I’ve got the flu. It always feels funny for a qu�b�cois francophone to say that publicly. It started with fever, muscle ache, sore throat and now it’s moving up and if you hear a strange sound as you read this, it’s because my head just exploded. Yawn. There’s nothing more boring than a sick post.
Things wouldn’t be so bad if I could just get that freakin song « It’s hard out here for a pimp » out of my head. God. Make it stop.
On other exciting news, I just looked out the window and saw The Mini eating the nuts I left out this morning for the squirrels. With the way he climbs trees and growls, I think he might have been raised by them.
Hey, that could make a nice screenplay! The mother of a little black kitten dies and a street gang of squirrels adopt him. He grows up amongst them but soon leaves the squirrels’ nest and finds a couple of human suckers to take him in.
The cross species relationship evolves well until the humans end up hunting down the leader of the squirrel gang because he is chewing on the cedar shingles (what he’s really trying to do is make a hole in the house to free the black cat from human oppression).
The movie would be touching and tragic and could be played by an ensemble cast of Hollywood stars in metaphorical squirrel and cat costumes, showing us how everybody should just get along, no matter the size and shape of their tails (kind of like Crash but without Sandra Bullock, please). What a tearjerker it would be. I’d probably win an Oscar and I’d dedicate it to all the SPCA workers who do their jobs without every getting the spotlight on them (though they do get a lot of fleas).
Forgive me. It must be the fever.
Je pr�f�rerais que se soit un film asiatique, que les �cureuils soient captur�s et rotis � la broche. �a remplacerais le poulet victime de la grippe…
I meant to post this earlier commenting on other squirrel related activities, but hopefully it will cheer you now while you’re convalescing.
Years ago the BBC aired a program called « Daylight Robbery ». The premise of which was to gauge just how smart squirrels were by constructing a massive obstacle course in someones garden, dumping a load of peanuts at one end, and seeing how long it took the squirrels to solve it. It was such a success they did it again in « Daylight Robbery II » this time with an even more fiendish maze.
I’ve only been able to find some video only, low quality, Real Media streams, but enjoy the squirels and get well soon *:)
I hope your film is done in animation, and not with real animals goaded with electric shocks, or however they did « The Adventures of Chatran. »
Mind you, my own cat was transfixed by that movie. I think it was all the mewing, and little animals moving quickly. A lot like Cat TV.
Garrett: unbelievable! It’s like the olympics for squirrels! Ed said they must have put crack in those peanuts! You gave him ideas now: he wants to set up an obstacle course in our backyard. Maybe we could charge people to come and watch.
By the way, laughing makes me cough more! :-(
You’ve just conceptualized an animated film better than most of the crap that’s out there.
You may think it’s just a silly fever-induced idea but I’d pay $10 to see it.
Je croyais que les Aventures de Chatran s’intitulait Milo and Otis dans la langue de Shake(Britney)speare’s? Et c’est vrai cette histoire de chocs �lectriques? Je ne peux pas supporter qu’on d�boulonne un des films marquants de mon… euh, bon j’avais 16 ans quand je l’ai vu mais j’adore les carlins…
Have you seen Charlie & the Chocolate Factory? They trained 40 squirrels to do the Veruca Salt scene in the film.
Your squirrel film sounds much less contrived than CRASH. I’m with Paolo on this one.