Your Mom Is So Poor, or: How Cancer Can Be Funny
Last night I dreamt that I was in an episode of FOX’s hit drama, the O.C.. I don’t remember much about what happened in the episode, except at one point Sandy Cohen filled his mouth with grain alcohol, pulled a cigarette lighter from his pocket, and blew a fireball into Julie Cooper-Nichol’s face. Her entire upper-body and head burst into flames, and she ran screaming into this deadwood forest that, upon waking, I found myself capable of comparing only to the Swamp of Sorrow from the Neverending Story.
NOTES: As I was writing this post I did a quick google search for Neverending Story, just for some basic fact-checking, and the first thing that I came across was this item:“It is with sadness and regret that I must inform the Neverending Story community that Jonathan Brandis died on Wednesday, November 12, 2003. He has touched so many of our lives, and he will surely be missed. Our thoughts reach out to his family and friends.”
So, Bastian is dead. Um, and more importantly, there is A NEVERENDING STORY COMMUNITY.
Then I found this item in a “Did You Know?” fun-facts section:
“The Neverending Story is one of the highest-selling books in Germany, second only to the Bible.”
Also, Kenny Morrisson, a.k.a. Atreyu, recently had a role as a date-rapist DJ in a movie called L.A. DJ, whose tag-line is the whimsically phrased “People Who Live in Trailer Parks Have Dreams Too.”
Finally, I looked up Neverending Story on imdb.com and THERE IS NO ENTRY! Is this because the cast and crew is constantly changing because the story never ends? They’ve got entries for Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter as well as Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia. What’s up with you, imdb? Are you drunk? Are you and Germany drunk?