I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

MAYBE I WILL GO OUT FOR HALLOWE'EN THIS YEAR...

My Hallowe'en plan for this year was basically just to watch Dawn of the Dead and Lifeforce again, like I did last year, but, a couple of weeks ago, I had a brilliant idea for a costume...

"Here Comes the Thnikkaman!"

UNSEEN CHORUS: {singing} Here comes the Thnikkaman!!! {Floating text crosses the screen.}

STRONG BAD: No way! Check it out The Cheat. {Strong Bad looks and points off-screen.} It's the Thnikkaman!! {Strong Bad and The Cheat run to meet the Thnikkaman, who is obviously Bubs wearing sunglasses and a "TH" sign taped to his chest.} Hey Thnikkaman!

THNIKKAMAN: Hey Kid!

STRONG BAD: Can we have some?

THNIKKAMAN: Yeah, ok.

STRONG BAD and THE CHEAT (in Cheat-speak): Thanks, Thnikkaman!

STRONG BAD: {in low voice, perhaps translating for The Cheat?} Thanks, Thnikkaman.

THNIKKAMAN: Yeah. {takes off his sunglasses} Shut up, kid!

UNSEEN CHORUS: {singing} There goes the Thnikkaman!!! {Floating text crosses the screen again}

The Thnikkaman, possibly based on an old commercial with a character named "Snicker Man", is basically Bubs from Homestar Runner wearing a pair of sunglasses and a piece of paper with "TH" written on it in a red marker, who goes around distracting people from what they're doing. He appeared in the Strong Bad e-mail cartoon "monument" (transcribed in full here.

Now, I already have a pair of nice sunglasses, an official pair of Men In Black RayBan's on which I spent way too much money on a whim at a Sunglasses Hut in the now-closed-to-passenger-traffic Mirabel airport just before going to England for a month in 1997, but I thought the one orange sweater I had, a bright "safety-vest orange" Wind River pullover that I stopped wearing on a regular basis because it affected my allergies, I had given away to charity some time ago, but I found it in my clothes basket on top of the dryer, so I'll wear that, with a green sweater I have below it, and my bother bought me some cheap face paint from Pharmaprix, so I'll paint my face blue with a white-teeth-with-black-outline mouth and tape the "TH" on my chest and walk around downtown Montreal and see if anyone gets the reference. I'd like to see you stay on task when you're starin' down the barrel of a loaded Thnikkaman. I don't care what you're doin. No one can resist.

In other news, I wanted to post about some more nonsense from the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights at Concordia which Kevin Holden and Trudy Mason were discussing on CJAD, but there's nothing about that story showing up on Google News, so I'll wait a day and see if there's an article I can quote. Also, there's something from the Bush/Kerry debate last week that I've been meaning to post about but I haven't gotten around to it since I was procrastinating, playing Metropolis Street Racing on the Dreamcast most of the past couple of days. Damn, is Project Gotham Racing, the revised and expanded version of MSR on the X-Box, nearly as difficult? And I didn't get too far when I was initially playing it some 3 years ago, so I'm only up to the Alfa Romeo and the unimpressive-looking Peugeot 209.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 5:57 AM