(No, not Billy Crystal.)
(No offense, Mr. Crystal. I love your work.)
Plus, I got to shock my family with my extensive knowledge of quicksand survival skills. But more on that in a minute.
I got a copy of my Must See 2.0 List in mid-December and as you know, The Princess Bride was on the list. Imagine my surprise when I found the DVD in my Christmas stocking. This only proves one thing: Santa reads my blog.
Seriously. What other explanation can there be?
For those of you who have never seen nor heard of The Princess Bride, it is the story of a grandfather reading a fairy tale to his sick grandson. And it's brilliant, from beginning to end. Even the cover art on my DVD.
The cover of the DVD is a source of absolute amazement for me. It has been since the morning of December 25, 2012, when I saw it for the first time as I was excitedly pawing through all the goodies in my Christmas stocking. The best part of the cover is the title, which reads the same right side up or upside down.
Here. Look, right side up:
And upside down:
Imagine making a word or phrase readable, no matter if you are reading it from the North or the South. It just kills me and I love stuff like that. Actually, I consider it high art.
In short, Princess Bride, you had me at the cover art.
Ha! Get it? I threw in a line from the movie.
Gosh, I'm sneaky.
Know what else is sneaky? Quicksand.
At one point in the movie, a lightening sand pit appeared and it scared the bejeezers out of me. I was scared because it reawakened a long dormant, childhood fear of quicksand.
What? Like most little girls from Indiana aren't afraid of quicksand?
Okay. Maybe not, but I was. It remains a mystery to me how or why I developed a fear of drowning in quicksand, but I was terrified and as a kid, I used to spend hours alone in my room practicing my defensive moves against quicksand.
(Yes, I realize that I was a weird little kid. You'd be a little weird, too, if this and this had happened to you.)
To recap: Watched The Princess Bride and loved it. I loved the cover art, the plot, the dialogue, the story, and it gave me a good reason to regale my family with essential quicksand survival tips. Plus, I love to say "I am Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." in a sassy Spanish accent.
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