Row Mants, Row!

02/14/09 07:07 PM | Gags

Who remembers the movie Matinee? John Goodman as the huckster film promoter, during the bay of pigs nuclear attack scare? Remember the Film that he was promoting? MANT! The mutant Man-Ant created in the genre of real nuclear scare era movies? Like that movie inside the movie, it has very little to do with the story line. Well only the title of this post has any relevance to that movie or the use of any memories created by it. Like the movie promoter in the film, using Mant was just a vehicle to get me into the real post which now follows:

What is Romance? Is it a love affair,a fanciful story or whimsical narrative? Is it a diversionary adventure or a flight of fancy? Perhaps it is an intimate sexual relationship between two people? More like a strong or enthusiastic like for something? You might think it is an attempt to win the affection of someone? The answer is of course, Yes.
According to a dictionary it is any or all of those things. Now that I have your attention I have to ask, what does it have to do with the Feast of St. Valentine, or FTD or Sweetest day?
Is Love more important one day of the year than any other day? Is a person’s romantic worth to be graded by impersonal paper sentiments distributed in grade schools? Is it more necessary to be linked to another as a romantic interest on the 45th day of each year than the 8th or 300th? Is it important to be happy on valentine’s day? Do we know why St. Valentine was martyred? Does the date of his interment make you want to feast or drink wine and eat chocolates? Are you loveless, heartless or callous if you have a bad valentines day? Is your self esteem linked to a batter of sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, gums, coloring and flavoring pressed and baked into a pencil eraser sized heart with the words “be mine” on it? Will you forever be a hermit or spinster if you don't recognize the power of February 14th? Do you need a hug? Do you only need or receive hugs on this very special median day of the second month? Could commercialism have played a part in the perceived popularity of this "any other day" day? Are you lonesome tonight? Would you dare play it on the jukebox at the Chatterbox on February 14th? Would you be incensed if you heard it played on Valentines day? Can you believe that I was threatened by 4 lonely hearts in that very bar, on that very day about 6 years ago because I did that very thing? How about if I mentioned that I play that song, #123 every other time I'm in there playing tunes, that I'm a huge Elvis Presely fan and I really like that song? I don't deserve LOVE or my choice of musical entertainment on the termination of the second week of February if I drop two quarters into a music machine an play a song that should be in no way offensive? I'm politically incorrect if you are lonesome tonight and I play a song that reminds you? Maybe if your panties were not in a bunch you would have been on a friggin date, and out of my face. I'm just sayin.
Happy Valentines day, Love Ya, Be Mine, how about a Hug?
Chuck Pace ©2009
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