Coming to a Wal-Mart near you very soon, Andy Kaufman Returns?
Yes, believe it or not, Andy Kaufman (here, *here*, *here* -- [via snopes here], here, here, here and, here) is not only reportedly back, but it appears that he is blogging in style with his very own blog and, within only a few hours of his announced return on Monday (May 17, 2004), even quickly posted up a FAQ blog post as well.
In fact within one particular blog post *on Thursday (May 20, 2004)* [opps; see below], Andy has announced his National Starbucks and Wal-Mart Tour:
My friends keep telling me, "Andy - why don't you go on Letterman, man? Or Barbara Walters? Let everyone know you're back."What I did broke the trust of a lot of people in this country, not to mention many close friends and family members. I will never again be able to gain back that trust. Not even after public appearances or even DNA testing. Some will always have their doubts. I don't care about those people anymore.
I care about my fans, the ones who understood my rare form of comedy meets performance art spectacle. That's why I'm going to give back to you guys only, and tour the country appearing unexpectedly at local Starbucks and Wal-Marts.
I've been working on a lot of new characters these last twenty years, which I may be disguised as:
- aging comedy legend who still thinks everyone recognizes him
- hippie turned yuppie guy in suit, now with bad coke habit
- aging fat and bald guy who thinks he is god's gift to women
- black turtleneck wearing pseudo-intellectual anti-war nerd-chic guy
- and more.The tour begins TODAY! Be sure to tell your friends and alert the local media when you spot me!
Hmmm. That would possibly be one explanation for the great volume of traffic heading up to the Hospital Hill area in Berlin, Vermont today (Friday, May 21st).
Someone with a cell phone must have spotted Andy Kaufman at the Wal-Mart store (which is located up there, within the Berlin Mall) and put out the word to everyone they knew.
Hey, was that one of those giant CNN trucks I saw flying up the hill in order to do a live broadcast as well?
Who knows?
Anyway, if you have really returned to us Andy, welcome back. You've been greatly missed.
*Notes*: Made several, mostly minor, edits for the purposes of clarification and readability only; in addition, I have also included a few extra links as well.
Ugh!: The *opps* in reference to the day and date, within the third paragraph, is due to my incorrectly having originally indicated "today" -- as in Friday - for when the National Starbucks and Wal-Mart Tour blog post was posted on the Andy Kaufman Returns blog.
That blog post was in fact posted on on Thursday (May 20, 2004).
However in my closing comments, after the quoted blog post text, Friday is correctly mentioned though -- as that was indeed the day great volumes of traffic was sighted going up to Hospital Hill in Berlin, where the local Wal-Mart store is located.
Did you notice how there has been no blog posts to the Andy Kaufman Returns blog either on Friday or since.
Vermont is, after all, probably about the best place for Andy Kaufman to have started making his national (re-)appearances in Wal-mart. It makes sense.
;-> [wink & grin]
Hey, by the way, does anyone know what the 12-Step self-help support group for people who can't stop talking (or, in this case, blogging) is called?
Last updated on Saturday, May 22, 2004 at 9:02 PM [EDT].
Posted by Morgan on May, 21 2004 at 04:19 PM
