This Is Not Out of the Blue

On My Way to Where the Air Is Sweet
Celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street have really dominated the media lately--from people picking their favourite segments to Cookie Monster wanting royalties for his eating style to books like Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street--and the Muppet characters, in particular, have been everywhere over the past couple of weeks. I can't really add anything to all that, but the many trips down memory lane have made me think back on my own tiny connection to the franchise.

You see, Canada use to have its own version of Sesame Street...sort of.

There are, of course, many international variations on the series, but the Canadian edition of Sesame Street wasn't as homegrown as most of those examples. The CBC originally had a deal with the Children's Television Workshop which let them insert Canadian segments into the otherwise American show, so we would still get the main "street" storylines with Big Bird et al. which are set in New York (as well as many of the American interstitials) while also getting interstitial segments (both animated and live-action) which were more specifically Canadian content. Eventually, Canadian Muppet characters were introduced and the show gradually morphed into the half-hour Sesame Park before being cancelled several years ago.

(Personally, I feel they missed a big opportunity by not creating an actual Canadian street for the CBC version, with bilingual signs and other features which would highlight the differences between Canadian and American urban culture.)

When I was seven, I was in one of those filmed-on-location segments.

It was about firefighters and what they do, and most of it was filmed at Fire Station No 4 on Osborne Street (which has gained more prominence recently for...well, something else) with a couple of CBC producers and a small camera crew. I was chosen along with three other students from my elementary school, and after we'd spent much of the day away from class, our classmates were mainly eager to know if we'd met any of the Muppets. (As a child, I suppose you can grasp the concept of TV production without necessarily realising that multiple locations might be involved...)

Don't go looking for it on YouTube--I've tried, and there appears to be little (if any) of the Canadian Sesame Street content uploaded. For that, I'm actually somewhat grateful, as I didn't really embrace the ensemble spirit of the piece and instead continued to embrace the role of Eager Student (a common role for me at that age) to the detriment of the other kids present. I'd probably cringe (then smile, then cringe again) if the clip were to surface now.

Nevertheless, they continued to reuse that segment for years afterwards, as they did with so many bits from the show (which is why we remember the classics so well, after all)...based on inquiries from curious neighbours at the time, I'd say it was still being edited into episodes until I was fifteen or sixteen. I'm sure there's a copy of it around somewhere.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: How Now Brown & The Moo Wave - "Danger's No Stranger"

I'm All Alone, More or Less
After all of the planning and the worrying and the hustle and the bustle around Kimberly's visit to Winnipeg since I first brought it up, how did everything work out?

Pretty relaxed, actually.

( Hello, City )

As you can tell, the visit was laidback, but fun, with the fact that it ended and the absence of Kimberly's husband Scott as the only parts which made me a sad panda. I really hope that his work commitments won't keep him away next time.

As you can also tell (and as I expected), a lot of the trip involved comparisons between many aspects of Canadiana and Americana, most of which I haven't even mentioned yet--everything from the dominance of Kijiji over Craigslist in Winnipeg to the nature of provincial equalisation payments to how companies sneak in a maple leaf on their Canadian logos (the middle of the McDonald's Golden Arches, the apostrophe in "Wendy's," and so on), just in case you forget what country you're in when you're dealing with them.

There was less talk of home redecoration than expected--mostly discussion of potential changes to the apartment rather than actually shopping for new decor or furniture. Kimberly and I seem to be on the same page of ideas, but we never devoted an afternoon to this sort of thing as I'd originally imagined.

On a(nother) side note, I had the rental car for an extra day on either side of the visit, and it becomes immediately clear in that sort of situation how much more oriented Winnipeg is to its entrenched car culture than it is to cyclists, pedestrians, or frequent users of public transit. I was pretty much aware of this already, but the difference in practice is astounding.

All in all, I'm happy with my first attempt at offering some Canadian hospitality here in the new(ish) place, and I can only hope my next opportunity goes at least as well. :)

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Classified - "Oh...Canada"

It's Cold Outside, There's No Kind of Atmosphere
The rental car is being picked up in a couple of hours, and the apartment is on track to getting (somewhat) more organised, which means the pieces are slowly coming together for Kimberly's arrival in Winnipeg tomorrow...

