Issue date: 12/1/04 Section: Opinion

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving that was filled with food, football and more importantly family.

I had a pretty satisfactory Thanksgiving. Wasn't the best one ever, but certainly not the worst. It was what it was.

But that is not what was important, but sometimes I have to tell a long-winded story to get to my point.

Anyways, I was bored Thanksgiving night, so I decided to rent "Wet Hot American Summer." I had caught about 20 minutes of it on Comedy Central and wanted to see more of it.

Thus I traveled to my local video store in Revere, aptly named Video Craze. This establishment has meant a lot of things to a lot of people and has been home to many zany events. I might be overstating it's importance, but screw it, it's my column.

I walk in and start talking to the clerk and his girlfriend whom I both know and am good friends with. After swiftly checking out the porn section talking very loudly about porn titles in the vain attempt to make the people there very uncomfortable, I go to seek out my movie.

I eventually spotted "Wet Hot American Summer" and walked out triumphantly with my movie.

I didn't get a chance to watch the damn movie till Saturday night.

I did go out that night to Boston and buy a Heartbreakers CD at Newbury Comics, but I got home early. Anyways, I watched the movie and loved it. I recommend everyone got out after finishing reading this excellent paper and watch this movie.

It was so good that I wanted to watch all the special features. One feature was cast interviews. As David Hyde Pierce talked, he mentioned his great respect for the Monty Python guys.

This is where the story starts to have a point.

Whenever I hear someone mention Monty Python, I think of this kid from a day camp I used to go to when I was in 5th grade.

Everyone used to make fun of this kid, it got really bad. We used to think he was crazy because all he talked about was how great this Monty Python is and Alice Cooper was his favorite musician.

Keep in mind; we were all in 5th grade. We had no idea who or what Monty Python and Alice Cooper were. At that time I was spoon fed Jim Carrey movies and Coolio singing about Dangerous Minds.

I've come to realize that this kid we had belittled was way ahead of his time. Monty Python is a great comedy troupe and Alice Cooper is an awesome musician.

I just had to grow up and mature to realize this kid was right. The kid knew what he was talking about, stuck to his guns and got persecuted for it.

Unfortunately that type of event has a history of happening and continues to happen.

As I wrap up my thoughts, I wish I had an opportunity to run into this kid someday on the street, shake his hand, apologize on behalf of everybody at that camp and tell him that he was not wrong, just incredible ahead of his time.

Having an opportunity like that is something I could be truly thankful for.

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