Embrace the Lame

What a brilliant idea! Post all the silly things you do/enjoy/while away the hours at that other folks ought to think lame but might just embrace the subtle coolness of. Naturally I lifted the idea from red who lifted it from this other cat.

I might have a hard time thinking up thirteen not-too-embarrassing-but-thoroughly-silly things to list. Number one (below) is too obvious.

13. I never wear shorts.

12. I’ve tried, but I just can’t get into martinis.

11. I still have most of my childhood toys: my place is absolutely filled with Star Wars and GI Joe ships, planes, tanks and figures. I bought several GI Joe vehicles on a high school trip to the mall and still buy toys on a regular basis today.

10. I choke up during the “Star Spangled Banner.”

9. I own three sewing machines and know how to use them.

8. I firmly believe that Animaniacs was the high water mark of animated looniness, Batman: The Animated Series was the pinnacle of the animator’s art and Ren and Stimpy is the apotheosis of cartooning. Most modern animation sucks.

7. I dig musical theatre, own several Broadway soundtracks, think the flick Chicago is one of the best films ever made and used to sing the duet part of “All for the Best” from Godspell with a pal in college.

6. I own several Disney movies and watch them regularly.

5. I dug the movie Spice World and own a copy on DVD.

4. I am as red-blooded an American male as they come but I do not like strip clubs or strippers. I don’t know whether it’s the tawdriness of it all, the general unattractiveness of the women or the Henry Rollins excuse, “What’s the point if you can’t participate?”

3. Albums are albums, dammit!

2. Vanilla Ice’s album To The Extreme still makes me happy every time I hear it.

1. Reenacting – or as the snobbier folks call it “living history.” I call it “wear funny clothes and get drunk in open fields” or “retro retro.” That’s right folks, I have a house full of old army stuff which I occasionally wear out in public. For the record I currently do: Civil War (both sides), World War I (Aussie), World War II (American, either theatre, any time and RAF), Korea (American), Vietnam (American) and ca. 1916-1922 IRA. Some of these aren’t complete but they’ll give you the general idea.