It’s A Major Award!!
I WON AN AWARD!!! last week i did a photo shoot where we rented a movie prop octopus instead of getting a dead one from a fish market. we saved an octopus’s life. when we did it, i tweeted this : “i’m doing a photo shoot this week and paying nearly $1000 for a movie prop octopus so a real one doesn’t have to die. do i get an award?” well, lo and behold, i actually received an award!!
peta2 is presenting me with a “compassionate choice” award for using the fake octopus in the photos. stoked!!! thanks very much for the kind thought. you can read about it here.
i especially want to thank them for using a photo of a younger, heavier, mark hoppus who is much in need of a haircut. i really looked like that?!?! someone get me on a treadmill! by the way, i worked out yesterday. a fact of which i will brag about all week.
anyway, thanks again to peta2, and a big “you’re welcome” to all the cephalopods of the world. now i just have to stop eating meat…
April 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Looking fab. Mr. Fabio lol
April 28th, 2009 at 9:04 am
lol
April 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am
yay Mark!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Stay together for fans…
You guys rock
April 28th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I’m so proud. Ha ha
April 28th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Hey congrats mark! haha
looking good in the picture! btw.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I’m pretty sure the fish market octopus would have been caught/killed whether you bought it or not. So I’m not sure that you really ’saved’ anything, though you did set an example.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:12 am
haha wow man, congrats for your new award =D
and this pic… well, we all have to get older
hahaha
beijos
April 28th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Wow, you actually look pretty awsome in that picture.
Gz for the award, its really something!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
hey mark, it looks like peta’s in to your small thing. lol.
seriously though, meat is bad, and delicious, but more so bad
April 28th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Congrats!!
love the picture of you ATTICUS shirt
April 28th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Well done Mister Hoppus!!
BTW: In fact you looked awesome, but you still do! Need no treatmill at all.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:18 am
haha. you look sexy in ANY picture. congratulations on your award.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:19 am
you sho’ is attractive.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:19 am
hahah
that photo is old school
April 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am
YAY congrats!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:21 am
OMG!!Congratulations!! That’s so cool!! This photo is really sweetbut you look a little bit…euh…I don’t care it’s cute!!
OCTOPUS 4-EVER!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:27 am
hahah nice picture mark
April 28th, 2009 at 9:27 am
congratilations, Mark) great pic btw -)
April 28th, 2009 at 9:33 am
whoaaaa, i want an award for not being bad with the chiwawas.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Congraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatss Mark!!
This is rly rly cool:D
And what are u talkin about..the photo is AMAZING<3 mmm or probably need a haircut!!:p
U shld like totally do the peta ad…” i’d rather go naked than wear fur “thing..hahhaha:P uve already been naked in public right?!:P it shld work out!!
Anw what the hell am i tlkin about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P:P Congraaaaaaaaaats again
April 28th, 2009 at 9:38 am
you beautiful man
April 28th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Haha I’m loving the All The Small Things quote at the end of the article.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:43 am
That is crazy, I never realized that they took the saving of an octopus so seriously…that’s cool, funny, and a little weird, haha. Congratulations on your award!!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:44 am
mmmmhhh, i love this photo, you`re very very well
April 28th, 2009 at 9:45 am
hahahaha that is great!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Great Success!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:49 am
yeah! this is just incredible…you rock man!!!
viva mexico!!!
octhoppus rlz
April 28th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Congrats Mark!
You deserve it for your awesomeness!
xx
April 28th, 2009 at 9:56 am
You Go Mark! Had A listen to the fallout boy remix, its really good! Love it but its not letting me buy it, says US only!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:58 am
CONGRATULATIONS MARK!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Congrats Mark! You are a hero for the octopus and veggies all over the world ;P
PS: Keep on with the work out ;D
April 28th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Congrutulations Mark! That’s so rad!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Wow, mark thts so cool, “compassionate choice” award, lol thts kinda funny, anywayz, tlk soon man, dyin to hear more about the Blink-182 tour
April 28th, 2009 at 10:05 am
“now I just have to stop eating meat…”
that made me rofl
April 28th, 2009 at 10:06 am
check this qt ;]
btw im a dood
April 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Haha! This is awesome, Mark. I can’t wait to see the photo shoot results with this now infamous octopus. And I think you should give the octopus a name as well. My suggestions would be Squidward, Ink182 (yeah, terrible pun there), or something of the sort. But seriously, congrats!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
congratulations!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
ah you dont look that much heavier
April 28th, 2009 at 10:20 am
You are so nice Mark!!!!!!!!!! You did deserve an award, and you got it.
ur so lucky.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:21 am
aaaaaaaawwwwwwwww that pic is so fuckin cute
the old days ((((((((((((((:
anyway, u got wht u wanted!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:26 am
oh please, you are such a manorexic.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:31 am
good for you man
April 28th, 2009 at 10:33 am
GO MARK!! And yes join us vegetarians we need you!!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:33 am
lmao
good job
btw
you need to put up tour dates
April 28th, 2009 at 10:40 am
wow!!! yeah you realy needed a haircut !!!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:42 am
you look just like a junky in rehab … NO KIDDING… or maybe not xD!!!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
hahaha you look cute!
oh and props on the octopus award!
