Return of the Kong
I was over at Chez PL&J (the real one) the other night for a fine chicken pot pie dinner and no brownies.
Haven’t visited for a while even though I can practically spit from my back window to their front door, although I wouldn’t.
We sat around and yacked and laughed and, later, while they were tucking Jon in, I watched some (if not all) of the hilarious “Sacrilege Moments” made by P & L’s buddy Brad Birch (Himself corrected this, thanks Pedro, I even meant to type ‘Birch’ the first time and overcompensated in reverse…) for the Comedy Network a few years back. They’re a parodic yet patriotic riff on the Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Moments”, broadcast several years ago to goose Canadian spirit. All I can hint at is ‘Windy the Poop’, and the soldier’s ‘hometown of Windsor’. And I won’t even mention ‘potato flakes’ or ‘Broadway Joe’.
Later, we watched some cool trailers and videos I hadn’t seen. One of my two favourites was a faked up trailer for a movie called “Shining” with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a boy, his writer father, and Family, with ‘Salisbury Hill’ playing in the background. You had to be there, so perhaps you should be.
The best trailer was for Peter Jackson’s “King Kong“. God almighty, it looks awesome. I’m a tad worried about content and substance, but even if it’s shallow as Julia Roberts, it’ll still be just as pretty.
(The title of this post is original, but as usual when I am that clever, I googled it and got this. Imagine that; all them folks smart as me. Still darn funny.)
November 16th, 2005 at 9:48 am
His name is actually Brad Birch. Talented man. Great to work with. You can see some of his fine work, including the first Sacrilege Moment (Jacques Strappe), at his webpage at http://homepage.mac.com/lakillerb/Menu8.html.
November 18th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Every day when I click on the link in the parenthetical afterthought above, the count goes higher. No biggie, just an observation. (For no good reason, I am suddenly wondering how Marcus Tullius Cicero, the ancient Roman orator, would have said that last sentence.)
December 21st, 2005 at 10:16 am
In about two weeks, the count in that last link in the post went from 1,022 to over 95,000, approaching and after the release of the movie.