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02/13/2005: Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day, peoples. A rose is just a rose, except today, when they cost as much as cars. As the alleged holiday falls on a weekday this year, I look forward to seeing how many coworkers return from their lunch breaks looking exhausted and carrying bouquets of better-than-nothing carnations.

I bought a huge bag of old Valentine’s cards and was planning to review ‘em this weekend, but knowing that the article would have a shelf life of five minutes sent me in a different direction, so expect a new feature that has nothing to do with love sometime this week. It’s a tricky one to put together, but I’m over the hump and it shouldn’t be long now. If you were hoping for romance, click here for last year’s article on Valentine’s Day cards from the `80s. Or, check back tomorrow for another quick little V-day ditty.

I get strange e-mail, sometimes from Hong Kong: “Dear sir/madam,I am come for Hong Kong. I would like to ask is there any petster, the robert cat foe selland how much does it cost.I would be glad if I can received your reply. Thanks alot.” A woman apparently named “Sum” sent this in. I think Sum should be my valentine.

Also, I have this vague recollection of seeing parts of that Trekkies documentary while at a friend’s house last night. It’s pretty interesting stuff, actually. I’m way geeky obsessive, so I can only imagine how normal people would react to seeing these insanely devoted Star Trek nuts live, breathe and shit Kirk. It was also so strange to see people who by common judgment must be considered really screwy make such compelling arguments for being screwy. Like, on one hand, this middle aged woman who was completely obsessed with Brent Spiner was probably crazy, but seemed so genuine and sweet that you couldn’t help liking her anyway. At least, until she brought up how she could see the hill Spiner’s house was behind from her apartment balcony, which she frequently visits to have quiet “Spiner sessions.” Totally worth seeing even if you know nothing of Trek.


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Ghosted by disgruntledwear @ 02/16/2005 5:32 AM EST

Holy Shit- CAPTAIN PLANET! Just the other night, at 5:30 AM, my boyfriend and I dicovered that Captain Planet is on TV here in Korea at that time- so, we didn’t make it to bed until 6- then, I pop on here and Matt has posted a Captain Planet Valentine! Yay!

Didn’t do much for V Day- went to a DVD room (its like a private movie theater for 2 people- huge screen, surround sound and big leather couch-very popular on Korean dates) and watched "The Terminal"- not bad.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 02/16/2005 9:48 AM EST

Muppet Baby,

That DVD room sounds a bit icky to me. Maybe my mind’s in the wrong place (which is altogether possible), but wouldn’t you think there may be some remnants left from past, er, "moviegoers" on that couch. Do they have a pull down piece of paper to tear off like the examining table at the doctor’s office. Eeewwww.

Ghosted by Pedro @ 02/16/2005 2:14 PM EST

Captain Planet sucks! I mean, the whole environmentalist’s concept was retarded. Besides, it had more to do with those annoying, ugly-T-shirt-wearing planeteers than it did with Captain Planet. Lets face it. The average episode was about 20 minutes long, and fifteen of those minutes didn’t have a trace of Captain Planet. It wasn’t until about the last 3-5 minutes that Captain Planet entered the picture to clear it all up. In other words, at the very end, the planeteers finally decided they were pussies and let their powers combine to make Captain Planet. Why the fuck didn’t they just do that at the beginning of the whole damn episode?!

Ghosted by Nate @ 02/16/2005 4:23 PM EST

Nate, it’s the same concept behind Voltron, m’man. They made Captain Planet the Voltron of the Environmental movement. Yes, I agree, it certainly was a shitty (and somewhat bizarre) attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Voltron, but it also teaches us the power of teamwork, that individually we cannot change the environment, but together we can. Ah, who am I kidding, Captain Planet sucked ass, bottom line.

Ghosted by Pedro @ 02/16/2005 6:46 PM EST

oh for the love of god…somebody call matt’s bosses and tell them he’s been cheating with their wifes or husbands, if needed. Get him fired, make his life miserable so he has time to write…

I know it’s a selfish thing, but look at it this way. Many people would be happy about this and only matt would be mad about it. So I guess it’s an opportunity to make people some good. The means and matt’s job seem mere casualties to me…huh?

Ghosted by melonian @ 02/16/2005 7:19 PM EST

Don’t you worry! I come and go, but eventually I’ll always come.

Here’s to hoping Val Venis didn’t say it first.

Ghosted by Matt @ 02/16/2005 7:26 PM EST

Pedro-Yep, it did. At least Voltron didn’t have this whole cheesy environmental message to it.

Ghosted by Nate @ 02/16/2005 8:52 PM EST

And Voltron couldn’t be taken down by a light oiling. Also: Pidge

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 02/16/2005 9:24 PM EST

Let me rephrase that last part as it counts as HTML… Pidge sucks more than anything, but Heart power sucks worse than Pidge.

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 02/16/2005 9:26 PM EST

thank god…there’s still hope!!!

*boys, stop the blackmailing…he’ll be ok soon*

Ghosted by melonian @ 02/16/2005 9:45 PM EST

Hey you guys stop making fun of me. At least I’m not a gelatonous blob that had the audacity to call himself "Hunk".

Ghosted by Pidge @ 02/16/2005 10:20 PM EST

Hoo! The wrestling reference went right over my head, but that double-entendre sure didn’t. My goodness.
I only recently started watching and loving Neutron after noticing the coach’s "Lindbergh Elementary: NO BABIES" shirt. Not quite a funny as the "Attica!" Pacino reference on Spongebob, but twice as inappropriate. I didn’t catch the Valentine ep, though, anybody know if there’ll be another repeat?

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 02/16/2005 11:09 PM EST

Not sure, but I think that "smell that fills you with holiday cheer" is melted plastic. It gets freaking hot up there.

Ghosted by springsprite @ 02/17/2005 9:02 PM EST

(Sorry, that was for the petster page.)

Ghosted by springsprite @ 02/17/2005 9:04 PM EST

Trekkies 2 is more of the same, but this time they ask: "What are Trek fans like overseas? What are they like in Europe? What about Australia and South America?"

It took 90 minutes to show us that they’re exactly the same.

They do follow up with all the more prominent characters from the first Trekkies. You’ll be happy to know that Gabe lost the mullet and found a wife (at the ripe old age of 21). Trekkies 2 was filmed seven years after the first, so it was kinda cool to see.

All in all, it made me embarrassed to be a fan. They all talked about how it is so hard to be a Trek fan when there is such a taboo out there. Well, that really struck me as funny since THEY ARE THE TABOO. They make it hard for the rest of us.

I know, I know. It’s a free country. To each his own and such. I know. But still.

Ghosted by G'Noose @ 03/03/2005 5:07 PM EST

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