Mystery Living Room Theater 2008

Tea: Pu Erh Poe

Music: The Who, "Eminence Front"

Time: Night

It's time for Monsterfest. My son, my brother-in-law and I are going to watch "The Monster that Challenged the World" (actually, several monsters annoying a small part of the world).

We're going to crack wise, I'm sure. Because it's a baaaaaaaaaaaad movie. And sometimes, those are the most fun.

You don't want a movie that's sort of bad or kind of good. You want one that's either really good, i.e. "American Splendor," or really bad -- like much of my monster movie collection. Because when a movie's really bad, it takes on its own kind of campy hilarity -- one that absolutely begs for parenthetical snarky comments.

And so, I'm off to watch -- and comment. And with all this caffeine in my system, I might manage to get one or two good cracks off. So if you hear giggling ... that's us.