Over the River and Through the Woods

Yep, we’re invited to Grandma’s house for Sunday dinner today!  Whoo hoo!  No cooking for me!  It also doesn’t hurt that she is making her world-famous Cajun Jambalaya which is from an authentic New Orleans recipe and just to die for.  When I think about it though, I don’t believe we really cross any rivers to get there…or go through any woods either.  But I’m sure there are plenty of drainage ditches and she has lots of trees in her neighborhood so that counts for something.  Either way, I’m hauling this heartless ass out there for a free meal and I can’t wait. 

Woke up with another one of my Sunday morning dull headaches again.  These things just confound me.  They only happen on Sundays, never on Saturdays or during the week.  Nothing really seems to take them away.  Ugh.  Thankfully this is not one of the bad ones that pretty much knock me out though so I shall grin and bear it. 

The mysterious reader/commenter known only to the world as “adam” jogged my memory regarding another one of my old favorite “Teens in Trouble” films when he mentioned the Runaways.  This one actually was a really early 80’s masterpiece and basically signaled the end of that genre’s reign….”Foxes”, starring  Jodie Foster and Scott Baio but designed to showcase and hopefully breakout young starlet, Miss Cherie Currie…lead singer of The Runaways.  It certainly failed in that respect but overall, Foxes turned out to be a “not horrible” movie and actually was pretty true to it’s time.  I was the age of the kids in that movie when it came out and I remember feeling like they got it pretty spot-on.   Nowadays it comes off as kind of dated…particularly when the kids are all keyed-up over going to see the supergroup “Angel”.  What’s that?  You don’t remember a group called “Angel”?  That’s okay…nobody does…except maybe if you lived in Japan back then.  I think that was the only place they ever really made it big.  Really, I think it would have been more convincing if the Foxes had been excited about going to the big Pink Lady concert!  Then they could have had the Pink Lady do their cameo onstage appearance, rockin’ out to their classic smash-hit, “Kiss In the Dark”.  sigh……I loved the Pink Lady.  They were big in Japan too ya know!  I used to honestly believe that they came back to us not too many years later in the incarnation known to 80’s music fans as the “Mel and Kim”.  Then after that, they came back to us in the 90’s as The Shonen Knife.  I also think they never aged….their ages remained the same through the decades.  It’s something that only the mysterious Japanese are capable of.  That forbidden land, full of unspoken secrets.  “Kiss in the dark…runaway…kiss in the dark!”  Oooh…see?  They even had the word Runaway in the song.  Yes, the Pink Lady would have made a LOT more sense than the Angel did!

I can’t believe I just veered from discussing the cultural merits of the film “Foxes” into what the Pink Lady means to me?  Oy!  Retardation Central here!!!  Why aren’t there more retarded people like me out there?  Don’t you think the world would be a much better place?  There wouldn’t be any wars that killed people….only wars of words over who was better….The Bradys or The Partridges.  Or whether the awesome, high-waisted plaid pants that Jan wore to Kings Island were the same ones that she donned as she ran across Hollywood Blvd. in “Dawn:….” or whether “Dawn” was the real inspiration behind Brooke Shields’ career ever blooming in “Pretty Baby”.  Not enough people are really willing to contemplate important connections like these.  Sad…..so very sad. 

Next post:  The big reveal!