So I just heard the breaking news that Gary Coleman died today. Wow. Just wow.
You see, Gary was my inspiration for being tall. I can vividly remember one episode of Diff'rent Strokes where he was upset about being short, so his dad took him to a specialist so they could predict how tall he would be when he grew up. And they told him he would be short for the rest of his life. And this scared the shit out of me.
So from that moment on, I was determined to be taller than anyone else. And I mostly succeed. Oh sure, I've met a handful of people taller than me, but they're few and far in between. And let me tell you, being tall beats the shit out of being short. How, you ask, would I know that, having never been short myself? Because a smart person told me so, that's why. And she's tall. How the fuck can you argue with that?
Long story short (see what I just did there?), Gary is gone, and all in all, he's one of the celebrities I think we could have kept. Lindsay Lohan? Still breathing, for now. Paris Hilton? Sadly, still spreading diseases. David Hasselhoff? Still drunk off his ass. And we lose Gary?
It's a sad, sad day...
You see, Gary was my inspiration for being tall. I can vividly remember one episode of Diff'rent Strokes where he was upset about being short, so his dad took him to a specialist so they could predict how tall he would be when he grew up. And they told him he would be short for the rest of his life. And this scared the shit out of me.
So from that moment on, I was determined to be taller than anyone else. And I mostly succeed. Oh sure, I've met a handful of people taller than me, but they're few and far in between. And let me tell you, being tall beats the shit out of being short. How, you ask, would I know that, having never been short myself? Because a smart person told me so, that's why. And she's tall. How the fuck can you argue with that?
Long story short (see what I just did there?), Gary is gone, and all in all, he's one of the celebrities I think we could have kept. Lindsay Lohan? Still breathing, for now. Paris Hilton? Sadly, still spreading diseases. David Hasselhoff? Still drunk off his ass. And we lose Gary?
It's a sad, sad day...
2 comments:
WHOT-CHEW-TALKIN'-ABOUT, X?!!
I know, dumb assed joke - but you know I can't resist an opportunity to stick one of those in.
I know - it made me sad too. More because even at 42, he still looks like a child. Plus - the child actors from Diff'rent Strokes were like seriously cursed or something. The only one that made it out even remotely healthy was Todd Bridges ... and even that took a lot of years to accomplish. Sad story, that.
Cudos on the 'tall' thing. Being short does blow ... or so I am told. I'm not technically tall ... but at 5'5" I'm not short either - I really couldn't afford to be any more "under tall" than I am currently. *snorts*
Being tall rules! Although I didn't think so when I was a teen and it sidelined my career in ballet. On a somber note...not only Gary Coleman, but the great, weird, fantastically freaked out Dennis Hopper passed. Shit man, the end of an era.
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