Feature Article: The party that never popped
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     Yesterday ( that's Sunday, Sept 5, just to put it in
continuity ), a big gala even was planned, with all the Matthiews
house regulars as a get together. Louisiana was to be home for the
three-day-weekend ( Happy Labor Day! ), and the Cali girls pulled
a carpe diem on us & decided to plan an online date chat. Wonder
Duck, Bayou Surfer, the devil, and the drunken brothers were to
show up, just to name a few names. What made it even more exciting
is that on the friday before, we had "practice run," if you will.
Most of use were online, and we got together in a chat room,
laughing over old times & creating quite a stir over new ones (
"How many super models does it take to screw in a light bulb?" ).
And a definite plans were made. Sunday. Nine in the evening. AIM
(as opposed to AOL ).
     It never happened.
     Or rather the internet chose that time to perform a little
discriminatory net farting. I was on at about ten, as my mom had
rented "Shakespeare in Love," a movie I had not yet seen ( I know,
I know, blasphemy ). When I got on, however, there were only two
ladies on, & no one from Louisiana. Suck. And even then, AIM was
acting temperamental and kicking them off Jay & Silent Bob trying
to lose LaFours. Anywho, Wonder Duck was out with his best friend,
Bayou Surfer mistook the time to be nine PACIFIC time, and Drunken
Bro? Well, he was out shopping for groceries of all things. But we
managed to have a pretty good time, cursing AOL & whatnot.

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Mom also rented "Patch Adams," that movie with Robin Williams
about the funny doctor; not bad if I say so myself. . . I'm moving
into desperate measures to get myself up at a decent time in the
morning. Solution? I set my stereo system to eight in the morning.
What's it play? The soundtrack to some crappy cartoon flick. South
something. . . Started reading "Alice in Wonderland" for school.
Thankfully, it's the last bit of summer reading I have to do. . .
I found my cousin's Darth Maul lightsaber in the basement. Guess
he forgot to bring it with him to Taiwan. . . I got some cool free
Lego postcards. Problem is they say 20% off around the edge. . . I
gave in and purchased a Y2K calendar. It's that "Have a Day"
calendar with the different yellow faces for each day. . .

You'd think a guy as devoted to Jersey with such a severe
case of Kevin-Smith-syndrome would have seen all three movies,
right? Well, I've got a confession. . . or I did, until today.
It's not very easy to go to www.viewaskew.com & not run into some
kinda plot spoiler for it, since it (along with the rest of the
Jersey Trilogy) features as the biggest productions to come out of
the View Askew-niverse. So, tired of limiting myself to only 2/3
of the site, I took advantage of Mom's renting spree & got a good
movie ( instead of, say, Navy Seals. . .).
It's about these two comic book creators ( I like it already
) who sorta fall in love. Obviously, it's more complicated than
that. "Clerks" is just some guy's day at work, "Mallrats" is just
about two guys in a mall. What can I say? I give this movie my
utmost approval. It kinda disappointed my, since I was looking for
the rapid paced cynical banter that flowed so readily & heavily
through the other two. But, taking into account that this had a
lot more to say, the restrained use of caustic remarks fits rather
well. I think this is probably the best and most complicated love
story I didn't take part in.
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