Happy Fictional U.S. President Day!

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On Saturday, I took my pre-Alzheimer's mother to get her new dentures (after a five-month Medicare/Mediciad wait--thanks, Georgie!). After a final fitting, the dentist said they'd be ready in about four hours, which we could spend either outside of his office or by watching movies in his waiting room. He was showing Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a stand-in for a fictional U.S. president, and Sigourney Weaver as the first lady. While I have nothing against either Klein or Weaver, I couldn't help thinking, "This is such bullshit. We have a REAL presidential crisis going on."

Then I had an idea--I said to my mother, "Why don't we get out of here and go see a REAL movie?" I got a newspaper and as luck would have it, F9/11 was playing at a theater within walking distance of the dental office. We ate the cake and fruit the dentise puts out so we wouldn't have to buy theater food, and we saved a few additional bucks by getting Mom in on the senior citizen discount.

There was just a smattering of people in the theater (in the heart of New York City's tourist/shopping district at 11:30AM), but they were riveted. They broke out handkerchiefs, gasped in surprise, and a guy in the back laughed out loud when they played the riff to "Cocaine" while showing Bush's war record (I would bet anything that he was a musician).

This was my second viewing of F9/11. I'd missed three segments when I saw it last Sunday because I had to call my mother to remind her to take her pills and of course, her line was busy. For some reason, the hunting scene where everybody fawned over Georgie after he snapped "Did anybody say 'Good shot?' chilled me even more than his boast that the "have mores" were his "base," which should cost him the election on principle alone.

And Mom? Though she probably forgot most of what she saw in the time it took us to get back to the dental office, she did say "I usually fall asleep, but that movie SURE had me paying attention!" And what do you think the dentist's VCR was playing when we got back? Air Force One, with Harrison Ford playing Han Solo playing a fictional U.S. President!

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1. kick

(Well, actually, more of a shuffle--mom's ankles tend to swell)

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