Tracy Morgan Tribute (My 100th Blog entry)

Tracy Morgan is as hilarious as he is awesome. 30 Rock would be nothing without him, nothing; except maybe a pretty decent show. I don't know who rights his lines but here are some from one single episode:

• I slept on an old dog bed stuffed with wigs!
• I watched a prostitute stab a clown
• Our basketball hoop was a rib cage. A rib cage!
• Oh, Lord, some guy with dreads electrocuted my fish!
• A crackhead breastfeeding a rat.
• A homeless man licking a Hot Pocket off the third rail of the G train!
• I've seen a blind guy bite a police horse!
  
• A puppy committed suicide after he saw our bathroom!
  
• I once bit into a burrito and there was a child's shoe in it!
  
• I've seen a hooker eat a tire!
  
• The sewer people stole my skateboard!
  
• The projects I lived in were named after Zachary Taylor, generally considered to be one of the worst presidents of all time!
  
• I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo! They were very drunk!
• A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a Wendy's!

You Remind Me Of The Babe: Jim Henson Tribute Night

You remind me of the babe!
What babe?
The babe with the power!
What power?
The power of Voodoo!
Who do?
You do!
Do What?
Remind me of the babe!

I saw my baby crying hard as babes could cry... What could I do?...


Sunday night was a Jim Henson tribute night. Jim Henson had died 20 years earlier to the day and an underground theater in Toronto (186 Spadina Road) tributed the anniversary with a Jim Henson double header night. First they played The Muppets take Manhattan, then The Labyrinth with David Bowie.


Obviously it was amazing to see the Labyrinth on the big screen in an indy theater. It should also be obvious that all of the David Bowie crouch shots received an overly enthusiastic rise from crowd members of the female persuasion. Finally it goes without saying that Jennifer Connelly seems to have gotten a lot younger since the last time I saw this movie. But what was really cool (but less obvious), is that the show was introduced by one of Jim Henson's friends who helped him create Fraggle Rock. We got some inside stories about The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, The Labyrinth and other cool stuff that Jim did back in the day. Very cool! Here is a video of the Swedish Popcorn Chef... GOLD!



I also bootlegged the most memorable song of the movie for your viewing enjoyment.



Thanks to a certain friend of mine who I will refer to as Kat M, for years I was under the impression that she personally knew Jennifer Connelly. She failed to mention that it was not the Jennifer Connelly from the Labyrinth. I have been living a lie until embarrassingly recent times.

In another shout-out to another hard-core Labyrinth fan; Marc L. Do you know what this picture at the bottom is all about?

If you don't recognize what I am talking about, maybe this picture of The Revelstoke Train Museum will jog the memory.

Tributing Stuff (Part 9): Tribute to Ambigram

Made popular by Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons, ambigrams are back in vogue after a few slumping centuries of being outside the spot (candle) light. As part 9 in my 397 part series "Tributing Stuff", I am tipping my hat to this freak of nature. Ambigrams are the "double joint" of the literary anatomy. The are mysterious and probably the result of black magic and or witchcraft which I may or may not be against depending on its current "tweetability". I have a TradeMark on that word so you can forget about using it George Stromboulompolobo..po... You know who you are!

Now I'm not saying that Ambigrams don't have a place in this world. Traveling circuses offer a great business model for this product of the underworld, right between the Siamese wolfmen and the Brearded women. I myself have a couple of these little cancers! But before I expose them to lethal doses of chemotherapy and radiation I thought I should share them with you children so that you have something worthwhile to point at while you eat your candy apple and cotton candy.

Be not frightened but do not approach the cage.

This ones Says "McNulty" written frontwards or backwards.


This one says Michael in one direction but turn it 180 degrees and it says McNulty, Behold:
Does this mean that I am a wizard? Of course not! Does it mean that I posses special powers? Probably. My point is that if you believe in something strong enough - no matter how impossible is many seem, you can easily end up in a straight-jacket within 3-4 months. Tops!

"Sleep tight mates, in your quilted Chambray nightshirts"


PS: If you want to make your own ambigrams simply solve THIS simple puzzle.