Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Sex, Lies, and Letter People

If you have been an American human child since the 70s, you have probably learned letters and sounds with the letter people.
But deep in the bowels of this noble children's enterprise lies a dark and secret letter people society.

Things that are known about the letter people:

1- They live in Letter People Land. It apparently has something to do with dogs and balloons.






2- All consonants are boys, and all vowels are girls. Realistically, this would cause two major problems: firstly, evolutionarily, this would put you in a insect like position for breeding and mating, with the girls being like five Queen Bees. Twenty one guys trying to screw five girls would cause major infighting between the male consonants. Actually, there is a letter people precedent for this kind of backstabbing, Cotton Candy C and Kicking K got in a Hatfields and McCoys brawl.

And before you say anything, yes, the letter people reproduce. I think.

You see, it was a tradition at my grade school every year to have a letter people wedding, where two corresponding letters would be wed. Basically, the kids dressed up like the letter people/ a bride and groom and had a little ceremony.
I was Mr D and I wed Ms. E. I can't remember what that girl's name was (Highland kids reading this, help me out here) who played Ms. E. She was like French or Belgian or something. And then she moved. That would probably be the give away. Well whatever.

AND NO. There will not be embarrassing pictures of young me getting married on the internet. Just as there will never be pics of little me on facebook. My mother has ruined baby pictures for me. Every time you walk into her house, you will see, prominently displayed, every baby picture of every human she has ever met. Including young, fat lisping, me. So yeah, the concept of friendly sharing baby pics has been blown wide open for me.
Conversation I have with anyone who comes to my mom's:
"baby pictures are so cute, can I see all of yours at once?"
" POORLY TRANSLATED DO NOT WANT!!!"

Anyway, the letter people are indeed breeding; marriage (however non cannon it is) would imply pair bonding and mating. How else do you explain the pimp of all pimps Mr. V?
Embedding disabled by request!!!

And of course, as the theme song states, the letter people are a family (there should have been a point three somewhere). So yes, their humping leads to inbreeding. And inbreeding results in Mr X
His song (again, the gods of embedding are laughing at this blog) sounds like the nightmares I have when I fall asleep listening to krautrock



And finally (4) what's up with Mr. Y? He's a boy, but sometimes he's a vowel...

at first, I pictured Mr. Y as a kindly old transsexual 
But if you watch that clip, he's really just bored, which drives him to go bi...




Oh come on, Dom, that Bowie and Jagger being bi thing is an urban legend.

ok, hard evidence.

OTHER LETTER STAND OUTS
Ms. A
And apparently A is for Allergy pride parade


Mr. Q
The Quiet one. You always gotta look out for the quiet ones...



Mr H
And H is for Hungarian Immigrant. Just listen to that music.
Mr T

I'm kinda surprised that the Letter People never sued Mr T in the 80s. But I can see why. There's no reason to add insult to injury for a guy who so rapidly went from rad as balls...


...to this



And of course, My Most favorite, who's song, which I can still sing all the words to, is probably the genesis of my love for Jesus Christ Superstar, Mr M




FUCK YEAH WE'RE EMBEDDING!

(But seriously, that song is What's the Buzz from JCS)


This album cover will look familiar to anyone who has seen me shirtless.

But the best thing I've discovered in my Letter People quest is this, from the Wikipedia page:

"The Letter People consists of 60 episodes. In each 15-minute installment, the Letter People (relatively primitive puppets) undertake various adventures in Letter People Land, a dark, featureless place populated by strange people and creatures. Episodes usually focus on introducing new Letter People or new sounds formed by combining two Letter People together (such as /CH/ or /OU/). Other episodes take the Letter People to more exotic (though still featureless) locales such as outer space (eventually, the show would include more standard scenery, like cityscapes, meadows, Miss O's opera house, etc), while a few highlight the characters' conflicts over various sounds (such as Mr. C fighting Mr. K and Mr. S for his sound)."

Yes that's right. someone out there is so obsessed with the Letter People that they went out of their way to make sure that the Wikipedia page reflects how shitty the show's 70s PBS budget was...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Real Madness

This week March Madness begins! I figured that I ought to post my bracket here on my blog.

That just doing that isn't my style. So, to accentuate the Madness in March, here are my true March Madness pics- a lock for winning the office pool, wooing that secret crush, or killing Adrien Brody with your mind for paralyzing your grandmother.

SOUTH BRACKET
1 Kentucky Feral Beasts vs 16 Doesn't Matters
    - Feral Beasts all the way here
8 Iowa State Acts of God vs 9 UConn Rapid Dogs
     - The dogs looked good for awhile, but they can't beat a force of nature that can void insurance
12 Wichita St. Torturers vs VCU Swag
      - Swag doesn't automatically make you 3 point shots like it did last year. Also the Torturers are a well conditioned group of lost souls
4 Indiana Polite Christian Neighbors vs 13 New Mexico State Blood Cretins
      -It'll take a mighty beast to take down the Blood Cretins this year
3 Baylor Vomits vs 14 South Dakota St. Exiled Prophets
     - Their new jerseys look like puke, but Baylor's never looked better
 6 UNLV Prostitute Buyers vs Colorado Charging Wooly Beasts
     -Buying a 'tute for a night actually makes you better at making foul shots
7 Notre Dame Fake Catholics vs Xavier School for Girls Who have Fornicated With Tu Holloway
    -But seriously, I know people who did...
2 Duke Azure Satans vs Lehigh Leigh-Js
    - Not even a Leigh-J can stop the wrath of a Blue Devil

