DOOL & Chat & BMWs

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004 - 8:02 a.m.

First, an announcement.

My Cast of Characters page has been updated.

It now includes a picture of JJ, aka Onewetleg, and a picture of Dave Marron.

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I was right about the killer on DOOL being Marlena.

Although, now that I think about it, it could also be Hattie, that lookalike.

Anyway, I think there's supposed to be a few more deaths among the old farts due to non renewal of their contracts.

But this change is sweeping and pervasive. I barely know who any of the younger characters are.

I used to watch Days of Our Lives with my grandmother.

When I watch this show, I remember her.

So the changes are kind of bittersweet.

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I was up until two o clock this morning, because I signed on to AOL and went into a chat room after midnight. That's when all the crazies come out.

Or, rather all the additional crazies.

I enjoyed the time there, and Dave Marron even showed up. It was a nice crowd.

(And Dave, you are forgiven for nearly asphyxiating me with those new lyrics to a familiar song.)

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Before that, I was watching "Les Comperes" last night with John, and realized that a subplot in three of my favorite movies involves the destruction of a new BMW.

("Les Comperes" is the original French movie from twenty years ago that was reinterpreted -- oh that's too polite -- it was -ruined- about five or six years ago by Robin Williams and Billy Crystal in the movie "Fathers' Day". See the original French one instead.)

In "Comfort and Joy", the main character's BMW is first vandalized with ice cream cones placed on its velour upholstery, followed by a crash into an ice cream van, and finally an attempt by the members of an ice cream company to destroy the car with handles and clubs and crowbars.

In "Interstate 60", the main character's BMW is vandalized by the main character himself, when he realizes that the him that exists in the alternative universe could be mistaken for a wanted criminal and killed for driving that particular car. So he pushes the car down into a ravine, just to play it safe.

In "Les Comperes", the main character's BMW is vandalized by a group of runaway teenagers as part of a gang initiation, then the car is further demolished when the brakes are taken off and it goes veering down a street and hits a cement planter.

I really love watching BMWs bite it.

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Good grief, the Super Bowl is this coming Sunday.

Is anybody west of the Mississippi even going to watch?... Patriots and Panthers?...

Bueller...? Bueller...???

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4 of my readers commented on this entry

John
I wonder if there's some sort of a primal need to trash a NEW BMW because of all the hype about it being "the ultimate driving machine" ?
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John
I used to watch DOOL about 30 years back while on summer vacation...John Delancie was an inventor prone to wearing white lab coats and horn rim glasses...
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Jamie
I won't be watching the superbowl. The football *players*... Maybe. ;) J
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Bindyree
Misprint, you meant 20 not thirty... and the character's name was Eugene Bradford. One of the greatest characters ever to appear on DOOL. :)
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