Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Happy Birthday, Phoebe Cates

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"The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."

6 comments:

J.D. said...

Umm... okay then?

Anonymous said...

Picking this instead of the pool scene = still more evidence, if any was needed, that Jason is gay.

Jason Adams said...

I actually seriously considered the pool scene, Sean, but figured that scene gets more than it's fair share of online love already...

Joe Reid said...

I'm glad to see someone repping for Gremlins out here.

FDot said...

Will you bookend this today with the Lincoln's Birthday monologue?

Jason Adams said...

fdot, I totally almost put that quote up as well! I love that you are as geeky on that count as I.... I should've known that I wouldn't have been the only one to get it. I'm totally gonna update this post when I can get that quote...