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This Friday, October 2, will be the 4th annual Star Clipper St. Louis Munny Show. I’ve participated in the last two Munny Shows and thought I had learned an essential lesson last year: start your munny before you only have a week left to finish it. Well, I didn’t learn my lesson. So like the first year, when I was painting Ghost Rider Munny’s flames at 2 am and finishing stitching the miniature leather jacket with my cousin Maria just hours before the show, I’m probably going to be right down to the wire with finishing this years Munny. Maybe it’s because I always try to come up with a gimmick that makes my Munny stand out from everyone else, but these vinyl canvases always get me revved up.

The first year I thought my gimmick would be 100% original. My buddy Keith and I rigged a light inside Ghost Rider Munny’s skull and his flaming head lit up. Of Course, that year at least 3 other people’s Munnys had light up heads, and they made theirs more functional than mine using wires instead of batteries. So in my second year to up the ante, I came up with my next “100%” original gimmick of using water in my Munny. I based my Munny on the 1980’s Mad Ball toy called Bash Brain and placed a fountain piece through the body and out the exposed brain. I dyed the water red, turned the fountain on, and old Bash Brain Munny looked like his brain was constantly bleeding. It worked until the fountain recirculated water to far and got to the battery and short circuited the wires. Okay, batteries failed me again, so no batteries this year. Regardless, the Munny next to Bash Brain also used a water gimmick and was fully submerged in an aquarium. What do I have to do, make a laser light show Munny?

This year I think I got it though. My gimmick is sure to wow you, but I’m not going to tell you what it is. However, I’ll give you a hint. It’s a male. It carries babies. It always looks like it’s floating stationary, and it’s pretty psychedelic. To find out what the Munny is you will just have to come to the Munny Show on Friday, and I better hope that my girlfriend and co-creator Chrissy and I get it done on time.

By the way, we are going to extend the deadline for Munny Show applicants from September 27 to the new date of Thursday, October 1st. If you are a procrastinator on your Munny like me, you better get cracking.

-Jon

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