Tim Robbins Joins GREEN LANTERN

Actor Tim Robbins has joined the cast of Martin Campbell's upcoming Green Lantern as the father of nemesis Hector Hammond, played by Peter Sarsgaard.

Robbins' character will be a United States Senator. He had previously been rumored to play Tony Stark's father in Iron Man 2 and starred in Marvel's first cinematic adaptation, Howard The Duck in 1986.

Green Lantern is expected to start filming in March in New Orleans.







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Meet Doug and Mike: When reality and fiction collide, who are the ultimate victims?

'Til Death is one of those shows most people haven't noticed. A cheap-o FOX sitcom starring Everyone Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett and Ellen's Joely Fisher, this barely par sitcom currently runs Sunday nights at 7.

Amazingly, the show has been going for four years!

By now you're wondering why anyone should care about this, as well you should, but before I can get to what's interesting, I have to tell you a little bit more about the show. According to Wikipedia:

’Til Death centers on Eddie and Joy Stark, and their relationship and behavior after 23 years of marriage. The first three seasons often focused on the contrast between the Starks and their newlywed neighbors, Jeff and Steph Woodcock (Eddie Kaye Thomas and Kat Foster).

The fourth season focuses on the Starks adjusting to life with their daughter Ally (Lindsey Broad) and new son-in-law Doug (Timm Sharp), who live in a trailer in the Stark's backyard. The series takes place in suburban Philadelphia in Cheltenham Township.

It is the character of the son-in-law Doug, and especially the character's revelations in the 64th episode of the series entitled "Hi Def TV" that concerns me here. The episode aired on January 31, 2010, and in this episode Doug became convinced that he was a character on a sitcom.

Character self awareness in sitcoms is not all that uncommon.





Way back George Burns would step out of character and address the audience directly on The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show. More recently, The Office and it's sister show Parks and Recreation have made talking to the camera and breaking the fourth wall part of its very style. Breaking the fourth wall is a common motif from Shakespeare to Bugs Bunny, but the Kafka-esque nightmare of realizing that one's reality is someones "fictional" entertainment is something else entirely.

Actors such as Groucho Marx might turn to the camera and sarcastically confide a joke to the audience, but in this case we are aware in a meta-sense that the actor is stepping slightly out of character to let us in on something. In The Office the characters all have and believe in their existence as actual people, and we are led to believe that the cameras are there to film some sort of ongoing documentary.

But on 'Til Death, Doug has a sudden surge of paranoia concerning reality.

He is a character, trapped in a sitcom world, who can hear the canned laughter of an audience reacting to lame jokes, who catches glimpses of mysterious boom mikes dipping into frame most unprofessionally, and who becomes convinced that he can't utter curses or have sex with his wife for fear of being censored. Since Doug is in fact a fictional character, we cannot find solace in hiss new found awareness. This isn't like The Truman Show, where we can hope that Truman might escape the artificial world he's been born into. Truman was able to escape the bounds of his confining reality. Doug will simply be forever trapped in his diminished world.

What happens to a person trapped in a sitcom reality?

Unfortunately, we don't really know.

In the movie Pleasantville the effects of real people on a fictional world were quite dramatic. But that's a movie, and it had a movie like ending. Most sitcoms don't give us movie like endings, they just end. And most sitcoms don't have characters who realize that they are characters on them. (At least, the characters don't admit to knowing.)

But there is one character, and one show, that explored this idea in full. The show was called Growing Pains. According to Wikipedia:

The show's premise is based around the fictional Seaver family, who reside on Long Island, New York. Dr. Jason Seaver (Alan Thicke), a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, Maggie Malone (Joanna Kerns), has gone back to work as a reporter. Jason has to take care of the kids: troublemaker Mike (Kirk Cameron), honors student Carol (Tracey Gold), and rambunctious Ben (Jeremy Miller). The show was relevant in the mid-1980s, as women going to work was becoming more and more common, as were stay-at-home dads.

Growing Pains lasted from 1985 to 1992, and made a star out of born-again Christian and nutty creationist Kirk Cameron. This is where things get weird. In the sixth season episode "Meet the Seavers", which aired on March 6, 1991, the younger brother Ben got into trouble and wished his life could be more like a sitcom. Somehow his wish propels him into the real world, and he realizes that his bedroom is just a set, there are cameras and a live studio audience watching.

