This is too
strange to really not be
true. I was at the
grand opening of an
animation studio in my area. As with any
artsy function, you have your
share of
kooks. There was this
egotistical scruffy-looking kooky guy in his middle to late thirties who claimed to have worked on
Xena,
Blade, and a pile of other
Films /
shows. He told lots of (what i thought were)
whoppers, but i did pull one
amusing anecdote from this...How
Liquid Paper Invented the
Local News.
So the
conversation was rather
dull with this
guy, as i was
wandering in and out of the
circle he was in. I
pop in for a bit, and the
topic is
musical artists that are a creation of the media. Somone brought up the
Monkies...
Please note in the upcoming section K is for Kook, C is for crowd, and J is for author's thoughts / fears
k: Don't get me started on
Nesmith man... You don't want me to get started on Nesmith... That's a 30
minute talk right there in it's short version
j: (
Afraid... very very afraid)
c: Can you
give us the
short version?
k: Sure, but i could go on for a while! Like how Liquid Paper is responsible for Network TV? Who
invented Liquid Paper?
c: Mrs. Nesmith!
j: (Oh no, you got him started on Nesmith)
k: Right! Peter's
mom.(with
that kook look in his eyes). She made a lot of money from the liquid paper
sales. You know what he did! He made a
movie out of
video!
j: (*
gasp*)
k: Now, at the time, video was 3 times as
expensive as film, and he went around
recording things with his
camera that people did, and then
played it back on local
television that
night. And that was the
inspiration for the local news!
The kook was at this point,
triumphant and more full of
himself than he was 5 minutes ago. I just left very
disturbed that
someone "Got him started on Nesmith"...