February 3, 2012- DD Video/Cartoon Characters
I got to be in a Duran Duran video in the holodeck. I must
have won a contest. It was sort of a strange video for a song that doesn’t even
exist in my reality. Weirder yet was that it was being filmed in a few places
in Cranford.
The DD guys and the
crew were staying at the same hotel – The Coachman Inn. This hasn’t been there
for many years. Another hotel is but I’m not even sure of its name. It was cool
seeing this place again. I got to hang out with the group there for a little
while, also part of the prize.
When I was a kid,
I was always so excited and relieved to see the big sign for that hotel as we
were driving home on the Parkway from either the shore or the mall. I did have
fun at those places but the thought of being home again was comforting, esp.
when my Ginger pup was around.
They made me look
glamorous for the video, doing my hair and makeup and giving me a beautiful and
expensive outfit to wear. I was looking semi-pretty to begin with, which I have
no idea how the aliens create such an illusion but I wish that they’d let me
stay that way in the real world.
I was chatting with
Nick about fashion and makeup for about 15 minutes. I wasn’t even feeling
nervous. I didn’t really say much to the others, just the basic hello and other
small talk.
Everyone in the
video was moving in slow motion during part of it, only this was actually
really happening and not added as a special effect later. No one thought that
this was odd.
When I left the
hotel, my father was in the parking lot. Why did he have to be a part of this?
I hope that he was a good Dad in this reality. Were my parents still married
here? It was present day but everyone looked 10-15 years younger.
Dad was standing
near our 1984 tan Buick Century. He told me that he had been at Woodbridge Mall
but that when he was driving home on the Parkway as he reached our
exit-136-that suddenly our town was no longer there. A forest was now in its
place.
I said “How is this
possible?” Our town is very close to
this hotel; when I looked over in that direction I saw that he was right. I
told him that maybe it still is there but that it is now beyond the forest
Dad seemed pretty
upset about this. I told him that maybe
we should just go somewhere for coffee before checking this out. I also said
that maybe afterwards things would be back to normal in our town.
He took us
someplace in Kenilworth. We went on the Parkway to get there. During that
drive, I saw a very strange but also funny site – there were cartoon characters
in their vehicles on this road also. There was Scooby and the gang in the
Mystery Machine van, which is my all-time favorite cartoon. Others included
Batman and Robin, The Flinstones, Hong Kong Phooey and The Blue Falcon and
Dynomutt.
It ended after we
had our coffee so I don’t know if our town was where it should be again;
hopefully it was. I’ve lived there all of my life and probably will until the
day that I die.
The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt
Note- bottom 2 photos are from the internet
