January 25, 2008

• It appears that Milwaukee has jumped the shark.
• And, now that I've actually read the article... life will never be the same now that I've seen Winkler at the age of 62.
• He can restart his own pacemaker by knocking on it and saying, "Aaaay!"
• More info on the main website, where you can support the cause by buying some truly ugly t-shirts. Whoa.
• He Came To Woking: the Guardian chats with Henry Winkler. Sit on it.
• Officer Kirk will not be pleased.
• I read somewhere recently that tracicle is petitioning to have Happy Days brought back on television.
• It shows on the Christian Television Network up here. Bookended with Growing Pains. They had the Muppet Show for a while, but that ended fairly quickly.
• Sunday, Monday, Happy Days!
• Correction -- Growing Pains is gone. But they do have Family Ties and Laverne and Shirley.
• Well, there's already the Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis and the Elizabeth Montgomery statue in Salem, MA, so why not Fonzie?
• Looks like there's a few...
• Is it going to be five feet six inches tall?
• It shows on the Christian Television Network up here. Bookended with Growing Pains. They had the Muppet Show for a while, but that ended fairly quickly. Yeah, TMS is pretty subversive for a Christian station. Y'know, Alice Cooper and all that.
• ...life will never be the same now that I've seen Winkler at the age of 62. Then don't ever watch that 'Click' film. Among its' many crimes against art and nature, there's a much older Winkler in there, thanks to make-up.
• When I was like 5 years old, I was riding in the back of the Holden coming back from Kmart, and mum & dad say to me "what do you want to be when you grow up, little man?" And I replied "I want to be a hood, like Fonzie." They laughed. But I did grow up to be a drop out and wear a leather jacket all the time. However I never jumped a shark. I jumped a few other things, but that is a different story. They should make the Fonz statue out of pure leather.
• The Fonz never would have stood for pigeons pooping on the leather.
• I spent a few years there as a little kid going "Aaaaaaay." Nothin' wrong with that.
• Vintage PSA with the Fonz. Youtube vid - mildly creepy Also, the clip that launched an Internet meme - Fonzie Jumps the Shark
• In Grade Ten English, we had to watch Winkler perform in some 'Intro to Shakespeare' thing, which was clearly a 5th generation VTR or something. Winkler's a capable actor, and he's trained in Shakespeare, but -- yeah. Little bit different than when we had to watch Patrick Stewart as Polonius.
• When I first saw the pic of old man Winkler in the linked article, I thought it was Mordecai Richler.
• I hope none of you are from Milwaukee, because I'm there right now, and I have to say that I have so far found your fair city to be a complete and total shithole. Thank you very much. P.S. No Fonz here!
• P.S. The above comment was almost completely tongue-in-cheek. I hope no Milwaukeeans were injured or offended.
• What about Laverne and Shirley?
• BURN THE WITCHES!
• It's done. It's quite creepy. Ralph and Potsie attend unveiling. I mean, it's seriously creepy.
• Holy crap! TUM, you failed to warn sufficiently how utterly creepy that is, and I want damages!