there! look! he is right there! Only part 1 but presumably his torso and legs are nearby

Just one week ago I posted a tiny picture of Hulk “can I stop paying Marvel royalties for my first name now?” Hogan on this website and today he is dead. Let that be a lesson for you: believing in omens, curses and general superstitions lead to delusions and terrible judgement.

once he finished lying to children that they could get success like his through legitimate means, he spent the rest of his life burning bridges, stepping on former friends, using clout to get his way, long past the point where there was any personal practical benefit to getting his way, and shilling for garbage, all stemming from his ability to pretend to be good at fighting weirdly back in the 1980s, and in the end the only people with anything nice to say about him are right wing wealthy (at least in this obituary which may be picking and choosing whom it quotes) and or oblivious scumbags and even they rarely have any point of reference from the 1990s or later.

Really he might as well have been dead 30 years ago. (presumably I am still talking about Hogan; thankfully Carrot Top has never been socially relevant). I can only be grateful he was never able to become US president, bare his full awfulness to the world and have the entertaining parts of his legacy become completely sickening in retrospect the way trump’s did

i saw this line in shining force 3 and could only imagine it being spoken in the same voice hogan used in No Holds Barred to say the same thing and that is still funny for me to think about.

and for years I believed this (since I only had a wav file) was from 1991’s Suburban Commando but it is actually from 1989’s No Holds Barred, again failing to supercede the 1980s True enough, the 3 ninjas hogan I posted last week was from 1997 but as noted it was also incredibly tiny and I don’t know a single dumb line of dialog from that nor have even mis-attributed one to it.

a bonus, I was looking for Hogan-related lines in my quotation file to use as the header here and saw this one but I liked my dumb little comment on it too much to post without context. I wonder who that product would even have been for; even by 2006 Hogan was over 50 years old and probably not considered a profoundly energetic figure and if he was it wasn’t from drinking branded bad dubious soda

anyway with this event the last surviving person who was allowed to call me “dude” is deceased so I can be much more emphatic in my requests to not be called that going forward.

this ought to do/undude it