H1N1 is just the flu. If I made it through, so can you. It’s just a President. If the last one didn’t destroy America, this one won’t either. Everyone needs to shut their traps, turn off 24-hour TV “news”, chill out, harden up and just do what needs to get done. Cinch your underwear up real tight, America, because we’re starting to make France look like some hardened UFC fighter.
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Ha. Funny story. So 48 hours after this post, I was in coming out of urgent cared diagnosed with pneumonia, post H1N1. Lesson learned: you can make it through H1N1 (hopefully) but remember, don’t mock it.
ray :: dec 05 2009 :: 1:53 am
Hey, remember “out of control” with dave coulier? it turns out that it was the first original programming nickelodeon did back in the day.
it also turns out that dave’s co-star diz hasn’t done a lot since…and according to this flickr photo, she has been selling magazines on cahuenga for years. which makes me sad i never knew while i lived there.
yay diz!
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I told you about my Thanksgiving dinner with Dave Coulier, right?
John :: oct 07 2009 :: 3:13 am
Yes, though in my head he spent the entire meal talking about being the subject of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.”
(Yeah, I was doing me some Dave Coulier research the other day, what of it?)
tripp :: oct 07 2009 :: 10:45 am
Once upon a time, I was a youngster. I grew up as a very solid child of the 80s and the pop culture from that period will never escape me. And today, I close a chapter that has to be 20-some years old.
I would spend quality time at my friend Dan’s house after school. He and I took Tae Kwon Do together for years; we had been in Boy Scouts together; I think that first cigarette that I was forced into smoking once was one he and I shared.
And I recall watching G.I. Joe at his house, inbetween playing out in the yard or building models or listening to music. And there was this one episode, ‘No Place Like Springfield’ (and that’s a YouTube playlist, so you can play along at home), one where Shipwreck wakes up and finds that 6 years have passed, that G.I Joe no longer exists, that he has married the mermaid he always loved. (Just nod there on the last part.)
I remember this episode vividly. I also recall that i was was a 2-parter and, for whatever reason, I never saw the second half. Ever.
This has lived in the back of my brain for decades now. It was a surreal episode (and not in the ‘The Viper Is Coming’ way). Well, I’ve gotten the 2parter now and it’s sitting in front of me.
It’s going to be a shame to let this go, to have this resolved. There is little doubt that it will be a let-down. But I have to watch it.
Notes:
And so is my watching a 20 year old cartoon to see how the story ends. Happy Sunday morning everyone!
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awesome. way to take me back. i totally remember those episodes. i also remember being just as confused as shipwreck. the melting was totally freaky.
Hmm. I definitely recall watching “The Viper…” on TV, but I distinctly remember “No Place…” as a comic book. I might have to crack a box or two here to make sure…
ray :: may 05 2009 :: 12:09 am
Just to wrap up the items that were hanging over me last weekend:
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i am way behind on the blog.
1. ugh on your health.
2. congrats on the new tv.
hima :: feb 03 2009 :: 5:53 pm
1. Thank you.
2. Thank you.
“you take the good, you take the bad…”
tripp :: feb 03 2009 :: 5:55 pm
Remind me to kick you in the nuts the next time I see you for putting that song in my head. Get. Out. Of. My. HEAD!!!!
ray :: feb 03 2009 :: 9:22 pm
I’ve been in radio silence since Rachael got here. She left this morning, 7am on a flight back to Boston. Somewhat unsurprisingly, a bunch of thoughts and news and cruft has appeared in these past three weeks.
I’m sitting in Starbucks across the street from my apartment; this gives me the benfit of being out of the house and being forced to write. This also means that I will probably pen quite a number of posts this afternoon and dole them out accordingly.
I can say, without giving much away, that the last 10 days have been a shitstorm of all sorts of fun. Working backwards:
I don’t know how much more I’ll talk about any of these things. I have some amusing doctor stories and can say that Costco was a joy to return things to, except for the lines. If Costco ever figures out how to handle lines of people within their store, it might almost be a tolerable place to walk into. But the return itself could not have been more smooth.
So a crappy few weeks, though there were some silver linings — like Rachael being here. Always look on the bright side, right?
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As if there wasn’t already enough stuff on the internet for you to masturbate to…
ray :: dec 18 2009 :: 9:37 pm