Attention all Austin area geeks!!! You know those wonderful film splash parties that you’ve read about on AICN’s pages over summer’s past, weeeell the Austin Parks and Recreation Dept. has revived the series for this summer. The Deep Eddy Swimming Pool at 401 Deep Eddy Drive will host the series this year every Saturday night from May 29th till August 28th. Take it from FATHER GEEK these events can be gigantic fun. Click over to the Aint It Cool Museum and read what I have to say about the Creature from the Black Lagoon 3-D screening back in Aug. of 1996 in my article on Greatest Film Memories. The pool will be reopening at 8 pm each Saturday, there will be refreshments (in past years they have even had hot dogs), and you’ll have to pay the normal pool entry fee. Now, this is not an event for Film Snobs, it is riotious jollity, rollicking divertissement, and just plain frisky fun. How better to spend a hot summer’s eve? If I were you I’d pick films I’d seen before that captured my inter-child and revisit them in this new format. If you attend one of these presentations Father Geek predicts you’ll easily become 12 again, maybe even 6. I know all of us did.

Picture this scene geeks and geekettes; you’re floating in the cool clear Texas Hill Country spring water, the stars are twinkling above your upturned eyes in the black velvet sky, the Moon is busy playing at being a Cheshire Cat, you spot Venus first then Orion’s belt and one of the dippers, the surrounding centuries old Live Oak trees are bathed in an eerie flickering reflected light, their silver-green-grey Spanish Moss gently swaying before the breath of a warm humid breeze, and then... quite suddenly... accompanied by a chorus of hundreds of ear piercing screams... Mighty Joe Young leaps with a thunderous roar out of the night’s blackness straight at you sending the once still waters into a raging torrant of disruptive waves. Just toooo toooooo cooooooool!!!

May 29th...........MEN IN BLACK

June 5th.............101 DALMATIONS

June 12th...........WILLIE WONKA

June 19th...........MULAN

June 26th...........CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in 3-D

July 3rd.............ANTZ

July 10th............HERCULES

July 17th............PRINCE OF EGYPT

July 24th............RUG RATS

July 31st............MADELINE

August 7th.........MIGHTY JOE YOUNG

August 14th.......BABE PIG IN THE CITY

August 21st.......SIMON BIRCH

August 28th.......A BUG’S LIFE

Father Geek doesn’t know about you, but our Geek Headquarters crew plans on making several of these. Come early. The lines will grow longer and longer as the Summer stretches on, and the word spreads. 3-D night will have a huge turnout. You can bring small floation devices, some humbugs even bring lawn chairs, missing the whole point. The best seats are in the water where the action is. Not on some distant shore populated by grownups in full clothes. Did I tell your to come early? This will be a line of a different color for sure. The last one I was in had Alligators, Sharks, Ducks, Orcas, a Sea Serpent or two, and lots of Bikinis in it. Remember the line is part of the experience. You may end up telling your friends more about it than the movie. Did I say come early? Not to beat a dead seahorse, but this line will be cool, jaunty, frolicsome. If you need more information call the Austin Aquatics Dept. at 512-480-3030. Mark your calendars boils and ghouls. I’ve already branded mine, burning 3 of these dates onto my right frontal lobe. Or was that the left? Oh, well. See you there! We’ll be the ones treading water at approximately 3rd or 4th non-row center. And remember it’s the precocious little chicks that get the helminthes.