Unfortunately, however, she just sprained her ankle, and the weather forecast for this weekend is colder than I'd hoped, so we'll most likely be taking it pretty easy whilst she's here (and to be fair, she was telling me to take it easy anyway).

Besides feeling that the city puts its best foot forward during the summer--even if the colder weather makes for an (arguably) more "authentic" Winnipeg experience--all of the summertime events I mentioned also nicely provide a built-in environment where a visitor can run into a lot of local people I know. (This was the case with my last visitor, who came during FolkFest, and would be very true for anyone who came during the Fringe Festival.) A lot of the concern coming across in my preparations stems from the fact there isn't really an autumnal equivalent to this, when the nippy climate makes it harder to get people out for things--and of course, it's always a burn when you try to put a social gathering together yourself and it doesn't materialise.

If you're local and not intimidated by the thought of single-digit temperatures, we're planning on going to the late showing of Zombieland on Friday night at SilverCity Polo Park, taking in at least part of the St Vital Fall Classic bonspiel, and probably spending the bulk of the remaining time at the homestead. Feel free to comment here or contact me through the usual channels, and I'm sure we can figure something out...

Current Mood: cold

Stand on Guard, Getting Ready for the Show
The northwest corner of Trafalgar Square in London features the Fourth Plinth, originally built in the 19th century for the purpose of erecting a statue of William IV which never actually went up. Ever since, debate has raged over what to put there (with the usual answer being "nothing"), and for the past ten years, that has led to occasional temporary art installations.

Currently, the Fourth Plinth is being taken up by an art project called One & Other, conceived by Antony Gormley, where a different applicant goes onto the Plinth every hour from July 6 to October 14. They can do whatever they want there, as long as it's legal, and they can take anything up with them, as long as they carry it themselves.

If you go to the project's official website, you can watch a live webstream of whoever is on the Plinth at the moment. (As I write this, a grammar school student is talking on her mobile phone and writing stuff on a stand she brought with her, trying to get spectators to play Hangman.) Each person's hour is archived online for posterity.

After I found out about this (which I thought was rather cool), I started poking around to find out more, and occasionally checking into the live feed to see what was going on...so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered someone I knew had already taken part!

My friend Larina Alick was the designated Plinther from 9-10 AM on September 4, and she dubbed her hour a "Demonstration of Procrastination." Larina is originally from Queensland, but I met her on my (first) trip to Melbourne, and we stayed in touch through her (first) move to London. Seeing her in this particular context had an extra bit of personal resonance, since she and I brought in the year 2000 together in Trafalgar Square.

As I mentioned, you can watch her entire hour online for yourselves. I found the whole thing very entertaining, and Larina remains as awesome as ever.

Current Mood: pleasantly surprised

You're All Invited Back Next Week to This Locality
Trying to make sure Winnipeg doesn't prove to be a massive letdown during Kimberly's visit has yielded better results lately than it did last week--thanks in no small part to the excellent feedback on my original entry mentioning it, along with offline input from a variety of local sources. :)

Many thanks to everyone who was able to contribute.

Amongst the possible events Kimberly will not miss are the artistic mash-up known as Cirque de la Symphonie, a concert by "multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band" Gogol Bordello, A Maze in Corn ("Manitoba's Original Corn Maze!"), and the photography exhibit Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Oh, and I was able to find a curling bonspiel we can go to that weekend. ;)

Having mentioned all this, Kimberly (rightly) pointed out that I needn't feel obligated to schedule the trip down to the second--which is good, because I was already dangerously close to pulling a Danny Tanner with my Itinerary of Fun, when hanging out is also a great way to spend one's time. (It's not as if I expect any similar amount of planning when I visit someone, after all.)

On a more leisurely cultural note, then, can someone with more knowledge of such matters give me a rundown of some candies that exist in Canada but not the United States? A glowing reference to this elsewhere in the blogosphere reminded me that (for example) Americans mean something different when they talk about Smarties...

Current Mood: slightly less nervous

Everything to Prove, Nothing in My Way
So far, my efforts at finding local events of interest for Kimberly's upcoming visit to Winnipeg have proven to be an exercise in unfortunate timing. :/

Amongst the events Kimberly will miss by less than a week are the Flashlight Vigil at Lower Fort Garry (and the end of the regular season there, actually), an appearance by a mentalist at The Park Theatre, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, the opening of the theatre season with 5 O'Clock Bells at the MTC Warehouse, the poetry series Speaking Crow at Aqua Books, and even the uniquely local City of Winnipeg Giveaway Weekend.

