I can only offer the explanation that, er, ah! Yes, Edna - Edna. It's all her fault*. She was in the Upstairs Lair, mooching at first then standing whining next to me.
"You can't sit on my lap," I explained. "This stool ensures humans sitting on it have no lap. No lap-sitting!"
I may have gotten the point across, but I should have been typing "Duplication", not "Duplicity", which means being two-faced, lying and shifty.
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| Duplex city. Close enough. |
Duplication In Cinema
It's an odd thing that at times, different studios will be putting out films with similar themes. Yesterday Conrad mentioned both "The Bells Go Down" and "Fires Were Started", both films about the Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz, both made in 1943. Curious, eh?
Here An Aside
I am excluding anything made by The Asylum in this particular article, because they
deliberately set out to parallel major films under production, getting their DTV
product out shortly before the other, bigger film is released. Typically, an Asylum
film has a budget of under $1 million and breaks even in three months. I don't feel
like criticising them; they've been around for 17 years, so their business model works,
and who can fail to smile at titles such as "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus" , "Sharknado"
or "Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies"?
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| A classic for the ages! |
What do we have here? Two films about vampires released in the same year? This, gentle reader, was before the Vampire-As-Sexy-Emo-Superhero trope of film or (especially!) television series turned up (True Blood my gunsight is on you!).
Dracula
Well well, who do we have here? Frank Langella, who cropped up in a Condensed
Film as the "Frank" of "Robot and Frank". Script by - W.D. Richter, whom you will
know as the unbridled genius behind Buckaroo Banzai**.
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| Is he wearing a dress! Hmm. No. Doesn't really work. Terror not being inspired |
So, it is set in England in 1913 rather than spread across Europe in 1885. Ladies seem
to like it more than men, for some reason that escapes Conrad. Oh, and you will also
see Sylvester McCoy!
Love At First Bite
Conrad confesses - he's not seen this one. It scores in the middle-range at IMDB and
seems to spoof vampire and New York films affably enough.
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| Do you see what they did with the lettering? See, they're like fangs, and - Oh. You do. |
Excuse me - Conrad needs to go get his second pot of tea of the day on the go. Man cannot live by bread alone, and an aspiring blogger needs to fuel-up on tea!
- and we're back, Conrad having realised why his stomach made strange noises, and then Edna needed a walk before it started raining again, and the kids (Dogsitter and Mr. Howl) needed a bit of coaching whilst trying to make their Giant Cookie.
Apropos Of The Walk
The council are replacing old street lights with new ones, necessitating a big hole dug behind each old standard. These have been left until Whenever, at which date they'll get refilled. One hopes. So there are about 20 of these:
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| Double standards! Get it? There are two lamp stan- Oh. You do |
Camouflaging Your Cat
I apologise for missing this camouflage from yesterdays list of How To Entrap And Laser-Disintegrate Burglars.
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| Jenny, disguised as Edna |
- whilst this one is useful, but only if they get as far as your bathroom:
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| Compact and handy disguise. Probably makes the eyes smart, though |
You recall, gentle reader - that is, if you read yesterday's blog, which you most certainly did, didn't you? - about the miraculous escape from injury of a wine bottle, a glass, a glass teapot and a glass chopping-board. Conrad predicted that something good happening would be balanced by something bad. Here is that something along with agent of fate responsible:
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| "Puny human! Chuck me out and leave me there for five minutes? REVENGE IS SWEET!" |
Finally
Spicy Beef and Bean Casserole, doing in the slow-cooker:
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| Just to confuse you, there's carrot and sweet potato in there. Ha! |
No! Instead, have a look at the inside of a cricket ball
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| You're welcome |
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