That Guy

I am in the mood to write, but I don't particularly feel like delving into politics right now. Instead I will talk about Yesterday's great find: Ted Raimi's Website.

A few days ago my boss was talking about how much he'd like to get Bruce Campbell in for a book signing, since the guy lives somewhere not super far away. I know the guy has a pret-ty solid fan base, but as I am not really a fan of the horror genre, I never really got it. So, since yesterday was my day off and as I was in need of a new place to surf, I went on over to the Bruce Campbell website and took a look. I clicked around, read the Babblings, and then when I was taking another look at the home page, I saw a link to, *excited music swell* Ted Raimi!

Holy Crap! Ted Raimi has a webpage, I love that guy!

Ted Raimi is truly "that guy." He has these (usually) small character roles, that you don't see a lot of, but you leave and go "I wonder what that guy's story was." Ever since his days as "The Foreign Language Guy" on SeaQuest, I have been just tickled to see him turn up in a movie I was watching. I even joined the original fan club years ago, right before it disbanded.

The first time I took notice of Ted was when he was on SeaQuest. I loooooooooooooved SeaQuest. I started watching because Jonathan Brandis was on it (who didn't have a crush on that kid when they were 14?) and found myself really digging "The Foreign Language Guy" and "The Cute Boy in the background who almost never talks." Wendy and I would somehow manage to spend immense blocks of time dissecting every aspect of the show every week of it's first season. We'd talk about the plot. We'd wonder if there could ever be a chip thingie that would allow dolphins to talk, and how come Darwin never got electrocuted? We couldn't get enough of it. We were Questies, to be sure.

Then along came the second season and everything changed. Suddenly the plot was of secondary importance because.........the guys on the show got hot. The show now appealed to our hormone levels as well as our brainwaves. Face it folks, when you're in high school they're pretty much the same thing no matter how adamantly we try to deny it. We would compare the guys arms in tank tops and out of tank tops and we decided that we would really like to see The Foreign Language Guy get to be the Pretty Hero in a Tank Top Who Saves The Day. After all The Background Guy suddenly was a major player when he grew his hair out, bring on The Language Guy!

**Side Note, I realize Ted Raimi is a wonderful name, but when you are watching a show and counting how many times you get to see somebody's arm muscles, learning an actors name suddenly becomes the last thing on your mind.

Wendy and I would work out trade deals for the holidays, who got who under the Christmas Tree, and who got who for their birthday. We were super silly, and thinking about our "Baseball Card" system for these actors makes me laugh and shake my head. Dang I was a geek!

Then, during the third season I discovered Christian Bale and the poor SeaQuest guys took a backseat.....that was so far back it was in a mini-van headed in the opposite direction.

I still managed to pay attention to Ted, although I never quite outgrew calling him The Foreign Language Guy. Whenever he pops up in a movie, I get bouncy and have to point him out to whoever doesn't care. Then of course, I have to take a memory trip back to the days of high school.

"I will let you have every other guy in the cast, ifyou let me have the Curly Haired guy for Christmas"

"Cool, 'cause I only really wanted The Foreign Language Guy anyways."

"Hey maybe next week they'll let him wear a tank top."

*sigh* "Yeah maybe. Hey did you do your Marine Bio?"

Rock on Mr. Raimi \m/ Rock on.