wing'ed monkeys

[Ian Young]

Greg 

> Of course, for real preteen nightmare fodder, "Willy Wonka" gets my vote.
 

Oh, my...then you would have really enjoyed the most recent showing I saw
of this movie.

It was an outdoor showing on a summer evening, where everyone laid out in
this field under the stars, as this sweet, adorable movie was shown on the
side of a building.  Lots of parents, lots of kids, lots of people in
between smoking dope and getting boozed up.  Anyway it was all a very
lovely evening, right up until the scene where Willy Wonka opens the doors
into his amazing candyland.  Best part of the movie, right?  Not in this
case.

Just a few blocks to the west of where the movie was showing, there's a
fish cannery.  I swear, at just the moment Willy threw open that door, a
processing boat dumped a couple tons of chum and dogfish, and the breeze
carried it softly up the hill and over the audience.  It was quite a
stunning moment of collective cognitive dissonance -- beautiful, colorful,
delicious candy...coupled with the foul stench of fish guts.  It's a scene
that I'll remember fondly for years.

Gone again,
Ian