"So, what would your last meal be?" I ask, creepily. "Let's say you're on death row, and you've to send in your final food request. What would it be?" I clarify, more creepily.
"Oh, I don't know -- my tastes have changed so much over the years. You know? Like when I was a kid, it would've been ..." he responds, thoughtfully, as we shovel Santa Barbaran Mexican food into our fat faces. "Yours?"
"Pancakes, with scrambled eggs. And I'd want to eat as much as I could before I felt it all sink in to feel full and terrible. Then they could flip the switch," I respond, seamlessly. Yikes.
[Blink, blink]
"Hmm. Well, the real question is, Why did you end up on death row, Grice??"
The mind went aflutter.
Brother Grice has been shot dead. I find the villain and retaliate, vigilante-style. No. Little Morgan's been 'napped; I've found where they're holding her hostage and I snipe the perps, SWAT-style. No, no. Mama Grice has fallen comatose. The man whose fault it is is about to pull the plug in a stealth hospital-worker move. I knife him, saving her, of course; I'm found at fault for taking matters into my own hands.
No, no, no. None of these work -- I'd plea insanity (after having secured an un-securable top attorney) and probably would be left to rot in the jailhouse for all eternity. But no death row. Sigh.
I'd have to be wrongly convicted, I fear. Like Mr. Robbins in Shawshank.
One of my favorite Morgan Freeman scenes:
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Monday, October 13, 2008
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Mine would be Seven, but then that might also be one of my favorite Kevin Spacey movies, one of my favorite Brad Pitt movies. It is just a good movie, a well-made good movie. Also one of those movies about which I say, if there are serial killers out there, I want to know about them. And that very weight of seven is the weight of religion, and culture and history upon a people, pervasive in all cultures. We like the ring of repetition of the big symbols in our culture(s).
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