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RMA Survivor:
Don't want the Sleestak mask? Land of the Lost came on the Sci-Fi channel about a month ago and I watched one silly episode after another. I loved that show as a kid. Not sure why I did having watched it recently. Same thing happened to me when I watched Star Blazers and Speed Racer again. Sad. But the Sleestak were always cool.
Last year I bought the entire 39 DVD's of Six Million Dollar Man. Halfway through watching them. Not as bad as I thought they'd be. Some are cheesy, but overall I thought they were done well. Typical 70's acting and I can't get enough of the polyester, blue, brown or tan suits. One thing I never realized was that the sound effects they used for him running and yanking things out of the ground didn't come in to play until like late in Season 2. Nor was I aware that there were actually Made-For-TV movies that came out first, before the show. And in them Steve Austin was more of an assassin. Not the superhero in the television show.
I also lived in Texas for most of a year. My girlfriend at the time got kicked out of RMA for having a sex contract with me. The "Official" story was that we were caught in the walk-in freezer attached to the Spring Room, naked as jaybirds and in the middle of the act. Truth is we were fully dressed and were quite done. Did it on her Challenge Night. Full time! She was originally from Alaska but her rich father wanted her in an all-girl school, so she went to a top private school down there. Boy was she unprepared after RMA.
Texas sucked! Not only did I lose her while there, the weather was unbearable. When it rained, it rained like Noah was about to show up in an Ark. When it snowed you thought a new ice age had arrived. The wind? 80 MPH or dead calm. When it was hot, it was Mohave Desert hot. And the winter was colder than anything in Idaho. In California we have gutters on our homes to catch rainfall, have it roam over to a drain and then down to the ground. In Texas they had deflectors because there was no way to catch the rain. There would be a slight parting of a wall of water in front of the entrance that you could slip through without getting entirely drenched. I was really surprised. Someone said that was unusual for Dallas, but I don't buy it. The place just sucked. Not sure why we fought the Mexicans for it. They can have it along with the Texans themselves. I never met a larger collection of illiterate, backwards people in my life. Well, the staff at RMA came damn close.
A Sleestak mask would be sweet, and Halloween is right around the corner. Problem is, most people would have no clue what it is from.
seamus:
http://foulmouthshirts.com I have the" yes Im fucking weird" shirt
try another castle:
You were in Dallas? I was born and raised there.
That's one thing I miss since living in SF.. those massive thunder and lightning storms.
I remember that stillness that would hit right before a tornado, and the sky would turn orange.
It never got that cold, though. We were lucky if we got some snow.
Hail, though. We got a bit o that. Normally before the tornado.
Yup, had the same programming lineup as a kid, speed racer, star blazers, battle of the planets, 321 contact, and land of the lost. You got more programming from the single, god-like channel, (UHF) than from all of the hundreds of shit fest channels people have access to today.
If you think the sleestak mask is good, you should see the set of feet I have.
Im going as a jesus freak sleestak for halloween. sleestak mask and feet, navy blue blazer, khaki pants, and pockets stuffed full of chick tracts.
How's this for some interesting land of the lost trivia? Did you know that Walter Koenig (Checkov from Star Trek) was a regular writer for that show? He wrote pretty much all of the episodes that dealt with enik.
RMA Survivor:
SF as in, San Fransisco?
RMA Survivor:
I had no idea Walter Koenig did any of that. So many of the Trek cast vanished from site soon after the show went off the air. And I would have never taken him for a writer. Considering what Shatner and Nimoy dished out by way of screen writing, I assumed the rest of the cast was lacking in such skills.
They used so much animation back then. When I watched Land of the Lost recently I was really taken aback by the amount of artwork used for sets. As a kid I would not have noticed. And you made me laugh about the UHF comment. We always had to mess around with the rabbit ear antennae to get it to come in clear, but the shows were usually worth the effort. I lived for Banana Splits and the Super Friends.
However, I didn't actually watch Trek until I was thirteen. I never watched it as a kid. Yet I am a huge Trek fan today. I even wrote five Trek novels. And a Star Wars Trilogy. But I had watched Star Wars on opening night back in 1977. Like thirty people in the theater.
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