Sunday: July 30, 2006
kites & cartoons
Today was a gorgeous day… I went to see the kite festival in Berkeley w/Jeff Wu, Steve, and my sister. We kinda missed all the good stuff, like kite battles, whatever that is… hahaha but we got to see the reaaaaally cute cat with a penguin with a fish and the swarm of octopus and purple teddy bears!!! Berkeley’s neat, but why are there bead shops every two feet??
Then we headed to San Francisco, where we went to the Castro theater to see a Ren and Stimpy event. It started out marvelously. The theater is absolutely beautiful and there was a guy playing tunes on an organ for a while before the actual thing started. Then the show began.
Hearing John Kricfalusi speak was kinda neat, because he was a funny guy. The cartoons, however, were horrifyingly bad. You know how Vogons are notoriously bad for poetry and you think there’s no way on earth that something could make you want to gnaw your own limbs off to survive?? Well, this thing was the equivalent of Vogon poetry. Ok, so there were some funny things (Life Sucks), but the majority of it was ruined by the fat asian man sitting in front of me. He had the world’s most annoying laugh. Now, I don’t remember Comic Book Guy’s laugh (Simpsons) but I instinctively knew that this guy personified Comic Book Guy’s worst physical and personality qualities, ANNOYING being the chief one. Man, he laughed at everything. And I mean… everything. Imagine two and a half hours of the world’s most annoying laugh. I wanted to put my feet up on his chair and “accidentally” have them slip up. Or maybe not be so subtle and just slap him upside the head.