As the episode progresses, Ben learns that his name is Jeremy, that he is an actor, that the people playing his parents are actors, and that his entire world is a fiction on a television series called Meet the Seavers. The person Ben thought was his brother is an actor named Kirk Cameron. Ben struggles to return to his fictional reality, and this only becomes possible after Kirk Cameron reveals that he is in fact not Kirk Cameron, but Mike Seaver, who had made a similar wish some years before. He has been trapped in the real world ever since.

Of course Ben returns to his world, and all is well, save for one last nightmare image. As Ben sits down to watch television, he sees his brother, Mike Seaver, calling to him for help. We are left with the unsettling possibility that Kirk Cameron is not a real person playing a part on television, but a fictional character somehow brought into our world.

If this is true, imagine the humbling psychological implications for the fictional character navigating our real world. Kirk Cameron would be absolutely right in believing that the world has a god-like creator: In his case Growing Pains was created by Neal Marlens (who also created The Wonder Years and Ellen with writer Carol Black). Having now crossed into our world, he would more easily than most come to believe that universe are created. Being cut off from all he knows in the world he left, he might search for meaning and continuity through religion.

Kirk Cameron is a born again Christian. He believes universes can be created in days, and in the case of the sitcom universe he came from, he's right. According to Wikipedia:

Cameron says he was once an atheist, but around age 17 or 18, during the height of his career on Growing Pains, he developed a belief in God, and became a Christian. After converting to Christianity, he began to insist that story lines be stripped of anything he thought too adult or racy in Growing Pains.

Of course a character in a sitcom would be offended by adult and racy content. He came from a more innocent world, and insisted on maintaining those standards here on Earth. Also note that the change in religious belief corresponds nicely to the time line of events established in the episode under discussion.

It is a pleasing paranoia to indulge a fantasy in which our lives are a sitcom for the amusement of an unseen audience. But when we become convinced this is so, it becomes a serious mental imbalance. How much more horrifying then, to be cursed with such an awareness when you truly are a character on a television series?

Madness and reality blend into a strange world where the end times come not as a mighty Judgment Day but as an anti-climatic cancellation.

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Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored (dvd review)

Warner Home Video/Unrated/Released 1/26/10
Starring Kevin Alejandro, Arija Bareikis, Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Michael McGrady, Benjamin McKenzie, Tom Everett Scott
Executive producers Ann Biderman, Christopher Chulack, John Wells
Created by Ann Biderman
Running Time: 338 min.



The Pitch
Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored follows the complicated lives dedicated LAPD officers and detectives lead as they take on criminals, victims and a city tainted by vice and seething with danger. The rookie cop and his savvier, veteran colleagues try to make a difference in the not so glamorous part of Hollywood, but as one wised-up cop says, “Every once in a while, you get to take a bad guy off the street for good. And that, my friend, is God’s work.”

The Review
Southland: The Complete First Season Uncensored is the best police procedural currently on television. Like The Shield and The Wire, Southland successfully captures the struggles of both the job and personal lives of law enforcement personnel without sensationalizing their exploits to a level of superhuman achievement. Part of the success is that this uncensored dvd set isn’t held back by the limitations of network censors.

The strong ensemble allows various story threads to be seamlessly interwoven within one another and provide alternate vantage points for storytelling. The character driven storylines are engaging and the production values are top notch. Highly recommended.

The Extras
The two-disc set features all seven episodes of the show's first season as well as an 18 1/2 minute featurette, Redefining The Cop Drama, an extensive look at the behind the scenes of the series with both cast and crew, discussing both the development and filming of the series.




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DUKE ROBILLARD: TALES FROM THE TIKI LOUNGE

Woonsocket, RI native and guitarist extraordinaire, Duke Robillard, was recently nominated in the Traditional Blues Album category at the 2010 Grammy Awards.

While he didn't win (this was his second time being nominated!) in a recent interview, Duke humorously took the entire event in stride: As both a great thing to be nominated for an award with so much attention and positive recognition of the music he is making; and being invited to attend the ceremony, with an aisle seat no less, that allowed for a clear view of all the flashy big celebrities to stroll by.

I believe Duke termed the whole experience sort of "ridiculous."

Duke Robillard is one of those homegrown, self taught musicians that has achieved the mighty.



