Johnny O 🇨🇦 🤘

I'm guessing you somehow made this guy lose his balloon...? If so shame!

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Nice! I saw them in Toronto last Saturday. Great show!

Frankly, I hope it's a Canadian that does the world a favour.

(yeah, "favour" is spelled with a "u", assholes)

The Earth needs a Lee Gordie Oswald.

It was kinda making me sick the way the media was ginning up bullshit for clicks over this.

Sonofagun. I may have to suspend my "not entering the U.S." thing for a day for this.

Amazing photo! Are those the same buildings they used on the Zeppelin PHYSICAL GRAFFITI album?

I love him on these Family Feud episodes. He and Richard Dawson have some kind of...thing going on.

I was thrilled by this announcement! It's gonna be coooool (scary).

I'm going to punch my chest and disappear in a crowd.

And guess where lotions and baskets are made? Not in the U.S.! Gonna be paying a lot more for that shit!

It was a little after niiiiiiiiine

There were a few obviously actual people that commented and battered that could not have been bots. But the "views"....yeah.

It stinks!

Disparity in engagement between platforms:

I posted a little story about a Val Kilmer encounter I once had on both Threads and Bluesky. I have 125 followers on Bluesky, and I got one like on the story. I have 40 followers on Threads and the story got 100,000 views and 2000 likes. Algo? Bots?

Obama made a couple of jokes about him.

"Hello Val Kilmer," I said. "You see that guy up behind you waving like an idiot? That's me."
He came up, we exchanged 'how ya doin's', and I led him up to his show.

The miracle was: whoever ACTUALLY had a ticket for that seat never showed up, so I didn't catch shit and it all worked out!

RIP VK.

"Hello?"
"Hi, is this John?"
"It is."
"Hi, this is Val Kilmer."

"...I don't care if they have a ticket. I'll deal with it, but keep the seat empty". I then went down the side stairs and waited outside, up the ramp from the entrance. A cab pulled up. A dude in a bucket hat got out. He's on his phone. My phone starts ringing. I don't recognize the number.

I then went to the box office to print up a ticket for him to save the seat, and I found that that damn film had sold out like an hour ago. And there are only 20 seats in there! I went to the usher in charge of that aud., pointed at a seat in the back that was empty and said: "NO ONE sits there...

I said: "No kidding! Well, you tell Mr. Kilmer to take a cab to the Bay St entrance. Here's my cell number. Tell him to call me when he gets here, and I'll meet him outside and lead him up the side stairs. They come out right at his auditorium. No one will see him." "Perfect!"

"Oh! It's Val Kilmer"

"Are you saying you would like me to reserve a seat for them?" "Oh yes, could you do that?" I said: "I suppose so." The woman then asked if there was a way said person could get into the cinema without being recognized. At that point I said: "Who are we talking about, anyway?" The woman said:

I explained that yes, it's in the regular auditorium at 7:40, but it's in the VIP Room at 7pm. (this cinema was the first in Canada to have four small, "VIP" rooms of about 20 seats, with reserved seating and wait staff). The woman said: "Oh great! So...is that ok?" I said: "What are you asking?"

I said: "That's me!" She said she was So-and So from Such and Such Concierge Company, and they have a VIP who wanted to come see That Movie (I cannot remember what flick it was). She says: "Is that ok?" I said: "Fine with me," not knowing what they wanted, exactly. They said: "It's at 7pm, right?"

I was a movie theatre manager for a long time. Once, in 1998 or 1999, I was working at my cinema in downtown Toronto. I arrived at work late on a Friday night (tardy), in the middle of a rush. I went the office and the phone was ringing off the hook. I answered it and a woman asked for the manager.

That's awesome.

I love love love this book!

OMG. PLEASE come to Canada.

I listened to this a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great stuff. I love that Dave obviously took a shine to you.