One of my favorite pastimes is to daydream parodies. There’s no better fuel for a daydream than books. I’m currently working through Don Quixote and wondering what took me so long to read Cervantes. My goodness, it’s hilarious. I’ve been in tears, truly rolling on the floor, laughing so much that Chuck and the kids wonder if I’m having fun, or in need of medical attention.
The character, Don Quixote, is a parodied knight-errant based on the stories of chivalry which were popular in Cervantes day. I’m thinking it would be a hoot to write a parody of this parody, based on the popular show “Dog Whisperer,” where an aging gentleman who spends his days watching episode after episode of “Dog Whisperer” convinces himself that he, too, possesses the gift of restoring displaced canine energy. He renames himself to – something catchy…maybe Dag Kahuna – and embarks on an adventure across America seeking neurotic dogs and their hapless owners in order to inculcate submission into the dogs and impel their owners to become the pack-leaders they were born to be. Unfortunately, lacking training and any God-given propensity for influencing animals, our character sojourns from town to town wreaking havoc, risking his life and the limbs of anybody unfortunate enough to be in proximity of the teeth of every breed from Abbruzenhund to Zuchon.
I don’t know, sounds funny to me.