Archive for November 24th, 2008
On the screen, Humphery Bogart looks at Claude Reins, the moment rippled with tension. Major Strasser has been shot, and the police are here to catch the criminal. Bogart did the shooting, and Reins knows it. But, instead:
Round up the usual suspects.
I love this ending, and so I’m not looking toward the back of the room when my girlfriend’s mom lifts up her shirt and flashes my girlfriend’s dad. My girlfriend wasn’t as diligent a Casablanca watcher as I was, though, and she saw everything.
She reels in disgust.
Eww! Why do you guys have to do that? I don’t flash Ben in front of you guys.
Her parents laugh. I shake my head. She blushes.