Well, at least Zombieland opens while she's here...

Current Mood: frustrated

Recordatio, Identidem
As I do each year to mark this anniversary, I'll point you to my entry on 9/11 from three years ago, if you're curious about my memories of the event and my thoughts on its aftermath.

Feel free to comment there with your own thoughts if you wish--I invited that sort of feedback at the time, and the invitation still holds.

I certainly feel better about the state of the world in general, and the United States in particular, than I did at this time last year. The change in American leadership has led to an important shift in tone and focus, and for that I'm grateful.

We Make the Whole World Dirty and We Have a Real Good Time
You had to know this was coming (as it were), but in watching Season Two of The Original Series, there was even more potentially homoerotic innuendo to be found than what I'd encountered with the first season.

Because of that, it was harder (so to speak) to narrow down the most suggestive selections and form a proper list. I kept it up, though, and after a bit of a push and some concerted effort, I finished it off, so I celebrate the official 43rd anniversary of Star Trek by giving you:

Top Ten Unusual Slashy Lines (TOS Season Two Edition)

[As with the previous list, "unusual" means that no Kirk/Spock lines were included.]

10) Kirk/Mudd: "Is that the way you're going to do it, Mudd?"

9) Kirk/Garrovick: "Oh, Ensign, meet me in my quarters when you've cleaned up."

8) Kirk/McCoy/Scott/Chekov/Apollo: "If we can wear him out, overwork him, that might do it."

7) McCoy/Kirk: "Just lie there and be happy you're alive."

6) Scott/Kirk: "The best we can do is to maintain thrust against the pull and hold our position."

5) Jones/Bartender: "You won't find a finer stone anywhere."

4) Kirk/Planet-Killer: "I intend to get a lot closer. I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat!"

3) Chekov/Chekov: "Take off your shirt, Chekov! Roll over, Chekov! Breathe deeply, Chekov!"

2) Sargon/Kirk: "We left our seed behind us."

...and the most unusual slashy line of the season:

1) Chekov/Kirk: "This is going to kill our romance."

Once more, Kirk clearly dominates (to coin a phrase), and that habit is sure to continue when Season Three gets a look...

Then again, it's possible that Kirk just loves a mountain instead.

Current Mood: naughty

You Could Be Happy There on Earth
Despite my managing to make it through Season One of Star Trek: The Original Series before the new movie came out, my episode-watching pace quickly dropped off after it opened, and I'd gone several weeks without moving past "The Deadly Years," which happens to be the exact halfway point of the series.

The combination of an abundance of free time with a Labour Day weekend Star Trek marathon on Space to provide inspiration, however, pushed me to pick up the gauntlet again and finish off Season Two, where more creative decisions inspired by real-world production issues seemed prominent.

Although TOS never went to 23rd-century Earth (the closest we got was a distant, illusory view of the city of Mojave in the original pilot, "The Cage"), several episodes dealt with time travel into Earth's past, and there seemed to be all sorts of reasons to go to planets that were "much like your Earth." Trying to go for a sense of plausibility, the show codified this tendency by inventing terms like the Class M designation and Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development to explain it away.

Where Season One had started the trend by featuring an exact duplicate of Earth in "Miri," Season Two was all about themed planets: Hallowe'en World! Greek Mythology World! Roman World! Gangster World! Nazi World! Weird Quasi-Cold War World! Season Three would continue this pattern somewhat (with such winners as Native American World), but it was the second season which really embraced it.

This seems fitting for a season whose finale was appropriately titled "Assignment: Earth," another time travel episode that served as a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff series set on Earth in the present day. It's interesting to speculate on what such a series might've been like (and John Byrne did just that in a recent comic book series), but the alternate Star Trek universe that would've resulted from that development in the franchise would probably be virtually unrecognisable to us.

Speaking of alternate universes, Season Two also featured "Mirror, Mirror" and its evil take on the characters we know and love, leading to decades of further development and speculation on the Mirror Universe (not to mention many an evil-goatee reference in popular culture). Onscreen, at least, Mirror Earth has never been properly visited, either.

