Mike Pogue and The TOILETSIDE READER
Mike Pogue, the artist, was an early reader of the Toiletside
Reader, he always seemed to have a better master copy of it than I did, probably because
he lived with Connie Wright. His artwork
appears all over the Internet version, in various forms, as listed
below.
One time, Mike decided to be a rock star named, Mike The Lead Singer. He went to a music studio where I had programmed funky beats into the resident drumbox, and Pogue recorded a track STEALING one of my beats. Then, for lyrics, he quoted the text from the Toiletside Reader story, I GOT IT!, and he vocalized those over the beat, thereby STEALING my words. Then, he sent that mix to Kevin Kosub, who put it as I GOT IT! on his Texas compilation CD, DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS.
But, Mike wasn't thru STEALING from me, not by a long shot. Being the brilliant artist that he was, he made a visual version of I GOT IT!, painting in tape reels, microphones, speakers, guitars, keyboard, etc. This piece got a lot of attention in the local San Antonio media, it was even on the cover of the S. A. News Entertainment weekly, with a feature article about Mike and his new painting, I GOT IT!.
Then, one day, just by chance, I dug an old issue
of Modern Keyboard out from the stack next to my toilet. I was amazed when I found where
Pogue had STOLEN the idea for the visual version of I GOT IT!. I showed it to him, and he claimed to have no recall of
seeing that magazine. Mike Pogue had taken enough shits at my house to have access to that
magazine, so I figured he was such a total ripoff idiot, he didn't even notice it anymore
when he did it. Notice the eyebrows, the eyes, the forearms, the keyboard, the speakers,
the microphones, etc. It blew my mind that he found that picture by the side of my toilet,
because that meant it was still a "toiletside ripoff".
TOILETSIDE READER artwork by Mike Pogue
I GOT IT! - the original by Dr. Popeye X
I GOT IT! - Mike The Brilliant Artist is the darkened background image on all the I GOT IT! pages
TAPE REEL from I GOT IT! by Mike Pogue on SHRINE 23 by Kurt Otto
HAND ON KEYBOARD from I GOT IT! by Mike Pogue on FRESH TALENT WARZONE
BRAIN MUSIC by Mike Pogue/Kurt Otto on the OTTO INDUSTRIES ART LOOP entrance
BRAIN MUSIC YELLOW by Mike Pogue/Kurt Otto
BRAIN MUSIC BLUE by Mike Pogue/Kurt Otto
BRAIN IN A BEAKER from BRAIN MUSIC by Mike Pogue/Kurt Otto on SANITY
REEL TO REEL from BRAIN MUSIC by Mike Pogue/Kurt Otto on FREQUENCY THICKENED WIND
GIRL PARTS by Mike Pogue, is the darkened background image on this page
also used at the ANTI POPEYE-X FAN CLUB table of contents as a background, uncredited, of course.
postscript: Mike The Dead Murderer
post-postscript: Who's GOT IT now, you fucking idiot? ~ popeye-x 10/09/00
