#164 — I Wish That Life Was Like The Movies

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Let me share with you my secret shame; I like action movies. I enjoy spending a couple of hours with a big, goofy, enthusiastic film that substitutes explosions for plot and has a soundtrack loud enough to induce brain damage in inanimate objects. My years of sitting in darkened theaters have taught me that the world is full of boy wizards bravely aiding rogue archeologists and super-spies as they battle giant evil robots that travel through time to subjugate humanity by seizing the one ring from its resting place in an museum that comes to life every night.

Okay, so after a while all of the stories sort of run together and the closest thing to a boy wizard in the real world is my news carrier who routinely performs the trick of making the morning paper disappear into the neighbor’s rose bushes. Still, it’s all in how you look at things. With a little imagination (or possibly a few moments of oxygen deprivation) it’s easy to pretend that your own, actual, real life is as exciting as the lives of your on-screen heroes.
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Notes:

• My thanks to Matt over at http://www.pizzagohere.com/ for extending my research into Teenage Dropsy.
• Congratulations to Evan for completing http://airshipdiaries.libsyn.com