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Vermin Supreme Fashions interpreted by Josh.

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On twitter, I wrote

@Cartoonsbyjosh I think you could make good cartoons out of this: http://bit.ly/JqX4mC Video at 2:35, vermin gets in Monkcton’s face.

Josh delivered.

The uploaded video is at youtube and also in my previous post. If I’m not mistaken, it’s got more quite a few more views than the very short one put together by the protest organizers. Reading their posts, I think they have mixed feelings about Vermin Supreme.

20 thoughts on “Vermin Supreme Fashions interpreted by Josh.”

  4. What does it mean when your shoe size equals your hat size? Has it been modeled?

  5. Did that guy with the bullhorn claim, after 10 minutes of name calling and shouting down of Monckton and Morano, that he wanted to find someone who would engage with them??

  6. Maybe it’s for when the global flooding starts. At least he can keep his head dry if he stays upside down.

  8. Thanks for shooting that video, lucia. I found myself blushing for the people in the crowd, though. I wonder if any of them will see your video and see themselves in a different light. Kind of a sad commentary.
    Out of curiosity, was the young man with whom you were discussing Monckton’s status as a lord open-minded? Did your explanation get through to him?

  9. Josh’s cartoon is pretty flattering. Vermin looks more like a strange bishop than a scary homeless person.

  10. Out of curiosity, was the young man with whom you were discussing Monckton’s status as a lord open-minded? Did your explanation get through to him?

    I don’t think he’s open-minded. That said: I think the best that can be said for Monckton on the “House of lords” story is that he either spoke in a way that was misleading or he outright lied. The thing that young man got wrong about Monckton was believing Monckton is not a lord. Monckton is a lord.

    I did speak to Brad Johnson later and I am under the impression he is not open minded either. I also think he’s not exactly a detail person. But I wasn’t taping and so might misremember things he said.

  11. Tamara–Vermin wasn’t scary. I suspect he is not homeless. But he’s odd.

    There was a very odd person (not affiliated with conference) inside the conference too. I would probably be more afraid of the “inside” loonie than the Vermin– except there was tons of security inside the building!

  12. Well, that’s just my bias showing through, I guess. If I saw Vermin outside of a protest situation, that’s how I would categorize him.

    When I was in college and working in food service, there was a homeless gentleman who would come into the restaurant for meal-breaks from pan-handling. He was generally nice, but could come unhinged when you weren’t expecting it. He looked, superficially, a lot like Vermin.
    A person with a boot on his head might be expected to have the same tendency to come unhinged.

  13. Would be interesting to see that fellow do the sabre dance…similar to how the “consensus” dances around
    the facts…
    Great cartoon Josh!

  14. I think it’s been mentioned on other posts here, but it’s worth noting on this post that Vermin Supreme has been around for a while. Here in New Hampshire he ran in the Presidential primary on the democrat ticket and garnered 388 votes. Yes, Obama won in a landslide. Each party had a couple dozen candidates and it’s easy to run. You can even run for vice president, but very few do, especially that there is some media coverage of the fringe presidential candidates but essentially none for vice president.

    VS did get into one of the televised debates. I don’t think he wore his “hat” during the debate, but may have put it on at the end.

    Harmless but odd. He may have spent a couple nights at an acquaintance’s apartment, but that happens. In 1992 we hosted a Libertarian candidate for a couple days and I drove him to a couple campaign stops.

  15. Tamara– Not all weird oddly dressed strangely extroverted people are scary. Not all scary people dress so unconventionally.

    Anyway, Vermin appears to shower, wash his hair, his clothes are weird, but clean. He doesn’t seem likely to exhibit fits of physical violence. (That said, I didn’t engage him individually. )

    I would say the “indoor weirdo” exuded a bit more hostiility– though I can’t say for sure. I made an excuse to go mingle with others.

  16. “Not all weird oddly dressed strangely extroverted people are scary. Not all scary people dress so unconventionally.”

    I would never assert that either of those things are the case.
    And it’s not even his taste in fashion that I find the most scary about him.
    Really, I find that kind of display to be sad. Acting like that doesn’t make him feel good about himself. He knows people think he’s a joke, and he takes it to extremes as a cover for his loneliness. Being a part of the protest makes him part of the group. Did you get the impression that he had any kind of coherent idea what the protest was about?

  17. I didn’t see the “inside” guy, so maybe he would have served as a foil to make me feel better about Vermin.

    Actually, just based on the short video, I would be more inclined to like Vermin than the Greenpeace-girl.

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