US-websites is everybody living in continental US ) and am not working in any area where I might cause profit or even turnover for Fleet.