Ol skool.
It’s perhaps a truism to say that different people have different talents, or inclinations, or skills, or interests, or whatever. And though we don’t typically flinch when we hear that those abilities are banal stuff like, oh I don’t know, stamp-collecting, violin-playing, basket-weaving, wind-surfing, douchebaggery, or whatnot, we may cock our heads a little to the side when we hear it’s something particularly peculiar, like panda-production.
But the Ripley’s Believe or Not comic strip published yesterday didn’t just cause me to cock my head to the side, it’s friggin’ dislocated my JAW.
John Basinger, husband of Jeanine Basinger, high-empress and overlord of the hipsters (and/or film majors), was reported by Ripley’s to have spent 8 years memorizing THE ENTIRETY OF JOHN MILTON’S PARADISE FUCKIN’ LOST. No shit, homie.
Strip to be found after the jump.
what a fucking retard
Professor John Seamon did a study on him.
This guy visits Wesleyan a bunch, he’s good friends with the ASL professor, Sheila Mullen.
They sell it on DVD in the campus bookstore. It’s pretty good. Also, I already knew this :-)
Nice post! I remember seeing an ad for a reading (or I guess you can’t call it a reading if there’s no use of a book; a recital, perhaps) he was doing in Broad Street Books a couple semesters ago. Baller. m/