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Phaqe News
News that's fake and doesn't pretend to be real. It starts out with an announcer saying..."This is Phaqe News with Sherry Newsreader...Sherry is at her news desk. With every *** she turns from one camera to the next.
(Sherry) "Good evening. Our top stories; Unemployment is up, stock markets are down, crime is up and the housing market is about to collapse. So what does all this mean? If you think you know the answer, give us a call, because none of us at the station have a clue." *** "Do you hate your job? If your answer was yes, then you're not alone. I hate my job too." *** (with a stern look on her face) "Remember Frank Bowan, the man who shot his wife in the head six times, chopped up her body and set it on fire, who then had the gall to claim it was suicide?" (then her face brightens) "Well it worked, today he was acquitted of all charges." *** "Yesterday, we reported a young attractive high school teacher was having sex with one of her equally attractive students. Well it seems we were wrong on that. Both the teacher and her student are quite ugly." *** "Fallout continues in the shooting death of an African American man by the local police department. The police chief addressed the press about their concerns of racism in the department and why the man had been shot 153 times. He defended his departments' record and reminded the press that one of the officers at the scene happened to be African American and that they, quote, "only shot that officer ten times", end quote." *** "Authorities are not sure when it happened or where it happened, mainly because they're not sure what happened. And because they are not sure what happened, they can't even be sure why it happened. The authorities are confident however, once they do find out when and where it happened, they'll know what happened. They cautioned however, even if they do find out what happened, they may never know why it happened."
"A local restaurant is under investigation after one of its' employees claimed that one of the items on the menu, 'Leftover Soup', was nothing more than warmed up toilet water and whatever was floating in it at the time. The restaurant removed the item from its' menu but that did little to comfort many long time customers who expressed both shock and disappointment, since 'Leftover Soup' was the only item on the menu that didn't taste like sh#t." *** "Could there be a cancer cure around the corner? Just asking." *** "An explosion at a local factory left the building destroyed and the community in shock. The good news is that no one was killed and there were no reports of injuries, unless you consider a man shouting at the top of his lungs, "I can't find my f#ckin' arm!", a report."
"Tragedy at a town hall meeting today on gun violence. The trouble started when a gun control advocate stated that there needed to be stronger laws in place to restrict the number of guns in this country. A gun rights advocate countered by stating, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."...Then backed up his statement by whipping out his finger and shooting the gun control advocate dead." *** "A recent study seems to suggest that an earlier study wasn't done as recently as the recent study. Critics of the study say that the company that conducted the study, 'Study Research', has been conducting the study for years and keeps coming to the same conclusion, requiring further studies. When contacted, a company spokesman denied that his company was doing this, but added, just to be on the safe side, someone should hire his company to do a study on it." *** "A recent poll on teenage girls and pregnancy found that 60% would carry the baby to full term, 23% would have an abortion and an alarming 17% would get pregnant just so they could have an abortion. Alarming because I thought for sure that number would be higher."
News that's fake and doesn't pretend to be real. It starts out with an announcer saying..."This is Phaqe News with Sherry Newsreader...Sherry is at her news desk. With every *** she turns from one camera to the next.
(Sherry) "Good evening. Our top stories; Unemployment is up, stock markets are down, crime is up and the housing market is about to collapse. So what does all this mean? If you think you know the answer, give us a call, because none of us at the station have a clue." *** "Do you hate your job? If your answer was yes, then you're not alone. I hate my job too." *** (with a stern look on her face) "Remember Frank Bowan, the man who shot his wife in the head six times, chopped up her body and set it on fire, who then had the gall to claim it was suicide?" (then her face brightens) "Well it worked, today he was acquitted of all charges." *** "Yesterday, we reported a young attractive high school teacher was having sex with one of her equally attractive students. Well it seems we were wrong on that. Both the teacher and her student are quite ugly." *** "Fallout continues in the shooting death of an African American man by the local police department. The police chief addressed the press about their concerns of racism in the department and why the man had been shot 153 times. He defended his departments' record and reminded the press that one of the officers at the scene happened to be African American and that they, quote, "only shot that officer ten times", end quote." *** "Authorities are not sure when it happened or where it happened, mainly because they're not sure what happened. And because they are not sure what happened, they can't even be sure why it happened. The authorities are confident however, once they do find out when and where it happened, they'll know what happened. They cautioned however, even if they do find out what happened, they may never know why it happened."
