For I don't know how long I've been meaning to mention how one of the bright spots of my day is often reading My Blog Is Poop. Bob basically always manages to make me laugh ... sometimes out loud ... sometimes hysterically.
Since this is primarily a space for movie-talk (or something), I absolutely must draw attention to Bob's genius ability to cast/recast movies. Even when humor is the goal, sometimes he just happens to be right as well. Take yesterday: as part of another edition of "Ask Bob Anything," a reader asked, "If there was going to be a remake of
Just One Of The Guys, who would you cast in it??" (It's the fourth question down.) Scarlett Johannson in the role originated by poor, basically forgotten Joyce Hyser? (Holy shit! Hyser is nearly 50 years old! That's just disturbing -- and yet another reason why I feel old.) That's pure genius. It actually makes me want to see the remake of a movie that should never, ever otherwise be remade. And the rest of his choices are great too. Another fantastic movie-related post was when he put together a baseball starting lineup utilizing fictional characters from baseball movies.
Of course, the new all-time classic isn't either of these, nor is it film or even pop-culture related at all. And if someone else hadn't already made a certain "joke" in the comments, I would have said the same thing here. But now I can't. So I won't. Why is this post so fucking funny, because probably for all of us, at least once or twice it's been totally true even when it isn't exactly what happened.
Thanks Bob. You may not be helping me get all my shit done, but you're making me laugh, and sometimes that might be more important.
(And I should have titled this post "Reason #438 that I'm a big dork: Writing too earnestly about something absurd and funny.")
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