In a blog post from a few years ago, I mentioned an article written in which the author talks about how he liked to try and use movie lines in regular conversation. The more obscure and challenging the quote, the better. By the article’s end, the author, Roger Rosenblatt, gloried in the fact that he was finally able to use the most obscure quote he had in his arsenal, a quote referencing the giant rat of sumatra.
The article, entitled “I Shoulda Kicked Your Teeth In”, was from quite a few years ago. I only had a copy of it in its Reader’s Digest format, torn from the magazine, quite yellow, and filed in one of my movie theory/history folders.
Yes, I have such folders. I am a saver of stuff. You never know when you might need it.
And…exactly that. You never know when you might need it.
Last October, upon moving to Bismarck and still with boxes not yet unpacked, I received an email from a man who was looking for that very article and at last found it referenced on my web site. I’m sure he was disappointed; the blog post I mention it in is barely about the article.
“Do you, by any chance, still have the article?”
I did, indeed. I dug through boxes and found the tan folder that I knew it to be in. I proceeded to scan it in and email it to him.
And now, for anyone else absolutely dying to read it, I present it to you:
I love this! I remember reading it and I use the lines from this article as my own! Thanks for posting the copy!