A Legend

Friday November 25, 2005 - 4:39PM EDT

Noriyuki "Pat" Morita died. Usually I could give two good goddamns about someone I don't know dying. But you just don't let the guy who played Mr. Miyagi, the character that redefined the student teacher relationship to American audiences go without making a post about it. Everyone wants to have a Mr. Miyagi or a reasonable facsimilie. I say we replace the standard english word "mentor" with "Mr. Miyagi" to honor him. Actually we should have done that while he was alive, dammit.