Random Nostalgia #1

Now that I’ve finally landed a job as a professional graphic designer, I’m actually doing work I know I’m halfway competent at! Compare that to my days as a tech support guy where I instructed customers to connect wires and stuff and pray that they don’t electrocute themselves. That said, I’ve been busier than I’ve ever been in my entire life, so much so that it leaves me little time for self-indulgent things like blogging. And porn. (If you’re too busy for porn, you know you’re too busy for anything.)

What I never get tired of indulging in, though, is a bit of nostalgia. (I know, I know. 26 years old and I’m already acting like I’m 70.) Sometimes I dig a little too deep into the ol’ memory well, and I end up remembering something like M.A.N.T.I.S.

Dig the concept: successful Afro-American industrialist becomes paraplegic, constructs sweet-ass cyborg exoskeleton, fights crime. It’s as focus-tested for political correctness as it gets–and yet it’s mind-blowingly brilliant. I bet if they made this for a more modern audience he’d also be Jewish, half-Asian, and possibly gay. And maybe he’ll be doing a crossover with Hulk Hogan’s character from Thunder In Paradise. Awesome.

I have to admit, I completely forgot about this show until I ran across it again online recently. It’s one of those shows that could have been memorable but instead ended up with the main character getting killed in the last episode. By an invisible dinosaur, no less. (Either they were completely out of budget at that point, or they were trippin’ some serious balls. In any case, I think my brain just imploded.)

Right then. Time to hit the ol’ dusty trail! Google-bots desperate for a little more zemzelett can find me lurking around Facebook. Ciao, bella!