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Last night I dreamed that I saw a Johnny Cash action figure on a sale table at a Hallmark store (I KNOW). He was dressed in black -- of course -- but came accessoried with a red cowboy shirt very much like this one, and he had a guitar that folded out into a teak lounge chair. A transformer guitar, if you will. I didn't buy it because I was trying to find a present for our office manager, but I couldn't stand not owning it for more than a day, and went back to find it gone.

So obviously I woke up with an intense need for an action figure depicting my spirit guide Johnny Cash. And it turns out there is one. It also turns out that it is not as awesome as the action figure in my head. But when does that ever happen?

Now I just have to wait until my electric company is not demanding payment in krugerrands and stock certificates, and I will own it.

On a side note: don't you wish more Transformers turned into lounge chairs?

This is a plea to Buffy people: I watched the show intermittently, but not enough, apparently, to get the implications when someone in another fandom altogether starts talking about yellow crayons. I can find enough online to give me a vague idea of the wheres and hows of this, but not enough to tell me what yellow crayons mean to fandom at large. (Well, probably there is plenty of info, but I'm lazy.) Can anyone help me out here?

As I plowed through all our old correspondence to locate your address (and failed! because I fail on a daily basis!), I got lost and start re-reading. You are so awesome. I love you so much. I want to give you this Johnny Cash spirit guide and I cannot find your goddamned address, as usual.

I watched Dewey Cox a few weeks ago, by the way, and I loved it, and I am ashamed of that love. Have you seen it? Thumbs up or down?

In summary: I love you, oldest and dearly beloved.

Oh, baby. I will email you my address forthwith, but if you're wanting it to send Johnny Cash to me: You don't have to do that! It is enough to know that you understand this desire in me. :D

I have not watched Dewey Cox! It's one of those movies I meant to see for a long time and then forgot all about. But I'm about to go out now, and I'm gonna see about finding a copy, and maybe by tonight I'll be able to give you a real answer.

I LOVE YOU TOO. And relatedly: I MISS YOU A LOT.

[John C.] Reilly is alternated cursed and blessed to look like a giant, mentally challenged baby.

Someone who likes Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-year-of-flops-the-bonus-tracks-case-file-112-wa,2358/) as much as I do. SPOILER WARNING: Do not read until you have seen the movie, because it spoils a lot of good jokes.

I did watch it this weekend! I also loved it; I don't think anyone in the world other than John C. Reilly could have sold me on a film that basically parodies Cash, but it really did work! (I was also amused to note that about half the cast of "The Office" makes an appearance.)

Our shared love for Dewey Cox aside: that was the best goddmaned review of anything I've read in a really long time. It is totally what all reviews should be.

Just tell all your friends that you love Cox and Balls and that you want to share your love with them. They certainly won't all look at you like you're insane or nothing.

:D:D:D:D

Also: I AM SO GLAD YOU'RE WRITING AGAIN.

http://vrya.net/bdb/clip.php?clip=3744 !

This is just what I needed; all is now perfectly clear. Thank you kindly!

Well, they have this rug which changes into a footstool. Not your child's transformer, I know, but we're adults. We don't get the fun toys.

Well, sometimes we do *hums* but yeah, in this case -- still, though, it's pretty fascinating! I could get into this toy.

Oh! Erm. Yes. We do have some interesting toys. But none of them turn into furniture, though I did wake up one morning using one as a pillow...

Now there's an idea. I think there's a market for this, don't you?

We could get very rich, very quick. >:-D

:D:D:D

My dear Professor Tofty,

Whether or not your distinguished forebear, Doctor Freud, ever said that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," I would submit that "sometimes a Johnny Cash action figure is just a Johnny Cash action figure." If, however, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, by implication, sometimes a cigar is NOT just a cigar. I suspect that is the case here. Why? A few reasons. 1) By definition, a Johnny Cash action figure is an entity different from Johnny Cash himself. 2) In your sole interpretive statement, you speak of the action figure not as an action figure, but as something "depicting my spiritual guide Johnny Cash." By the way, I consider it noteworthy that you associate the figure not primarily with a musician (as people would must often identify Johnny Cash), but with a liaison to the spirit world. 3) A guitar that folds out into a teak lounge chair is NOT a guitar (perhaps a clue that other things in the dream are not as they appear). 4) The term, figure, as opposed to other more or less synonymous terms (doll, toy, etc.) has an element of mystery.

Drawing somewhat on Dr. Freud's student, Dr. Jung, I will attempt more of an explication in a private reply. There will need to be some back-and-forth between us for this to happen, since it was your dream and its interpretation depends upon your system of symbols.

Sincerely, Yours

BTW, I don't mean to say that "somtimes, no" follows logically from "sometimes, yes." That would be fallacious. But it is reasonable to make the inference I made from this particular statement of Freud.

I totally subscribe to the sometimes a Johnny Cash action figure is just a Johnny Cash action figure school of thought here. I'm not sure I have the faith in the collective unconscious (not to switch theorists on you or nothin) that a serious commitment to dream interpretation would seem to require.

Anyway, do feel free to interpret away! I'm not sure you should expect any serious participation from me, though I'll do my best.

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