Current Mood: nostalgic

'Cause You're There for Me, Too
We've talked about the possibility for years already, but my very good friend Kimberly (whom I've mentioned in various contexts, including her role as co-founder of Regator, which I've also talked about before) has only just now finished booking her trip to visit me here in Winnipeg! :)

I'm ecstatic about this, of course, but also extremely nervous.

Winnipeg is at its best during July and August (and I feel that the ideal time to visit is during the Fringe), so I've generally had people come during those months, and I worry that there isn't enough of interest for even a first-time visitor after the summer festivals have come and gone--no Fringe, no FolkFest, no Folklorama, just the autumnal city itself. Other than the likelihood of some ghost tourism, I have no idea what Kimberly and I will do when she gets here.

Thus, I turn to you, Winnipeggers and past visitors to this noble city, for advice and reassurance.

Kimberly will be here the first weekend of October, already a desert where any interesting concerts or other events are concerned. :/ I would very much appreciate any insight at all from those in the know as to what leaves a good impression for people coming here in the off-season, as it were.

Some awesome specific advice would include vegetarian restaurant options (the place doesn't have to be entirely vegetarian, just feature some good meat-free menu items), anywhere we can check out (and maybe even try out?) some curling by then, and where I should go to shop for some new home decor (as it occurs to me that the apartment's looking a little bare at the moment).

Thanks in advance for your help...

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: They Might Be Giants - "Whirlpool"

He Never Gives Up, He's Always There
If you haven't already, you should definitely check out "The Ballad of G.I. Joe," written by Daniel Strange & Kevin Umbricht and featuring an all-star cast, including a brief but welcome appearance by Alan Tudyk:

The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

Isn't it sad that The Rise of Cobra has far less appeal for me than this does, especially where the casting is concerned?

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Destro and the Baroness Practicing the Clarinet

It's Time to Raise the Curtain
Despite my ambivalent feelings about Winnipeg, there are times when I really love being here, and I feel like this city is never better than it is during the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.

( Fringe Factory )

That's the great thing about the Winnipeg Fringe, though--there are so many random things to encounter, in and out of the performance venues. You can start out one night talking passionately about the world of theatre in a pub when all of a sudden, a spontaneous Eighties Dance Party breaks out, followed by a rousing game of Intercourse-Handjob-Farts (a variation on Rock-Paper-Scissors developed by the aforementioned Luke Falconer...I'm sure you can figure it out), before ending up in another conversation where you staunchly defend your favourite critical theorist, without missing a beat.

Twelve days never feel like enough.

Current Mood: theatrical
Current Music: Storm Large - "(My Vagina Is) Eight Miles Wide"

Those Dreams Have Remained and They've Turned Around
Having spent the past couple of Canada Days dwelling on fictional Canadian pop stars and Heritage Minutes, I find myself thinking more this year about the vagaries of Winnipeg's specific identity...

( Life in a Northern Town )

I'm from here and I have no idea what the answers are, as I struggle with all of these issues myself on a personal level--the lack of anonymity, the inability to get away from your past, the concern that your ambitions can only be fulfilled by moving away, the knowledge that you'll eventually run into your ex at the worst possible moment because there are only ever two degrees of separation around here. Obviously, I'm one of the many people willing to bitch and moan and sing the praises of Winnipeg, all at the same time.

I know that Winnipeg will always be a part of me, but is that really all there is to this city?

Current Mood: inconclusive
Current Music: The Weakerthans - "One Great City!"

It's Time to Play the Music
When I woke up today and saw that the nonstop news coverage was still on, I realised it had actually happened.

Michael Jackson died.

He was the first musician I can remember really being a fan of who wasn't specifically making children's music. It was all mixed together in my young mind at the time, of course--original artists and Mini Pops covers held about the same status on my record shelf--but listening to Thriller on vinyl and cassette tape, I managed to make the distinction, because I could tell that Michael Jackson was a Big Deal.

That was also when I started to watch music videos (probably on Video Hits) and truly understand what a music video was. Once again, the videos for songs like "Billie Jean" and the all-time classic "Thriller" (a video so long it has end credits!) are what made that clear to me. Say what you like about that album and that video, but their enduring influence cannot be overstated.

So many of my earliest memories of pop music and popular culture in general are tied to Michael Jackson that it's hard for me to think of one without associating the other.

