{"id":664,"date":"2004-03-26T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/664"},"modified":"2011-09-26T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:00:24","slug":"maybe-meeting-macgyver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/664","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Meeting MacGyver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, I&#8217;m not <i>explicitly<\/i> saying my boyfriend is the coolest man alive, I&#8217;m just going to <i>heavily<\/i> intimate it here on my diary by letting y&#8217;all know that there is a slight chance he might take me to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000760\/\">MacGyver<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><font size=1>Note: Justin is extremely cool for an enormous number of other reasons, but if I start listing them here, I&#8217;m 100% certain there will be a <b>lot<\/b> of disgusted &#8220;stop-your-obnoxious-cuteness&#8221; smackdown commentary.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concentric.net\/~jjdippel\/macisms.html\">MacGyver<\/a>: namesake of my engraved Swiss army knife; muse of my lifelong obsession with basic chemistry and the name &#8216;Angus&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>See, my cousins Caius and Keira (aka <lj user=\"summum_bonum\">) live in BC, and are overdue for a visit from me. And Justin&#8217;s friend Rainbow is in BC, shooting for the new Stargate television series. And Richard Dean Anderson is in BC, working on Stargate. So in the midst of a friendly visit to the West Coast to hang out with my family and JVL&#8217;s friends, we might get to chill with the man who played the man who can fix anything with bubble gum and a paperclip. Which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holy Shit, Rainbow is mad popular!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See, this is what comes from not having cable TV in my home for the past decade. I had no clue what Electric Circus was. I had no idea that Rainbow was the Bomb. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, being on cable television can make a man cool enough to have not just <a href=\"http:\/\/allstargate.television-series.com\/atlantis\/cast\/francks.html\">one or two<\/a>, but more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=stargate+rainbow+sun&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\">over ninety gazillion<\/a> websites with stuff about him on it. And he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0290478\/\">on IMDB<\/a>. And he has his own freaking <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/RainbowSunFrancks \">Yahoo group<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What the hell? Why didn&#8217;t *I* consider being a television DJ as one of my career options??? Why aren&#8217;t I applying for a job on television RIGHT NOW?!?! Hey, it worked for Bridget Jones, and she was 32 and had an enormous bottom. Sigh. <\/p>\n<p>Never mind. Back to sifting through Workopolis and Monster for mindless office jobs. Dammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, I&#8217;m not explicitly saying my boyfriend is the coolest man alive, I&#8217;m just going to heavily intimate it here on my diary by letting y&#8217;all know that there is a slight chance he might take me to meet MacGyver. Note: Justin is extremely cool for an enormous number of other reasons, but if I <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/664\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jvl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}