N8's Farewell to Patrick Swayze - Blogged by . . . I'll give you three guesses
R.I.P. JED ECKERT As some of you know, one of my favorite movies of all time is Red Dawn. It was originally released in 1984 when I was three years old. I remember watching it with my father as a very small child and can remember his excitement when a small group of teenage American freedom fighters managed to exterminate all of the "Commies" that took over their small Colorado town. Their leader was a young adult by the name of Jed Eckert (played very well by Patrick Swayze). Jed took the young teenagers and taught them very important lessons such as: how to drink the blood of a freshly killed deer to keep a piece of its soul with you forever, how to hold back your tears and turn them into hatred for the enemy, how to perform a proper firing squad, how to bravely rush into your high school parking lot in the midst of enemy fire to save your friends, and, my personal favorite, how to pee in a radiator if you've run out of water. As a child I wanted nothing more than to be Jed. I idolized him. I even named our beef steer after him. Jed was delicious. I used to embarass my sisters by running around in the snow with my bath robe on the outside of my snow clothes with a compass tied to the belt loop of it. That was my way of being Jed. Mr. Swayze, I look forward to the day when I get to shake your hand warmly and thank you for providing me with such wonderful childhood memories. May you rest in peace with the rest of the fighting WOLVERINES!!!
Oh Jed. That was quite the phase. What a strange little brother you were. I mostly decided to ignore you during that phase. That is, when I wasn't hiding your guns somewhere to torture you.
ReplyDeleteI've got some cute cards that the kids in Brooklynns class made at school on their way to you. Make sure you read them all. You will laugh at the way 8 year olds think. I think you may have been in your Ralph Macchio Karate Kid phase by the time you were eight. "Paint the fence, sand the floor, hee yah!"
Get up here and PISS in the radiator!!! HAHAHA! Too bad we didn't get some pictures in the bathrobe. I remember you walking around McDonalds clanking like crazy, with all your little plastic tools on your belt.
ReplyDeleteYes, Patrick was a great one. Someday I might get the patience to sit through Red Dawn, start to finish. I'll have to learn how to spit and scratch first though. Total guy movie.
Oh where has childhood imagination gone? I think that is stuck somewhere behind a stupid video game.
ReplyDeleteFarewell bathrobe, farewell childhood, farewell Jed aka Patrick. Keep on Dirty Dancing forever.