Nothing brightens an eight-legged apocalypse like a visit from a good friend. Especially one who knows how to make you laugh.
Yesterday, when I posted about tonight’s episode of “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner,” on which Roy and I will observe the 91st birthday of William Shatner with a discussion of his magnum opus, “Kingdom of the Spiders” (1977), I was remiss in not mentioning that our very special guest this evening will be my lifelong friend, Matt Anthony. Matt and I were basically inseparable from the 7th grade up through college. (I could tell you bloodcurdling tales.)
In the meantime, he’s become quite the arachnologist. So Matt will be on-hand to tell us all we need to know about the scientific accuracy of the movie, to show us around his own little kingdom of the spiders (which he now raises), to play us a number or two on the ukulele (he also busks), and to cook us up a burger from William Shatner’s own special recipe. My mom introduced us to this 40 years ago, after she found it in a magazine in the early ‘80s.
All in all, it’s shaping up to be a Shat-tacular evening. It will be a Matt Matt Matt Matt world, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Observe it slack-jawed in the comments section, when we livestream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!
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PHOTO: Flanked by Matt (in stylish Sasquatch t-shirt) and Roy in October