Sonic the Hedgehog, pigs, the Red Dragon tile, and Loch Ness monsters

I was searching various Sonic the Hedgehog websites, trying to find the (apparently nonexistent) storyline in which Dr. Eggman "changes the Sun," as mentioned in a 4chan shitpost featured in my last post, "B(r)itches Brew and the Blue Sun." One of the things I found was an image contrasting the "classic" and "modern" appearances of the title character.

I noticed that classic Sonic is raising his index finger, while modern Sonic is giving a thumbs-up.

I also thought about the fact that a hedgehog is, etymologically, a kind of hog, or pig, which made me wonder if there was any connection to the Samson Mystery Pig (as seen in "Pigs and the Grail"). That toy works by having a live fly trapped inside it, causing its "mysterious" movements, but the fly would presumably also produce a sound, for a "sonic" angle.

I then randomly decided to check Barnhardt Memes, even though it rarely features really quality memes. Several of the images from "Barnhardt Meme Barrage, 10 January ARSH 2026" were synchronistically interesting.

The third meme in the barrage features the word pigs, and then immediately below it is one with (modern) Sonic the Hedgehog giving a thumbs-up -- synching with my earlier thoughts about how Sonic is in a certain sense a pig.

I'm not sure what Sonic has to do with the Epstein files, or why he would be giving a thumbs-up to the cover-up.

Then three memes down from Sonic was this one:

Apparently this guy, who is raising his index finger like classic Sonic, is the main character from a 1980s superhero comedy called The Greatest American Hero. The symbol on his chest coincidentally exactly resembles the majhong tile known in the English-speaking world as the "Red Dragon," recently featured in my post "The water is blue, and the birds are awake."

Searching my blog for red dragon to get that link, I also found a post from March 2024 that I'd forgotten about: "Russian AI, the Pokémon dragon calendar, and a game you can play in your living room with your pet gorilla," which also features red dragon "tiles." At the time I posted it, I was unaware of what mahjong tiles were called in English and didn't know that one of them was called the Red Dragon. (The Chinese name is completely different.)

I dreamed that I visited Francis Berger’s blog and found that he had posted a long series of images tiled in a grid layout. These consisted of maybe 8 to 12 unique images, which occurred again and again in an unpredictable sequence like the digits of an irrational number. If the same image occurred two or three times in a row, this was represented with a larger rectangular version of the image, occupying the same space as two or three ordinary square tiles.

The images were colored line drawings of fantastic creatures, mostly somewhat dragon-like. There was a red dragon which seemed to me to be the most important one, and a few of the other creatures were pale blue or cyan. I think one of them looked a bit like my Pokélogan, and there was another that was like a mermaid but less human-looking. Overall, the images suggested the Pokémon aesthetic.

"Pokélogan," as explained in a February 2024 post, is the name of my Pokémon keychain, which represents Lapras, a Loch Ness monster-like creature.

Sonic is blue, but Ralph, the Greatest American Hero, dresses in red. Wondering if there was any blue connection, I searched the Wikipedia article on GAH for that word and found a mention of an episode called "The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea," in which the hero fights "a Loch Ness Monster-type of creature."

By a strange coincidence, I had just been listening to the Cab Calloway song "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," which is mentioned four times in Laeth's Sketches of Alice, which I am currently reading. (I've listened to several songs mentioned in the novel, wanting to be able to visualize the scenes more adequately.)

I tried to find "The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea" episode on YouTube but was only able to find a couple of very short teaser trailers, neither of which shows the monster. One of these was only eight seconds long, and when it finished YouTube for some reason cued up a completely unrelated video called "donald trump being donald trump for 4 minutes and 5 seconds." It begins with the famous clip where a journalist says to Trump, "You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals," after which Trump raises his index finger (like classic Sonic, and the Greatest American Hero) to clarify, "Only Rosie O'Donnell." This of course syncs with the first meme above, with its implication that women are pigs.

Note added: I watched the rest of that Trump video. It also includes a clip of him talking about "the late, great Hannibal Lector." Hannibal Lector was introduced in the novel Red Dragon, the title of which refers to the mahjong tile.