“In 2003, inspired by an episode of The Simpsons, he grafted together a tobacco root and a tomato stem to make ‘tomacco’.
In ‘E-I E-I D’oh’ (episode 231, first aired November 1999) Homer invents giant tomacco plants that taste disgusting but are completely addictive (‘That’s horrible!’ says Bart as he spits one onto the floor: ‘I want another one!’).
Baur’s tomacco, on the other hand, has made him something of a Simpsons legend and given him a story to dine out on to this day (at wastewater conferences, he says, he often gets introduced as ‘Mr Tomacco’). After the plant produced its first fruit, he sent a press release about what he’d done to a local television station, thinking they might find it reasonably funny.”
just wanted to share that after all these years of hearing about “how awesome a cron job is… oh man, it’s the greatest thing… etc.” it finally made sense to take part in the act…
and if you’re curious and want to watch, i’ll be performing it every hour, on the hour from now until infinity. i may however tone it down to weekly if there aren’t many viewers.
…just in case you hadn’t geeked out yet today…
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i’m beginning on the path of illustrating a children’s book with my friend katrina, here in tokyo… so i’ve been looking at a lot of kid’s things again, or for the first time.
this pitch video, part 1 of 3, is a little bit slow… but the dialogue of the muppets, their surprisingly snide or sarcastic remarks and analysis of the show itself are worth it. and the TV show exec muppets getting eaten by a monster is pretty awesome (part 2).
