This past week we lost the legendary Bob Barker.
He came as close to 100 as he could without going over. (Yeah, yeah, I'm not the first one to make this.)
To folks of a certain generation (ie, anyone older than 25), The Price is Right was synonymous with sick days and summer vacation. It certainly was for me. My grandma and I would watch him all the time. He was old in the 90s, and he managed to outlive Nana by 13 years. It's still crazy to think about.
Day in, day out, you'd hope that they'd play Plinko.
Or, barring that, Cliffhanger.
But usually they'd play High or Low or that golf game and I'd tune out until it was time for the old ladies and college students to spin the big wheel.
And we can't talk about Bob Barker without mentioning his appearances in Futurama
and Happy Gilmore.
He was also a filthy old man that harassed his Barker's Beauties, so he wasn't leaving behind a stellar personal life.
But with that out of the way, some positive stuff!
I met a duck! Well, not just any duck, it was Wrinkle The Instagram Duck! You might know her as the duck that ran the NYC marathon.
This was at a small convention called LI Tropic Con a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea they were even gonna be there!
I might've been a little too excited to get a picture with her. I even got to pet her! She was really soft.
I also got to see a real Kid's Choice Award. I did not pay the thirty bucks to pose with it. It was a bit steep to cross off "hold a Kid's Choice Award" off the bucket list.
I also met Matt Hill, the voice of Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy! He was real nice and surprisingly cheap (only twenty chickens!) His Ed voice is not too far off from his real one, either, and kept talking in that voice. I got to talk to him about Captain N and Cartoon All Stars to The Rescue.
And finally, I managed to fill up my pin board! And this isn't all of my pins. There's still the ones that hang on my NYCC lanyard, plus a few more I couldn't fit on this one. So that means a trip to Michael's to buy a new pin board is coming soon.
