If you have lived in Mobile Alabama for more than 10 years...you will find this funny!

Here in Mobile, we have a certain way of doing things. I really don't know how to describe it, but you know it when you see it. Its a pattern of creating/starting/bringing/making something that sounds like the real deal but is just a few bells and whistles short. It is a true southern trait to get your hopes up that "this" is going to be huge. Then the cloud of Bob Grips nightly marketing hoo rah fades and we are left with the old three legged dog and ass show. That's right not even a pony! Hey, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We just cant resist the thought of big city lights! At least they can never say that we don't have hope.

Here in Mobile we make lemonade out of any fruit. Play a sport and rent a room on I-65....good chance you will be inducted into the Mobile Sports HOF.

So I stumbled across this article about a movie company being formed right here in the Port City and they are going to film 2-3 movies every year. I clicked away thinking this could be cool. Then I read the story and was stunned. Why? Because I had just been stung by the Mobile Cobra of Expectation.

So the short of it is that the owner of this little gym out in West Mobile wrote a story between session of bench press and towel folding. Then he got a "big" time Hollywood producer to turn it and many others into a movie. Who is this big Hollywood player? Some guy who has made dozens of straight to DVD action movies. That's right, movies with names like "Steel Revenge", "Fighting Force", "High Velocity Overload" and "Blowing Sh#@ up while reciting awful lines". This guy has kept ex-strippers who couldn't get in to regular movies and drunk martial arts guys of the street and in extended stay motels. Mobile Alabama- the Hollywood of the East Coast.

Watch out by this time next year you just might be sharing a Subway sandwich with Van Damn, the Boz or Stephen Baldwin.

The best part is that if you read the article, you will see that the first movie is about a guy who works or moves into an old folks home. They then train him to be a mixed martial arts fighter. Are you getting a mental picture? Here is the article http://blog.al.com/live/2009/01/local_movie_company_formed_to.html

I am fully behind these two guys making movies and I will probably watch them, but who doesn't miss the opportunity to poke a little fun at low budget movies. I wish you the best of luck getting Van Damn off the bottle....dammit there I go again. I will say this....If they manage to pull off another Buckaroo Banzai (the greatest B movie of all time) I will be the first to call them GREAT. Right to their face in their office in the back room of Sandy's Nails and Wig-a-rama.......sorry THAT was the last sucker punch!
Until next time....................Karateeeeee Chop