"A local restaurant is under investigation after one of its' employees claimed that one of the items on the menu, 'Leftover Soup', was nothing more than warmed up toilet water and whatever was floating in it at the time. The restaurant removed the item from its' menu but that did little to comfort many long time customers who expressed both shock and disappointment, since 'Leftover Soup' was the only item on the menu that didn't taste like sh#t." *** "Could there be a cancer cure around the corner? Just asking." *** "An explosion at a local factory left the building destroyed and the community in shock. The good news is that no one was killed and there were no reports of injuries, unless you consider a man shouting at the top of his lungs, "I can't find my f#ckin' arm!", a report."
"Tragedy at a town hall meeting today on gun violence. The trouble started when a gun control advocate stated that there needed to be stronger laws in place to restrict the number of guns in this country. A gun rights advocate countered by stating, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."...Then backed up his statement by whipping out his finger and shooting the gun control advocate dead." *** "A recent study seems to suggest that an earlier study wasn't done as recently as the recent study. Critics of the study say that the company that conducted the study, 'Study Research', has been conducting the study for years and keeps coming to the same conclusion, requiring further studies. When contacted, a company spokesman denied that his company was doing this, but added, just to be on the safe side, someone should hire his company to do a study on it." *** "A recent poll on teenage girls and pregnancy found that 60% would carry the baby to full term, 23% would have an abortion and an alarming 17% would get pregnant just so they could have an abortion. Alarming because I thought for sure that number would be higher."
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I rarely watch porn anymore because although I am really turned on by the actors, the plot is always super boring and the sex seems to always be the same. I prefer to read stories on Lush.Once in a blue moon, I'll find a great video that makes my imagination go wild for a few days. Or lately I find that a porn video might have one sexy clip in it but overall it is boring.
What is the best porn video you've seen that stood out to you?
Does anyone else love the idea of porn but often find themselves bored by it?
Share with me any related ideas to porn!
For plots, it's best to go with mainstream films that have sex in them. Some recommendations: Lie With Me...The Image...The Exterminating Angels...Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town...Confessions Of A Young American Housewife...Emanuelle In America...Emanuelle Around The World...Matinee...Porno...'Q' AKA Desire(Desire is the watered down version of Q)...Sex And Lucia...Who Killed Bambi?...Anatomy Of Hell...Romance...A Real Young Girl...Cheeky...The Voyeur...Private...(The European uncut versions of the two Emanuelle movies and Matinee and The Image and Anatomy Of Hell and A Real Young Girl have XXX scenes.)
Some XXX films with plots: Porno Holocaust...Exotic Malice...Thriller...Sex Stories...Infidelity(Sex Stories 2)...Pulsion...Through The Looking Glass...Every Woman Has A Fantasy...Brandi And Alexander...Love For $ale(girl/girl)...Wet Rainbow(girl/girl)
The Twilight Zone(comedy version)
This takes old episodes of the Twilight Zone and remaking them into comedies.Examples...We see a woman about to board a space ship for another planet when another woman comes running and shouting for the first woman to not get on board.She shouts..."The rest of the book,'To Eat Snatch',it's a cook book!
We see a pilot of an airliner talking to a passenger who claimed to have seen a man on the wing of the airplane.The pilot says..."Sir,we're thousands of feet in the air.No man could survive out there.I'm sure with all the lightning,maybe you just thought you saw something."...The man thinks about it for a while before nodding his head.The pilot taps him on the shoulder and is about to return to the cabin when a passenger across the aisle says..."Hey everyone!There's a beautiful naked woman on the wing!"...Everyone rushes over including the pilot who pushes his way through while shouting..."Let me see!Let me see!"
We see a gathering of men and women in a house and one little boy,as one of the men says to the others..."Will somebody please while I've got his attention,just bash his head in?"...Everyone stands around too afraid to do anything as the man's wife pleads with him to stop.The boy looks at the man and says..."You're a bad man!A very bad man!And you keep thinking bad thoughts about me!"...Then the boy points at him and the man's wife screams and faints as we see a shadow of something long and narrow bobbing back and forth...(Boy)"He was acting like a dildo so I turned him into one."(Boys father)"Wish it into the porn film.Please son,wish it into the porn film."...The boy nods his head and the dildo vanishes.Someone turns on the TV as we see two young women going at it when the dildo magically appears.They start using it on each other and really start getting into it when one of the women in the house leans near the boy and asks..."Can you wish me into the porn film too?"
