LA Times - Probably the Final Chapter...of Shame!!

Ok, so we heard back from XXX XXXX at the LA Times about the blatant re-use of our Surrealism for their Entertainment fodder. As you can probably infer from the tone of our opening sentence, here, things did not go as we'd planned. This is XXX XXXX's new statement after his "investigation" (notice the use of sarcastic quotation marks):

"Dear Dan & Vince,

Just to follow up: I've discussed this with Patrick Day and his editors and they are unfamiliar with your blog. They came up with this premise together, while brainstorming. So maybe great minds are thinking alike?

For what it's worth: What I'm also getting on this is that such a juxtaposition between movies and reality is not a totally brand-new one, though, and variations on it have been done in years past.

Thank you again for writing with this matter of concern to you.

XXX XXXX"

So they're taking the easy way out by claiming total ignorance of our blog, and probably even our existence. But notice their use of flattery. If they're so "ignorant" of us, how can they possibly comprehend the greatness of our minds?!?! People pleaded ignorance about this mortgage crisis thing, too, but that didn't mean it wasn't real.

That's right. We said it. We're real.

I know we put on this big show that we're actually Sur-real, but we're just as tangible as the day we were born. Maybe even more so, since we're now far more massive, and it's just possible that mass equates to degree of reality.

And, LA Times, you really hurt our feelings. Sniff. All we wanted was a little picture of Rene Magritte somewhere in the Entertainment section. But no.

Ok. Now we're really mad. We thought we'd try to barrage Patrick Day with all kinds of slanderous rumors, but it turns out he was too clever for us by having a name that's almost exactly the same as a holiday where everybody drinks too much. So whatever we said about him would get lost in the annals of Google and if anybody did find it, they'd assume it was some type of liquor hallucination and forget all about it.

So now, it appears, the only thing left to do is to take this to the people who have been affected most by this scandal -- the candidates. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.