Wednesday, October 13, 2004

 
Stormin' Normans?
Or: Swiftboat "Operation Sea Lion"?*

I dispelled any doubts in my middle daughter last evening while munching on the fruits of shrimp boats at a "Red Lobster" that her Dad is hopelessly lame with something that went something like this: "Senator Kerry has a secret plan to get around his tax pledge by introducing a french-modeled VAT. Compliance will involve filling out Form 1066." It didn't help that her schooling had not included that date.
As usual, the song, "Rock Lobster" played a bit in the head at that restaurant, although I couldn't quite summon up the one by the B-52s about Krakatoa et al. Given the use and abuse of volcanoes in a buttload of crappy movies, Jonah G. can be forgiven for regarding them as relatively fragile. Although no specifics are bubbling up from memory at the moment, lotsa' flicks seemed to end after some greedy or inquisitive white villain or scientist or whoever grabbed a jewel or knocked over a bowl of bat guano or whatever, causing an earthquake or volcanic eruption or whatever to destroy the evil or innocent savages or dinosaurs or whatever-and making sequels difficult to imagine. -being summoned to din-din....

*Hey, if *they* can use Hitler stuff...