Exercises In Weird: Acie Earl

So the NBA lockout has left many of us bloggers in a funk. With teams unable to communicate with players  and the financial situation as stagnant as ever, we’ve been forced to scrounge for the minutiae to satisfy our deadlines.

Well, how’s this for minutiae?

Acie Earl, drafted 19th overall in the 1993 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, is best known for being a human. With hair. And two first names. And (somehow) during a four-game stretch between April 12 – April 17, 1996, he averaged 29.8 points a game to go along with 9.8 rebounds for the Toronto Raptors. Honestly, I couldn’t/wouldn’t make this up.

Earl’s NBA career lasted only four years, so it’s been a while since he’s been relevant in the eyes of NBA fanatics. After his professional career ended (with stops all over Europe and Australia), he dabbled in ABA/AAU coaching before launching a basketball training program in Iowa near his alma mater.

Why is this pertinent? Well, actually, I’m not really sure it is. It only makes the following that much stranger:

Coach Earl has been asked to play a sub-villian who turns out to be a hero in a space spoof movie. the movie has all the elements of other favorite space movies such as Star Wars, Star Trek, battlestar Gallactica and Space odessy (sic).

Coach Earl’s character ‘Fasthorse’ is a space out law who runs the shady part of the planet and who’s help is sought out to find a missing crewman and destroy an alien squid shark.

via Coach Earl to star in upcoming Iowa independent movie ‘MOON ZERO 3′ | Venom Sports Training

Of course, it gets better:

…And better:

To be fair, for a man who has shown no signs of acting capability in his resume, he does a decent job. He is a comfortable speaker and has great showmanship in the space-gun scene, demonstrating a natural recoil with his shoulders. Hollywood may not be in his future, but Iowa is definitely in his present. And when Iowa presents you an opportunity, you seize it. You never know when the next one will show.

So that’s what’s going on in Acie Earl’s world. This message brought to you by the NBA lockout.

Oster-Tags: There lives a man named Acie Earl.