Even if you’re a huge fan of GAME OF THRONES - as I am - I still think you’ll find this funny. Nothing like some bad lip reading to start the day.
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I am a sucker for those crazy dubbed-over videos. There was a guy in Detroit, who used to do it, before Mystery Science Theater 3000 and after Woody Allen’s “What’s Up, Tiger Lily?” which is another ode to silliness.
When I was homeless we used to gather ’round the TV and watch whatever bad movie someone had bootlegged which was usually in Russian with really horrible translations. I can speed-read (even though I am partially-sighted) and I would do all of the voices and make up the plots as we went along. I’m pretty sure the other ‘clients’ (read ex-cons, crazies and sickos like me) were never sure if I was really certifiable, or just making shit up. I didn’t have the hear to tell them that it was from repeated watchings of MST3K’s show that ran on Comedy Central for years and years. To add to the fun, most of the attendees were either drunk, stoned or on so much thorazine that they probably thought the whole thing was a hallucination. Come to think of it, I was too and maybe I’m making this all up. It’s no worse than the woman who came running up and hugged me in the grocery store and asked me how ”dey’s all doin’ up in dere?”
I totally Scoobied it and said ‘dey’ were great, but as I have patches of missing time from a psychotic break, I made sure to hurry home and see if I’d spend time in prison (no) or the loony bin (yes) that I was unaware of. Later on, I remembered her from a shelter I’d first been placed in, and also and seen her on the street working to bring in people to a car wash and I’d ‘tipped’ her, although I don’t drive. What a life.
You have had an extraordinary life, Mary, truly. In fact, your life beats my video. Fantastic. Thank you.
There’s a saying Colin: “catastrophe now, makes for a great story, later”. I’ve been at odds trying to chronicle all of it and have it make a bit of sense for readers and have come to the conclusion that life seldom makes sense. It’s the meaning and care and love we give to others that makes it worth while. And your video rocked; we didn’t have Sean Bean or Peter Dinklage living there. It would’ve spiced up things considerably!
I do love Peter Dinklage. He makes that show for me. Well, and the Queen of the Dothraki of course!
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