Since his earlier days of founding the horn-laden big band, Roomful Of Blues, there is very little that Duke hasn't been able to get done. There is what he has achieved with his music, a blending of organic roots styles and mixing of genres such as blues, jazz, rock and roll, pop and every sub genre in between.

He's reached into the great, and lesser known songbooks of the past, won prestigious awards such as the W.C. Handy Award twice, and been hailed by, and called upon to record and/or perform with musicians such as Bob Dylan (Duke recorded several tracks on Dylan's 1997 album, Time Out of Mind, which DID win some Grammy Awards), Tom Waits (Duke did dates for Tom's Orphans tour), Jimmy Witherspoon, Pinetop Perkins, Arlen Roth, John Hammond among others, and at one time was called in as a guitarist in The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

A pretty staggering list for someone that has come back to call the smallest state in the country his home once again where he now once more resides and records.

My girlfriend, Emily and I recently attended the release for Duke's newest album, Tales From The Tiki Lounge, and in a setting filled with a Polynesian atmosphere of faux Hawaiian leis, Scorpion Bowls and sitting in a crowded room of delighted music fans, the concert couldn't have been more wonderfully appropriate.

The performance was at John Chan's legendary Woonsocket, RI mecca for great concerts and autographed Farrelly Brothers film posters, Chan's Restaurant,— Chan's is, as their slogan smartly states, "Home of Eggrolls, Jazz and Blues."

As John Chan rushed around resplendent in his psychedelic Chinese jacket accommodating his patrons with any seating needs and other varied hosting duties, Duke and his ensemble, served up a sublime concoction of selections from the album as well as a few song choices from Duke's vast menu of songs. To experience Tales From The Tiki Lounge at Chan's could really not have been a more fun or at home night out.


In the liner notes Dukes describes the idea of this album "...as a sort of tribute to Les Paul and Mary Ford, then morphed to a more "lounge" concept and then changed back again into a Les Paul tribute."

Recorded and produced by Duke at his home studio, Tales From The Tiki Lounge has a crisp yet rather warmly lustrous sheen, an almost seedy sound that is completely in keeping with the atmosphere of the original recordings and the intended feeling of an early '60s style Tiki bar.

The great experimenter, Les Paul, and Mary Ford, doing some good old fashioned "home recording"

Remarkably in the spirit of Les Paul, an musical giant who's experimentation in the field of guitar building and invention, home recording and sonic production details are as important as was his famous ability on the guitar.

The album opens with a reverential nod to Les and Mary in a spoken word "Intro" before launching into 17 tracks that include better known song classics as "Besume Mucho," "Sway" and "Crazy" along with the deep cuts that really make the album a trove of delights and discoveries, "Tico Tico," Put the Blame on Mame (part 1),""Put the Blame on Mame (part 2)," "Smoke Rings," and "Kiss of Fire."

Going in cold knowing the album title alone, I admit I was worried about who Duke would have as a vocalist for this album. Were it not for working with the right singer, in this case Sunny Crownover, this project could have easily slipped into cormball or a campy nostalgic, cheap laugh for the sack of mere kitsch. Instead, Crownover brings her own splendidly slinky styling (picture the aural equivalent of the beautiful vintage Chinese dress she was wearing for the Chan's performance) and a slightly bawdy tinge (as in the decidedly non politically correct Mae West cover, "Occidental Woman" from the album or the ode to reefer, "Smoke Rings") that enhances her singing and makes for what can be simply called a really great voice such a perfect match for Duke's astute instrumentation and what songs were chosen for this album.

As Duke remarked in his live performance, there were many extremely lascivious songs of booze, sex and other carnal adventures from the days of when these tracks were written, and while the songs on this album are a far cry from those of the really explicit kind, they still manage to convey the dark lighting, free flowing liquor and sensual atmosphere so important to the Lounge Gods of the Tiki, yet still managing to have an innocent (with a knowing wink) playful bit of fun that stands as the intended tribute to Les Paul and Mary Ford.

I am especially impressed that Tales From The Tiki Lounge encompasses more sounds and compositions, then you may expect, from the vast (and still being explored) umbrella of what can be called Tiki and Exotica music, of course it helps when you have some bongos and well placed Chinese gongs added to the overall picture.

Without once setting out to be, or simply becoming an instrumental album that pays to tribute to the bird calls, erotic moaning and jungle percussive sounds that make all your Les Baxter/Martin Denny/Robert Drasnin/Arthur Lyman albums so fantastic and essential, Tales From The Tiki Lounge reveals the spirit, mood and world of this genre, and brings the blues, jazz, Latin genres and even soundtrackish elements into the fold. The very same musical elements that the above Tiki giants also were doubtlessly weaned on and fans of themselves.

