Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for May 02, 2010
May 01, 2010
May 03, 2010
Transcript:
Adam: Hey, son. Iron Man 2 is coming out on Friday. Clayton: Why do I care? You wouldn't let me see the first one. Adam: But if you'll remember, I told you all about it. I even did sound effects. Clayton: Oh, yeah. How could I forget that? Adam: What I like about Iron Man is that he has no unearned superpowers...just his genius and bravery. Genius and bravery. ...Genius...and...bravery... Clayton: Oh, whoops! I missed my cue. Ahem... Father, please tell me (again) the story of how you figured out where wiper fluid goes in the minivan? Adam: It was a dark and dusty night...
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
I thought that’s what he is doing. Not very thoughtful, Adam.
cleokaya over 14 years ago
Wiper fluid man…keeping your windows squeaky clean, one day at a time.
dante.deangelo over 14 years ago
@cleokaya That made me laugh , so did the take off on a “dark and stormy” night.
mrslukeskywalker over 14 years ago
That’s how I heard about Trilogy of Terror and The Exorcist, and Rosemary’s Baby when I was a kid!
We didn’t even have VHS back then. Imagining it was scarier than when I actually saw them, and was disappointed by the real things.
Now, Clayton can go watch it on the computer if he hasn’t already, and nobody would ever know.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
“Trilogy of Terror” was actually a made-for-TV movie, and therefore there wasn’t the expectation that kids couldn’t see it, although I’m sure there were plenty of “Viewer Discretion Advised” warnings at the beginning and every commercial break (which is a sure way to make kids WANT to watch it, if Mom and Dad aren’t in the room). I don’t know your age, MrsLuke, but I’m always surprised how many of my generation managed to see it as kids (I was 10 myself, in 1975), and how many vividly recall the experience now. I’m sure it left scars on all our fragile little minds… :-)
mrslukeskywalker over 14 years ago
Fritzoid, I was 10 too. My parents went on one of few vacations they ever took, and my Grandparents stayed with us. My parents said we couldn’t watch it, but my Grandmother watched it and told it to me as a story, which ended up being so much better than the real thing when I saw it years later, because it didn’t re-air for years. Everyone on the schoolbus saw it, but me. Nanny’s reenactment was better, especially about the statue.
Her and I would also play checkers at her house, and watch Creature Features and Chiller Theatre all day on the weekend. She was cool.
The 60’s and 70’s produced a LOT of great devil and witch and other supernatural horror movies that were made for TV. I wonder what happened to them. They were better than the junk we have now. Remember Blood On Satan’s Claw? They let me watch that though. We went on a field trip to Sturbridge Village, a working colonial town, park kind of thing, the day I saw it, and it was raining. Then I saw the colonial town devil movie. It was the perfect set up.