View From the Bushes

Yesterday, I decided to take a sick day. That's one of the great things about doing something that was your idea: no one pays you, and no one cares about you. Like my blog, you can pretty much take as many sick days as you feel like. Yesterday, the problem was my neck. The last week or so, my neck has really been in a lot of pain. I'm not sure what's causing it, but theories range from my children's use of me as a pillow to my massive, eclipse-causing head. My favorite theory is that my first wife, whom I swallowed, gave birth to a baby who is currently trying to get out of my head. Okay, it sounds implausible, but I do have a splitting headache.

The other day I was browsing Rotten Tomatoes and I came across a movie called Bubba Ho-tep. I think I had heard the title before, and I had no idea what it might be about, but every single review Rotten Tomatoes had listed was positive, which outside Pixar movies is pretty rare (and probably won't last once more reviews come in), so I thought I'd see what it was about; here's the Rotten Tomatoes summary:

Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis(Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack(Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds…

Now, I admit to a fondness of the absurd. Pretty much any movie which has the guts to combine old people, Elvis, the walking dead, and Egyptian deities is going to get me excited, but you toss Bruce Campbell in there as well and I positively twitterpated. Apparently, it's only going to be released on a very limited basis but if it makes it to my neck of the woods, I'll be there.

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Ross