Rest In Peace, Blue Man

Christian Post – Paul Karason, who was known for having skin that was blue, passed away after suffering a heart attack at the age of 62. He became famous when coming forward to discuss his unique condition, the result of taking medication no longer approved for treatment. Karason reportedly began turning blue 15 years ago after using a silver-based remedy to treat a skin condition and drinking colloidal silver. He was left a dark shade of the hue and led a reclusive life until deciding to appear on the Today show with Matt Lauer in 2008. Estranged wife Jo Anna Karason told NBC that many who knew her husband called him “Papa Smurf,” which didn’t bother him if it came from a child. “But if it was an adult, well… that was a nickname he didn’t appreciate, depending on who said it.” In 2012, Karason told Inside Edition that he had fallen on hard times after going public and had lost his home. In addition to battling heart problems, which eventually took his life, Karason battled prostate cancer and had serious trouble finding a job. “People are reluctant to hire blue people, or people that are noticeably different,” he explained. Karason then moved into the Lighthouse Mission Shelter in Washington, where he reunited with Joanne Elkins, a friend from junior high. They lived together for a while, and she may be the estranged wife mentioned earlier. “He has been too ill to work for a while,” Jo Anna told NBC. “He didn’t like to go out in public much – only when he thought he needed to, like to go to the bank or to pick up tobacco.” Karason had long-suffered from heart problems and underwent a triple bypass about five years ago. He suffered a severe stroke and pneumonia just before the heart attack that killed him.

Rest in peace you jolly blue son of a bitch. I could have sworn I blogged about this guy before. But none of the other bloggers remember him at all. I guess thats just where I’m at in my life. 15,000 blogs deep in the career and you just assume if there’s been a dude who’s skin has turned blue from drinking colloidal silver, you’ve already done it. But I guess not.

Paul Karason deserves a statue erected in his name. A big ass blue statue. Because he walked alone in this world. There’s plenty of discrimination on this planet based on skin color. But while most of the world dealt with Civil Rights for Black people or Brown People, Paul Karason here was being discriminated for being blue. There’s no Martin Luther King Jr. for Blues. No Malcom X. Nobody championing the Blue Cause. Every time some asshole hurled a Blue slur and called him “Papa Smurf” he was all alone. Every time someone said he looked like Violet Beauregard and told him to go back to Wonka’s Factory, he bore that burden alone. There’s no Jesse Jackson activists fighting for Blues. The NAACP doesn’t consider Blue a “colored person.” Paul Karason fought for equal rights all by himself.

And now he’s dead after like 20 strokes and heart attacks and pneumonia. So let this be a lesson to us all – don’t drink colloidal silver if you don’t want to end up looking like an unemployed blue ass Santa Claus. Because the world hates Blue people. Its a sad, sad truth.