JULY 16th - Michael Bay is not a Psychiatrist



On this day in 1969, perhaps the most important space mission in the history of bipedal humanoids, Apollo 11 was launched. On July 20th that bad boy landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took one small step. The whole thing was kind of a big deal. It was on TV. If, indeed, the whole thing was above-board. Because there was also the faction that believed(s) the landing was a big hoax. A fairly decent sized amount of the population thought it was all movie magic. Luckily 40 years later, Michael Bay showed us what actually happened in Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. How you can watch the opening of that movie and believe that bipedal humanoids did not, in fact, land on the moon in order to investigate the fact that some alien toys made by Mattel® crashed on the Dark Side of the Moon in 1961. Watch the movie. It’s all very scientific. And destructive. He likes to blow things up, that Michael Bay. I’m pretty sure Michael Bay was the inspiration for Sid, the kid in Toy Story who likes to blow up all his toys. But hey, gotta give the guy props. He’s made a lot of dough. And he uncovered what actually happened on the moon. Give the man a medal. So here’s to the beginning of our journey to the moon. It may have taken a giant leap, but apparently it’s responsible for approximately $1 Billion dollars, 3 hrs of robots being blown up, and Shia LeBeouf getting to make out with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. In which case Shia LeBeouf should totally get down on his knees and give thanks for this day forty-something years ago. He should also probably talk to someone because the poor guy seems to be having a rough go of it. Maybe not Michael Bay though—not sure you want to take advice from somebody who blows things up for a living. But Michael Bay never claimed to be a psychiatrist. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.

Sorry. Bayed out there for a moment. Boom.

This day has been Marked.

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