Monday, May 24, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you…the portable screened-in porch.

 

spinal tap Artist, Polly Deutsch (Angelica Huston) and Band Manager, Ian Faith (Tony Hendra) in ”This is Spinal Tap” (1984)

IAN: This looks absolutely perfect. I mean it’s, uh, the right proportions. It’ll be this color right?

ARTIST: Yeah. Yeah.

IAN: Yeah. That’s...that’s...that’s just terrific. It almost looks like the real thing.

ARTIST: You got it.

IAN: When we get the actual, uh, set, when we get the piece, it’ll...it’ll follow exactly these specifications. I mean even these contours and everything?

ARTIST: Um, I’m not understanding it. What do you mean “the actual piece?”

IAN: Well I mean...I mean when you build the actual piece.

ARTIST: But this is what you asked for, isn’t it?

IAN: What?

ARTIST: Well this is the piece.

IAN: This is the piece?

ARTIST: Yes.

IAN: Are you telling me that this is it? This is scenery? Have you ever been to Stonehenge?

Stonehenge 

ARTIST: No, I haven’t been to Stonehenge.

IAN: The triptychs are...the triptychs are twenty feet high. You can stand four men up them!

ARTIST: Ian, I was...I was...I was supposed to build it eighteen inches high.

IAN: This is insane. This isn’t a piece of scenery.

ARTIST: Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...

IAN: Forget this! Fuck the napkin!!!

- “This is Spinal Tap” (1984)'

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you…
the portable screened-in porch.

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Oh, please don’t tell me we spent two hundred dollars on a MODEL of a portable screened in porch…Geez, Kevin’s HEAD barely fits in that thing.

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Oh. No. We’re OK. Here we are having just hoisted it onto the cart.

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So briefly, the rationale behind this thing is, any second now, the mosquitos are going to make the deck pretty much uninhabitable. Long term, we would like to put a screened in porch on the part of the deck just outside the office. But that could take a while. So for now, we’re going with this. I’m sure I’ll have lots of exciting pictures tomorrow of the installation process.

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