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‘SAUSAGE PARTY’:
HOT DOG JEN GETS FRANK
BY COURTNEY CLARK
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The illiterate folks behind
Urban Dictionary define a
“sausage party” as “a party where
girls are outnumbered by guys
(by far). So basically, a f**kin
boring party where theres[sic] no
possibility of getting layed[sic],
and where the guys are
getting mad drunk to
forget about it.”
Actor Seth
Rogen and
writing partner
Evan Goldberg
countered this
terminology with
their mega-weedbrain-infused
animated
blockbuster that opened August
12. “Sausage Party” quickly
dethroned the week-old “Suicide
Squad” at the box office.
Rogen and company relished
the opportunity to comment on
social stigmas: racism, sexuality
and conspiracy theories to name
a few.
Instead of reviewing the
movie ourselves, we chose to
traumatize Jennifer Boston, the
Core’s celebrated Hot Dog Lady.
Boston was born and reared
in Riverside and has been
maintaining a hot dog stand on
King and Park Streets for 18
years. The drunken crowd loves
Hot Dog Jen on weekends when
she stands in the King Street
District slinging dogs until the
“wee-ner” hours of morning.
When asked how her dogs
are so good, Boston replies,
“They’re made with love.”
Hot Dog Jen had only seen
the clean trailer for the Pixar-like
animated farce, so she didn’t
know what she was in store
for when we invited her to a
showing.
“I was thinking it was like
food. Like how bad food was
and how they were getting
eaten and nobody would ever
want to eat again,” Boston said.
“Like I might leave a vegetarian
[laughing].
“So I’m still going,”
she said.
During the movie
(and, yes, dogs
were consumed
during the viewing),
Hot Dog Jen
alternated between
disparate exclamations
of “Oh my God!” and “I
love him! He’s so cute!”
But mostly, “Oh my God!”
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When the credits finally rolled
Jen was perfectly frank.
Hot Dog Jen: What the f**k
was that?
Courtney Clark: I think they
were just high.
HDJ: I think it was a clusterf**k.
I mean I think they were high
as a kite. ... Yeah, they had to
be really stoned and really just
have an extreme amount of
time on their hands to come
up with all of that, which is
really just brilliant that they
were able to incorporate all
of that into one movie. I’m
just speechless. I was thinking
I’d be scarred for life about
hot dogs but I’m like, Oh my
God! That was nothing like the
movie was at all.
CC: How do you feel knowing
you’re cooking and killing all
this food?
HDJ: Dude, they’re too
stoned. They don’t
count [laughing].
... That’s not
even going
to bother me
at this point.
... You know
what, that’s
so far removed
from me thinking
that; I’m still in
shock. My real expression
was, “You gotta be shitting me.
Really? It’s not a bad thing.
‘Wow’ is a good word for me.
CC: Would you recommend it?
HDJ: I’d recommend getting
stoned to come see it. It’d be
hysterical. You’d be rolling on
the floor. I think it’s probably
a fun movie. It’s definitely a
deep movie. There’s definitely
some hidden aspects and
meanings ... . There’s a whole
other movie going on inside
the movie. I think, you know,
honestly, when you can step
back over the Oh my God!
[moments]. I don’t even know
what to think. I think it dealt
with a lot. I think the food
really represented a lot of
people’s personalities, how we
are as people, how we view
things and actually how we
act. Take the food part out of
it and I think there are some
definite issues the movie tried
to address with us as people
to open our eyes to. I think
racism was probably one of
the biggest things. It’s the
message, not the messenger.
CC: Which part disturbed you
the most? (For me it was the
HOT DOG JEN • JENNIFER BOSTON
douche and the juice)
HDJ: Oh yeah. That was like —
dude, that was intense. I felt
sad. I felt sad about the
[spoiler] because he
was his friend and
[another spoiler].
But yeah, the
juice was intense.
That was really
disturbing.
CC: Were you
offended by any part
of the movie?
HDJ: No, it was too silly to
be offended. I think it would
be the sexual innuendos that
would be offensive if anybody
could be offended. But that’s
where you go, Okay, this is a
bunch of fruit f**king. Really?
CC: What was your favorite
part?
HDJ: That there was hope. The
little one, Barry, was going,
“We have to show them. We
can change them.” That was
my favorite part.
And what was Boston’s
overall opinion?
“I think the movie itself is a
good movie. I think the message
is a great message. I just wasn’t
thinking that was coming with
food,” she said.
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Hot Dog Jen
(Jennifer Boston)
Tues-Fri: Park & King streets
Fri & Sat nights: King Street
facebook.com/thathotdoglady
‘Sausage Party’
Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Bill
Hader, James Franco, Salma
Hayek, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Danny
McBride, Edward Norton
Sun-Ray Cinema
1028 Park St, 904-359-0049
Show times: Through Sept. 1: 2:30, 4:30,
7 & 9pm
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