Monday, December 20, 2004

 
Talking Matilda et ectoplasm...

Or: "Now, wait a gosh-darned minute; that's just a remake!"
Or: "Who is gonna' clean up that Pookah?"
Or: Imaginary Friends & Fiends
Or: Elwood P. & Maureen D.

10,000 Readers have probably emailed their fond memories of Twilight Zone's "Living Doll" episode wherein an evil stepdad, played by Telly Savalas, is dispatched by a young girl's "Talking Tina." (And hey, if actor Fred Thompson got to be a Senator, why shouldn't the scary looking("Who hates ya', bombers?!)Mr. Savalas(as follicularly challenged as Mr. Kerik)be nominated for Homeland Security Czar?
And while not all itenerants sing to "the knapsack on my back"(-tune of "Mein Vater war ein wandersman"), those Down Under are reported to sing[and walz with] to theirs'.(?) And of course, Tom Hanks'[our generation's "Jimmy Stewart"] character (now what was it, "Pilau Express"?)chatted with his bud, "Wilson." I don't recall having an imaginary friend as a child, but my drinking chum, a six-foot-plus rabbit*, and I have been debating whether or not to see "Flight of the Phoenix."
And speaking of the itinerants and the recalling the meaty, fleshy topic of carnivals, one wonders if their coil-neglecting workers exemplify mortification of the flesh?

*downing "Wallbangers" of course, and he's no friend of the "Dowdy" columnist, Maureen.