Again, no sequel to the non-allegorical fairy tale yet because I’m tired and lazy. But I’ll make it up to you by telling a different story, the story of one ambitious woman’s clever film project that involved stop animation and the clumsy chump who volunteered to help with it. ;-)

One upon a time there was very clever graduate student with a very clever cat. The cat is not at all relevant to this story. The film class that this clever graduate student was taking is relevant. Because it meant she needed to make a film… a brilliant film… a film involving a Dia de los Muertos style skeleton marionette… a skeleton marionette who was going to be the star of her stop-motion animated film… a skeleton who would dance and find a stunning hat and put it on his head and admire himself in a shiny sun-shaped mirror. Brilliant!

But the skeleton marionette, as is so often the case with skeleton marionettes, could not move under his own power. No, he needed assistants in order to move. And unfortunately for Señor Skeleton, one of his assistants for the day was our very own clumsy R. Batty! Batty really wanted to make Señor Skeleton and the very clever graduate student director happy, so she tried her best to make S. Skel whirl and dance and discover his groovy hat with finesse and pizzazz. Most likely, this will look more like seizures on film. But Batty tried. Batty tried really hard. Batty’s hand only accidently got in the shot once. Maybe twice. That’s pretty good right? Well, even if it’s not, the clever graduate student pretended that it was, and Batty was most generously rewarded for her clumsy work with much good food throughout the day. Batty could get to like being a clumsy skeleton marionette assistant. Yessirree. Especially since it seems Batty’s chance to be a breakout zombie star will never reach fruition. Drat.