From The Birmingham News:
University of Alabama at Birmingham unveiled a new, three-ton, smoke-breathing statue of Blaze, the UAB mascot, today at 1:30 p.m. outside Bartow Arena.
The statue was envisioned by the 16-member Commission on UAB Traditions, which researches and studies traditions that could be adopted by the university community, and it was commissioned by the UAB National Alumni Society.
But, I mean, doesn't it look kind of cartoonish? It is very evocative of Elliot from Pete's Dragon. Don't get me wrong, UAB has come a long way since the early Bartow days, when, if memory serves, the UAB athletic logo was just a sideways chevron-looking shape that was, presumably, supposed to embody motion (said motion came from trail-blazing, which was the original connotation of the term Blazer, I believe).
But back to "Blaze," couldn't he have been made to look a little more serious, maybe a darker green, or actually fire-breathing nostrils - how awesome would that be, walking up to Bartow for a game and seeing flames shoot out at you?! If they were going to go Disney, they could have at least gone with Malecifent from Sleeping Beauty, right?
Or even better, what about Draco from Universal's 1996 film Dragonheart? Every time fans passed by, they would hear Sean Connery's voice saying "I am the laszht one!" or "To the shtarzh, Bowen!"
2 comments:
That's Taimak (Bruce Leroy) fighting his nemesis Sho Nuff ("The Shogun of Harlem"). Marc can't believe you have that on there- he knows the movie backwards and forwards and has the soundtrack. The UAB dragon could have been a little darker green- I agree.
...You are the Last Dragon
You posess the power of the Glow...
I can't tell you how much that made my day!! I love it when people can connect with my obscure references. And the older I get, the more obscure my references become. The Last Dragon was a staple of 80's cable television programming, and, as it turns out, the film features a hotbed of talent.
Not only does it star fomer Prince protégé Vanity and (as the villainous Eddie Arkadian) Christopher Murney, who played Rattigan in The Secret of My Success & Hanrahan in Slap Shot, but it also features William H. Macy, Chazz Palminteri, and Keshia Knight Pulliam (that's right, Rudy Huxtable) in small roles.
MOREOVER, there's a DeBarge video playing in Arkadian's dance club. Nothing makes for an instant classic quicker than having Eldra Patrick "El" DeBarge's vocals playing on your soundtrack. El Debarge had a sweet mullet too, and his brother James was married to Janet Jackson at one time. But I digress.
For some of the cheesy goodness that is The Last Dragon, click below:
Who's the one and only master?
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