2004jun15. The movie The Terminal, based loosely on the life of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, will come out in theatres June 18th. I have no plans to see this film. Mysteriously, the associated website doesn’t seem to reference Nasseri at all.
“Executive Producer Andrew Niccol had the initial concept of a man who was detained at the airport and ended up living in the terminal. He developed the story with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, who recalls, “I thought it was a brilliant place to start in creating a scenario that most people would never believe could actually happen.”That is brilliant. [NYT (Sep 21 2003), Snopes (Sep 19 1999), Geektimes (Jul 14 1999)]
I spent approximately 50 hours in the air during the last month or so. I don’t want to think about how long I spent in international airports. In some international airports you get free little carts you can use to lean on if you have a raging blister on your widdle toe, like this one from Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong they also have members of the Hong Kong Tourist Authority who sit on the sidelines waiting for people who are way early for their flight, blisters or not, then they descend upon them and barrage them with questions. My interlocutor had not yet discovered dental floss and had this ultra-smooth way of returning to questions I fobbed off from ten pages previous:
“So you’re going to spending ten days in Japan and [flips back]
let’sreturnnowtoyourmealchoiceswhileyou’reinThailandwhatdoyouthinkyourdailymealbudgetwillbe?”
“I told you, I have no idea.”
I also didn’t tell him about my plans to rob a money exchange in Ko Samui. More on that tomorrow.
TUNE IN TOMORROW WHEN YOU'LL READ ABOUT MY EXCITING AND SEXY MONEY EXCHANGE HEIST IN THAILAND WHILE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING!