Happy 91st Birthday to William Shatner!
For as long as I live, I will always be proud and honored to have once been retweeted by William Shatner, for a Halloween photo that some friends and I made. That will probably be my one and only brush with the force of nature that is The Shatner. But it's enough :-)
However I cannot emphasize it nearly enough: deep-frying turkey is potentially a very dangerous activity. I haven't been burned (yet) but there have been a few close calls, despite taking every precaution that I know of. To me it's worth the risk because deep-frying honestly does produce the most tender and succulent meat that you'll ever get from any method of cooking a turkey, and I suppose that there's always going to be a possibility of injury with any activity involving a heat source. Unfortunately the vast majority of turkey frying disasters happen because those doing the cooking overlook some ridiculously simple and even common sense issues pertaining to the peculiarities of deep-frying.
And speaking of things "peculiar", State Farm Insurance has produced this wacky and fun public service announcement starring the one and only William Shatner! So without further ado, here is The Shatner in "Eat, Fry, Love"...
So here we are: Kristen Bradford as Naomi Pryce, Yours Truly as William Shatner, and Steven Glaspie as Big Deal from the TV commercials for Priceline!
But that's not all! After Kristen posted that pic onto her Facebook page I immediately Twitter-ed about it.
And William Shatner himself re-tweeted it!!!
Click on the link, and behold the visual record of our epic geek win...
Honestly don't know what else to say. Just... wow. To be re-tweeted by The Shatner. The Shatner is not a mere mortal: he is... a force of nature. And tonight The Shatner beheld one of my best friends, my girlfriend and I as the Priceline Negotiators.
The Shatner saw me portraying him and acknowledged that before all creation.
Whoa.
I think I gotta lay down after that...
In the meantime, this oughtta tide y'all over for the weekend. It's Queen's classic song "Bohemian Rhapsody"... covered by William Shatner!
Shatner and Nimoy: the men who brought James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock to life. May they live long and prosper!
Hey, let's celebrate with some music! How about Nimoy singing "Proud Mary"...
And who could ever forget (seriously, who can forget that this happened?) Shatner doing his cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"...
Truly going where no one has gone before :-P
Seriously though: Happy 80th Birthdays to Shatner and Nimoy!
It... has been reported, to this blogger... that today, March 22nd, has been declared, International Talk Like William Shatner Day.You are, urged... to modify your speech patterns, accordingly.
