I had such a weird dream this morning, and Rachel Maddow was in it.

[Berry Cool]

I think it had to do with her and Keith bantering about glasses last night.

I only remember certain things about it. I remember that I was on the set of her show observing it while she and a bunch of other people who worked on it (including Kent) were doing a segment in which they were deliberately trying to be Cool, Zany Kids as a kind of ironic joke to frame a segment (I don't know what the actual subject was). I remember that it was very loud and boisterous and silly--kind of like Pee-Wee's Playhouse--and part of this required Rachel's head (with the glasses) to appear magically like Jambi the Genie, in the midst of a cloud of smoke, in a column made of colored transparent plastic (she had her nerd glasses on, and I think her hair was wildly styled and sprinkled with glitter) and say something like "HEYYYYY...We're all Cool and Zany!!!" and then everyone would jump around and scream.

Then, Rachel took me to a darkened theater in another room to watch a trailer for a movie starring Meryl Streep and Ralph Fiennes (she did this because we both presumably shared an interest in Ralph Fiennes) with a test audience. I'm not quite sure what the plot of the movie was, other than that Meryl's character was getting cheated on by her husband, and Ralph's character was a new romantic interest. Anyway, the other thing I remember is that as we went into the theater, Rachel and I were sharing secret ambitions with each other, and she confided to me that what she'd really like to do is study melancholia and why people suffer from it. The topic was fascinating to her.

I woke up, or was awakened by my cats, at some point while the movie trailer was unfolding. I don't really remember the details of the trailer, just that there were a lot of monkeys in it at some point (yeah, monkeys), and that things that were making me laugh weren't making the test audience I was sitting in laugh. And thinking "Wow, my sense of humor must really be out of touch with the modern sense of humor most people have. I'm laughing, and they're sitting on their hands, like they think all this is REALLY unfunny."

Yeah, I know what you're going to say. But I didn't eat pizza for dinner last night. Or Mexican food.

[RevCheesehead]

1. Speaking only for myself,

I love the idea of Rachel starring in a version of Pee-Wee's Playhouse! Can Keith be a regular on it? :rofl:

Meryl Streep - didn't she get an Oscar nod for "Julie and Julia" :) And, did you happen to watch Colbert last night? He found out he shares genetic material with her.

Sweetie, there is NOTHING wrong with your sense of humor. Good comedy is subtle for the intellectually-minded.
The flying monkeys are probably related to Botany and the stuff he pulls out of his ass. :P
(Too bad they weren't blue, then we could pull "Avatar" into it.)

[Berry Cool]

2. It would indeed be a little strange, would it not?

He would be Mr. Keith, The Handsomest Man in Puppetland!!!! :loveya:

But seriously, I wish I could figure out where this stuff came from. I haven't thought about Pee-Wee's Playhouse in quite some time. I did watch Colbert last night, but I don't remember him saying he shared genetic material with Meryl. Maybe it got buried in my subconscious. But actually, I think the movie trailer was based more on some stray thought having to do with "It's Complicated" (which I haven't seen). But why Ralph Fiennes, I do not know.

And the monkeys didn't fly...they were just in somebody's office for some reason. And I think they had typewriters, kind of like the proverbial infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters who would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare.

Ah, I think I know where they came from, though. Last night I was looking at an old set of cards I have called the "Creative Whack Pack" based on the book "A Whack on the Side of the Head" that is supposed to generate creativity. And I remember looking at one that had a drawing of a monkey on it that was a suggestion about when to be serious about an idea, and it said something like "The monkey always wears a serious, inscrutable face, but he has a serious, inscrutable face because he itches." (Not sure that's true, but anyway.)

You can still buy these Creative Whack Packs:

http://www.creativewhack.com/product.php?productid=64

Hey...maybe the picture on the box made me think of a disembodied female (or female-looking) head looking wacky! Ya think??

Luckily, nobody's ass was involved in the dream. No, I take that back. It would've been nice to see Ralph's.