Grrr's cape part ll

 



"They Will pay!!!!"  Those cape stealing worms will pay!!!!.
Roared Grrr in a true T-Rex rage!
"I will hunt them down to the end of the earth. I will rip them into little tiny bits." Roared Grrr as his mighty tail slammed into the floor in righteous  wrath!!
Grrr's fearsome Rex eyes glowed blood red and his terrible head swung from side to side seeking to devour.
"I have had my cape for years and some one dared to take it."

Gretta walked up to an  angry Grrr and said "Here dear", handing him a cleaned and pressed cape, I knew that you would  want for Halloween and had it cleaned and  pressed for you. "
Looking at his well cared for cape and at Gretta's loving green face. Grrr and Gretta rubbed heads and smiled into each others eyes.

Grrr flung his cape on with a happy roar and picking a dino sized basket of candy and set off.

Grrr's Cape

"Babe," called Grrr. "Have you seen my Dracula cape? The one Miss B. made for me? I need it for the party at the Wellness Center."
 "Grrry" replied Gretta," it is in the hall closet...where it always is."
"Oh yeah, thanks babe" replied Grrr as he went to get his cape.
"After looking for a minute, Grrr turned with a ROAR and said.."It is gone!"
"Some evil creature has taken my cape...they WILL pay!"
To be continued.

Zombies This is acting????

Zombies!

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"I hate zombie movies" said Grrr and Andy Ant nodded his antennae in agreement.
"Where is the art..where is the  craft in a zombie flick?"

"Night of the Living Dead" was a scary movie." said Bob.

"OK, that was a good horror flick" said Andy  and Grrr nodded in agreement.
"But this whole wave of zombie movies...junk..just junk.' said  Andy Ant.

"True, get a mob of extras, pour some red dye on them, dress, I won't use the word "costume"  dress them in dirty rags, no lines, so you don't have to pay  them more than scale and   two or three film school dropouts running around screaming...this is art?  This is scary?" Asked Grrr.

The Creature would have a fit...Vlad has gone back to  the medical field and Bruce has retired to his cruise gig."

"Hold on, Grrr ..The Creature..The Creature from the Black Lagoon...You guys know the Creature???" asked Bob.

"Yep, replied Andy, in the monster community all the old hands know each other. The Creature got so mad when they started this wave of Zombie movies, he headed back to the Amazon. I felt the same way  and went home to the nest.  I mean Zombies..they make "Friday the 13th"  look like "Henry V". 

The whole monster movie field has gone to the dogs....worse than those beach party monsters in the 1960's"
"Most zombies, stumble along at what 1/2 a mile an hour? How can something that slow catch anyone? said Grrr....to be continued...

THEM VI

"I told him I was an Ant. Now fellas, most places, humans would not have believed me or if they did , they would have pulled out a can of  "Raid". Not Jim and not Hollywood. Jim nodded lit a cigarette and asked me over to his house to talk. We  talked all night and set up the picture right that night.
He asked me where I lived and I told him that I had not found a place, being a ten foot ant it was hard to get a room so I was living in the park. Jim, said that he could see the problem but that sleeping in the park was dangerous, lots of strange people in Hollywood. He allowed as he had an extra room and that I was welcome. Folks starting out in those days helped each other."
 "As long as they were not competing for the same part." said Grrr with a grin.
"True enough". said Andy. "Well, the next day we went to the studio and set things up."

THEM V

"So", said Andy Ant, "I was making the rounds trying to get someone to look at my project with no luck, you know how that goes Grrr. " Sure do, agreed Grrr . My feet still get tired thinking about it."
"Well, continued Andy, taking a drink of his sweet tea and a bite of his sugar cookie, I was very tired and stopped into a dinner by the studio in Culver City, big fella for a human looked at me and said "good makeup" I just nodded and ordered a cup of  cocoa with lots of sugar. The big human looked at me and said "why not put a bit of cocoa in your sugar...hard day?"
" I nodded, now as I said we don't take to strangers but LA is a strange place and I missed the Nest and this was the first kindly word any being had said to me since I left home. Well, we got to talking and the big human, his name was Jim, told me that he was an actor looking for a project, not doing too well as he did not have a lot of backing..ie money, I told him that I had a project but I could not get anyone to look at it. He said. "Heck, son, I will look at it."
He read my script and said. " This is great, but I could never afford the special effects".
That is when I decided to take the chance of a lifetime, I told him that I was an ant and about the nest and that we would not need a lot of SF money as the whole nest would help out".
To Be continued...

Them IV  

"Yep", said Andy Ant, every day after a good nights work, we would get together in the Nest for a few hours of TV. The Queen, bless her, started to get annoyed, seemed that every creature had a TV show.
Dogs, cats, fish, but not us ants. So she called me into her presence and give me my orders, now you fellas gotta understand the a personal command from the Queen...well, there just is no higher honor, so when she told me to leave the nest and go to Hollywood and  square things, well I was nervous but orders are orders, You were a marine Bob, so you understand how it is." "I do indeed, Andy" Bob replied.
"Well, a couple of the winged ants got me to Hollywood and ..."
"Andy, hold on. Are you telling me that a 10 foot ant can walk around Hollywood and not be noticed?                     I have read that Hollywood is strange but that  is just too much."
"Bob", said Grrr, "you don't understand "The Business". Andy could walk around Hollywood  all day or night  and as long as he carried a scrip in his hand or said "the studio" to anyone who asked, no one would notice, in fact, if the cops did stop him at all, it would only be to ask if he could get them a part."
"Come on Grrr, I... " replied Bob,...
 It's the Queen's own truth, I will give up sugar for a year if it is not. EVERY being , human or creature, wanted to be in the movies in those days." said Andy Ant.

THEM III.

“So, asked Bob, “You guys did not realize that you were getting bigger?”

“Nope, replied Andy Ant,“I guess that that may seem strange, but all we saw were other ants from our nest, don’t get along too kindly with strangers, so don’t live near them, and we were all getting big. You lived in the desert Bob?” Andy asked.
“25‘ Years” replied Bob. “So, you know that there is not much to measure yourself against. Any way we just grew , enjoyed some sugar on the Queen’s Birthday and did our ant thing.  Except for TV of course.” “TV ?  Asked Grrr.” Well, we, ah sorta, found a TV and projector that the humans left behind and a  generator..One of the fellas figured out how to attach it to a treadmill for power and we disguised the antenna as a cactus plant.


                                              To be continued