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4/19/2004
EXTERMINATOR
No, we didn’t send out a message with an attachment. Someone has a virus that is
spoofing our email address. We’re getting copies of it too. Nothing we can do
about it ‘cept continue to clean our machine regularly, which we do. Why don’t
you? We’ve also changed the list alias so maybe we’ll fake out the bug, but it’s
likely to continue to haunt us until you clean up your act!
FILM FLAM
Mondo Movie season at Starlight Drive In kicked off Sunday with The Thing and
Forbidden Planet. Unfortunately, the T-bird didn’t want to go. It was due to go
back into the shop for A/C issues and a few other minor problems, but decided it
would rather stay home with transmission problems. Stay tuned for news on that
front.
So we shoved everything into the truck instead and headed to the drive in.
1951’s The Thing had some technical problems and was nearly inaudible, but
provided dozens of jokes about coffee. Every scene seemed to end with “Hot
coffee, anyone?” As with most monster movies of the time, there’s about an hour
of dull build up and only a few seconds of monster thrown in at the end before
he’s killed by electricity.
Forbidden Planet has to be one of the prettiest films of all time, even more so
for 1956. Many sets and effects are clearly the inspiration for Star Wars, and
the plot and characters seem to be direct ancestors of Star Trek. Way ahead of
its time, yet still pretty damn dull. It, too, provided ample opportunities for
heckling and I kept waiting for Leslie Neilson to bust out with “And don’t call
me Shirley.”
Regardless, the weather was perfect, there were plenty of cool cars to ogle, a
few hot bods of other sorts to ogle, the smoke of a dozen grills wafting across
the lot, and a cooler full of beer in the truck – what more could a degenerate
want?
BLASPHEMY
A recent headline on CNN.com read "Bush, Blair affirm June 30 Iraq handover."
At first I read it as "hangover" and thought "Wow, CNN is finally saying it like
it is!"
I feel sorry for the people in that country. They didn't ask for Saddam to be in
charge and they didn't ask for Bush either, but the parade of charade continues.
It'll be fascinating to watch what happens next, in the same way it's
fascinating to watch viscious dogs fight over the bloody corpse of a slain
animal.
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