[Wonderful Labs] SECRET OF THE WONDER
Wonderful Labs
misterw@mindspring.com
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:26:53 -0800
Dear Wonder-boy,
Is that Tenacious D song about you? How well do you know Jack Black?
Jealously,
J.C.
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Dear G.P.,
"Wonderboy"? By Tenacious D? A humorous musical account of the band's
mock-superheroic origins, released as a single in the United Kingdom on
the 11th of November, 2002? The one with the line about "the power to
kill a yak from 200 yards away... with *mind bullets*"? Yeah. I hear
you can't get cats to piss on it.
Not even if it were shaped like Lassie's corpse.
Look, I'm not upset. It's not personal. I just wish they'd asked
first, before using my name and persona in a song. Wouldn't have
killed them. After that night in Pittsburgh, I mean... with the mulled
wine and the incense... and the shipments of lubrication, y'know,
whatever, I think they, they knew how I felt. Do they suppose anyone
else could have taught them to mine the implicit hilarity of Zanzibar?
Or *wildebeests*?
Nah, I'm only kidding. Never heard of them. No! That's a joke, too.
We keep you guessing because reality is fluid in the vicinity of
Wonderful Labs. Learn the backstroke of uncertainty and you won't mind
so much not having the paddle.
Anyway. Point is. I'm sad to report that the song is not about Mister
Wonderful, and that furthermore, the closest I've come to meeting Jack
Black was the other night in Hollywood when I ran into a guy who looked
a little like Jack Black and told me that his roommate ought to be
charged a "bitch-ass tax." It might have *been* him, actually. He's
been everywhere else. Good Christ, you couldn't shoot a supermodel last
year without it getting bumped by an article about some new Jack Black project.
Hey! Imagine the CIA started running Jack Black Ops. Overthrowing
Castro with extreme satire! Better yet, make it a video game. You have
to save the world from nuclear-capable terrorists before your
multi-media projects fucking supersaturate the market.
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