Gallery of the Absurd

Mel Gibson: Boozing With Beelzebub

What better way to celebrate Halloween than to feature the year's scariest tabloid monster! Cranky old Mel Gibson was set loose one night after a vodka-fueled night of debauchery in a popular Malibu watering hole. Weaving recklessly around the hairpin curves of the Pacific Coast Highway, cops quickly pulled him over. Reeking of alcohol and wild-eyed, Mel stumbled out of his car and launched into one of those typical "do you know who I @%*&# am?!!?" tantrums so often witnessed in the Los Angeles area. He slurred on and began insulting the cops with hateful racial and sexual epithets and soon found himself in jail. Mel has since offered a public apology and is meeting with various Jewish communities to aid in his "journey to recovery". His sordid story combined with our obsession with vintage sci-fi and horror pulp fiction novels inspires today's post. Medium: Graphite and ink on paper, digital color/layout. Pulp title by Holly Aguirre.

UPDATE: This image of Mel appeared on the E! Channel's Daily 10 on Nov. 1. Thanks E!

Mel Gibson's Bumper Sticker

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I checked my email this morning and a friend had forwarded me some Mel Gibson drunk driving jokes written by someone named Reese L. Here are a few of the jokes and I hope they don't offend:

Joke #1: I thought Mel Gibson was worried about the End Times, but it's the Early Times that have got that guy messed up!

Joke #2: I saw this bumper-sticker on Mel Gibson's car: Swerve If You Love Jesus.

I read the jokes and was inpired to create a bumper sticker - thanks Reese! Additionally, there are others on the blogosphere who are having a similar good time with Mel's predicament. Medium: Ink on paper, photoshop.

Here's a delightful pic of a drunken Mel with two blondes clinging to him as he leaves a bar. A classic.

This press release was just sent to me regarding Mel and his "Vodka Filled Water Bottle". No doubt you'll see this all over the internet, so I'm including only the best parts:

The National Enquirer has exclusively uncovered new details from the night Mel Gibson got arrested and the events that led up to his unraveling. “Mel grabbed a bottle of vodka from behind the bar, poured himself a drink – and filled an empty water bottle with the clear booze,” said an eyewitness. “Then he started sipping out the water bottle. Everyone thought it was just water. It was straight vodka!” ...the immense pressures of filming “Apocalypto” in sweltering Mexico, reduced Mel to a pathetic drunk, who talked to himself, fought with his crew and developed a disturbing nervous tic....
“The bottom line is that Mel went crazy in the jungle,” an insider told the Enquirer. “ He showed up on the set disheveled, confused and talking to himself. He was drinking heavily at night. They’d find him hours later dancing the mambo at local cafes – drunk as a skunk.”