So I found out while listening to NPR on the way home today that today is Ninja Day! Who’d have thought it? I knew about Talk Like A Pirate Day (Sept. 19), but Ninja Day? Leave it to NPR’s “All Things Considered” to inform me about that.

So on NPR they combined the special theme of the day with finding a solution to a current problem in the news today. They asked “the Ninja” of AskANinja.com to offer some advice to help the Hollywood writers who are on strike. It was SO FUNNY that I was crying and almost had to pull over to the side of the road, since the laughter was so debilitating. If you didn’t hear it, you simply MUST: ‘Ninja Got Answers’ for Hollywood Writers on Strike (click on Listen Now–it’s less than three minutes long)

On a related note, I had another weird and funny radio thing happen right after that. I finished listening to “the Ninja” and marveling at his wisdom, audacity, and humor, then I turned the station to WKLU 101.9, which recently changed its format from Classic Rock to Oldies (“music from the 60s and 70s” (although I think they throw in some 80s)). The first song I heard was “Rocketman,” by Elton John. What made that so funny is that JUST LAST NIGHT I’d taken the advice of a friend and watched William Shatner’s version of “Rocketman,” which he did at the 1978 SciFi Awards show. I mean, what are the chances?? I’ve embedded it below.