The scene is a cafe as we see a male customer and a female server at the counter.The man orders a coffee and takes a sip.(Man to the server)"You know?This is really good.We don't have coffee where I come from."(Server)"No coffee?You must come from a long way.(Man)"You could say that."(He then pours sugar with one hand while stirring it with another and then brings out a third hand to put cream in it.(Man)"You see,we folks from Mars were looking for a place to colonize.Our advance scout thought your community was the perfect place for it."(The woman shows concern on her face)(Man)"Of course we won't have any use for you humans so we'll just have to find a way to get rid of you.I'm sure we can figure something out once my friends get here."(Woman)"Would you like some help with that?"(Man)"Excuse me?"(Woman)"Would you like some help with that?I mean getting rid of the humans."
(The woman starts to unbutton her shirt revealing her breasts which have two eyes where her nipples are supposed to be)(Woman)"You see,we folks from Venus were also looking for a place to colonize and our advance scout came to the same conclusion yours did.This is the perfect place to start a colony.Oh,by the way,your friends are not going to be showing up.We intercepted them.Of course we won't have any need for humans or Martians so we'll just have to figure out a way to get rid of you.I'm sure we can figure something out once my friends get here."(Then we hear another mans voice)"I'm afraid your friends won't be showing up either."
We see a man come out of the shadows wearing a hat..."You see,we folks from Uranus..."(He takes off his hat and we see he has a butt hole in the middle of his forehead)..."were also looking for a place to colonize and sent our own advance scout who came to same conclusion.This is the perfect place to start a colony.Of course we won't have any needs for humans,Martians or whatever you folks from Venus call yourselves.So we'll just have to figure out a way to get rid of you.I'm sure we can figure something out once my friends get here."(Then we hear another woman's voice)"I'm afraid your friends won't be showing up either."
(She comes out of the shadows as we see a beautiful woman dressed in a business outfit)"It's time to get a few things straight around here."(She begins to undress)"Venus didn't intercept Mars,we did.Which made it easy for us to intercept Venus while they were busy trying to intercept Mars."(She continues to undress)"Which in turn made it easy for us to intercept Uranus while they were running around in circles looking for Venus."(By this time she's completely nude)(Mars)"So what planet are you from?"(Woman)"Well duh,I'm from earth."(Venus)"So what gave us away?"(Woman)"Well Venus,Your advance scout tried to assimilate into earth society by working as a dancer in a topless nightclub."(Venus slaps her hand against her forehead)"Yeah,she pretty much blew her cover on the first night."
(Mars)"So what gave us away?"(Woman)"Well Mars,your advance scout was arrested for groping three woman at the same time,which is pretty hard to do if you only have two hands."(Mars slaps his forehead with all three hands)"I'm just messin' with you.We didn't even know about you until the advance scout from Venus tipped us off.Once we got her talking,she just wouldn't stop.Talk,talk,talk."(Mars looks angrily at Venus and flips her the bird with all three hands)(Uranus)"So what gave us away?"(Woman)"Well Uranus,your advance scout...There's just no delicate way to say this...He shit his hat."
This takes old episodes of the Twilight Zone and remaking them into comedies.Examples...We see a woman about to board a space ship for another planet when another woman comes running and shouting for the first woman to not get on board.She shouts..."The rest of the book,'To Eat Snatch',it's a cook book!
We see a pilot of an airliner talking to a passenger who claimed to have seen a man on the wing of the airplane.The pilot says..."Sir,we're thousands of feet in the air.No man could survive out there.I'm sure with all the lightning,maybe you just thought you saw something."...The man thinks about it for a while before nodding his head.The pilot taps him on the shoulder and is about to return to the cabin when a passenger across the aisle says..."Hey everyone!There's a beautiful naked woman on the wing!"...Everyone rushes over including the pilot who pushes his way through while shouting..."Let me see!Let me see!"
We see a gathering of men and women in a house and one little boy,as one of the men says to the others..."Will somebody please while I've got his attention,just bash his head in?"...Everyone stands around too afraid to do anything as the man's wife pleads with him to stop.The boy looks at the man and says..."You're a bad man!A very bad man!And you keep thinking bad thoughts about me!"...Then the boy points at him and the man's wife screams and faints as we see a shadow of something long and narrow bobbing back and forth...(Boy)"He was acting like a dildo so I turned him into one."(Boys father)"Wish it into the porn film.Please son,wish it into the porn film."...The boy nods his head and the dildo vanishes.Someone turns on the TV as we see two young women going at it when the dildo magically appears.They start using it on each other and really start getting into it when one of the women in the house leans near the boy and asks..."Can you wish me into the porn film too?"
