FK "Green Eggs and Ham"
Oct. 10th, 2023 07:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
switchbladeeyesI am cry laughing over here!!
Back in the 90s, a story went going around the FK lists about how John Kapelos and Nigel Bennett had done a dramatic reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” at a con. Of course, that would have been amazing to see, but I remember it was also fun to hear about.
Turns out, someone recorded it on video tape, which I only recently discovered.
In the 90s, it was very difficult to share videos online. Even if you could convert tape to a digital format, something like that would take forever to upload or download (forget streaming) because most who had the internet had dial-up, which was S L O W. Anyway, people did mail tapes to each other, but I don’t remember hearing about this tape and never saw it.
But we’re in the 21st century now with much improved technology. And someone took that video and put it on YouTube where I stumbled across it while nosing around for old FK stuff. Video quality is meh (I mean, it's a transfer from a tape), but the audio is great, which is what really matters here.
I'm probably the last person to know about this being available online, but it was worth the 26 year wait, OMG :-D
Here it is on YouTube: John Kapelos and Nigel Bennett in character reading of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham."
Back in the 90s, a story went going around the FK lists about how John Kapelos and Nigel Bennett had done a dramatic reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” at a con. Of course, that would have been amazing to see, but I remember it was also fun to hear about.
Turns out, someone recorded it on video tape, which I only recently discovered.
In the 90s, it was very difficult to share videos online. Even if you could convert tape to a digital format, something like that would take forever to upload or download (forget streaming) because most who had the internet had dial-up, which was S L O W. Anyway, people did mail tapes to each other, but I don’t remember hearing about this tape and never saw it.
But we’re in the 21st century now with much improved technology. And someone took that video and put it on YouTube where I stumbled across it while nosing around for old FK stuff. Video quality is meh (I mean, it's a transfer from a tape), but the audio is great, which is what really matters here.
I'm probably the last person to know about this being available online, but it was worth the 26 year wait, OMG :-D
Here it is on YouTube: John Kapelos and Nigel Bennett in character reading of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham."
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Date: 2023-10-13 07:29 pm (UTC)Bridging the Knight was the only con with FK guests that I went to. The con bug certainly bit me there though. I went to like three Highlander-specific cons and one general Sci Fi con in subsequent years. Good times, good memories. Meanwhile, my college-age kid is now going to cons lol.
Also, I LOVE your icon.
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Date: 2023-10-14 06:14 pm (UTC)As I remember it, I made this Schanke icon for TV_elf (Abby) back in Livejournal days, and then began using it myself after she died. It always makes me think of her as well as of Schanke, who was her favorite FK character.
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Date: 2023-10-14 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-11-02 04:23 am (UTC)I also videotapped the reading, though I don't think that's from my video. I'm sure I wasn't the only one taping, even though we weren't supposed to.
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Date: 2023-11-02 04:36 pm (UTC)It must have been so funny to observe in person!
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Date: 2023-11-02 04:55 pm (UTC)That those two could improv that so well really shows how talented they are.