Poor Lowell- condemned to value the corporate strategies that defy even the most elementary logic. Newspaper ads MUST be a good idea. They’re nice and cheap, and EVERYBODY must be seeing those ads… ’cause, y’know, EVERYBODY still reads the newspapers, right?
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More evidence that Sportsmart is based on the sporting goods company I worked for.
Darth Lowell?!
Yep, it’s fun to return, every so often, to the first appearance of Lowell. The guy nearly started off as just a sight gag. John Lotshaw at Moonbase Press said, after putting the Hubris book together, that he liked the return Star Wars reference when Lowell was having his video conference with Sportsmart Management, wherein Lowell answers, “Yes, My Master.” and he’s sitting in Darth Vader’s Pod from the movies
[snickers] Cuuute.
That aside, I was looking at your “Lies around the Campfire” section and was reminded of one of my favorite outdoor writers, Pat McManus (of “They Shoot Canoes Don’t They?” fame) along with a humorist I enjoy, Tom Bodett of Motel 6 and NPR radio fame. A lot the same meandering into the tale so we’re gently submerged into it up to our necks until we’re gurgling with laughter and poking an elbow in the nearest other living thing going, “See? I’m not the Only one that been on crazy trips and such… I Told you it was all true, I Told you I wasn’t alone in doing stupid things and calling it ‘fun’!”
Between you, me and the fence post there are just some things that we can only laugh at Later when we’re telling other people about it and making it sound like a blast rather than pay $100+ an hour to a therapist who’d most assuredly shot us full of sedatives and lock us in a nice quiet little 10×10 rubber room for our own safety.
Like the time my mom, one of her friends and me went camping in Hartwick Pines, Michigan… In February… In a Pup tent. And the park managers in their infinite wisdom had decided to have the outdoor johns have Metal seats. Ah yes, camping in a-erm-Rear deep snow in sub-temps with two sleeping bags, One snow suit and a pup tent built for two kids… The memories… Seared into my brain like a cattle prod set to broil. XD;;
But anyway, good stuff. Liking all of your work. Though I would like to go on record as saying you’re very cruel to express how much fun these things are to an impressionable nerf such as myself… Would that I had the money and were just a bit less experienced in the way such things go from “seemed like a good idea at the time” to “Oh sh*t, oh sh*t, Ma fell in the fire, the snow suit’s legs are frozen shut, and I think we need a blow torch to heat the toilet seat ’cause ‘Nette’s rear is frozen to it and her screamin’ is scarin’ the wild life and them hikers over in the next county!” I Might be tempted to do something rash like think it’s possible to hurtle my old out of shape self down a rabid set of rapids like a sausage launched from a cannon with too much gun powder and Not end up killing myself. On the other hand, my sense of humor is such that I can see how even if it Did end as most “camping trips” I’ve been on ended, I can Still see that it would be an entertaining video to watch. Especially if it’s being watched by people with My sense of humor.
“OMG I didn’t know a person’s voice could Reach that high of pitch at her age when screaming like a little girl!!!” [grinz]
Anyway, thanks for the pokes to the impressionable fool in me and thanks for the traumatic trips down memory lane. Keep up the good work! ;}
I have audiobooks from both McManus and Bodet. I think you ought to write up that toilet seat story and let me post it in ‘Lies Around The Campfire’.