The scene is a cafe as we see a male customer and a female server at the counter.The man orders a coffee and takes a sip.(Man to the server)"You know?This is really good.We don't have coffee where I come from."(Server)"No coffee?You must come from a long way.(Man)"You could say that."(He then pours sugar with one hand while stirring it with another and then brings out a third hand to put cream in it.(Man)"You see,we folks from Mars were looking for a place to colonize.Our advance scout thought your community was the perfect place for it."(The woman shows concern on her face)(Man)"Of course we won't have any use for you humans so we'll just have to find a way to get rid of you.I'm sure we can figure something out once my friends get here."(Woman)"Would you like some help with that?"(Man)"Excuse me?"(Woman)"Would you like some help with that?I mean getting rid of the humans."
(The woman starts to unbutton her shirt revealing her breasts which have two eyes where her nipples are supposed to be)(Woman)"You see,we folks from Venus were also looking for a place to colonize and our advance scout came to the same conclusion yours did.This is the perfect place to start a colony.Oh,by the way,your friends are not going to be showing up.We intercepted them.Of course we won't have any need for humans or Martians so we'll just have to figure out a way to get rid of you.I'm sure we can figure something out once my friends get here."(Then we hear another mans voice)"I'm afraid your friends won't be showing up either."
We see a man come out of the shadows wearing a hat..."You see,we folks from Uranus..."(He takes off his hat and we see he has a butt hole in the middle of his forehead)..."were also looking for a place to colonize and sent our own advance scout who came to same conclusion.This is the perfect place to start a colony.Of course we won't have any needs for humans,Martians or whatever you folks from Venus call yourselves.So we'll just have to figure out a way to get rid of you.I'm sure we can figure something out once my friends get here."(Then we hear another woman's voice)"I'm afraid your friends won't be showing up either."
(She comes out of the shadows as we see a beautiful woman dressed in a business outfit)"It's time to get a few things straight around here."(She begins to undress)"Venus didn't intercept Mars,we did.Which made it easy for us to intercept Venus while they were busy trying to intercept Mars."(She continues to undress)"Which in turn made it easy for us to intercept Uranus while they were running around in circles looking for Venus."(By this time she's completely nude)(Mars)"So what planet are you from?"(Woman)"Well duh,I'm from earth."(Venus)"So what gave us away?"(Woman)"Well Venus,Your advance scout tried to assimilate into earth society by working as a dancer in a topless nightclub."(Venus slaps her hand against her forehead)"Yeah,she pretty much blew her cover on the first night."
(Mars)"So what gave us away?"(Woman)"Well Mars,your advance scout was arrested for groping three woman at the same time,which is pretty hard to do if you only have two hands."(Mars slaps his forehead with all three hands)"I'm just messin' with you.We didn't even know about you until the advance scout from Venus tipped us off.Once we got her talking,she just wouldn't stop.Talk,talk,talk."(Mars looks angrily at Venus and flips her the bird with all three hands)(Uranus)"So what gave us away?"(Woman)"Well Uranus,your advance scout...There's just no delicate way to say this...He shit his hat."
Mine would have to be an introduction to a story I started on another forum mainly because it caused the desired effect.So here goes with a few edits I wished I could have done to it...
Introduction: My memories are fading. The unfortunate side effect so many of us suffer when our time on this earth nears the inevitable end. I come here while the mind is still reasonably sharp (before the lights go out for good) to tell a story known only to a very few of us (four to be exact) that number now reduced to one as of three weeks ago, Monday.
The year was 1958. Television was the new frontier in entertainment. Many movie studios began the process of developing programming they anticipated would be needed sooner rather than later. Some studios turned to colleges and even ordinary citizens for ideas for new programming.
Tom, Gary, Dianne and I were friends and colleagues , working for one such studio.It was our job to weed through these ideas (there were many) before passing any along if we felt they were indeed good ones. The manner in which these ideas were submitted varied. Some were just written ideas. Others came in the form of a pilot film. One fella actually presented his idea as a puppet show which I thought was pretty good but unfortunately was rejected as was the case for most of the submissions.
To be brutally honest, most were rejected simply because they were bad ideas. There were others however that were rejected because of "concerns", meaning the content was considered unfit for broadcasting. Understand, we were living in a different time back then and the content I speak of wouldn't even raise an eyebrow in today's world. Using this as a measuring stick, it's easy to understand how none of us could have been prepared for the work of Zachary Merrick.
