{"id":15170,"date":"2017-08-12T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=15170"},"modified":"2017-08-14T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:20:09","slug":"your-honor-doug-would-never-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=15170","title":{"rendered":"Your honor, Doug would never do that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have three Comic-con appearances stacked up for the fall&#8230;and there seems to be a big problem with the last one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First things first, here they are<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnaticomicexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Cincinnati Comic Expo<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sept-22-24th<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grcomiccon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Rapids Comic-con<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oct. 20- 22nd<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricomiccon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Rhode Island Comic Con<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nov. 10-12th<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So&#8230;that last one&#8230;there&#8217;s an issue. And that issue is the most recent guest announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15172\" src=\"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EO.jpg 405w, http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EO-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You may remember her from the Avengers, or Captain America Civil War, or Godzilla&#8230;.or several dozen creepy, lecherous, pathetic, inappropriate, obsessive posts on social media&#8230;by me.\u00a0 Posts of which, I meant every word&#8230;even though in a court of law I&#8217;d try to pass off a &#8220;entertainment&#8221;.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t recall exactly what I said&#8230;\u00a0 There was a lot of heart emojis and I might have declared that I would stab anyone I loved right in the face if she asked me too.\u00a0 The jist of them was I am wayyy into her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So&#8230;count on me being escorted out of the building by police as I shout &#8220;we were meant to be togetherrrrrrr!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yep&#8230;this is bad. I need to wear like&#8230;those things they put on horses so they can&#8217;t see to their left or right.\u00a0 I need to only be able to see directly in front of my booth&#8230;and probably have some sort of ear plugs, because if I hear her use that eastern European accent at the request of some fan&#8230;it&#8217;s all over for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Uh, Doug, should you be typing this into a public forum?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What difference does it make at this point? My FB page is littered with condemning evidence. If anything screwy happens to her at any point from when I saw her as the Scarlet Witch until the day I drop dead, the FBI will make a bee line for my apartment.\u00a0 Justifiably so.\u00a0 and there is not one living soul on this earth I could use as a character witness that whatever happened couldn&#8217;t have been me.\u00a0 If she calls the cops because someone was hiding in her bushes&#8230;and I was with someone at the time&#8230;that person will assume (and justifiably so)\u00a0 that I created some elaborate ruse to make it seem like we were together at that time even though it was three hours later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Could you state for the court your relationship with the defendant?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I am his mother&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;the defendant is accused of breaking into Ms. Olsen&#8217;s home and licking her shower curtain &#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;&#8230;.yeah, that had to be him. 100% him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Even with my world class imagination, I cannot come up with an act strange or obsessive enough, or requiring such effort that it could not have been me.\u00a0 Even as I type this now I am thinking to myself &#8220;who the F*CK are those 8.8k people who clicked &#8220;like&#8221; on her appearance notification?! they better just step the hell back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So&#8230;yeah&#8230;my birthday is Nov.23 and I&#8217;ll be spending it in jail&#8230;probably with some torn shred of whatever she was wearing still clutched in my hands.\u00a0 and as long as it still smells like her, I&#8217;m okay with that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It had to happen eventually, her and I being at the same Comic-con, but I figured that would be way down the road.\u00a0 After she is old and wrinkly&#8230;maybe after a botched facelift or two and I am older and in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank and someone could just turn down the oxygen as I wheeled over towards her with the last drops of testosterone working it&#8217;s way though my petrified arteries and I&#8217;d pass out and harmlessly coast into a wall.\u00a0 But that hope is gone. She&#8217;ll be at Rhode Island Comic-con&#8230;and I&#8217;ll be at Rhode Island Comic-con&#8230;and a paddy wagon will be at Rhode Island Comic-con and I&#8217;ll be a feature on TMZ for about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SO&#8230;the question is, before I am wrestled to the ground&#8230;do I try to smell her hair? Cling to her like a baby koala? Whisper &#8220;I&#8217;m your destiny&#8221; with a sad crazed look in my eyes?\u00a0 I dunno, they all sound pretty good. I&#8217;ve got some time to think about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;and I will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;sigh&#8230;she&#8217;s so great&#8230; &lt;3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have three Comic-con appearances stacked up for the fall&#8230;and there seems to be a big problem with the last one. First things first, here they are Cincinnati Comic Expo Sept-22-24th Grand Rapids Comic-con Oct. 20- 22nd Rhode Island Comic Con Nov. 10-12th So&#8230;that last one&#8230;there&#8217;s an issue. 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