Re: RAT Um...

[Nick <nick@whirl-i-gig.com>]

At 10:06 AM 1/28/00 -0800, Audie McCall wrote:
>--- Nick <nick@whirl-i-gig.com> wrote:
>> PS    I think an "all mouse" version of Of Mice and
>> Men would be cool.  And you wouldn't have to change
>> title.  
>
>Agreed.  Wholeheartedly.  And Hollywood clearly has
>the technology.  Though I would suggest REVERSING the
>title.

You misunderstand.  You're thinking digital or film animation or something like that.  But I'm suggesting theater.

In my Geek Elvis grind show at Coney Island I do a flawless impersonation of the King with a beautiful rendition of Love Me Tender.  I sing the tune to a white mouse that I hold dangling by the tail above my nose.  The mouse has the black letters TCOB written on it.  

With my soulful voice and upward gaze one could believe that I was singing to God and the angels of heaven.  And I truly am, except for that dangling mouse called TakingCareOfBusiness always right there in front of my nose.

The coup de grace comes at the end of the song.  

"oh my darling, I love you, and I always will." 

My lip quivers.  Then chomp, tear, and a big swallow.  

"Thank you very much."

That fascist Guilianni and his flunkies claimed that there are no redeeming social values in my act and shut me down two years ago.  But now this Of Mice and Men has given me an idea.

The Sideshow has a ten foot long albino python. For a number of years Dick Zigun has been unsuccessfully trying to figure a way to exploit the feeding of this snake.  Every three weeks he feeds one large live rabbit to the python.  The public would definitely pay to see this phenomenon.  But why a rabbit?  They'd just as easily pay to see large mice or rats devoured.

My idea is that every three weeks Dick does a staged version Of Mice and Men.  The stage would be of minimal design.  Actually it would be more cage than stage. The albino python in the cage/stage symbolizes the dream that Lenny and George have of getting their own farm where Lennie can tend rabbits.  But then again the python may just symbolize the narrative of the story itself.  Everyone knows that if Lenny and George are characters in a Steinbeck novel, bad shit is going to happen to them for being stuck in the capitalistic cage. 

I haven't figured how Geek Elvis can fit into this yet.  But I will. Then let's see if that fascist pig of a mayor can close me down.