There've been so many iconic figures lost just in the last little while (Bea Arthur, David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett), but Jackson has already drowned them all out, the only one who could slow down the entire Internet. I imagine this will be another Princess Diana moment, where this is the main event any of us remember about this month in the future--yet another legendary entertainer gone too soon.

For all of the excesses and general weirdness that Michael Jackson became known for over the years (Is it too early to make an Elvis comparison?), my main inclination last night and this morning has been to just listen to his songs, concentrating on that golden period from Off the Wall to Dangerous when (in the realm of song and dance, anyway) it seemed like he could do no wrong.

That's how I choose to remember him.

Current Mood: mourning
Current Music: Anything by Michael Jackson

The Man, He Ain't So Hard to Understand
I'm not exactly a fan of slash fiction (that's a longer discussion for another day), but in the midst of rewatching Season One of Star Trek: The Original Series--with its euphemistic talk of "thinking with your glands" and "unusually strong female drives"--I couldn't help but notice that certain pieces of dialogue seemed closer to homoerotic innuendo than I had previously remembered.

That may just be Pride Month talking, but either way, I give you:

Top Ten Unusual Slashy Lines (TOS Season One Edition)

[N.B. For the purposes of this list, "unusual" means that I didn't include any Kirk/Spock lines in the mix.]

10) Kirk/Christopher: "Feel free to look around, Captain. Don't touch anything, but I think you'll find it interesting."

9) Kirk/McCoy: "He's all yours, plum."

8) Kirk/McCoy: "Sometimes, pain can drive a man harder than pleasure. I'm sure you know that, Doctor."

7) McCoy/Kirk: "That's a boy, keep it up. Work up a little sweat, it'll do you good."

6) Kirk/Kirk: "I have to take him back inside myself."

5) Spock/McCoy: "I had a very strong reaction. My first sight was the face of Doctor McCoy bending over me."

4) Scott/Kirk: "Any way we do it, it means a mighty rough ride."

3) Kirk/McCoy: "He wants to get me down there, afraid I won't swallow it."

2) Cogley/Kirk: "I could get you off." followed by "You can pull out if you want to."

...and the most unusual slashy line of the season:

1) Landru/Kirk: "Landru is gentle. You will come."

This may yet become a (semi-)regular feature, depending on what Season Two has to offer...

Current Mood: suggestive

There Is Lots to Doodle-Do
When you visit The History of Things That Never Were, you'll find a set of anchor links at the top of the page allowing you to jump to one of the site's timeline sections, which are divided by medium (Television, Movies, Books, Games, and Comics).

After mentioning in my ruminations on the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series that I was rearranging the Star Trek chronology work, though, I realised I never really highlighted the fact that each of the sub-sections under those media has an anchor, too.

At the risk of blatant Google-baiting, here are all the specific sub-sections on the site, in order of appearance:

Star Trek Timelines
Doctor Who Timelines
Highlander Timelines
Battlestar Galactica Timelines
Robotech Timelines
Gundam Timelines
Star Wars Timelines
The Lord of the Rings Timelines
The Wheel of Time Timelines
Cthulhu Mythos Timelines
Wold Newton Timelines
Dungeons & Dragons Timelines
DC Comics Timelines
Marvel Comics Timelines

I've managed to do some tweaking here and there on the site lately, but there is a great deal of work left to be done to bring it up to a level I'd find satisfactory at this point...

Tracking down dead links alone is starting to take up a lot of my time devoted to the site--and between the shutdown of AOL Hometown late last year and the impending demise of GeoCities, this problem is only getting worse. (Timelines hosted at GeoCities make up over 10% of the total links on the site.) It's always sad to see a good timeline disappear, but checking links and thus updating the site properly is a normal part of site maintenance--which in this case means acknowledging how the Web has changed, and having to let go of certain sites which no longer exist. :/ After all, it's counterproductive to have dead links just sitting there, as it undermines the reliability of the site itself.

(Ironically, there are probably just as many dead links to the site out there now as there are dead links on the page itself, since previous URL redirects no longer work...even though it's been at its current URL for the past seven years, or the majority of its existence.)

Certain people have also told me I should "build the brand" by incorporating some sort of social-networking component into the site (or at least its visitors), such as a dedicated blog, but I have my doubts that I'd be able to sustain a dual blogging effort on top of everything else, so I've even (*shudder*) thought about using Twitter for people to follow site updates more closely.

Whatever I decide in this regard, it would be nice to find a way for the site to keep up with the times, Web-wise, and eventually move away from that lovely 1997 design aesthetic. (A long time ago,

lampbane came up with a really nice potential redesign which I still have, so I may yet use that as a launching point.)

Then again, there's something fitting about an "historical" website that evokes the online past...

Current Mood: geeky

Happy and Gay Like You Wouldn't Believe
I did indeed make it to Winnipeg's Pride March on Sunday (as promised earlier), and I'm glad I went, on what turned out to be the first weekend of the year for completely decent-without-qualifiers weather. :) I'm actually pleased to have some sunburn on my neck and shoulders, because it means this "summer" thing everyone talks about is more than just a rumour...

Given the warm, sunny weather, the turnout was great, and I saw a number of people I knew along the way--but fewer than I expected. :/ I'm not sure what's up with that.

Most of my marching time was spent seeking out a float with decent music to walk beside, and it was a decidedly mixed bag until I found a winner in the "Adam and Steve" float. ;)

After that, it was just a matter of hanging around Memorial Park, watching some of the requisite song-and-dance acts, and checking out the display booths before heading home...

Speaking of which, you know the demographics have shifted at an event like this when companies like Investors Group and Sears Portrait Studio make an official appearance. :}

Current Mood: bemused

I Grab My Books and I Give Myself a Look
Before I completely neglect to mention it, Zack Morris made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week to update us all on what he's been up to since his days at Bayside:

I was surprised at the attention to continuity in his interview, referencing everything from Zack's (impossible) SAT score to his Wedding in Las Vegas--even addressing the retcon of Good Morning, Miss Bliss (the precursor to Saved by the Bell where some of its characters debuted), which was set in Indiana--and I have to say that The Roots can rock out that theme music rather well. :) It's also a little disturbing how easy it is to make Mark-Paul Gosselaar look the part again...

I'm glad to see Zack's kept his brick of a mobile phone (no text messaging, alas), but sad to learn of his divorce from Kelly Kapowski...although of course, that all depends on whether this appearance could be considered canon. ;)

Current Mood: preppy
Current Music: Zack Attack - "Friends Forever"

Straight Ahead and On the Track Now
Winnipeg: One Gay City!

Having missed out on Winnipeg's Pride March over the past couple of years (for a number of reasons), I want to be doubly sure I make it this Sunday...

In the meantime, the status of various GLBT issues in North America is the same mixed bag as it was at this time last year. One (pleasantly) shocking turn of events was discovering that President Obama actually proclaimed June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month:

I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

There are plenty of places in the States where discrimination and prejudice in this area need to be turned back, too. While same-sex couples there are still struggling to get the same immigration rights and adoption rights as their heterosexual counterparts, and some public schools are blocking pro-GLBT websites, marriage rights continue to be a primary battleground--with the good news out of New Hampshire seemingly cancelled out by the upholding of the same-sex marriage ban in California (and you all know how I feel about that).

Lest we Canadians look upon those problems and pat ourselves on the back for being so much more enlightened, I would remind you that Alberta just passed a law allowing parents to pull their children out of class when lessons on sexual orientation are being taught.

Things might be all right where I'm sitting, but they continue to be worse elsewhere--for our neighbours to the south as well as so many other parts of the world.

And that's why I need to show my support at Pride this year.

Current Mood: discontent

They've Given You a Number and Taken Away Your Name
When I got home last night, I had exactly one message on my answering machine. The male voice was unidentified. Here it is, in its entirety:

Don't drink, don't smoke...
[muffled response]
Yeah, no, she wants to but she will hate it. Close, close up. If she had one shot, I guarantee you, half of it and her head would be going. I'm bugging you, because she's never drank, if she took a shot--
[muffled response]
No, if she ever took something that was very strong to drink, half the drink and her head would start to go. And you've never drank before?
[muffled response]
Evil, evil spirits, we call it. Alcohol.
[chuckling to himself]
[click]

So...did someone seriously just accidentally drunk-dial me and proceed to describe how someone else couldn't handle their liquor without losing it?

Current Mood: amused but confused

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