His final tweet:
Saturday, February 28, 2015
#RIPSpock
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
BOWTIE IS THE NEW BLACK: ‘Pee-wee’s Big Holiday’ To Premiere On Netflix!
NETFLIX AND JUDD APATOW TEAM UP TO BRING THE WORLD PEE-WEE HERMAN’S NEXT BIG ADVENTURE
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, A New Feature Film By Paul Reubens and Paul Rust, Available Exclusively To The Global Membership of Netflix John Lee Makes His Feature Film Directorial Debut, Beginning Production in March 2015 Beverly Hills, Calif., February 24, 2015–Netflix, the world’s leading Internet TV network, will premiere exclusively in all of its territories the new feature film, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, starring Paul Reubens as the beloved fun-loving hero of TV, stage and film, Pee-wee Herman.
Here's a link to the rest of the blog post: http://peewee.com/2015/02/24/bowtie-new-black-pee-wees-big-holiday-premiere-netflix/
And here's my response:
Geek Dad:
I wouldn't miss a new Pee-Wee Herman Movie for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!
Some Jerk:
Then you're crazy!
Geek Dad:
I know you are but what am I?
Some Jerk:
You're a nerd!
Geek Dad:
I know you are but what am I?
Some Jerk:
You're an idiot!
Geek Dad:
I know you are but what am I?
Geek Dad & Some Jerk (Together):
I know you are but what am I? I know you are but what am I?
I know you are but what am I? I know you are but what am I?
I know you are but what am I? I know you are but what am I?
Geek Dad:
Infinity!
Some Jerk:
No, I'm not.
Geek Dad & Some Jerk (Together):
You are! You are!
No way! No way!
Knock it off! Knock it off!
Cut it out! Cut it out!
Some Jerk:
Shut up, Geek Dad!
Geek Dad:
Why don't you make me?
Some Jerk:
You make me!
Geek Dad:
Because. I don't make monkeys, I just train 'em.
Some Jerk:
Geek Dad, listen to reason.
[Geek Dad cuffs his hand around his ear in a listening motion]
Some Jerk:
Geek Dad!
Geek Dad:
Sh! I'm listening to reason.
Some Jerk:
Geek Dad!
Geek Dad:
That's my name, don't wear it out.
[jumps on bike and pedals away]
Some Jerk:
You'll be sorry, Geek Dad Herman!
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Live Long and Prosper
The Vulcan greeting is a Jewish symbol for God. It is the shape of the Hebrew letter "Shin" which is taught to be the first letter in one of the names of God. (See Kabbalah for more on that.)
I saw Nemoy about three years ago speaking at a local synagogue in Betheda, MD. He was...fascinating.
He told a story about when he was a child, his family was very observant and went to a very Orthodox synagogue . He said that the hand gesture (as I said...a symbol for God) is used once a year (with both hands) when the head Rabbi blessed the entire congregation to protect them for the coming year.
He was told that he was to lower his gaze during this ritual or else the power of God would strike him dead like a with lightning bolt. Being a precocious young lad, he, of course, sneaked a peak.
He, needless to say, was not struck dead. But the passion with which the Rabbi pled for his community and the beauty of the physical gesture moved the young boy.
Years later when on the set, while filming "Amok Time" the production would filming scenes on Vulcan for the first time. It would also be the first time in the show that a Vulcan interacted with another Vulcan.
I can't remember who suggested that some unique greeting should be used (probably D. C. Fontana) or who wrote the line, LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.
But remembering back to his childhood and how much he was moved by the whole experience, Nemoy suggested the now famous hand gesture. The actor playing the other Vulcan could not do the gesture, so their hand was taped together.
Fascinating.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_salute
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A side note: He didn't say this, but I think Steven Spielberg either had a similar experience as a child or knew the story from Nemoy and incorporated it into Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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