Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Dixar

My Dad called at 11pm his time tonight to ask me how the Pixar Disney merger will effect me. We don't really know yet. But I know this conversation will change:

INT. Chili's Restaurant, any suburb, USA. Bad lighting surrounds the sights and sounds of 1998. Two women chat under fluorescent lights.

Heather: So, how's your job at Pixar?

Me: Disney.

Heather: What?

Me: I work at Disney. not Pixar. Different companies. Pixar is in the Bay area. Disney is in Burbank.

Heather: Oh. Ok. But you worked on (last Pixar film), right?

Me: No, that's Pixar. I worked on (last Disney film.)

Heather: I never heard of it.

JUMP CUT: INT. Chili's, any suburb, USA, 1999 and each sequential year. Same conversation, same fluorescent lighting every year.

CUT TO: EXT. Waterfalls, rainbow, beautiful landscape. Same two women talking in 2006.

Heather: So how's your job at Pixar?

Me: Great, thanks.

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