This highly recommended release is available on Blue Duchess Records through Duke Robillard's official website or for speedy downloading through Amazon.

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Broken Bones and Superheroes

Today is a momentous day.

As you are reading this, I am getting my cast chopped off. It was my first ever cast and I hope my last. I made it all the way to age thirty without breaking a bone, but on December 14th, 2009, that changed.

While walking my dog before heading to work I slipped on a sheet of black ice and managed to break my ankle while at the same time dislocating my kneecap. I ended up laying on the slippery pavement with Ruby licking my face.

Not my finest moment.


I spent the morning in the emergency room, then had to drag myself up the three flights of stairs on my ass using my arms to try and pull myself up. It's 27 steps but who's counting?

I was lucky enough to have the amazing support of my employers, co-workers, friends, husband, and my amazing mother and father in law, who were both with me at various points during that day which made it much easier. Without their help Jesse and I probably would have freaked out in one way or another. There's something very reassuring about having parents around in situations like that.


When you have something like that happen to you it make you stop and think about what is most important. My husband. Work. My dog. Our health. It also makes a girl wish for better day time television, but during that week I've never been happier to have all of the premium channels. I also decided living on the third floor really, REALLY sucks when you can't walk up them.

In general, many of my priorities have shifted over time, as have those of my husband. A big shift has been our desire to buy our first home. I've been managing to squirrel away some money into savings which we started with our wedding gifts of cash. I guess it's a natural transition in life, but my husband has taken that desire and done something that I never expected.

My husband, the constant action figure collector, is selling off action figures. Yes, you read that right; Jesse Moos is selling off action figures. I'd dare say that he has become an ebay master when it comes to selling. As you can imagine, he has been great at buying for quite some time. He's managed to sell roughly $1,200 worth of figures and comics that has been stashed in bins.

Never once in my life did I think my husband would sell off ANY action figures.

Jesse loves action figures a lot, though I know he loves me a little more. I think. He has a surplus of figures in storage and he finally came to the conclusion that some of them wouldn't be displayed again and that our future was more important than duplicate figures that were in storage.

Not Jeese's Collection

Seriously, how many Batmans does a guy need?!? Please don't answer if you're going to talk about points of articulation and variants.

Marriage is full of positive surprises, and this surprise has caught me off guard and I'm thrilled. I love Jesse's passion for collecting, but I also don't want it to take over the basement at his mother's house.

I'd love to instead have our own house filled with action figures.

If you're looking for an action figure for your collection, please email Jesse: devonandjesse@gmail.com

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The Time Capsule

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The Griswolds Return in HOTEL HELL VACATION Mini-Movie

Could a new film be on the horizon?

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THE THING Remake Casts Two Leads

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton will star in Universal's remake of The Thing, based on the 1938 short story, "Who Goes There?" and made twice previously as a film, in 1951's The Thing From Another World, directed by Howard Hawks and 1982's John Carpenter's The Thing, starring Kurt Russell.

The latest film will be directed by Matthijs Van Heijningen with a screenplay by Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer.

According to article, in this incarnation, "Winstead will play a Ph.D. candidate who joins a Norwegian research team in Antarctica after it discovers an alien ship in the ice. When a trapped organism is freed and begins a series of attacks, she is forced to team with a blue-collar mercenary helicopter pilot (Edgerton) to stop the rampage."

It's going to have to be a pretty impressive interpretation to win over the fanatic fan base of Carpenter's film.



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CAPTAIN AMERICA Details Revealed!

Director Joe Johnston must not be too enthusiastic about his latest film, The Wolfman, as he's spent most of the weekend talking to journalists about his next project, The First Avenger: Captain America.

Among the tidbits that have made their way to the web:

• The Invaders, a WW2 team of superheroes will appear in the entire second half of the film. The team will consist of 6 members (Cap, Bucky, Union Jack, Human Torch and Namor?)

• An American actor will play Captain America (sorry, Worthington). Ideally, a complete unknown will be cast. 5 or 6 guys between 23 and 32 will be tested. Chuck's Captain Awesome, Ryan McPartlin has auditioned for the part (and since Mark Valley is 46, it looks like he's not strapping on the shield). Casting will be completed by March 1, 2010.