Mr. Merrick arrived one morning, making his presence felt immediately by demanding to see someone in charge, not aware of nor accepting of the policies in place. Words were exchanged before security forcefully removed Mr. Merrick from the premises. With the morning's excitement out of the way, we went about our normal workday which included meeting in the company parking lot after work.
As was customary, we started talking about the ideas we were presented with when Tom, the unofficial leader of our group, excused himself and walked across the street to an old rusted automobile where he started talking to a man sitting in the drivers' seat. It was Mr. Merrick and I remember wondering if he had been sitting there all day.
As we watched, we could see the conversation was getting quite animated.Just as quickly however, Mr. Merrick calmed down. Tom was always good at that. He had a way of talking to people that always seemed to bring out the best in them. And just at that moment, for the first time, I saw Mr. Merrick smile. He got out of his car, opened the trunk, and retrieved a box which he handed to Tom.
After a few more words, Tom returned to us and as he approached said, "I need to ask you guys for a big favor."
The favor was indeed a big one. Mr. Merrick wanted us to watch his film which as it turned out was a completed series, ten episodes, each about an hour long. You could call it a mini series before mini series ever existed. He insisted we watch it all the way through and that any discussions would only occur after we finished watching the last episode.
"What's it about?" Gary asked. Tom answered that Mr. Merrick wouldn't say. He didn't want us to know. We were to watch it with clean minds (Mr. Merrick's words). "What if it's really bad?" I asked.Tom answered that that was indeed a possibility and he would understand if any of us didn't want to participate. He then added that this would also be done on our own time so none of us would be getting paid.
In the end we agreed to do it. And so on the next Sunday we met at Tom's house in the basement. We all sat down and got comfortable as Tom set up the projector. Then he turned off the lights and started the film.
For the record, the production values were as good as some of the best films being made at the time, a real surprise, considering Mr. Merrick had the look of a man who had been living in his car. As we watched, we knew early on we were something that would never see the light of day on television. That was confirmed to me after viewing the last episode when we were finally allowed to discuss what we had just seen.
At first it was just silence until Dianne, the lone female of the group said "That was interesting.",not what I expected her to say but it did break the ice. We all agreed his film as it was would certainly be rejected, but we also agreed that the film was simply too good to dismiss based on subject matter alone. We came to the conclusion that with just a few changes, Mr. Merrick's work could not only be accepted, but likely thrive should it ever make it to broadcast.
Tom then arranged to meet with Mr. Merrick the following day to discuss our proposal.
And so the time came. Mr. Merrick was parked across the street as before when Tom approached while carrying the box. The two talked for a while and things seemed to be going well when Tom must have told him about the changes that would be necessary. The expression on Mr. Merrick's face changed and his voice elevated, seemingly with every word. Even Tom wasn't able to calm him down.
Mr. Merrick grabbed the box from Tom and threw it into the passenger compartment of his car before getting in and slamming the door shut. He then shouted a few more words before angrily driving off. Tom started returning to us while shrugging his shoulders. Before we could ask him what happened, we heard the crash.
We ran down the road and noticed the damaged guard rail and soon after, the first traces of smoke. As soon as we got to the edge, we knew there was no hope. Mr. Merrick and his work were no more, both engulfed in the flames.
Perhaps because he had helped Mr. Merrick,Tom took it particularly hard. For some time after, he was not his usual happy go lucky self. Time heels all wounds, and eventually, Tom was back to normal. Even so, it was a subject we all avoided, just a bad memory best kept in the back of our minds until one day, out of the blue and shortly before his sudden and unexpected passing, Tom quietly mentioned what a shame it was that no one would ever know of Mr. Merrick's work. We would of course, but after our passing, no one would. Mr. Merrick would just be another anonymous soul whose work demanded that he be more that that.
And so, it is in this spirit, as the lone survivor of the group, that I now share (as best I can remember) what the four of us saw that day. And I do so here, on this forum, perhaps the only place a story like this can be told.
Introduction: My memories are fading. The unfortunate side effect so many of us suffer when our time on this earth nears the inevitable end. I come here while the mind is still reasonably sharp (before the lights go out for good) to tell a story known only to a very few of us (four to be exact) that number now reduced to one as of three weeks ago, Monday.
The year was 1958. Television was the new frontier in entertainment. Many movie studios began the process of developing programming they anticipated would be needed sooner rather than later. Some studios turned to colleges and even ordinary citizens for ideas for new programming.
