April 2011
8 posts
Morning Glory (and 28 Grams of Nutmeg)
After an on air freak-out by a speed addled anchor of a morning show, the producer realizes talent plied with, addicted to and withdrawing from various drugs and narcotics makes for great television, leading to overhaul their talent pool with a tweaker weatherman, a cooking segment with a heroin addict, a roving reporter continually on acid, reporting from inside his own mind, and two anchors who...
The Alabama Bus Transfer
An Alan Lomax style documentary where two etymology grad students travel the American South in search of the origins of various disgusting sex acts, like the Alabama bus transfer, or the muddy rooster, the glass bottom boat, the angry dragon, the jelly donut, the Houdini, a one-tusked walrus, the rusty Trombone, the Abe Lincoln, the Tony Danza, two girls one Stanley cup, the hot lunch,...
Imma Do Me
One woman’s courageous attempt to introduce acceptable female masturbation practices to the urban community.
Murray
Remake of Cujo, where a black family lock themselves in their car, under attack from a geriatric Walmart greeter convinced they’re there to steal stuff.
The Briefest of Hustles
A con woman manages to hustle his way into law firm posing as a former partner returned from an extended absence who no one remembers, and gets by asking interns, temps and prospective hires to do her work for her. Eventually she winds up “interviewing” a candidate that writes an entire paragraph about how the con is getting the attorney, as a potential hire, to write a brief for her,...
Green Is the Color of My True Love's Heart
The story of a young girl in Appalachia in the 1880s, having made the trip from the highlands of Scotland, waits at her cousin’s home for her fiancée, making the crosser later that year. After a weird summer of alternating droughts and floods, she receives word the ship has come in, with no one on board alive. The family prepares a memorial, though it is sparsely attended since no one knew...
A Sound of Thundarr
A runaway planet hurtles through the solar system, eventually causing the whole thing to collapse into the sun, generating a black hole, into which the planet earth is pulled. Inexplicably, the planet is crapped out the black hole two thousand years in the future, where savagery, super science and sorcery reign, so basically the plot to Thundarr the Barbarian, except this time, Ookla the Mok is...
Swing!
A shot for shot, line by line remake of “Swingers, but with gay dudes.