WEST BRACKET
1 Michigan State SPARTAAAAAA vs LIU-Brooklyn Hipsters
     -March Madness? THIS IS NOT FUNNY ANYMORE!
8 Memphis Jazz Cats vs 9 St Louis ?s
      - I want SLU to win because they're mascot is a EWW WHAT IS THAT?
5 New Mexico Meth Addicts vs 12 Long Beach Snoop Doggs
     - Ain't nuttin but a g thangg
4 Lousiville vs 13 Davidson Liberal Arts Wildcats
     -Like a more douchey Kentucky
6 Murrary State Racists vs 11 Colorado St. Colons
      - The racists have only one loss this year
3 Marquette Birds of Prey vs Iona Gentle Breezes
       - Eagles soar off of your pathetic mascot
7 Florida Tebows vs Virginia Confederate Soldiers
       - Tim Tebow went there!
2 Missouri Feral Beasts 2 vs 15 Norfolk State Antiquaited Clothings
     -Like the Kentucky Feral beasts, but with a better draw!

EAST BRACKET

1 Syracuse Orange Colored Men vs 16 UNC Ashville Blood Motley
     -Do they have jaundice?
8 Kansas St Blood Beasts vs Southern Mississippi Partially Lion Devoured Colosseum Fodder
    -I always pick bloodthirsty beasts
5 Vanderbilt SAT Quantitative vs 12 Harvard SAT Verbal
    -Better Engineering jobs out there
4 Wisconsin BadgerBadgerBadgers vs 13 Montana Blood Traitors
    -Blood traitors outlast the Bloodlust bloodsluts
6 Cincinnati Yancy Gates vs 11 Texas Neutered Bulls
    -Yancy: PUNCH. No seriously, he's a nice boy, they look some good these days.
3 Florida St Racist Terms vs St Bonaventure Papists
    - Seminole isn't a real tribe, but they make threes
7 Gonzaga March Madness Equivalent of the US World Cup Team vs 10 WVU Sister Fornicators
     -Looks like you're gonna do it every year, Zaga/US Mens, but you never do.
2 Ohio St Sentient Plants vs Loyola Homelessmen
     - Sentient plants are our only hope vs zombies...

MIDWEST BRACKET
1 North Carolina Racist Term for Poor Black Children vs 16 Lamar Snowboards
     -Seriously, isn't that what Tar Heel means?
8 Creighton Fightin' Penises vs 9 Alabama Euphemism for Menstration
     - The Penises have been tearing it up in the genital league all yar
5 Temple BILL vs 12 California Idols
4 Michigan Mutants vs 13 OU COSBY
    - If Temple plays OU, then maybe Billy Cosby will have an excuse to do this again:



6 San Diego State Disgraced Peoples vs 11 NC State Direwolves
     -I couldn't go a whole post without mentioning Game of Thrones
3 Georgetown Classics Students vs 14 Belmont Death Bears
     - I can't pick the Golden Bears against Temple, because I really need that Cosby rematch, so I'm picking these bears here.
7 St Marys Apostate Deniers vs 10 Purdue Fightin' Trains
     -I'm not picking Notre Dame, I'm picking St. Marys.
2 Kansas Bleeding Ruffians vs 15 Detroit Unemployed Fat Men
    - The Jayhawkers will senselessly massacre their opponents like they did in the civil war.

And in case you need to know, this is the rest of my bracket:

Friday, March 9, 2012

Family Ties

Theon Greyjoy is one of the better characters in the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) books. He's sort of a background character for the first book, but by the second book (season 2 4/1/12) he gets fleshed out rather wonderfully.
The dude's got some real daddy issues. His dad was a prick and decided to lead a rebellion, which got utterly crushed. As a result, Theon, the only surviving Greyjoy son, was sent to be Ned Stark's ward. And Ned Stark is the world's greatest Dad. So Theon gets to a weird point where he can finally go home, his dream for years, but he likes his other family better. Real classic Daddy issues abound.

And speaking of family, I came to a weird realization. Theon is played by Alfie Allen.
Alfie.
...Allen.

No. It can't be, I gasp, as I type in "Alfie Allen" to my iTunes.



Oh shit. Theon Greyjoy is Lily Allen's slacker little brother Alfie. Like the song.

Since Lily's classic pop/dance/ska/n/a/seriouslytho/it'ssogood album "Alright, Still" came out in like 2006 or something, I have been familiar with the concept of her pothead, slacking, chronic masturbating brother Alfie.

But now, I can only imagine the puppet from the video having sex with a medieval prostitute.

NSFW- WINTER IS COMING
 Seriously, I warned you

So for anyone who has read Clash of Kings, back me up on this, are you also picturing Asha Greyjoy being played by Lily Allen?


I could maybe see that