Tom, Gary, Dianne and I were friends and colleagues , working for one such studio.It was our job to weed through these ideas (there were many) before passing any along if we felt they were indeed good ones. The manner in which these ideas were submitted varied. Some were just written ideas. Others came in the form of a pilot film. One fella actually presented his idea as a puppet show which I thought was pretty good but unfortunately was rejected as was the case for most of the submissions.
To be brutally honest, most were rejected simply because they were bad ideas. There were others however that were rejected because of "concerns", meaning the content was considered unfit for broadcasting. Understand, we were living in a different time back then and the content I speak of wouldn't even raise an eyebrow in today's world. Using this as a measuring stick, it's easy to understand how none of us could have been prepared for the work of Zachary Merrick.
Mr. Merrick arrived one morning, making his presence felt immediately by demanding to see someone in charge, not aware of nor accepting of the policies in place. Words were exchanged before security forcefully removed Mr. Merrick from the premises. With the morning's excitement out of the way, we went about our normal workday which included meeting in the company parking lot after work.
As was customary, we started talking about the ideas we were presented with when Tom, the unofficial leader of our group, excused himself and walked across the street to an old rusted automobile where he started talking to a man sitting in the drivers' seat. It was Mr. Merrick and I remember wondering if he had been sitting there all day.
As we watched, we could see the conversation was getting quite animated.Just as quickly however, Mr. Merrick calmed down. Tom was always good at that. He had a way of talking to people that always seemed to bring out the best in them. And just at that moment, for the first time, I saw Mr. Merrick smile. He got out of his car, opened the trunk, and retrieved a box which he handed to Tom.
After a few more words, Tom returned to us and as he approached said, "I need to ask you guys for a big favor."
The favor was indeed a big one. Mr. Merrick wanted us to watch his film which as it turned out was a completed series, ten episodes, each about an hour long. You could call it a mini series before mini series ever existed. He insisted we watch it all the way through and that any discussions would only occur after we finished watching the last episode.
"What's it about?" Gary asked. Tom answered that Mr. Merrick wouldn't say. He didn't want us to know. We were to watch it with clean minds (Mr. Merrick's words). "What if it's really bad?" I asked.Tom answered that that was indeed a possibility and he would understand if any of us didn't want to participate. He then added that this would also be done on our own time so none of us would be getting paid.
In the end we agreed to do it. And so on the next Sunday we met at Tom's house in the basement. We all sat down and got comfortable as Tom set up the projector. Then he turned off the lights and started the film.
For the record, the production values were as good as some of the best films being made at the time, a real surprise, considering Mr. Merrick had the look of a man who had been living in his car. As we watched, we knew early on we were something that would never see the light of day on television. That was confirmed to me after viewing the last episode when we were finally allowed to discuss what we had just seen.
At first it was just silence until Dianne, the lone female of the group said "That was interesting.",not what I expected her to say but it did break the ice. We all agreed his film as it was would certainly be rejected, but we also agreed that the film was simply too good to dismiss based on subject matter alone. We came to the conclusion that with just a few changes, Mr. Merrick's work could not only be accepted, but likely thrive should it ever make it to broadcast.
Tom then arranged to meet with Mr. Merrick the following day to discuss our proposal.
And so the time came. Mr. Merrick was parked across the street as before when Tom approached while carrying the box. The two talked for a while and things seemed to be going well when Tom must have told him about the changes that would be necessary. The expression on Mr. Merrick's face changed and his voice elevated, seemingly with every word. Even Tom wasn't able to calm him down.
Mr. Merrick grabbed the box from Tom and threw it into the passenger compartment of his car before getting in and slamming the door shut. He then shouted a few more words before angrily driving off. Tom started returning to us while shrugging his shoulders. Before we could ask him what happened, we heard the crash.
We ran down the road and noticed the damaged guard rail and soon after, the first traces of smoke. As soon as we got to the edge, we knew there was no hope. Mr. Merrick and his work were no more, both engulfed in the flames.
Perhaps because he had helped Mr. Merrick,Tom took it particularly hard. For some time after, he was not his usual happy go lucky self. Time heels all wounds, and eventually, Tom was back to normal. Even so, it was a subject we all avoided, just a bad memory best kept in the back of our minds until one day, out of the blue and shortly before his sudden and unexpected passing, Tom quietly mentioned what a shame it was that no one would ever know of Mr. Merrick's work. We would of course, but after our passing, no one would. Mr. Merrick would just be another anonymous soul whose work demanded that he be more that that.
And so, it is in this spirit, as the lone survivor of the group, that I now share (as best I can remember) what the four of us saw that day. And I do so here, on this forum, perhaps the only place a story like this can be told.
