“Hot Fuzz” is finally opening here…yay!!!! watch “Spaced” and “Shaun of the Dead” to appreciate this movie…actually I haven’t even seen it yet….So I’ll report later.

Another follow up conversation as recorded by Kat. If anyone actually read my version of this conversation it was about 1 sentence, but much more entertaining here…I do have to dispute that Dad came up with Jack the Ripper…that one was mine first. Keep reading for gloating below…

vladi asks us if we could come up with a black guy named “jack.”

vladi: “i bet you can’t think of a black guy named jack. there are NO black guys named jack.”

squires: “jackie joyce kerner. jackie owens.”

vladi: “that’s jackie. not jack.”

squires: “jack johnson.”

vladi: “he’s hawaiian.”

dad: “jack the ripper. michael jackson.”

me: “michael jackson’s white.”

dad: “oh yeah. you’re right.”

squires: “jack and the beanstalk.”

dad: “who? oh yeah…the guy that climbed the beanstalk. who the **** (edited for the yanks-jjs) would do that?”

squires: “he traded in his cow for five beans.”

me: “it wasn’t a cow…!”

squires: “yeah it was. a cow. he took the cow to town.”

me: (laughing) “he took the cow to town?”

squires: “he did. and he traded in the cow for five beans.”

me: “they were three beans.”

squires: “matt! jack and the beanstalk. he took the cow into town and traded in the cow for five beans.”

matt: “yeah. for three beans.”

me: “see? three beans, squires.”

i have no idea why that conversation even progressed the way it did.

squires: “jack daniels.”

dad: (laughing) “yeah.”

uncle tony: “jack dempsey. the black boxer.”

there you go. a black guy named jack.

Joe-  NOW for a little gloating on my part…Jack Johnson was black and I came up with it. Here’s his pic.

Jack Dempsey (uncle Tony’s supposed right answer) is white (below – I wish I had hair like that dude) – I once uttered the phrase ‘ When I’m president I’m gonna kill whitey” AND “I’ll celebrate thanksgiving when we move all the white people to North Dakota” AND “All white people to North Dakota please”…OK maybe I’m rambling at this point…

Also found this summary of a jack and the beanstalk movie on amazon.com…Please note people that in this version Jack traded 5 magic beans for is cow…However I do admit that the movie could quite possibly have changed the story at will.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK is a fine installment in the FAERIE TALE THEATRE series, though it’s hardly one of the best. Dennis Christopher leads the cast as the young lad with big dreams and a handful of magic beans.

Jack (Dennis Christopher) lives with his loving-but frazzled mother (SOAP’s Katherine Helmond) in near poverty. The only thing left of value for them to sell is Jack’s beloved cow Spot. Reluctantly, Jack sets off to market with the cow when he meets a strange old man who offers him 5 magic beans in exchange for the animal. When Jack returns home, his mother chides him for his foolishness and the beans are tossed outside…where they sprout into an enormous beanstalk that leads to a castle in the sky owned by an evil Giant (Elliott Gould). Jack’s adventures have only just begun!

Jean Stapleton and Mark Blankfield fill out the cast. Katherine Helmond is wasted in the role of Jack’s mother, though Jean Stapleton makes the role of the disgruntled Giantess into a scene-stealer. Jerry Hall briefly appears as the face inside the magical harp.

I really don’t care about being right or not, but I get no respect…:)  No really I don’t care about being right…really

CCR’s “Long as I can see the light” just came on and since this is going to be the longest blog entry ever (because of me pasting stuff) I’m just going to put the lyrics in…
Nor sure why but I’ve always loved this song…
Can anyone define what a home really is?

Put a candle in the window, cause I feel Ive got to move.
Though Im going, going, Ill be coming home soon,
long as I can see the light.

Pack my bag and lets get movin, cause Im bound to drift a while.
When Im gone, gone, you dont have to worry long,
long as I can see the light.

Guess Ive got that old travlin bone, cause this feelin wont leave me alone.
But I wont, wont be losin my way, no, no
long as I can see the light.

Yeah! yeah! yeah! oh, yeah!

Put a candle in the window, cause I feel Ive got to move.
Though Im going, going, Ill be coming home soon,
Long as I can see the light.