“I’m going to reveal the truth of the biggest conspiracy in political history right now. Hillary Clinton asked me to run because she thought I could help her undermine the Republican Party. But she didn’t know I was a winner and now I’m going to win!”
“America needs to elect someone who has balls.”
“Blah, blah blah. Are you done, professor?”
“Electing women and black people is political correctness run amok.”
“I always tell the truth. Hillary Clinton lies every time she opens her mouth.”
“She came to my wedding. I know how the system works better than anyone because I’ve been buying politicians forever. I bought her but no one will buy me.”
“Melania will be a hot First Lady. Bill will be a disgusting slob of a First Lady.”
“On day one, I’ll pass a law to deport treasonous people who threaten US national security like Secretary Clinton did.”
“If anyone watching this says “debate” during their next visit to a Trump property, they’ll receive a 10% discount on their entire stay.”
“Monica.”
It’s scary that some of these are jokes and some these are semi-serious and it’s hard to tell the difference!
After originally being posted by Shea to Facebook (which means I have plausible deniablility but also that not everyone could view it since she didn’t make it public), this video has taken on a bit of legendary status.
I’m getting all these cryptic e-mails from other people at RPL (and even beyond) that say “Hey, I heard there was a video you guys dancing?” and “What’s this about a weird video?” (I especially love the comment from an Alberta-based author who saw it after someone shared it on Facebook and was impressed that we manage to help a patron, even as we’re dancing!)
I always did identify with Brian right down to having a very shitty experience in shop class (er, if anybody hasn’t seen the movie, Brian’s the character on the far left, not the far right!) 😉
In most professions, you try to learn all you can about a single area. One of the coolest things about librarians/librarianship is that it’s a profession where you benefit from knowing a little bit about a lot of things.
When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to my parent’s record collection. My dad was a big Elvis fan and passed that love of “The King” on to me via the various Elvis records he owned.
I used to argue with one of my best friends in school. He was a big Beatles fan and I was an Elvis fan so we’d debate who was better. (I relayed this story to Rory Allen and he made the very relevant point that Elvis became the biggest star in the world all by himself while the Beatles had four guys to rely on. Plus the Beatles would be the first to acknowledge they followed a path made by The King.)
When I was in high school, we took a family trip to Florida which included pilgrimages to Tupelo and Memphis to see the town where Elvis was born and the city where he lived most of his life.
Obviously getting to hang out with “Elvis” wasn’t the whole reason I wanted to book Rory Allen for my library’s 50th Anniversary Event – I knew he’d be a big, unique draw and make for a memorable experience that would be *very* different from a lot of library events.
But on some level, I did have selfish motives as well. It was pretty cool to think back to how much Elvis meant to my dad and me over the years. (One of my strongest childhood memories of listening to music is playing “American Trilogy” over and over to hear the lines:
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry
You know your daddy’s bound to die
But all my trials, Lord will soon be over.
I was maybe 8-9 years old at the time and that song, with those lines, blew my mind.
Unfortunately, dad wasn’t able to be at the event as he and my mom are at at family wedding in the States. But fortunately, Rory was kind enough to record a message for my dad…
