"Necessity is no more the mother of invention. Necessity is now a crack-whore who has lost control of her child and turned it over to a foster mother - laziness. And laziness is to invention what the evil stepmother was to Cinderella."
Freeze Frame #143: Baasha
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A nice three-sentence suspension-of-disbelief diatribe on the (hypothetical) sorry state of affairs of wondergirl Cinderella. (The Segway Store's secret seduction of serendipitous sentences straight out of someone's subconscious self is swell, to say the least!)
But I somehow don't tend to believe Cinderella's current sequestration is owed to her servitude-sanctioning sinister step-mom. Didn't the Shanghai Knights rescue her oh-so-marvelously from that ill-fated bondage about a year ago, so much so it caught the Coen Eye? (Hypothetically, obviously!) So here's my theory: The Coen Eye, now that it's done training macho-man Brad's biceps, is currently trained on, well, Big Bird! Yes, in a downright-outrageous Disney-meets-David-Dobkin style storyline-with-a-diabolic-twist that opens in the Forbidden City and is "summed up" (in quotes coz with the Coens we do know there's no "No Loose Ends" guarantee, but thankfully that's offset by the fact that although it might appear that the duo stands imprisoned behind horizontal bars of their own writing, if one looks closely enough, the key *is* in the lock and it's one's imagination that makes it turn) in Shanghai (or is it Beijing? The jury's still out on that.). And the plot? I won't venture there just yet, but I sure am willing to stake a guess at how "The Sesame Streets of Shanghai" opens: With Cinderella's soliloquy, in what looks like a Shanghai prison cell, blissfully unaware (yet secretly hopeful) that its intended audience, Big Bird, is privy to every word wafting thru the venti into the adjacent cell in which he lays bound and gagged, mouth duct taped: "To B or not to B.”
P.S: Who would have thought it even possible to have that Big Bird from Seasame Street shut up?
P.P.S: You do know, don't you, that all of this is (in addition to being a nod to No Shoe Left Behind) a bunch of gobbledygook, so please please please, be sure to Burn After Reading!
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