<3ash
April 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am
woot
April 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am
woot
April 28th, 2009 at 10:57 am
mark.. ur a pro and a half
April 28th, 2009 at 10:57 am
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!good job Mark XD
April 28th, 2009 at 10:59 am
HAHAHAHA thanks Mark, I needed that laugh. Posts like this are a huge reason why I visit this site so often. You’re one hilarious guy! And also, you look great in that photo, LOVE the crazy hair!
April 28th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Blink 182 the greatest band in the world
Hope it will be 4ever and ever
Please make this last forever
The future kings of pop punk…………..
Want to wish you BEST OF LUCK
April 28th, 2009 at 11:09 am
haha good job! and nice picture… lol you’re going to be bragging about working out all week? maybe you should do it more! ;]
April 28th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Hey i think you deserve it!
i shouldnt get one though because i chase them while snorkling where i live in the summer (cannes in france)
But i don’t kill them!
Congratulations!
by the way you rock!
but you already knew that
April 28th, 2009 at 11:14 am
octopi are sensitive and intelligent animals
April 28th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Uhhhh Octopus is plural.It’s Octopi.GOD.
ps.
You’re my idol.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:25 am
I <3 that picture! Lovely jaw line! :p Also – congrats – hurrah! : )
April 28th, 2009 at 11:28 am
The Whole World are following you on twitter…:D
April 28th, 2009 at 11:31 am
ma tu si bestia totale…
April 28th, 2009 at 11:33 am
ma tu si bestia totale… -_-
April 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Yeah! Stop eating meat Mark
April 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am
If we stop eating animals for food, will animals stop eating each other for food?
Way to go though on sparing a life. That’s cool stuff!
April 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
i adore you. this is just too much for me today!
April 28th, 2009 at 11:49 am
yayyyy lol congrats mark :}
April 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
MY HERO!!Thats a real nice thing u did i bet the octopusus love you!:]
u don’t look fat at all n the hairs cool!
CONGRATZ ON THE AWARD:D
April 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am
ah, back in the days
you stud muffin you
April 28th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
MY HERO!!:]
thats suuuuper nice and kind to the octopus!
CONGRATZ FOR THE AWARD U DECERVE IT!:DDD
GOOOOOOOO MARK
ps. u dont look fat at all n the hari is cool!:P
April 28th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
minxxxxxxxxxx
April 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
DUDE CONGRATS!
That’s actually quite incredible. GAH AWESOME!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
THIS has got to be one of the cutest pictures eva!!
and I have a LOT of pictures of Mark!!
x
April 28th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
congratulation mister hoppus
April 28th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
that’s awesome mark!
you truly deserve it!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
and tell me this bit isn’t cool, “some have even been taught to unscrew jar lids in order to retrieve food inside.” i was so in need of an octopus earlier. i swear to COD, when i woke up this morning, i could not open that dam can ‘o’ beans. grrr!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Noiiiiicce!!!
Props for the title reference to A Christmas Story, too. Great film.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
your photo is cooooool Mr.Hoppus! U re always the best and fuck all the rest!! yah
April 28th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
beautiful mark just beautiful
April 28th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
1000$ for a fake prop octopus???…damn, that photo shoot must be important for ya!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
by the way, Congratulations!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Awesome!!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Looking pretty hot there, Mark.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
but they taste so good
April 28th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
congrats! oh the power of twitter
April 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
congratulations, Mark, you really deserved that!
you look amazing on this photo, but a haircut would totally make you look better
April 28th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I will save an Octopus for you
D
HAIL BRAZIL <3
April 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
HAHAHAH! congratulations… but I cant stop laughing seeing this picture xD
Dude.. what’s up with your hair? xD
April 28th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
congratulations
April 28th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
As a vegetarian and an avid supporter of peta2, I am very proud of you and you definitely deserve this award. However, I’d like to respectfully tell you to STOP EATING MEAT. I love you (:
April 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hahahahahahahaha, nice picture!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
CONGRATULATIONS MARK!!! WAY TO GO!!
April 28th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
That’s so cool !
And your eyes are really amazing on this photo !
April 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
How nice of you Mark!
What the hell are you doing with octopi?
April 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Congratulations! The cephalopods are very happy with you (:
hahaha
Ooh, your picture is soo cute, n u arent fat \o/
but ru using wig? -just kiddin’
Love u , come to brazil (:
April 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
oh god, so handsome!!! *—-*
April 28th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
walk it off fatty! hahaha
April 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
aww congratulations mark
now YOU stop eating meat!
April 28th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
omg hot pic!
April 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
you’re BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!11
congratulations lover
<3
April 28th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
you still look great Mark! lol
April 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
SEX GOD! RIGHT THERE!
