Good news, buckaroos: Jeff Goldblum and online erotica king Chuck Tingle are now friends
The internet loves its gods; mere mortals who, through a combination of shared goodwill, savvy, and genuine talent, manage to elevate themselves to some sort of upper pantheon of online greatness. Among them, few are as relentless as Jeff Goldblum, a man whose every acting choice, gesture, and interaction these days seems tailor-made to feed our perceptions of what Jeff Goldblum should be like. (Or maybe he really is just that great.) Now, one of these larger-than-life-but-exactly-the-size-of-meme figures has collided with another, as we regret (are delighted? Terrified?) to inform you that Goldblum and Chuck Tingle have now come into contact with each other.
For those somehow unfamiliar with Tingle, he’s the extremely prolific author of a long series of internet erotica novels that mostly focus on dinosaurs, Bigfoots, and various pop culture obsessions variously falling in love or pounding each other in the butt. (Recent titles include, “Seduced By The Handsome Physically Manifested Sound That Some People Hear As Yanny And Others Hear As Laurel,” “Taken Hotly By My Handsome Physically Manifested Hot Take,” and “The Butt Files: The Case of Bigfoot’s Wiener.”) Depending on who you believe, “Dr. Tingle” is either a man living with autism under the care of his son somewhere in Montana, a group of comedians writing absurdist literature under an assumed name, or an advanced artificial intelligence pretending to be some combination of the other two options. In any case, he’s a source of great joy for many followers of weird online comedy, and now he’s asked Jeff Goldblum about dinosaurs.