Monday, October 11, 2004
I can't handle the carnage!* First Rodney Dangerfield, then Jacques Derrida, now Christopher Reeve! Jane's immediate response was "What would Jacques Derrida think? Oh, we won't have to worry any more." But I think Gemma puts it best: "RIP Derrida... so young, still so hip with the ladies..."
I also hadn't seen these pictures of Christopher Reeve bald. First we were saying he looked like a Bond villain. Then Ben and I simultaneously came up with the idea that he looked like Professor Xavier from X-Men. Then I noticed a scary resemblance between this and this.
Apart from the tragedy of it all, now the comic world is robbed of one of its favourite joke-butts. Ben is worried that he'll no longer be able to tell his favourite joke:
Q: What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?
A: Christopher Walken.
I said to him, "If you can find some dude called Christopher Liven then your joke will still work."
But as Ben puts it, "There's always Bill Clinton."
* Some may accuse me of callousness. But we must use humour as a crutch in these devastating times.
I also hadn't seen these pictures of Christopher Reeve bald. First we were saying he looked like a Bond villain. Then Ben and I simultaneously came up with the idea that he looked like Professor Xavier from X-Men. Then I noticed a scary resemblance between this and this.
Apart from the tragedy of it all, now the comic world is robbed of one of its favourite joke-butts. Ben is worried that he'll no longer be able to tell his favourite joke:
Q: What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?
A: Christopher Walken.
I said to him, "If you can find some dude called Christopher Liven then your joke will still work."
But as Ben puts it, "There's always Bill Clinton."
* Some may accuse me of callousness. But we must use humour as a crutch in these devastating times.
