Olymp-yawn

Are the Olympics over yet? I'm getting tired of ignoring them.

In the interest of getting my interest, I recommend eliminating some of the gymnastic competitions where winning is subjective to someone's opinion anyway and adding paintball as an Olympic sport. Maybe playing at war every few years would help reduce the amount of actual war.

Or it might make better warriors, I dunno. These ideas do tend to back fire on me.

When Erics Collide!

I had a lunch appointment with one of my old co-workers today. After a certain amount of 'I don't wanna pick, you pick' via email, we settled on an establishment. I was to meet Eric at Noon.

Driving through the parking lot just before noon, I saw Eric and his family. Not the Eric I was there to meet, but another of the Erics I know. With a 'what are the odds' sort of amusement, I parked my car and laughed my way over to them. As I chit-chatted with them, the Eric I was there to meet pulled in and I dragged him into our brief conversation.

As we walked into the restaurant, Eric noted he was glad it happened to me. He noted that he would have second-guessed who he'd been emailing all this time.

I thought it was funny.

Working in the Archive

The archive is full of stuff.

Yesterday I found my CD soundtrack to 'Enter the Dragon', a newspaper clipping from 1987 regarding the live-action marriage of Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson in Shea Stadium, the Don Martin solo magazines from 1994, and a comic I drew (poorly) while in middle school.

And other stuff. There's always other stuff.

Meta Stooge

So I'm watching the Three Stooges the other day and they play 'Crash Goes the Hash'. If I'm not muddling this title with the other shorts they played that night, Moe, Larry, and Curly get mistaken for hot-shot reporters and are sent in to get a story about a royal wedding, with a bonus promised for a picture. They arrive at the house in time to hear that a cook and two butlers are required and fill those roles. Naturally as they accept the employment, there's a certain amount of misunderstanding and slapping to be had.

All this causes the head butler (Bud Jamison) to laugh. He notes that the boys remind him of the Three Stooges. At this point, the boys get very offended and tell him off.

A meta reference. In a Stooge short. In the 40's.

Awesome.

Gong Show Revisited

If I am to continue to watch the new Gong Show (I'm up to twice now that I've seen it), I think I shall have to record it. That way I can bypass the commercial breaks and watch the programme in about 12 minutes. More or less.

It just feels like I would be more efficient that way.