Origins: Big Ghost

I’ve been told that spending time with us feels more alienating than wearing a Batman coustume to a Marvel convention.

It seems that we speak in a mostly-foreign language that is nearly untranslatable and totally uncomprehendable. The only proper excuse that we’ve found (thank you, Matt Woods) is the following sentence: “I live in a van.”

See, our live is sort of like a first grade field trip blown wayyyyy out of proportion. Just imagine being in the back of the bus for three years straight. It’s not bad back here. It’s roomy. We’re with our best friends (awwwww). We’re seeing cool stuff every day. It’s just not what most people are used to. It’s such a different lifestyle that in order to stay sane we had to, more or less, create our own culture.

I’m not sure if it’s our common obsession with Arrested Development or what, but we just can’t seem to get self-referential enough. Every joke we tell seems to be a triple-or quadruple-layer inside joke, each level of which is so convoluted that even if anyone could understand even one level of the joke they would have no idea how to dissect the next layer.

Not to say it’s impossible to decipher, or that our humor is intelligent in any way (it’s usually around the age-of-8 maturity level): it’s just that in order to stay entertained with ourselves, we have a sick need to string out our inside jokes for years and years.

And so I’ve made it my mission to dedicate this blog to helping you understand what in the name of Jodah we’re talking about (Jodah is one of the many names of my cat, by the way. Also, it is a reference to a Magic card. (Am I doing a good job of explaining, yet?)).

Today, in particular, I wanted to tackle the origin of Big Ghost (if you’re unfamiliar with Big Ghost, please familiarize yourself by clicking on any of these hyperlinked Big Ghosts).

Even after you’ve watched the video, the joke still probably doesn’t make sense. That’s probably bad story-telling on our part. We’re working on it. Until then, watch this next video (a part of a new series called “Origins,” where we sit down and explain to you where stuff came from). Hopefully, this will clear a few things up as to where Big Ghost originated.

<#matt

ps - what “origins” video would you like to see next? what do you want to know about us? want to see baby photos? wanna know where the scar on my right ring finger came from? go on. ask me anything.