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I was going to make a point about how this is the first time in a long time that I've updated on a Sunday night, on time, but then I looked at my watch and it's actually Saturday.  Wow...I am a class A f!ck up. 

Lots of crazy people on the subway...barking, ranting, peeing on the floor...it's, it's really a magical place.  Not any good for comics though, I just tend to look down and recede into my "happy place" when a crazy person walks past, making that "mommy, please don't let the bad man touch me" facial expression.  But they make fun stories to tell, it seems people here collect crazy-ranting-bum-on-the-subway stories like kids collect baseball cards or Star Wars action figures.

Just got back from Long Island, Kendrick came with.  He's been coming with after he met my grandfather, who I guess he's sort of fallen in love with in a platonic sort of sense (I hope).  Grandpa's awesome, doesn't take sh!t from anyone.  Except grandma.  And my mom.  And me.  But otherwise, nobody.  We bought a pizza and watched the Super Mario Bros. movie which is disgustingly awesome.

Can you imagine you're some big shot screenplay writer, earning a decent living writing decent things, and then one day you're told, "We want to make a Mario Bros. movie.  Write it."

"That sh!t with the fat plumber who eats mushrooms and flowers and jumps on turtles and crazy crap like that?"

"Yeah."

"You want me to turn that into a 90-minute film?"

"Here's a suitcase full of money."

"Deal."

And then you write some lengthy, almost tangential, script about humanoid dinosaurs living in some dystopian alternate dimension, with environmentalist, anti-big business, and politically satirical overtones.  That's balls right there, taking something as ridiculous as Mario and making into an elaborate vehicle of your personal beliefs, pumping agenda into a movie aimed at eight-year-olds.  Makes me want a Sonic the Hedgehog movie about coke trafficking and the East Asian sex trade. 

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