Hurried out after that to run errands. First stop was the outside ATM machine at the Collingswood PNC to get rent money. After that, I rode down to Cuthbert and the Audubon Acme. Restocked yogurt, more of those yummy Cliff Bars, honey, soda, blueberries, granola, and lemon and carrot cake cookie sandwiches off the bakery clearance racks. They were only slightly busier than Sprouts down the street. They still had those cherry shortbread cookies on their bakery clearance racks. Also grabbed a turkey wrap for lunch here, along with more soda, dried mango slices, and small yellow fruits called cherry plums that I'd never heard of before.
Hurried home for lunch and Garfield and Friends. It's a "Skyway Robbery" when Jon and his pets are tricked into riding Al Swindler's super-cheap airlines. Jon learns you get what you pay for when the plane doesn't have a right wing, it's a dilapidated mess, the controls go haywire, and they don't end up anywhere near Miami. Everyone at US Acres is too busy making jokes about the grammar error in the message "The Bunny Rabbits Is Coming" to pay attention to Wade freaking out or the weasel stealing from the chicken coop...until the bunny rabbits do indeed come. It's a "Close Encounters of the Garfield Kind" when a seemingly cute alien crashes in Jon's backyard. Jon is willing to let it stay, but Garfield discovers that this adorable intergalactic critter has something more sinister in mind.
Had just enough time to finish eating, grab my rain coat, and hurry out. It had been cloudy, killer humid, and warm all day. I knew darn well those clouds were going to burst sometime. The thunderstorm thankfully waited until the kids at the summer program and I were working on our artwork during Free Play Time to emerge. Some of the girls were nervous about the noise level. Other kids admitted they were concerned with the possibility of more flooding, especially since many of them are from West Collingswood Heights or Collingswood and had parents coming from further away.
Thankfully, by the time the teachers switched the kids to "human bowling" on the other side of the gym, the rain was down to regular showers and the pyrotechnics were long gone. "Human bowling" seemed to involve five kids rolling soccer balls at the other kids, trying to hit their legs in a less-damaging variation on dodgeball. The kids jumping away from the balls (and the faces they made while doing so) were utterly hilarious. I hadn't laughed so hard in weeks. I did comfort one diminutive miss who was too short and slow to dodge the balls and got upset over it. Otherwise, the kids had a blast playing, and I had a blast watching them.
Went straight into dinner and Remember WENN when I got home. "The Ghost of WENN" seemed more than appropriate for a day that continued to be spooky and rainy. Betty's delighted to put on a horror play that had been performed the decade before, when the station first started. Mackie's a lot less happy about it. The actor playing his role died of a heart attack while reading their lines on page 13. Meanwhile, there seems to be a ghost stalking Hilary, one who is awfully fond of stuffed albatrosses and canned cranberry jelly.
"Caller I.D" says more about the magic of radio and the imagination than almost any other episode on the show. Mackie's doing a late-night music program when a distraught secretary (Alice Playton) calls in and claims she's a passionate listener. She just realized that none of the shows are real, and she's about to jump off the building unless the cast does one last performance for her. They throw together a massive crossover of most of the WENN fiction programs for her benefit...then become the listeners when she finally gets off that ledge.
Finished the night with Burlesque. I go further into this campy guilty pleasure spectacle with Cher and Christina Aguilera at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Oh, and I got yet another WENN fairy tale idea. I'm way backlogged, so lord knows when I'll get to "C.J and the Beanstalk." After C.J admits he's feeling unappreciated in "Ghost of WENN," he imagines himself as the young man who sells his cow to a seemingly doddering old peddler (Mr. Eldridge) and gets magic beans. Neither he nor his mother (Gertie) are sure they're real...until she tosses them out the window, and they grow overnight. C.J climbs it to the clouds, to discover the wicked Giant (Pruitt) has captured the Kingdom of the Clouds and now controls the weather. He has turned Queen Betty into a golden harp that sings for him and is keeping her beloved husband Scott deep within the castle. C.J works with the rest of the enchanted court to rescue their rulers and save his own land below from a drought...and rescue the Land of the Clouds' stolen music, sound, and the harmony of nature.
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