I LOVE YOU MARK <3
April 28th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
a veRy oLd pic…!!!!
looks gReaT though…
hahahah…
April 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
personally, I like that look of you in the pic!
stay fat! grow your hair! Look young!
April 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Good for you! You deserve the award…more peeps should follow your example
April 28th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
You shut up! You were hot then and you’re hot now. ^_^
April 28th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
wow haha mark you do not look at all fat in that picture. I love it. And congrats!
April 28th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
i have a huge shelf in my room completely stacked with octopus paraphernalia. pencil sharpeners, soap, dog toys, magazines, birthday cards, those cheap ass wildlife foldout things they send you in the mail. future marine biologist here, and even i think it’s creepy. i am determined to get one of those flash drives. huge FOB fan, and it has an octopus on it. meant to be i swear. yeah i’m a freak, most people are.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Hahaha! That’s so funny.
Ahh and Mark, loving that picture!
April 28th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
MARK HOPPUS= BEAST
MARK HOPPUS= HERO
MARK HOPPUS= BEST BASS PLAYER EVA!
Mark will always be a beast i hope one day i will get to meet you,
April 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Fab hair! Congrats on this award! I wrote a little bit about this on my site, just click my name to see it! hugs
April 28th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Peta? those guys on south park? haha..nice. you are a good man. (next day we see a photo of you diving to catch an octopus for dinner
)
April 28th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
You look like a model, a model that could’ve smoked a little weed earlier that day.
I do wonder why they chose that pic in particular out of the thousands of more recent photos they could’ve probably found online of yourself though.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Congratulations Mark =DDDDDD
April 28th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I like your A Christmas Story reference in the title….unless I’m just lame enough to equate a normal every-day sentence into A Christmas Story reference when it’s actually not.
Either way, congratulations. Fake octopi for the win.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
cool pic)))
April 28th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Such a babe
April 28th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
mark. congrats. their are so many reasons why you should stop eating meat and if you cant be bothered to check out why on the peta2 site just try it for yourself. you’ll feel the difference
i did and i stuck to it. haha your a babe even in the younger days.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:25 am
omg, thats so cool, ask for a award and get one!
haha
and yes you really looked like that ^^
I canthat one with seawear in your mouth)’t understand why they took this pic. If you google you found always earlier pictures (and
I never saw that pic before.
yes i google …xD
April 29th, 2009 at 2:52 am
You’re crazy, ’cause you look beautiful in that picture. Your eyes are spectacular.
Gratz on your award and stay secksy, Mark ;P
…..Y Y….. Flashed
.(”\(u.u)/”). by a
….W.W….. Moonkin
…/../.\..\…. woot !
April 29th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Hah, I like your blog title. Your award should have been a leg lamp.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Yay, you really look even more gay on that picture than you usually do xD
When are you gonna release your tour dates for germany?
I love you guys (i know, thats even more gay than your pic)
April 29th, 2009 at 6:46 am
duuude wear that shirt!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Come on, u looks perfect in this picture =D
April 29th, 2009 at 9:30 am
wow mark you look ridiculously foxy in this picture. you have always been such a handsome man and you just seem to get better with age haha.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:12 am
well played mate
i thought you looksed younger in the pic :O
April 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Welcome to Brazil!
April 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am
aDoro todo lo que hacennn LOS AMO MAS ..QUE A NO SE QUE COSA,,YA ME CANSÉ DE COMPARARLOS…CREO MAS QUE A MI VIDA…….||||
I love everything they do .. I LOVE YOU FOREVER….._!!!!
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NOW IS NOT THAT THING, BECAUSE I got tired of comparisons … I BELIEVE THAT MY LIFE
April 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
THAT WAS AWESOME MARK!!
MEAT IS MURDER.
LOVE ANIMALS, DON’T EAT THEM
April 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Congratulations Mark
And come play in Brasil, i want to see Morumbi Stadium with 100.000 blink fans doing a litle noise
April 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Mark. You are presumably the most awesome man ever.
I think, and hope that your new blink-album will be of the hook!
I Hope that you will come to sweden sometime, it would be an
honor to have you visiting!
April 29th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
It’s always funny how we’re surprised to see how bad looking we used to be while we thought we were just kick ass!!
haha
April 29th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Oh my god Mark you are so fucking SEXY! I love animals but i really like to eat them. is that wrong?
April 30th, 2009 at 12:23 am
young mark..
April 30th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Go you!
April 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I love you so much Mark ! I cant stop saying it ! =]
April 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I love you I love you I love you ! !
April 30th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
That’s fucking old school. But not super old school. And fuck PETA. They take shit a little too far. And it’s not like I don’t have compassion for animals, I work at a veterinarian for God’s sake,
April 30th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Congrats. Hopefully your wife doesn’t get jealous. XD
May 1st, 2009 at 7:59 pm
You’re not heavier… you’re just more human now. You don’t look fully human until about 20 and from then on you just look better and better. Haha.
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
That’s great! And you look really handsome on that picture… it’s my favorite!
May 7th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Ur beautiful, Mark. Love you <3