Eric Arvin's Blog, page 59

New Favorite Villainness

Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth in 1947's "Black Narcissus." I caught it last night. What a great entrance!

Hot Shot: I Saw Red

One Good Thing

Something completely unexpected today. A few weeks ago I sent a copy of my book Woke Up in a Strange Place to Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine on a whim after seeing her on Oprah. In the book I address some of the same issues she addressed on the program and I thought, why not? Today I got a signed photo of Ms. MacLaine (the same as the above, though with a personalized gold autograph) and a note thanking me for sending her the book. This caught me off-guard. I expected nothing when I sent it to her, but this is wonderful!

I'm HUNGRAAAAY!!

I just saw this image on the evil Michael Thomas Ford's Facebook page and I almost needed CPR. I could not breathe I was laughing so hard. I think I might have even drooled. I totally went into one of those ugly laughs where if anyone saw you they'd think you were half nuts. I'm okay now, though. I feel bad for the little girl, but DAMN this is funny!

Hot Shot: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Plane

Blogger Blocked

Just another note to say that I am still reading and TRYING to reply to your comments here, but Blogger is not being very respectful of my wishes. I just tried to comment on your comments on the "10 Things" post from earlier today, but Blogger wouldn't let me. I'm tellin' Mom!

The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD)

I find this very touching. Grand Rapids was recently named one of America's 10 biggest dying cities, or something to that effect. This was their response:

Hot Shot: Those Magnificent Young Men in Their Flying Machines

And what legs!

10 Things I Found Today While Cleaning

A copy of the Danish Baroness Thomasine Gyllenbourg-Ehrensvard's 1828 romance (written in Danish) En Hverdagshistorie. She wrote it, and most of her books, anonymously. I bought it from Hanover College for a buck when they were renovating the library and cleaning house. It's very old and very beautiful, with gold trimmings. It's in such good condition I doubt anyone ever checked it out of the library. I can't find too much info about the book to see its monetary worth. Not even on Ebay. Guess I'll have to wait until the Antiques Roadshow comes to town.

Two Buckshot videos starring Franco Corelli (the hot ass porn star, not the opera singer). What an ass! Unfortunately, it's VHS and I haven't owned a VCR in years.

A Dreamboys photo book I bought in Australia with Ian Thorpe on the cover and musclemen throughout. I remember when I bought this the shop owner, who looked every bit the rough, mustached Australian stereotype, gave me a strange look and said, "We have exercise magazines in the back." I assured him I was not looking for an exercise magazine.

A copy of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron from 1813.

The awesomely-bound Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice.

My boarding pass from LA to Australia. The flight where I met that hot flight attendant with the rugby legs that I turned into the story "Deacon Decides" from Mr. Right Now .

The only two porn DVDs I own: Playing with Fire with Caesar, and Lords of the Ring.

The how-to guide, Maximum Orgasm: A Man's Guide to Tantric Pleasure. It didn't work.

Renaissance, Reformation, & Revolution: An Anthology of Tudor & Stuart Texts, edited by Dr. Frank Luttmer. I spent a summer helping Dr. Luttmer, my history prof at Hanover College, type this manuscript. He passed away a few weeks ago. He was a wonderful man. I don't know if this was ever published.

A Pete North 9 inch dildo with squeezable balls. And, yes.

Hot Shot: Big Fish