Dan So Godzilla.

Happy Jake Yeah, man, you’re right, that guy is totally so Godzilla.

Dan What?

Jake I thought you were inventing a new term for people.


Dan No. I was starting a sentence.

Jake Speak faster then.

Happy Dan Jerk. So anyway, Godzilla. I was just wondering, he’s a symbol of atomic power, right?

Jake The misuse of, the price we pay and yet also the flipside of that, sure.

Dan And the Blair Witch was really a symbol of reality TV coming to the forefront.

Happy Jake You’ve given this a lot of thought.

Dan Not really. But I wonder, then, since all we have are zombies now…

Jake There are a lot of zombies…

Dan Is it a return of the disenfranchised? When Romero started using them he was all about class structure.

Happy Jake Yeah, zombies are ghetto.

Happy Dan So is that the mood of the people?

Happy Jake The mood of the people?

Dan Yeah. Is it?

Jake I should know the mood of the people?

Dan It was a rhetorical question.

Angry Jake So I am so disconnected myself that I wouldn’t know the mood of the people?

Happy Dan Either way, pick one! Sheesh.

Jake I’d guess we’re pretty disconnected, yeah.

Dan But also vampires.

Jake Oh vampires don’t count. Vampires are just the modern way of going “And then I had to give in and get sexified,” because they can’t admit their own desires.

Dan Yeah I think you’re right.

Jake That’s because I know the mood of the people.

Dan Oh but if I say you do…

Jake It’s different. Yes. Deal with that.

Dan I don’t like it.

Jake I didn’t say you had to like it, I Said you had to deal with it. I don’t like strawberry milk, but that’s my cross to bear and I have to deal with it.

Happy Dan What’s wrong with strawberry milk?

Angry Jake Do I come into your house and poke at the skeletons in your closet?

Happy Dan Sometimes.

Happy Jake Oh. Right.