Maybe Meeting MacGyver?

Listen, I’m not explicitly saying my boyfriend is the coolest man alive, I’m just going to heavily intimate it here on my diary by letting y’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 start listing them here, I’m 100% certain there will be a lot of disgusted “stop-your-obnoxious-cuteness” smackdown commentary.

Yes, MacGyver: namesake of my engraved Swiss army knife; muse of my lifelong obsession with basic chemistry and the name ‘Angus’.

See, my cousins Caius and Keira (aka ) live in BC, and are overdue for a visit from me. And Justin’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’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.

Holy Shit, Rainbow is mad popular!

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.

Apparently, being on cable television can make a man cool enough to have not just one or two, but more like over ninety gazillion websites with stuff about him on it. And he’s on IMDB. And he has his own freaking Yahoo group.

What the hell? Why didn’t *I* consider being a television DJ as one of my career options??? Why aren’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.

Never mind. Back to sifting through Workopolis and Monster for mindless office jobs. Dammit.

13 thoughts on “Maybe Meeting MacGyver?”

  1. of us had a clue about how popular Rainbow is. If only we’d paid attention when he was still here. *g*

    Also? I’m officially jealous. As my sister Manda sez, MacGyver is the only person on earth who ever pulled off a mullet, and managed to look hot.

  2. Hell Marla, even I’d sell a big chunk of my soul to meet MacGuyver. Clearly Justin rocks.

    Dint I tell ya so?

  4. Dude, I watched Macgyver for seven straight years. I loved him deeply, passionately, intellectually. One of my first crushes was on this man who never used a gun, always used his brain… and once used raw eggs to keep a jeep radiator full of bullet holes running a little while longer.

    Guh. LOVED him. I loved the Murdoc episodes! I loved the hokey King Arthur episodes! I loved Frank and Jesse Colton and their dog Frog!

    Additionally…? Rainbow…?

    He’s the SHIT, yo.

    He played Calvin in Love Song. He got to smooch on Monica and get thrown over in favor of Christian Kane. And his dad (who I met years ago) was Walter on La Femme Nikita. Not to mention the fact that his sister is Cree Summer.

    Um…not that I’m a stalker or anything. It’s just that the family keeps popping up in my fandoms. And now on my friends list!
    *grin*.

  5. Oh, you had better take that back, or I am going to make you Wale! Macgyver is the best EVER! He never says things like “jibber jabber” or “I love it when a plan comes together” … stupid Hannibal…. and Macgyver’s inventions are way better, more innovative, the A-Team just sculpts a piece of plastique into something improbable and blows stuff up.

    -caellum

  6. MacGyver is the only person on earth who ever pulled off a mullet, and managed to look hot..

    ::wink::

    (Couldn’t resist a chance to get on your case)

  8. The album Oscar and Big Bird got to Canada and Cree’s on it. It’s da bomb, yo. They go to summer camp and learn the French words for soup and bread..and it’s got great music. I adore it.

    I miss my childhood.

    Also? Gotta LOVE the Francks famdamily.

  9. See, I still crack up every time I watch the Lenny Kravitz Behind the Music and they interview Cree. She’s all Out There and dreamy and talking about how she had to side with “my sister” during the Lisa-Lenny break-up.

    And then they show her and Lenny recording together and the Big!Happy! Kravitz-Bonet-Summer family.

  11. But really? All your other Francks fandoms should pale in comparison to a deep, geeky enjoyment of Inspector Gadget.

    Remarkably like MacGyver in his pacifist, creatively mechanical solutions to dire problems, Gadget’s entire goofy charm was overshadowed by the awesome TRULY MacGyver-esque escapades of his niece Penny, and the spectacularly evil growlings and feline-pettings of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Claw.

    The voices of these characters? Done by none other than Rainbow’s dad and his sister!

    Oh, that’s right. Penny was actually black. 🙂

  12. Bwah. I LOVED Inspector Gadget, but I never realized it was a two-for-one Francks deal! And Elmyra from the Tiny Toons was another one of Cree’s characters…

    🙂

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