Break Out The Duct Tape
By Wyatt Earp | April 4, 2009
This story – considering today’s events – will make your head explode. It comes courtesy of Code Monkey, who notified me the second she posted it. Moments later, I was cleaning my brain matter from the walls.
Here’s the gist of the insanity:
Shockwave has a website full of online games. I’m partial to the puzzles when I want to unwind. “Daily Diff” is two copies of one photo side by side with ten minor changes made. You click on the differences when you find them. Usually they’re the kind of photos your aunt would send back from her trip to (insert exotic locale here).
Today (April 3) it’s a barber shop with a mural on the facade. The mural is made up of portraits.
Code Monkey was playing along until she saw the dreadlocked scumbag in the bottom right of the mural. That piece of garbage is Philly cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. It gets better:
I stopped playing the game and sent an email to Shockwave asking if it was really necessary to use an obvious glorification of an unrepentant convicted cop killer in one of their games.
Then I started looking up some of the other names. That eventually led me to this: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco. You can see that the full mural includes Che (everyone’s favorite t-shirt emblem), Madame Nguyen Thi Binh (friend of John Kerry and Ho Chi Minh), Leila Khaled (not a person you want sitting next to you on a flight to the Middle East), and a few others you might not glorify. You can get all the nifty bio info on the people in the mural at this site.
CM then sent an e-mail to Shockwave, and received this canned response. Are you ready? Wrap your skulls . . . now!
Thanks for contacting Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group!
We have received your email, and we’ll get back to you as soon as
possible. All messages are answered in the order they are received.Regards,
Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group, MTV Networks
Nickelodeon? Are you frakkin’ kidding me?!!!
Check out the rest of the post HERE. And if you’re an angry as I am after reading it, tell everyone you know. If you blog about it, make sure to give credit to Code Monkey, not me. It’s her scoop.
Topics: Duct Tape Advisory | 6 Comments »
Holy.damn.
I will give them the benefit of the doubt (for now) when it comes to the email response. It was late on Friday night when I sent my message. That was an autogenerated thing. I was surprised to find out that Shockwave is owned by Nickelodeon.
But if you think I’m holding my breath on a real response on Monday, you’re nuts.
Thx for the linkage.
Unfucking believable. Anything to venerate America-hating scum of every stripe. The probably get a federal subsidy to do it too–because it’s educational, don’t you know.
Everybody loves the murdering thugs now days.
It makes you wonder how much worse it is going to get.
Nickelodeon, huh. Well, they too were in the tank for Obama.
RT – Consider the location.
Code Monkey – No problemo. I wouldn’t hold my breath for that response, though.
cbullitt – Gotta protect the arts, right? *gag*
Admiral – Right down the terlet.
GroovyVic – Yes they were. I think Sandy Cheeks voted for him.