A.K.A. "Tales from the Ukraine"
Hey, kids! You can cease panicking now, I'm back. Maybe if I wrote shorter entries, I would have time for more of them...
Hey, kid! You can cease panicking now, I'm back. Maybe if I wrote shorter entries, I would have time for more of them...
And it seems that, despite popular belief, I am not the worst speller on the Internet. As it turns out, Mecha-Streisand (Or perhaps her webmaster) is far worse than I am.
Anyway, I'm ready to tell you about
LA: LEGENDARY ADVENTURE!
Let's begin...
(Music)
ELON UNIVERSITY
ODE 2 1/2: LA: LEG
fter having a decent first semester of his sophomore year, Adam applied to be a "guinea p
(Music stops abruptly)
Just kidding, kids. I'm not going to take something that was excellent the first time and then recycle it again and again until it becomes a tired cliché, even thought that seems to be what Hollywood has been all about lately.
First, let's start with a little bit of background. This class was in January, and the trip was for 10 days. Only us Communications Fellows (A select group of the coolest kids in the school) were allowed to apply.
It’s also important to note that the airfare, hotel, and almost everything else was paid for by the
The first part of the class consisted of regular, in-classroom stuff such as the history of the city of
The class was taught by Professor Gibson, who can only be described as ‘”bald” and “freaking awesome.” He was one of our two main supervisors in
At some point during the classroom part, someone asked how likely we were to see a celebrity while in LA. Gibson said that it was pretty likely, but that "Celebrity" was something that was really on a sliding scale. We might not see an A-list celebrity, but we would be pretty likely to see, a C or D-lister.
"Oooh, look! It's Mr. Wendy's!" I joked.
It's important to note here that I was talking about the "unofficial spokesman" from the short-lived advertising campaign and not Dave Thomas, who died a few years ago.
But there was one C-list celebrity that I really wanted to see: Ric Romero from the KABC News team!
Ric is their Consumer News guy. He gained Internet-wide fame last October when he did an...um...informative piece on a new craze called “blogging.” I’m serious. Read it, it’s pretty funny. Next, I'd expect him to do a story on that thing called "The Charleston." He took his blog down a while ago, but I’ve got a screen shot of it here. Ric's bio is also pretty unintentionally humorous.
After the article was posted on Fark.com, it quickly became one of the site's favorite clichés. People would post his picture and put an obvious or old-news statement under it. Here’s some examples:
The Internet is now available on computers!
Scientists are beginning to wonder if the Earth is really at the center of the Universe after all. Film at 11.
Every time Adam posts this picture, he steals bandwidth from KABC's Web site.
And it resulted in lots of great Photoshop jobs:
It just got funnier from there. Here's what happened when they had a Photoshop with the theme "If Ric Romero made a newspaper."
Okay, back to the actual story...
We left
Then I wondered if the people who had written it knew if it was going to be given out in an airport.
I had a great adventure ahead, and it had hardly even begun.
But this installment is over.
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