I just wanted to say one thing about the movie bloopers. The singing and dancing part isn't complete random idiocy - it was sort of a inside joke (well, not anymore) to my friend Bobby. Bobby goes to film school in Chicago and made a very funny short film called A Walk, Here on Earth, to Remember. I'd point you to a link to check it out, but oh no, Bobby has resisted all of our attempts to digitize his movies and put them online for everyone to enjoy. Jerk. Anyway, at the end of his movie, the main character, who is very punk rock, sings a Britney Spears song in a 8th grade gym while 8th graders dance in the background. I found it funny, hence our own version is a tribute to that genius moment in film history. That does not, however, make me any less of an idiot or a dork.
I was driving home today, and saw a sign for Kamper Kompanion Campgrounds. This is not the first sign I've seen for these campgrounds, apparently it's a chain. Where do I even begin? Why did they change the C's to K's in the first two words? Clearly they realized that they couldn't change the last C to a K, to avoid association with racist idiots from the south. But then why change the first two? Even if we pretend that mispelling words is a brilliant marketing trick, it only works if there is consistency (e.g. kool kids). If they would just left all C's, they would have had that consistency. But no. This rant has honestly been one of the hardest passages to write all summer. My brain is twisting itself all around just trying to get a hold on where the idiocy begins. In the words of Lewis Black, I'd better sink my teeth into some pancakes before they reach around to try and eat my brain.
Posted by Ben at August 18, 2003 03:48 PM