Thursday, August 7, 2003
I'll be back.
Well, it looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger (or Shuwa-chan as they call him over here in Tokyo, which sounds a lot less threatening) is in the Californian gubernatorial race, and it seems he announced his candidacy recently on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Of course, if not on that show, where else would he have done this, I wonder? He can't be faulted for at least keeping things in "the family" as it were. I mean, why run the risk of a faux pas in an actual political arena devoid of spectators when you can just make sweeping, quasi-grammatical, semi-factual iterations in front of a captive audience who will be taking their cues from the "APPLAUSE" sign anyway. Every man is the same size behind his Nielsen's Rating anyway, so let the best man win!
Anyway, all of this is starting to sound just a little bit too much like typical U.N. proceedings of the near future. after all, as their upbeat, Gapish webpage proclaims: "It's your world." Which should probably be jammed to the tune of "Your World, Right Away" with every last dripping gram of political saturated fat that is implied in all of that recent gluttonous American self-indulgence. What is binge without purge anyway?
Anyway, what follows is a little Shuwa-chan inspired grab bag chock-full of related goodies.
First we have two very topical quotes culled from Back to the Future (one of my all time favs). The relevance is to thick you could cut it with a knife...or if you are Shuwa-chan, you could just mow it down with a Gatling gun. Of course, since this is LA, might as well just go ahead and do the whole thing up right in a big Cecil B. DeMille drive-by sort-of way: Yes, I can see it now! A cast of thousands, stray rounds tearing into the opposing party's candidate, and...
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Doc: So tell me futureboy, who's president of the United States in 1985?
Marty: Ronald Reagan.
Doc: Ronald Reagan, the actor? ha! Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady.
Marty: Whoa, wait Doc!
Doc: And Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury. Ah...
Marty: Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Doc: I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Goodnight futureboy.
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Doc: Thank god I still got my hair. What on Earth is that thing I'm wearing?
Marty: Well, this is a radiation suit.
Doc: Radiation suit, of course, cause all of the fall out from the atomic wars. This is truly amazing, a portable television studio. No wonder your president has to be an actor, he's gotta look good on television.
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Of course, this totally reminded me about what Jean Baudrillard said about Americans and their smiles. Scary
OK! Next up is a really fun Six Degrees of Separation kind of web-page thingy called The Terminator which is brought to us by the pocket-protected kids over at the UVA's Computer Science department. I had fun doing this search, this search, and this search. This one was just to see if it would really work or not.
Of course, if not on that show, where else would he have done this, I wonder? He can't be faulted for at least keeping things in "the family" as it were. I mean, why run the risk of a faux pas in an actual political arena devoid of spectators when you can just make sweeping, quasi-grammatical, semi-factual iterations in front of a captive audience who will be taking their cues from the "APPLAUSE" sign anyway. Every man is the same size behind his Nielsen's Rating anyway, so let the best man win!
Anyway, all of this is starting to sound just a little bit too much like typical U.N. proceedings of the near future. after all, as their upbeat, Gapish webpage proclaims: "It's your world." Which should probably be jammed to the tune of "Your World, Right Away" with every last dripping gram of political saturated fat that is implied in all of that recent gluttonous American self-indulgence. What is binge without purge anyway?
Anyway, what follows is a little Shuwa-chan inspired grab bag chock-full of related goodies.
First we have two very topical quotes culled from Back to the Future (one of my all time favs). The relevance is to thick you could cut it with a knife...or if you are Shuwa-chan, you could just mow it down with a Gatling gun. Of course, since this is LA, might as well just go ahead and do the whole thing up right in a big Cecil B. DeMille drive-by sort-of way: Yes, I can see it now! A cast of thousands, stray rounds tearing into the opposing party's candidate, and...
------
Doc: So tell me futureboy, who's president of the United States in 1985?
Marty: Ronald Reagan.
Doc: Ronald Reagan, the actor? ha! Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady.
Marty: Whoa, wait Doc!
Doc: And Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury. Ah...
Marty: Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Doc: I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Goodnight futureboy.
------
Doc: Thank god I still got my hair. What on Earth is that thing I'm wearing?
Marty: Well, this is a radiation suit.
Doc: Radiation suit, of course, cause all of the fall out from the atomic wars. This is truly amazing, a portable television studio. No wonder your president has to be an actor, he's gotta look good on television.
------
Of course, this totally reminded me about what Jean Baudrillard said about Americans and their smiles. Scary
OK! Next up is a really fun Six Degrees of Separation kind of web-page thingy called The Terminator which is brought to us by the pocket-protected kids over at the UVA's Computer Science department. I had fun doing this search, this search, and this search. This one was just to see if it would really work or not.
