If you don’t obsessively follow useless trivia the way I do, you probably don’t realize that Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock — er, I mean, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy — both have birthdays this week, and they’re both achieving the same landmark age of 80 years old. Today is Bill’s day, with Leonard catching up to him this Saturday.
Hard to imagine my boyhood heroes becoming genuinely old, especially Shatner, who, despite his generally goofy latter-day persona, remains almost shockingly vital. In other words, he really doesn’t seem like an 80-year-old. (By contrast, Nimoy appeared rather frail in the Star Trek reboot movie a couple years ago, but perhaps he was just going through a rough patch while they were filming that.) Harder still to contemplate: if these guys are getting old, what does that say about me? I think I’m now about the age Kirk was supposed to be in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and that’s just… weird…
WOW. Mr. Shatner does not seem that old at all!
He really doesn’t, does he? Must be good genes or something.
How did you and Cord like the concert the other night?
We had a BLAST. How about you? I have to say, we were pretty easy to please, as it’s been about 16 years since we’ve been to a concert. Pretty unbelievable.
I make it to two or three concerts a year, usually, and I thought this one was very good, aside from the lousy acoustics in the upper bowl where we were sitting. (I imagine the sound was much better in your suite, you lucky brats!)
Even so, I thought the band gave a really good performance, and I loved the stage production with all the segmented video screens flying around.