Your Daily Awesome

Since I’m visiting family in Texas at the moment, I’m in the middle of my annual cable television gorge, wherein I don’t sleep for days and finally witness all of these programs whose names and plotlines I know from coworkers and the new collective media unconscious. What I’ve learned so far is that Burt Reynolds is on television all the time. Deliverance, My Name is Earl, Smokey–I’ve flipped past them all since dinner tonight. But still–who knew he had his own museum?

This place is crammed with everything anyone has ever given Burt Reynolds. Every award. Every photo. Every key to every city. Every honorary Sheriff’s badge. Every poster. Every movie script. A horse-drawn carriage (minus the horses) given as a gift by Dolly Parton. The canoe from Deliverance. And creepily detailed paintings made by Burt Reynolds fans. One shows Burt riding shirtless on a horse, with a big furry dog in his arms. I can’t imagine why Burt wouldn’t want that one hanging up in his home.

According to Pat and Kate, the nice volunteers who work at the museum, they would be showing a montage from Deliverance instead, but they can’t get into the back room where they keep that tape.

*That amazing drawing is from the museum giftshop.