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Groupie-Doo cover by Stan Goldberg (via The Comics Reporter)

Today is the 72nd birthday of Al Pacino, with whom I fell in love on Easter weekend while watching Dog Day Afternoon for the first time. And yesterday I was walking past the bakery in Little Iran that sells these really great raspberry-jam-stuffed pink macarons, and “Union Forever” by the White Stripes came up on my iPod, and I had a brilliant idea that Jack White should’ve made it an entirely different song that’s about Dog Day Afternoon instead of Citizen Kane.

Not that I don’t love “Union Forever”! I love the hell out of “Union Forever.” I just love Dog Day Afternoon like 87 zillion times more than I love Citizen Kane. Truly, my Citizen Kane feelings are basically the same as those of Rachel Green and Joey Tribbiani.*

Anyway, a few hours after not eating a raspberry-jam-stuffed pink macaron, I had the realization that Jack White really isn’t the one to author a “Union Forever”-y kind of song about Dog Day Afternoon. Just as I’m not really much of a Citizen Kane kinda girl, I feel like Jack’s not really much of a Dog Day Afternoon kinda guy. Jack’s not very ’70s-y or Al Pacino-y or Brooklyn-in-the-summer-y. And that’s all fine. Bully for Jack White.

So! Now I’m trying to complete the analogy that goes:

Jack White : Citizen Kane :: xxxxx : Dog Day Afternoon

It’s a real puzzle, man. It’s much easier for me to work out which lines of dialogue to steal for the lyrics, like maybe: “It’s all a whim!” and “Wyoming’s not a country” and “I’m a Catholic, I don’t want to hurt anybody” and “I’m dying over here” and “We’re all going to sunny climes!”, which is one of my most favorite lines of all.

And I suppose “Attica, Attica” would make the most sense for a title, analogously speaking, but that sounds dumb to me and I’m not into it. So knock it off and just please solve the “Who is the Jack White of Dog Day Afternoon?” riddle for me. If you figure it out I’ll totally give you a raspberry-jam-stuffed pink macaron and a recording contract, or at least a lot of love.

P.S. Happy birthday, Al Pacino!! And your eyelashes too.

Yep, I stole ngfmsnaps post idea a lil’ bit. But I had to throw my own highlights of Mary’s mannerisms and general loveliness out there for all to see. In screencaps of course. Cuz sometimes pictures speak louder than words. ♥