Before I get into the movies, I need to straighten out something I said yesterday. I said the Australian peoples was spread out. This can't be true since most of 'em live close to the coast. Sorry.
Now the movies. Hollis had a whole bunch of movies sent through the mail in little red envelopes. We get four at a time. They was all made in Australia. Hollis liked all of 'em, but just like with American movies I only liked about 20%. One I really liked was Danny Deckchair. It was about this bloke (man) in Sydney who worked with cement. He lived with his sheila (girl) and they was having a fight. He was happy living like they did, but she wanted to move up in the world. They had a party and Danny had got some big balloons--through a mix up in the printing on the balloons--and some helium. He hooked these up to a deckchair and him and his friends was fooling around when they looked away at a ball game on TV and Danny went sailing up over the city. He got in a thunderstorm and landed much later in a small town to the north. You'll have to look at it yourself for more, but it tells a lot about how good the people are down there.
I think Danny would fit in real good in Harper.
Tomorrow: Another Movie From Down Under
Hollis' funny name of the day:
Lila Kadogg can't be trusted
Reading this made me think of the recent pictures posted by one of the astronauts on the SpaceStation. The image of Australia at night..a perfect white outline with all the lights around the coastline.
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