TIMEGHOST BEHIND THE SCENES: WHEN INDY WAS A TEENAGE SUPERHERO
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So… it was the summer of 1986.
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I had just finished my first year at Wesleyan University and was 18 years old. I spent that summer in NYC living on the Lower East Side, which was both dangerous and magical way back then. I was a pizza guy. So one night at Save the Robots I meet this guy named Ernesto “Splinter” Ramirez, right? I had done some ninja training in high school in Texas and he was putting together a ninja squad and we got along so…
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…well… the other three guys in the squad were turtles.
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As you all know, they were actual real mutant turtles, now being trained as ninjas. They wanted it to be a quartet, though, but couldn’t find a 4th actual mutant turtle to ninja train, so I jumped in for the summer, basically as a ninja temp. They had all taken Renaissance artist names so I chose Leonardo- because I wasn’t just an “artist”, I was more of an everyman genius, see?
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It was three crazy months, and after I left the crew and went back to college they got a proper mutant turtle as the new #4, but I left my mark- NEWS FLASH: it was ME who introduced them to pizza. (I am aware that I should have used first person there. Shut up.)
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Oh, and PS: MY Leonardo used a baseball bat, not a sword, because Baseball Furies (look them up). The new guy didn’t know “The Warriors” and he thought swords were cooler, but NOTHING is cooler than the Baseball Furies.
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Well, 23 May being World Turtle Day, I thought I’d bust out the old costume for once- still fits pretty good!
The turtles are all really good guys and deserve all the love they can get. We chat every few months on Facebook, but just today I wish my old buddies in arms and all their “natural” kin peace, love, and understanding. KAWABUNGA!
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TIMEGHOST BEHIND THE SCENES: WHEN INDY WAS A TEENAGE SUPERHERO
-
So… it was the summer of 1986.
-
I had just finished my first year at Wesleyan University and was 18 years old. I spent that summer in NYC living on the Lower East Side, which was both dangerous and magical way back then. I was a pizza guy. So one night at Save the Robots I meet this guy named Ernesto “Splinter” Ramirez, right? I had done some ninja training in high school in Texas and he was putting together a ninja squad and we got along so…
-
…well… the other three guys in the squad were turtles.
-
As you all know, they were actual real mutant turtles, now being trained as ninjas. They wanted it to be a quartet, though, but couldn’t find a 4th actual mutant turtle to ninja train, so I jumped in for the summer, basically as a ninja temp. They had all taken Renaissance artist names so I chose Leonardo- because I wasn’t just an “artist”, I was more of an everyman genius, see?
-
It was three crazy months, and after I left the crew and went back to college they got a proper mutant turtle as the new #4, but I left my mark- NEWS FLASH: it was ME who introduced them to pizza. (I am aware that I should have used first person there. Shut up.)
-
Oh, and PS: MY Leonardo used a baseball bat, not a sword, because Baseball Furies (look them up). The new guy didn’t know “The Warriors” and he thought swords were cooler, but NOTHING is cooler than the Baseball Furies.
-
Well, 23 May being World Turtle Day, I thought I’d bust out the old costume for once- still fits pretty good!
The turtles are all really good guys and deserve all the love they can get. We chat every few months on Facebook, but just today I wish my old buddies in arms and all their “natural” kin peace, love, and understanding. KAWABUNGA!
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