The (After) Twilight Zone
A show that takes old episodes of The Twilight Zone series and continues them from their original ending...Example:A police detective shows up at a farm house where a married couple lives and tells them about a child's body(believed to be a boy)that was found in their cornfield. Questions are asked and we can tell the husband and wife are not forthcoming. The detective really becomes suspicious when he asks if they have any children. Neither seems to give a straight answer to a question that should be easy to answer.
The back and forth continues until another detective arrives and tells the first detective he needs to talk to him. The two go outside the farm house where the second detective says they found something else in the cornfield. (First Detective)"Another body?"(Second Detective)"It's better if you just come take a look for yourself." When they get to the cornfield we see several investigators just standing and looking at something on the ground.When they see the first detective arrive, they stand aside to let him have a look.The camera focuses on the first detective as we see him react, then look at the others before looking back down as the camera pans down and we see what looks like decaying flesh fused onto a jack in the box.
A show that takes old episodes of The Twilight Zone series and continues them from their original ending...Example:A police detective shows up at a farm house where a married couple lives and tells them about a child's body(believed to be a boy)that was found in their cornfield. Questions are asked and we can tell the husband and wife are not forthcoming. The detective really becomes suspicious when he asks if they have any children. Neither seems to give a straight answer to a question that should be easy to answer.
The back and forth continues until another detective arrives and tells the first detective he needs to talk to him. The two go outside the farm house where the second detective says they found something else in the cornfield. (First Detective)"Another body?"(Second Detective)"It's better if you just come take a look for yourself." When they get to the cornfield we see several investigators just standing and looking at something on the ground.When they see the first detective arrive, they stand aside to let him have a look.The camera focuses on the first detective as we see him react, then look at the others before looking back down as the camera pans down and we see what looks like decaying flesh fused onto a jack in the box.
The head crawling scene(and the moments leading up to it)in John Carpenter's 1982 version of The Thing.That particular special effect was both amazing and terrifying.
Back in the days when there was only three major networks,CBS used to make a lot of "made for tv" films.Of course the budgets were much smaller than the movies made for the theaters,but there were several good ones as well as some work that I would classify as great movies.
Into Thin Air...About a Canadian mother whose son vanishes on his way to college in the United States and her efforts(with a serious lack of help from authorities)to find him.
Pack Of Lies...About a British woman who is asked by her government to use her house as a look out point to keep an eye on her neighbors(a husband and wife)across the street whom they suspect are spies for another country.The catch is the wife is her very best friend and the caused conflicts and emotions the woman feels for the betrayal of that friendship.
God Bless This Child...About a single mother on the brink of homelessness who makes a very difficult decision to give her daughter a better chance at a better life.
Willa...About a single mother trying to learn a new trade(becoming a truck driver)so she can provide a better life for herself as well as her newborn.
The Five Dollar And Twenty Cents An Hour Dream...Another film about a single mother working in a factory who fights to get a higher paying job within the factory which traditionally only men did because of the physical nature of the work.
All's Quiet On The Western Front...John Thomas as a German foot soldier in World War One.There is a scene at night when he is in a fox hole as the British soldiers are advancing when one enemy soldier jumps in the fox hole and Thomas stabs him with his knife and severely wounds him but the man doesn't die right away as Thomas tries desperately to both save and comfort him.
Into Thin Air...About a Canadian mother whose son vanishes on his way to college in the United States and her efforts(with a serious lack of help from authorities)to find him.
Pack Of Lies...About a British woman who is asked by her government to use her house as a look out point to keep an eye on her neighbors(a husband and wife)across the street whom they suspect are spies for another country.The catch is the wife is her very best friend and the caused conflicts and emotions the woman feels for the betrayal of that friendship.
God Bless This Child...About a single mother on the brink of homelessness who makes a very difficult decision to give her daughter a better chance at a better life.
Willa...About a single mother trying to learn a new trade(becoming a truck driver)so she can provide a better life for herself as well as her newborn.
The Five Dollar And Twenty Cents An Hour Dream...Another film about a single mother working in a factory who fights to get a higher paying job within the factory which traditionally only men did because of the physical nature of the work.
All's Quiet On The Western Front...John Thomas as a German foot soldier in World War One.There is a scene at night when he is in a fox hole as the British soldiers are advancing when one enemy soldier jumps in the fox hole and Thomas stabs him with his knife and severely wounds him but the man doesn't die right away as Thomas tries desperately to both save and comfort him.
