The Daily Paragraph -- Seveneves and Wet Hot American Summer

Yesterday I finished reading Neal Stephenson's latest novel  Seveneves, and I also completed a weekend long binge-watching of the Wet, Hot, American Summer reboot series. Two pretty impressive accomplishments for one day. I'm really struggling to come up with some parallel that will tie both achievements together in one tidy little bundle. It's a stretch. Seveneves is a 860 page novel about the survival of the human race in space after the moon randomly blows up, breaks apart into millions of little asteroids which crash to the earth setting the atmosphere on fire over several thousands of years. Seven billion people die. It's a real pick-me-up. The Wet Hot American Summer reboot, is a goofy cheesy absurd series in which a collection of A-list comic acting talent in their late thirties and early forties reprise their roles as teenage camp counselors which they were too old to play when the original movie came out fifteen years ago. Silly, silly, silly. I admit it. I laughed...out loud...a bunch. In the end, the only thing the two things have in common is me.  I have a long-standing history as a Neal Stephenson fan. I think I've read every novel he's written, and I don't know the last time I read a book of fiction that wasn't his work. Ten years, maybe. I've also been following much of the cast of the Wet Hot American Summer for years as well. The creators of the show were on the early 1990s MTv sketch comedy show The State, which I loved and own on DVD. So in the end, the connection is devotion on my part...and the fact that I happened to express it at roughly the same time for both. Yep. That's pretty weak.