• The Red Skull will be the film's villain.

• The film will shoot in the UK and in HD.

• The costume will initially be similar to the original Jack Kirby design. At least initially.

According to Johnston, "The costume is a flag, but the way we're getting around that is we have Steve Rogers forced into the USO circuit. After he's made into this super-soldier, they decide they can't send him into combat and risk him getting killed. He's the only one and they can't make more. So they say, 'You're going to be in this USO show' and they give him a flag suit. He can't wait to get out of it. So he's up on stage doing songs and dances with chorus girls and he can't wait to get out and really fight. When he does go AWOL, he covers up the suit but then, after a few things happen, he realizes that this uniform allows him to lead. By then, he's become a star in the public mind and a symbol. The guys get behind him because he embodies something special."

Later as Captain America enters the war, he will wear a more muted, combat ready version of the uniform. "He realizes the value of the uniform symbols but he modifies his suit and adds some armor, it will be closer to the Cap costume in some of the comics in more recent years . . . this approach, it's the only way we could justify ever seeing him on a screen in tights, with the funny boots and everything. The government essentially puts him up there as a living comic-book character and he rips it off and then reclaims some of its imagery after he recognizes the value of it. We think it's the best way to keep the costume and explain it at the same time."

The First Avenger: Captain America will storm theaters on July 22, 2011

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When Did Hell Freeze Over? Dave, Jay and Oprah Enjoy The Game Together.

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CENTRAL DIVISION Brings Original Police Procedural Content to the Web

I love well produced web content.

To me, it represents the future of serialized entertainment, devoid of the corporate development process that in many ways limits the creativity of artists.

Aleem Hossain's Central Division is a gritty police procedural series set in the downtown precinct of the LAPD, and well worth checking out.

Watch the first episode below and check out Central Division's official site, HERE.


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WHAT IF? Tarantino, Lynch, Anderson, Godard and Herzog Directed The SUPER BOWL?

I am not a sports fan in any way, shape or form. However, if any of these folks directed the big game, I'd probably watch.




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GEEK SCREENING ROOM presents ALLIGATOR

The best of the Jaws ripoffs, Alligator was directed by Lewis Teague (who also directed Navy SEALS and Cujo) and written by multiple Academy Award nominee John Sayles.

The plot focuses on a giant mutant alligator that lives in the sewers of Chicago, attacking workers and then smashes itself to the surface, beginning a reign of terror.

Robert Forster leads the cast as the cop who's out to prove the urban legend's validity.

The film spawned a sequel (in name only) eleven years later.

As for the oft-malfunctioning animatronic alligator that was used in the film? It was later donated to the Miami Gators as a team mascot.

Produced by Brandon Chase
Written by John Sayles
Directed by Lewis Teague
Starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker



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REACH Reunites James Cameron With ALIENS' Paxton, Henrickson, Goldstein, Reiser

But, it happened in 1988 with Bill Paxton's band, Martini Ranch. Cameron directed his only music video for the song, Reach. The video is full of cameos including director
Kathryn Bigelow,Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser,Jenette Goldstein, Judge Reinhold, and Adrian Pasdar.



After the jump, check out Paxton's 1979 directorial opus, the music video for Fish Heads, by the band, Barnes and Barnes.




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Friday Video-A-Go-Go!

The Trashmen "Surfin' Bird"

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Do You Like Me? Check Yes or No: In Memory of the Locker Note

(Int. Day-High School Hallway circa 1989)

A chubby-but-still-cute, Winona Ryder-ish girl clings to the hallway walls waiting for the mass of student bodies to clear out. Pretending to look for something inside her messenger bag, she goes unnoticed. It’s too bad; she really is cute in that awkward, Lucas kind of way. People murmur about the upcoming football game and homecoming dance. A knife pierces chubby’s heart. She has no choice but to go through with it.

When the pathway clears, she walks toward the specific locker that she has stalked for weeks. In her hand is a flattened and folded piece of paper that contains every bit of her soul. Somewhere, down around the fourth paragraph, is a poem she wrote that proclaims her love. At the end of the note is a dark inked line that can be cut away. Underneath it is one question and two little boxes; one marked yes, the other, no. The question contains four, one-syllable words that can change the course of chubby’s life:

Do you like me?


