When weird Worlds Collide

Cage and Dog: When Weird Worlds Collide

Come on Nic, show those crazy eyes for the coppers!

May I start by saying I am a Nicolas Cage fan. I love the fact that he is the most over the top actor in Hollywood, yet seems to take the craft deadly serious. I love the fact that he still get hired constantly. I love that he almost went broke because he bought so many weird fossils and old comic books. I love Con Air. I love The Rock. I love Raising Arizona. I even loved the parts of Wicker Man where he screamed, attacked people in a bear suit and got covered in bees. So over the weekned when I heard Nic Cage had been arrested for domestic abuse in New Orleans I was heartbroken. No, not Nic! I need him to stay the quirky oddball with various styles of bad hair, not a malicious weirdo who hits his wife. But then the story kept going.
As it turns out there was apparently no physical violence involved in the incident, at least not according to his wife. Phew. Nice and his wife were drunk and stumbling back to the home they’re renting in New Orleans late at night when they began to loudly argue over just which house they were actually renting. Man, that’s drunk. The shouting escalated and the cops arrived, only for a belligerent Cage to dare them to arrest him. They took him up on that dare pretty easily. So Cage was brought in on disturbing the peace and domestic abuse, even though there was supposedly no physical contact. He needed bond posted for his release, and in stepped the most unlikely ally: Dog the Bounty Hunter.
What?! Why is Dog the Bounter Hunter in New Orleans? How does he know Nicolas Cage? Why would someone as rich and famous as Cage need to rely on a second-rate reality show star to post his bond? It’s all very bizarre, and all very awesome. Because I am also a huge fan of Dog the Bounty Hunter. I find his show ridiculously entertaining. They prepare for days to take down someone who skipped bail, strap on all their leather gear and prepare all their non-lethal weapons, and every time it’s just some doped up idiot sitting on a couch and muttering about how he was going to come in. But still, very entertaining in the worst possible way. I even made a sojourn to Dog’s bail-bond agency in Hawaii when I was there. Yeah, I’m hardcore.
So Nic Cage and Dog the Bounty Hunter together? This is my new dream team. I need a reality show about their friendship pronto.