Some Christmas morning dial-up random rambling...
Heh, channel 11 out of NYC, aka WPIX - remember that f'd up over-the-telephone Intellivision game they'd play w kids way back when? where they'd call a kid viewer and have them control a player of some Intellivision game by yelling "Pix! Pix! Pix!" as fastspastically as they could to fire or jump or duck and such? Heh =) - well, they're running "The Yule Log!"
Would Laura Lynn Hardy be a good name for a porn actress? Hrmm... nah, probably not. Just confusing. Came to mind as a joke name when I just now caught "Laurel and Hardy" in a commercial pushing MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (I think that's the title?) on later today.
Y'know, there was this charming little animated special I saw, many many years ago... I think I rented it sometime in high school or college. The B.C. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.
Is B.C. still running in the funny papers? Yeah, THAT B.C. - the comic strip about the cavemen with their crazy "wheel" and "fire" and cave-babes and heavy thoughts for such small brains and that turtle whose shell looks just like the rocks the guys are always leaning on, y'know? Reading that strip always gave me the sensation of watching a couple minutes of M.A.S.H., y'know? I can't remember the names of the caveguys, but they somehow "felt" like the Pierce-and-the-other-guy duos of M.A.S.H.'s swamp... they even had a "hot lips" gal who'd cro-magnon-handle the boys, bash 'em good when they smarted off, y'know? Anyhow, yeah - THE B.C. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. See, even before you WATCH any of it, you just KNOW it's gonna be good, something different, cuz the title is like a funny paradox! And, with it being B.C. and all, it's not really a special about celebrating G-love's birthday, but rather about holidayifying the practice and motivation behind giving gifts.
"Oh, you shouldn't have! It's funny, I had a rock, in storage, and I was just looking it over. An old, beat-up rock, that I decided I would put in the foyer, to put things on while hanging up pelts, y'know? But this! This will do so much better! Thank you, thank you! Now here, open mine... You'll never guess what it is!"
Actually, I think they were a bit more creative about gift making/finding/catching in the cartoon. I wanna say that the serpent got gift-wrapped once. Well, one of the big thinkers of the B.C. crew sees the bigger ramifications of creating a holiday around giving stuff to one another. See, this will create a new demand for stuff to be given, and if someone steps in there to create/giftwrap the supply for that demand, well, he could make a pretty... ummm... pebble? And this big brain goes on to explain the cost of this work, and the markup required, and the difference between the two, which he algebraically names X, the mystery amount, representing profit. And I think he throws some phrasing in there about how it'll be a huge success, a holiday for everyone, for the masses... and when pressed for a catchy name for this new holiday...
You guessed it - X-mass.
Isn't that brilliant?
Damn, and here I've gone and given it all away in the trailer. I hate that.
Keep on keepin on~
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