I’ll Ride Behind it on the Vincent Black Shadow

Mike has just gotten off the plane in Fort Lauderdale, so he’ll be here in an hour, and soon afterward, we will be hitting El Exquisito for a Cuban feast. I’ve been messing with domain issues all morning, so I haven’t eaten much of anything. I am READY.

Mike is a great guy to dine with, because he is one hundred percent enthusiasm. Even at Man Camp, I sometimes hear whiny things like, “Are you really going to eat that?” With Mike, you never have that problem. Mike understands.

I can’t wait to see An American Carol. It has occurred to me that David Zucker and the Friends of Abe might be the beginnings of an entertainment homologue to Fox News.

When Fox arrived on the scene, it had no competition. Conservatives were nearly invisible on news channels. You know how it was. You’d see one liberal after another, and then, to appear fair, they’d wheel Bob Novak out in a cage, and people would poke him with sticks. And Fox took the lead! Because it had the best programming? No, sorry, I wish I could say so. They do a lot of solid work on the other stations. The reason is the cultural difference. Centrists and conservatives can watch Fox without feeling like they’re under attack by lying weasels.

Right now, it’s tough to find movies that don’t reflect the amoral, America-hating coastal culture. It may be that there is a pent-up, unsatisfied desire for entertainment people who aren’t effete socialists can watch. If that’s the case, An American Carol will succeed, even if it’s merely okay. If it’s really good, it could be a monster hit.

I’d kill to work with these people. I wish they had been around twenty years ago. I would have moved to California and slept in the gutter in front of David Zucker’s house to get an interview.

These days I wouldn’t move to California unless the alternative was being boiled alive.

By the way, Christopher Walken hasn’t blogged yet today, but he is awake and full of Bosco and responding to comments. If you haven’t read his blog yet, you are already into him for a thou. And the juice started running in July.