{"id":262,"date":"2006-09-21T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T17:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2006-09-21T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T17:21:30","slug":"weve-gone-plaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Gone Plaid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/spaceballs.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>When we both lived in Seattle, my friend Jeff and I would get together on a regular basis, usually at his apartment, for TV watching and Cheetoh eating. Because he had a huge, high-def TV, anything we watched was entertaining. Shit, the news was even good, because in high-def, <a href=\"http:\/\/komotv.com\/people\/dan_lewis.asp\">Dan Lewis&#8217; <\/a>hair is hilarious.  <\/p>\n<p>Usually though, we&#8217;d end up watching a movie. I can&#8217;t even tell you how many times I&#8217;d get to his place, we&#8217;d eat so much Chinese food we wanted to die, and I&#8217;d beg him to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0266543\/\">Finding Nemo<\/a>. Together, we&#8217;ve probably seen that movie 15 times. (I won&#8217;t even tell you how many times I&#8217;ve seen it with other people or alone. What can I say? I love Dori.)<\/p>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t Nemo though, because even sweet little Jeff got sick of that movie, we&#8217;d watch some other beautiful disaster, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082348\/\">Excaliber<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091203\/\">Highlander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On more than once occasion though, we&#8217;d resort to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094012\/\">Spaceballs<\/a>. I saw it a hundred times as a kid, but it wasn&#8217;t until I was fully grown that I could appreciate all of the homages (if you can call them that) this film contained. Though, I have to admit, the John Candy character was a lot funnier when I was young. <\/p>\n<p>Jeff and I would put that movie on, laugh at the good parts and talk about our dismal dating lives during the slow ones. It was the perfect movie for us. <\/p>\n<p>Not long after I moved to Portland, Jeff moved back to Boise. I haven&#8217;t seen him since my going-away party in Seattle in March, and I miss those evenings of ridiculous movies, easy banter, and 10,000 calories. <\/p>\n<p>When I saw this morning that Mel Brooks is turning Spaceballs into a cartoon, I laughed out loud at the idea of going to Jeff&#8217;s apartment, eating junk food, and watching DVRed episodes together. Then I got a little teary when I remembered that&#8217;s not really a possibility. Unless one of use gets a jet sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffy, I guess we&#8217;ll just have to turn on the cartoon and call each other. I&#8217;ll order kung pao chicken here, you get walnut shrimp there (can you get walnut shrimp in a landlocked state?) and we&#8217;ll jabber on and on about exes, dating, and how brilliant Daphne Zuniga is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/09\/21\/television.brooks.reut\/index.html\">&#8216;Spaceballs&#8217; to become TV cartoon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we both lived in Seattle, my friend Jeff and I would get together on a regular basis, usually at his apartment, for TV watching and Cheetoh eating. Because he had a huge, high-def TV, anything we watched was entertaining. Shit, the news was even good, because in high-def, Dan Lewis&#8217; hair is hilarious. Usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}