The Holy Chao

I started telling my co-worker about this, but then I was, like, "you know, your co-workers don't want to hear about your dreams. Random strangers do!"

So, last night, I had this dream. It was cinematic, I wasn't actually a participant in the action, although I ended up watching some of the action from the little dude's eyes.

Anyway, there was a Big Scene going on. A professional basketball player, extremely tall athletic guy, was having (or more accurately, perhaps, leaving) a press conference, where I believe he was announcing an expansion of his endorsed shoe line. He was obviously famous for playing in these shoes, and was unbeatable.

He got involved in trash talking with this little dude, a street player, who was all about "your shoes are crap. I play barefoot!" The street player used some kind of stickum stuff that came in a wad in a bag, and you smeared it on your feet, and played barefoot.

I don't know how it got to this, but these two players ended up having a much-publicised one-on-one game, where both players were using the stickum product.

As is quite predictable, the street player totally schooled the pro player. There was an extended sequence in which the pro player couldn't even move when he put this stuff on his feet. It was quite comical.

But none of this is really the point. The point is that both characters were played by Marlon Brando.

The pro player was Marlon in his Godfather role, much hair, neat and trim. Clearly, he was ridiculously tall, and he was athletic, which is not how I think of the Godfather Brando, but that's the head that was on this body.

Meanwhile, the street ball player was Marlon from Apocalypse Now, bald and kinda creepy. But short and athletic.

I don't know what any of this means, but all day I've been like looking over my shoulder for Brando clones...

# posted by Matt @ 7:02 AM