In the wonderful Japanese manga-turned-movie trilogy, 20th Century Boys, a group of friends in the 1970s write a comic book describing the year 2000. It’s all giant robots and end-of-the-world stuff. 30 years later, it all starts coming true.
In a similar vein, a current social media meme asks if 2020 is being scripted by a fourth-grader: “First Australia was on fire. Then there was this virus and then everyone was scared. And then the world ran out of toilet paper. Yeah, and then there was no school for like a month…!”
If all that wasn’t crazy enough, now we have monkey street gangs and cat-butthole movies.
Hundreds of monkeys from two gangs engaged in a brawl that shocked local humans in Lop Buri on Wednesday.
Sasaluk Rattanachai posted a message showing hundreds of monkeys taking to the streets in the Lop Buri municipality on Wednesday.
Lop Buri is home to thousands of monkeys. Each has to swear allegiance to one of two gangs — temple monkeys and city monkeys.
Temple monkeys control the areas around Phra Prang Sam Yod, while their rivals are based in the municipality. The zones are divided by the northern train track.
Normally the two camps do not encroach on one another’s territories.
It’s all Crips, Bloods, Warriors, Rogues and…Ook-ooks?
Why today’s rare incursions? Local residents came up with different theories. Some pointed to the torching heat that might have made them hot-tempered, while others believed they were fighting for food.
Biew Um-in, a taxi motorcyclist, told Thai Rath online that he witnessed the leader of the temple gang leading its members into the area controlled by the city camp to find food at a market. The chief of the city monkeys then fought back, leading the intruders to retreat to their home turf, he said.
[…]”Did this relate to the Covid-19 virus that is spreading?,” he questioned. “I wondered.”
bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1876489/monkey-brawl-in-lop-buri-shocks-humans
Global warming or Chinese Virus? Either way, when society breaks down, the monkeys rule the streets.
And Hollywood makes movies with singing cats’ buttholes.
It takes a special movie and a special WTF story about that movie to pry Twitter’s collective eyes away from the spread of Coronavirus. Last night, Cats and the rumor of an alleged Butthole Cut did exactly that. Yes, I said Butthole Cut, and yes, the phrase “Release The Butthole Cut” trended on Twitter last night. Here’s why.
Part of the reason why this feels so true (whether it is or not) is because so much about Tom Hooper’s Cats is inconsistent and weird.[…]
Buttholes or not, Cats is something to behold. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, are stuck in quarantine and want your life to take an even weirder turn, I cannot recommend throwing it up on OnDemand since it came out earlier this week.
cinemablend.com/news/2492806/cats-allegedly-added-buttholes-then-removed-them-and-now-fans-want-the-butthole-cut
So, now there’s one more on the list of lost movies the world needs to see:
The Day the Clown Cried. The Star Wars Holiday Special. Super Hornio Brothers. Cats: The Butthole Cut.
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