Friday, October 20, 2006

 
Open Letter Inspired By Radio Derb Delicacies:

Re Post-Katrina Cookin'

Or: Mumbo-'Gumbo'?
Or: Jailhouse Jambyla?

Perhaps the Ragin' Cajun, Zachary Bowen had two strikes agin' him on account of being named after not one, but two, diseases.* Another mitigating factor might have been something evil emanating from the voodoo shop located below their apartment at 826 N. Rampart (hmmm...didn't David Horowitz work as an editor there?) Street. Or perhaps Zac and his girl friend, Adrian "Addie"** Hall, had an "Annie Hall" moment when she dissed his ability to chase a lobster across a kitchen floor. At any rate, your speculation that ZB had turned to the blackened side because of a lack of crawfish or crawdads(or for all we know -lobsters) brought back memories of "Raising Arizona." That movie had lately become part of the family as the line, "Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard," has often been delivered here in the deepest, blackest, voice possible. Below the links is the dialogue between Nicholas Cage's "HI McDonnough" and his bunk/cell mate whose culinary code stopped short of cannibalism.

http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=WAVS&type=Movies&movie=Raising_Arizona"e=cramps.txt&file=cramps.wav

http://www.drudge.com/news/86626/man-dismembers-girlfriend

an old convict and H.I. lying on their prison bunks, passing the time]
Ear-Bending Cellmate: ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
H.I.: You ate what?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: We ate sand.
[pause]
H.I.: You ate SAND?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: That's right!

Bonnie Apetit!
XX

*see the old joke about "Zachary's disease"[best delivered with a Westerner's "Japanese" accent]: "Your face rook zachary rike my ass!"
"Bowen's Disease" -you can Google this one, of course, but I think I'll keep this one under my cup -I mean- hat.

**Her teacher was quoted as saying, "Addie was an indifferent pupil." "Addie's pupil" -get it? Ha! Ha! Ha! sigh- I should be so fortunate as to get your mathematical references...

And "Adrian"?!? I don't know if there were enough "leftovers" for the coroner to make a determination(short of testing for a double X chromosome)of "her" gender, but one wonders if Mizz Hall was, like the prisoner speaking at the group therapy session in the WAV link above, a "man trapped in a woman's body." -right now a WAV is running through my of Zachary yelling ala "Rocky" when Chef Bowen discovers Hall's lil' "secret": "A D R I A N !!!!!!!!!!!"