Scrooge, Party of Two
Back in December I mentioned that some swell person stole some toys that the Salvation Army was preparing to give poor kids at Christmas, and I posited that I had some suspicions of the Seventh Day Adventists, since they never get the kind of press that the Sally Ann gets. Well, it's still possible, but this appears to be part of a larger pattern:
Last fall, someone stole a bunch of gardening equipment from Greener Detroit (a charity which plants flowers and stuff downtown, so you are looking at the purty flahrs and not the homeless man peeing on an abandoned building).
Then, also last fall, someone stole a bunch of equipment from the Habitat for Humanity here.
Now this: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070129/UPDATE/701290425
Yes, that's right. Someone broke into an agency that helps the homeless and stole a bunch of their equipment.
My new theory involves a semi psychedelic movie from about 1980, wherein HG Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) successfully invented a time machine only to have his buddy David Warner (who also was, unbeknownst to him, Jack the Ripper) use it to escape from Scotland Yard. He ended up in modern-day (well, 1980 modern-day, so there may not have been Gay Pride Parades yet) San Francisco, where he tries to kill Mary Steenburgen for reasons which I can no longer remember, except that she was there.
Anyhoo, the jist of MY theory is that Charles Dickens and HG Wells were buddies, and somehow Ebenezer Scrooge has been let loose in Detroit, 2006-07.
And I was just kidding about the Seventh Day Adventists. Now, the Shakers are a different story...
Last fall, someone stole a bunch of gardening equipment from Greener Detroit (a charity which plants flowers and stuff downtown, so you are looking at the purty flahrs and not the homeless man peeing on an abandoned building).
Then, also last fall, someone stole a bunch of equipment from the Habitat for Humanity here.
Now this: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070129/UPDATE/701290425
Yes, that's right. Someone broke into an agency that helps the homeless and stole a bunch of their equipment.
My new theory involves a semi psychedelic movie from about 1980, wherein HG Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) successfully invented a time machine only to have his buddy David Warner (who also was, unbeknownst to him, Jack the Ripper) use it to escape from Scotland Yard. He ended up in modern-day (well, 1980 modern-day, so there may not have been Gay Pride Parades yet) San Francisco, where he tries to kill Mary Steenburgen for reasons which I can no longer remember, except that she was there.
Anyhoo, the jist of MY theory is that Charles Dickens and HG Wells were buddies, and somehow Ebenezer Scrooge has been let loose in Detroit, 2006-07.
And I was just kidding about the Seventh Day Adventists. Now, the Shakers are a different story...
posted by The Big Seester | 3:20 PM
2 Comments:
I must be confused - I thought that movie had Sherlock Holmes, and had that great scene where they're in an airplane:
HOLMES (as the airplane is traveling down the runway: "What is this?"
WOMAN (Steenburgen?): "Oh, this is a plane."
HOLMES: "Ah, I suppose they call it that because it rides on the plain, eh?" *plane begins takeoff - Holmes looks petrified*
No. That was a different movie, and Mary Steenburgen wasn't in it.
I believe the woman in that movie was Arthur Conan Doyle's great granddaughter. (The character, not the actress.)
I'm going to have to do a little research...
Imagine your remembering that scene! That was a funny one, as was when Sherlock went into an adult bookstore, looking for a book on the happenings of the 20th Century, because people kept referencing things he didn't understand, like Watergate. So, he sees "Adult Bookstore" and decides to go there. Why? "Because I AM an adult."
Oopsie!
TBS
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