The Fig Newton commercial from a long time ago.They had the actor dress up in a big fig costume and then sing and dance the Big Fig Newton song which really did describe the newton while being funny at the same time.Classic.
"Chewy oohwy rich and goowy inside...soft and caky tender flaky outside...wrap the inside with the outside and it's good darn tootin...It's the big fig newton...Here's the tricky part(he turns to the side and lifts one leg up slightly)...The big fig newton...One more time!(he turns the other way and lifts his leg slightly)...The big fig newton!"
"Chewy oohwy rich and goowy inside...soft and caky tender flaky outside...wrap the inside with the outside and it's good darn tootin...It's the big fig newton...Here's the tricky part(he turns to the side and lifts one leg up slightly)...The big fig newton...One more time!(he turns the other way and lifts his leg slightly)...The big fig newton!"
Quote by spriteAs a whole,I'm not a fan of this movie.However,the ending sequence,starting with the cab ride and continuing to the end of the film was done extremely well along with Henry Mancini's memorable score.The first time I saw this film,I was still a child and wondered why my mother was crying during the ending scene.I was too young to understand and was only wondering why they were trying to crush the cat.Of course as I got older and became an adult,I could see it from a different perspective and understood why she was crying..."They're trying to crush that poor cat!!Waa!!"
Breakfast at Tiffanys.
I haven't seen too many romantic films and of the ones I've seen,didn't care for them.The ones that I did like however were pretty good.
A Little Romance...which was Dianne Lane's first film.She was a teenager then,but even so,she nailed this role perfectly.The supporting cast was also excellent.A movie that was both funny and romantic with a memorable score that I still very much enjoy listening to.
A Summer Story...British film about a man traveling through the country side who meets and falls in love with a woman living on a farm.Once again,good acting throughout,especially near the end years later when the man and the long time live in farmhand have a conversation about the woman he had fallen in love with.
A Little Romance...which was Dianne Lane's first film.She was a teenager then,but even so,she nailed this role perfectly.The supporting cast was also excellent.A movie that was both funny and romantic with a memorable score that I still very much enjoy listening to.
A Summer Story...British film about a man traveling through the country side who meets and falls in love with a woman living on a farm.Once again,good acting throughout,especially near the end years later when the man and the long time live in farmhand have a conversation about the woman he had fallen in love with.
Swimming Pool...Mystery about a female writer who is in a slump,staying in a guest house who is surprised when the owners daughter unexpectedly shows up and now is forced to share the home while trying to resume her writing while constantly being distracted by this very attractive young woman.
My life fades.The vision dims.All that remains are memories.I remember a time of chaos.Ruined dreams.This wasted land.But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior.The man we called Max.To understand who he was,we have to go back to another time when the world was powered by the black fuel.And the deserts sprouted great cities of pipe and steel.Gone now.Swept away.For reasons long forgotten,two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze that engulfed them all.Without fuel they were nothing.They built a house of straw.The thundering machines sputtered and stopped.
Their leaders talked and talked and talked.But nothing could stem the avalanche.Their world crumbled.The cities exploded.A world wind of looting.A firestorm of fear.Men began to feed on men.On the roads it was a white line nightmare.Only those mobile enough to scavenge,brutal enough to pillage would survive.The gangs took over the highways,ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
And in this maelstrom of decay,ordinary men were battered and smashed.Men like Max.The warrior Max.In the roar of an engine,he lost everything and became a shell of a man.A burnt out desolate man.A man haunted by the demons in his past.A man who wandered out into the wasteland.And it was here,in this blighted place,that he learned to live again.
Their leaders talked and talked and talked.But nothing could stem the avalanche.Their world crumbled.The cities exploded.A world wind of looting.A firestorm of fear.Men began to feed on men.On the roads it was a white line nightmare.Only those mobile enough to scavenge,brutal enough to pillage would survive.The gangs took over the highways,ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
And in this maelstrom of decay,ordinary men were battered and smashed.Men like Max.The warrior Max.In the roar of an engine,he lost everything and became a shell of a man.A burnt out desolate man.A man haunted by the demons in his past.A man who wandered out into the wasteland.And it was here,in this blighted place,that he learned to live again.
Amor,Dolor Y Vice Versa...Spanish language film that is both a crime drama and mystery.I thought the ending sequence the way it was filmed was quite original and very well done.Recommended.
From The Crucible...Three scenes...The first where John Proctor discusses with his wife if he should confess to practicing witchcraft to spare his life,,,The second where he has to sign his name on the confession...and the third as the movie ends where he and the others say the Lord's Prayer.