If you have not heard of Carlos Mencia, you should look him up!
I'm watching a run of his shows - Mind of Mencia - and he's hysterical. I've seen him before of Comedy Central Presents and I'm so glad he has his own show. He's awesome. And Dane Cook, a presenter at the VMA's and a total hottie, is another genius comic that deserves to be famous. Actually, he just might be because he's a cross between Jim Carrey early-days-crazy-physical-comedy and Will Ferrell off-the-chart-weirdness-but-cool-factor.
All this comedy and I can't help but remember Thayne and our vigils on the couch watching Comedy Central. Him actually memorizing certain amazingly funny lines and me simply giggling. Like our (hopefully still in tact) line. You know how other couples have songs. We had a joke, a punchline, a bit. And the ending punchline was: I gotta get a toaster!
Now it may not seem that funny, but it's said in an (excuse me) retarded voice, which sadly makes it sound funny. But the joke itself is not making fun of mentally challenged people, but it is about how stupid average people can be, so the punchline is delivered with said retardedness in order to bring home the message that: if you're laughing at this joke, you probably did this stupid thing or know someone who did. So, I'm not at all offended.
But back to the funny part....
where was I?
Right, our line. We always said it to each other if we wanted to prevent an impending fight or bad mood. We also said the word ASIA, but really slowly and drawn-out. This came from my story of playing Taboo with my parents. I was asked, where do people from Asia come from? I was thinking and speaking at the same time and slowly let out - ASIA? - which needless to say got a laugh. Maybe it was a you-had-to-be-there moment.
So, those are our lines I guess. And I hope we can still use them, even if we're just "friends" now. And I put the thingies around that word because it's a relative term. Yes, we've always been friends. How else could we have been anything more than that if we didn't start with the friend part, right? Then the more than friend's part ended - it died rather slowly and painfully on my part, to be honest - so we're left with what we started with. But to not be together anymore and then say we're just friends, has a different connotation. Know what I mean? And it's not like that perse.
No worries, I won't bring all of that up too often. No weepy broken-hearted Liz anymore. :) But he is one of my best friends, so you will be hearing about him. Like for instance - the fact that he's working two jobs in Colorado Springs. One is your typical answering-phones gig during the daytime and the other is as a karaoke DJ at a gay bar on weekends. I think it really speaks to his personal diversity. Can't wait to hear war stories about that.
Ok, time for sleep. It's half past twelve, so I think I've accomplished the staying-up-late tactic of beating my jetlag into submission.