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Showing posts with label Zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zoo. Show all posts

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Wild Women! Gorillas! Unbelievable!

Grrrrr!! Titty!! Grrrrr!!
I've never seen 'Ingagi' but I like the poster so I'm going to recommend it based on that and the premise of gorillas kidnapping and shagging bald, big titted tribeswomen. It all makes for a rather splendid time.
I'm not so sure that it would be "The most sensational picture ever filmed!", but having never seen it, I can't disprove it and am willing to let my imagination believe that it is so.
The book I stole it from sez that the film was made in 1930 and was shot in Los Angeles Zoo and combined with old expedition footage and that many people actually believed that the story about a gorilla having sex with indigenous women. The film also featured unknown jungle creatures, which upon investigation, turned out to be turtles with fake wings and tails stuck on them. The 'pygmies' in the film were local LA children. This sounds fucken ace.
The film's producers were sued for stealing documentary footage from a 1914 film, 'Heart of Africa', but the movie went on to be successful for many years.
I'm off to Netflix to see if they have it......
I suppose I should credit the book it came from, "Exploitation Poster Art" Edited by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh. Aurum Press. It's a British book. Loads of great movie posters in it.

Saturday, January 6, 2007

A Day At The Zoo

Today was Lil' Miss Waring's 6th Birthday. In addition to the bike we had gotten her and other gifts yet to be opened, she had been told that as it was her day we would do whatever she wanted to do. She chose the zoo.......dammit!
The Los Angeles Zoo is rarely mentioned in discussions on the great zoo's of the world. If there were zoo rankings, and there probably are, I doubt if it would merit inclusion in the top 100. To give credit where credit is due, they try, and there is some serious construction going on in an effort to drag the park into the 21st century. Although this will ultimately be very nice if you are a gorilla or an elephant, for the visitors of today it just sucks. All this said, the kid is nuts about animals and so we bought an annual family membership. It has proved to be a good buy, as were the Disneyland passes, and the bribery potential of both have been exploited to the full by myself and the missus.
It has been a beautiful day in SoCal, blue skies, not a cloud in sight. A nice 70 degrees and a cool breeze which fortunately carried the smell of shit away from the zoo. All in all the perfect day to go looking at caged animals and, in my case, MILF's. Mrs. Waring stayed home and since a Father and Child spending Saturday at the zoo screams "Divorced", my ego was treated to lot's of sympathetic smiles from apparently single mums out to rope in some poor bastard desperate for a shag. I don't often get a second look, so when it happens it feels good and puts the extra spring in the step needed to haul my fat ass around a poorly planned and somewhat hilly zoo.
So, the kid was happy, I bought her a hot dog and a cherry icee and an ice cream, we watched the short but impressive "World of Birds" show and even saw a monkey take a shit, the highlight of both our weeks. I'm probably going to give it a month or two before going back again. By that time there will no doubt have been several more of the tragic animal deaths for which the zoo is famed, and hence several more exhibits "temporarily closed" like the former home of what was the only Polar Bear at the zoo (pictured above).