Those Were The Good Ol' Daysh Back On Shybertron ...

Birthday - Copernicus' Birthday (astronomer)
Anniversary - Japanese Internment

I’m unexpectedly done for the day! Last class was cancelled, see.

However, I still have lots to do, so once again instead of the amazing entry about how I swam around in the cosmos in Lamu one night, you get a video of one of the Greatest Moments in Cartoons From Roughly Around My Childhood, ever.*

Back before I complicated my internal file space with original thoughts, I was the human VCR. Everything I saw from about age 4 until early adolescence—every episode of every cartoon—is recorded inside my head to a scary degree.** The fact that I don’t remember more than two episodes of Transformers shows that I did not watch it.

This scene, however, is from one of those episodes. And it has been stuck in my brain ever since. Because watching your toys pound down excessive amounts of what appears to be Kool-Aid mixed with vodka is memorable. Perhaps this is why I have such a distaste for alcohol—not that it makes me sneeze, or that I hate its effect; maybe it’s that I’m subconsciously worried I’ll turn into a Decepticon.

We’ll just use that as my excuse when people offer me a beer at parties, then, shall we? I’m sick of digging up the Fukitol excuse, anyway.

*Not the now-infamous-among-my-friends X-Men scene featuring Mr. Sinister, Cyclops, and a fanged vacuum hose. However, it’s almost of that caliber.

**For example, I can blast all the way through from “United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama …” to “Monaco, Lichtenstein, Malta, and Palestine, Fiji, Australia, Sudan!” without skipping a beat. Talk about useless talents.