She takes a final look around before feeding the note through the vent opening of the locker – just far enough so that it will catch the locker owner’s eye the next time he grabs a book for class, but not too far, or it might drop down into the vast piles of trash and be lost forever. There is an art to the insertion, and she has practiced enough with friends to know how much force it will take.

Once in, she leaves. The deed is done. There is a moment on her way to math class when the sudden need to vomit overtakes her, and she has to stop and steady herself against the exit door. When the nausea passes, she continues on her journey.

By the afternoon she will know her answer.

(Ext. Football stadium bleachers-Lunch Break)

Chubby is smoking a stolen Tareyton cigarette out of a pack she had palmed from her mother’s carton. There are people milling around. Some are making out to Milli Vanilli’s Girl You Know It’s True blasting from a boom box, others are downing cans of Jolt Cola mixed with crushed up tablets of No-Doze.

Chubby inhales deeply from her cigarette, even though she’s not sure she is doing it correctly. It doesn’t really matter; it looks cool. From below she spots her lockermate, who waves at her. In her hand is a note. Chubby’s heart leaps into her throat. Already? she thinks. Her lockermate rushes up the bleacher steps and hands her the note.

“It’s not from him. It’s from Michelle,” she says out-of-breath.

Chubby unfolds the note; scrawled in shaky handwriting, Michelle writes, “He has read the note and I didn’t see him laugh or gag.”

Michelle has done well. With all notes of importance (like the one chubby wrote to loverboy) there needs to be scouts on lookout at all times. Body language needs to be documented. Facial twitches and verbal cadence must be noted at once. The lines of communication are swift.

Chubby quickly adds a line to the note and hands it to her lockermate.

“Give this to Sarah. She’ll know what to do,” Chubby says.

Lockermate takes off toward the school. Her job is fixed today as Pony Express. Tomorrow the roles will reverse, when she stuffs her own note into a locker. These are the rules that have been in place since the first girl handed the first note to a boy. The tradition must be upheld.

(Int. Study Hall-1:30)

A table is filled with the murmurs of young teenage girls. Some boys sitting at the next table try to lean in closer, hoping to overhear something. It is their belief that when girls get together and whisper they are talking about sex, and these boys want to verify it. Unfortunately, the girls know that the boys think this and speak in code to confuse them.

But that is another story.

In the corner a small but intense group begins to go over every minute detail of today’s events, to prepare for the note’s answer. One girl has heard from another girl who knows the guy who sits next to loverboy in English that he had checked one of the boxes and has also added a few sentences of his own. This sounds promising to the group. One girl questions the reliability of the information. Can the chain of info be validated by another source? Chubby motions to a male friend, and he comes to the table. He is in the same English class as loverboy and sits behind him. The boy verifies that the note was, in fact, answered. Chubby dismisses the boy and returns to the discussion at the table. The boy wishes that just once Chubby would pay attention to him. He returns to his seat and pouts.

(Int. Hallway-Chubby’s locker-3:00pm)

A small crowd gathers around the locker. The anticipation is palpable. The taller girls try to look in the vent for any tell-tale signs of paper. One of them thinks she sees a corner stuck in it. Another girl, unable to contain her excitement any longer, coos like a pigeon.

Chubby unlocks the locker and opens the door inch by inch. She spies a small square of notebook paper hanging delicately from the vent. Pulling it free, she unfolds it, her eyes falling directly to the Yes box. It is unchecked. Her heart breaks. She glances to the dreaded No box. It too remains blank. Chubby is confused. Is this a joke? No one would return a note without checking a box.

“ON THE BACK! LOOK ON THE BACK!” screams pigeon girl.

Chubby turns over the paper. Scrawled in blue-black Bic pen is the following: “I can’t answer this because I don’t know who you are. Maybe we can run into each other at the football game and get to know each other.”

A note inside a note. It is the ultimate. The group of girls erupt into primal barks of approval. Today has gone well for one of their own. It is time to celebrate with sugar and chocolate.

Chubby re-folds the note and slips it into her bra for safe-keeping and closes the locker for the day.

Heading out of the school with her friends, she feels joy and peace for the first time in hours. She will cherish this moment forever. From behind her another group of girls have gathered around a locker, hoping a note will be present for their friend.

And on it goes, from group to group, from school to school.

That is, until the advent of IM.
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New Red Band COP OUT Trailer Actually Looks Funny

Thoughts?

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