What an incredible night I had last night! I left the house a little after 2:00. My goal was to get to Phoenixville by 3:30 so I could join Audra and Steve for Forbidden Planet showing at the Colonial Theater. Walking out of the Donnavilla, I was struck by the overcast sky. (Luckily, skies are mainly air, so I wasn’t too hurt). As I headed to the turnpike, a few drops of rain began to fall. I wasn’t overly worried, it’ll blow over by the time I finally make it to Phoenixville. Within minutes, the rain started pounding. Lightning ripped through the sky and the ground practically shook from the thunder. I still wasn’t worried, I figured it was just a local storm and would probably just bypass Phoenixville. The rain continued. The cars on the turnpike slowed to about 40 miles an hour. I called Audra and she told me the rain had reached Phoenixville and the street fair was rained out. I was more than halfway there so I just forged on.

I met Audra and Steve in front of the Colonial. It was 3:50 and we had missed the beginning of Forbidden Planet. We decided to go back to their place and from there go to King of Prussia for an early dinner and shopping before the 8:00 Double Feature, The Blob/It Came from Outer Space. Back at their apartment, Audra who is on call this weekend, received a call from a client. It seemed like a minor emergency. We waited for Audra to return. She got back about an hour later. As soon as she stepped foot in the apartment, she received another call and had to leave. Steve and I went to the local pizza parlor and ordered some slices of pizza and waited for Audra. I joked that this was God’s doing. Even though Steve is Audra’s husband and we have hung out many times, we’ve never spent so much time together and had the time to just talk to each other. I think God wanted us to finally learn a little bit about each other. Audra arrived home just in time for us to leave for the Double Feature.

Before the movie began, Dr. Frank N Stone, Creighton, Wes Shank, and Jonathan Haze ran down the middle aisle and onto the stage. Wes Shank told us that somehow the Blob had escaped his container and was loose in the theater! Dr Frank N Stone had us check under our seats in search of the Blob. Someone in the middle of the theater found it under his seat. Dr Frank N Stone grabbed the guy and directed him to the lobby for decontamination. Apparently after decontamination, you get a free Blob t-shirt! The movie started and the theater quieted down.

It is always such great fun watching a movie with an enthusiastic audience. Every now and then someone would yell something silly at the screen. Whenever the Colonial Theater was shown, everyone would clap and cheer. There was one scene where the police are quizzing Steve McQueen on what this creature looked like. Steve stammered and stuttered, “It looked… It-It looked like… It looked like a…”

Someone screamed, “A BLOB????!!!!???” It was so funny! My friend Rob called and said he was in the lobby. He was aiming to see the next movie but he was early. I turned around to see where he might be and you won’t believe who I saw sitting behind me!!!! CREIGHTON WAS SITTING RIGHT BEHIND ME AND HE HAD HIS ARM AROUND A PRETTY GIRL! I KID YOU NOT! Rob arrived at the perfect time because he got to see the running out of the Colonial scene.

The next movie was It Came From Outer Space… IN 3-D!!!! I couldn’t get over the quality of the 3-D. It was really incredible! I don’t know why Jaws 3 in 3-D was the last big movie to be released in 3-D. It is so cool to see depth! After the movie finished, the theater cleared but we stayed behind. Creighton was standing right near me and he gave me that little wave of his and I smiled and said, “I was so happy when you left me comments on MySpace, do you do the comments yourself?” CREIGHTON DROPPED CHARACTER AND SAID, “YES” The next thing I know I’M HANGING OUT AND TALKING WITH CREIGHTON FROM GHOUL A GO-GO!!!! His real name is Kevin! I left the theater walking on a cloud of air!

It was so late and instead of calling it a night, we went to the Phoenixville Diner. The diner in the movie the Blob, wasn’t the Phoenixville Diner but the Downingtown Diner. Regardless, the Phoenixville Diner looks just like the diner from the movie while the Downingtown Diner has undergone renovation and doesn’t look that much like the old diner. We sat at a window booth and Rob gave me 1.00 in quarters for the in-booth Jukebox and I played Walkin’ After Midnight by Patsy Cline and All Shook Up by ELVIS. That’s all I could play with a dollar of quarters. Fifty cents a song! Steve McQueen is rolling in his grave!

I got home by 3:00am. One would almost think my dreams would be plagued by creatures from outer space. Perhaps quite luckily, my sleep was dreamless. I awoke at 6:30 and by 7:00 I flipped on Rockin’ Ron Cade.

PS During It Came From Outer space, Creighton and his girlfriend sat in the row in front of us. Creighton kept his arm around her shoulders and every now and then he would stroke her shoulder or nape. It was quite romantic to see a huge bald humpback getting down with his lady!