Instant reactions to Eddie...
before I fall into bed and die.
7+ hours in a car to watch Eddie for an hour and a half? Totally worth it. Although, the time spent in the car was cut significantly shorter than expected because I drive like a homocidal maniac late for a murder. As anyone who has ever driven with me on a major freeway can attest to.
So, he talked about: The stone age. Time before language. Cave man bedtime stories. How the stone age was almost called Jack's Age (24 1/2). Hunter gatherers! The progression of history (ancient Egyptians, who all died in a car crash, followed by the Greeks, who had Democracy! and the Spartans, who had very tough sheep, then the Romans who didn't like kings then crowned Caesar emperor, which is totally not like a king except it is - two guys with hats on, except the Romans did a leafy bit like they had leftovers from their vineyards. The dinosaurs! What's the tricerotops all about? Huge, three fucking horns, an Elizabethan ruff around its neck and all it eats are veggies...it's like the dinosaur bunny! God and his lack of existence - how there either isn't a god, or if there is, he just doesn't give a fuck! What did Europe do to deserve two world wars and a flu epidemic in twenty years? Republican foreign policy, which is basically 'get the fuck off, no not for you, go away' with lots of kicking. Vietnam and how we lost because we won the Revolutionary war - because we live here! And they live there! And Ho Chi Minh (not Chang Kai Shek) knew that. Wikipedia! And how it's run with three guys in a toilet with a torch. (And he actually took out his phone and wikipedia'd Ho Chi Minh right here, to tell us that he once lived in NY. And he worked in Boston, at the Parker House hotel) The Holy Bible, Moses talking to burning bushes, Noah and the ark - you'd get on with all the animals, but you'd end up with two tigers, because they'd eat the rest. Strapping giant squid to the top of the ark. Why God can't just make more animals. Snakes and how they don't have hands. Giraffes! And how they don't make noise. And them pretending to be the Eiffel Tower to avoid lions.
Things that showed up: Steve, Jeff, Sean Connery (though, not enough!) Woodhenge! Covering thy neighbor's ox, Noah's ark, evil ducks, Venuzuela, dyslexia, and badgers.
He was in bloke-y mode, kind of sad, but was looking quite shaggable in jeans and a side-vent pinstripe blazer. And we were like three rows from the front, just over to the side, in a tiny theater, so there was no way it could not be amazing. He has just as much energy and flits from topic to topic just as much as I expected. It's hard to keep up, but my throat is sore from laughing!
7+ hours in a car to watch Eddie for an hour and a half? Totally worth it. Although, the time spent in the car was cut significantly shorter than expected because I drive like a homocidal maniac late for a murder. As anyone who has ever driven with me on a major freeway can attest to.
So, he talked about: The stone age. Time before language. Cave man bedtime stories. How the stone age was almost called Jack's Age (24 1/2). Hunter gatherers! The progression of history (ancient Egyptians, who all died in a car crash, followed by the Greeks, who had Democracy! and the Spartans, who had very tough sheep, then the Romans who didn't like kings then crowned Caesar emperor, which is totally not like a king except it is - two guys with hats on, except the Romans did a leafy bit like they had leftovers from their vineyards. The dinosaurs! What's the tricerotops all about? Huge, three fucking horns, an Elizabethan ruff around its neck and all it eats are veggies...it's like the dinosaur bunny! God and his lack of existence - how there either isn't a god, or if there is, he just doesn't give a fuck! What did Europe do to deserve two world wars and a flu epidemic in twenty years? Republican foreign policy, which is basically 'get the fuck off, no not for you, go away' with lots of kicking. Vietnam and how we lost because we won the Revolutionary war - because we live here! And they live there! And Ho Chi Minh (not Chang Kai Shek) knew that. Wikipedia! And how it's run with three guys in a toilet with a torch. (And he actually took out his phone and wikipedia'd Ho Chi Minh right here, to tell us that he once lived in NY. And he worked in Boston, at the Parker House hotel) The Holy Bible, Moses talking to burning bushes, Noah and the ark - you'd get on with all the animals, but you'd end up with two tigers, because they'd eat the rest. Strapping giant squid to the top of the ark. Why God can't just make more animals. Snakes and how they don't have hands. Giraffes! And how they don't make noise. And them pretending to be the Eiffel Tower to avoid lions.
Things that showed up: Steve, Jeff, Sean Connery (though, not enough!) Woodhenge! Covering thy neighbor's ox, Noah's ark, evil ducks, Venuzuela, dyslexia, and badgers.
He was in bloke-y mode, kind of sad, but was looking quite shaggable in jeans and a side-vent pinstripe blazer. And we were like three rows from the front, just over to the side, in a tiny theater, so there was no way it could not be amazing. He has just as much energy and flits from topic to topic just as much as I expected. It's hard to keep up, but my throat is sore from laughing!