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Variations on a Theme ‘Nuff said. ‘Cause we’re lazy.
PART THREE: Again (okay this one is more a trad article than Part Two and One (both below), but it's still a theme)
Star Wars is brought up a lot on this site.
Because Star Wars is easy. Even if you don't know
the name of Chewie's home planet (or who we're referring to with that
nickname (!)), Star Wars is enough of a cultural touchstone that we can
bring other more complex ideas back around to robots and lightsabers.
Star Wars spans ancient myths and twenty-first
century capitalism. Star Wars can be about the future and a long, long
time ago. The stories within Star Wars tell us about timeless aspects of
the human condition, and how Star Wars exists as a product that is
marketed tells us about a very specific time of our civilization.
It is everywhere. At 9 minutes into the SpaceX
Dragon-ISS Rendevous Video from Dec.8.2018, the host notes that the view
and setup of a spot on the ISS is like a that of a Tie Fighter. He didn't
even say 'from Star Wars'. It was just assumed that this comparison was
understandable. That what is happening in real life in space is similar to
what happens in a non-existent, fictional spacecraft.
Suffice to say, right now there is a lot of Star
Wars.
This is because Star Wars makes a lot of money,
and its parent company Disney very much likes the money stuff. And you
know what makes the most amount of money? The same thing over and over.
The first film of the new trilogy (The Force Awakens) is a hell of a lot
like the first film of the original trilogy (A New Hope). And just in case
the kids today find a sci-fi flick in 1977 a bit clunky and flat (how dare
they!), there's a new cartoon series, Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures,
which takes the audio from the OT upon a dizzyingly fast animated palette
to introduce a new generation of potential customers to what happened
before Rei, Poe Finn, etc.
It's barely a re-imaging or re-boot. It's just
more.
Your favourite books, movies, bands never end now.
So little is actually new, and before that’s comes
off as a lament about creativity, it’s more a comment on familiarity.
Quite clearly, we like the same thing. Movies
franchises, returning TV series, reunited musical groups. We just can't
say goodbye.
We can't stop spending/trying to make money.
Happily ever after versus 'and then what
happened?'
You never have to leave the warm fuzzy doesn't
matter fun-ness of ever expanding sci-fi fantasy worlds and reality shows
that don't at all reflect reality.
Never-ending is supposed to be a concept for
higher planes of existence. Even our universe will fizzle out in its
ultimate heat death, billions of years from now.
Is this simply rooted in our fear of death, fear
of the greatest sort of change?
Sartre noted nearly a century ago that we
constantly try to flee from responsibility for the problems and chaos of
the world and it's become much, much easier to do this as technology
advances.
We have - well, scientists and engineers have and
we just ran with it - digitized culture to the point where you can watch
any film or TV show on your phone instantaneously. And if you liked it,
you can watch it again right away. Thirty years ago you had to go to the
video store to rent and see it repeatedly. And a generation before that,
you just had to wait for your local theatre to play Dr. Strangelove again.
Technology changes and then we do, but our change
is not so linear. Cars get faster and more efficient (ha?), computer chips
get smaller, communication becomes easier. But we get excited, confused,
uncertain, and then angry at these necessary adjustments.
The digital revolution has created a few more rich
people and a lot less rich people. It's been hard to restructure a global
economy that is more interconnected and interdependent than ever to
benefit everyone. We're going to Mars and are making crypto-currencies out
of thin air, while more and more people need to use food banks as the
world become a surveillance state. This is technology for the future, but
we aren't even sure what the future should look like. Aesthetically, that
is.
One unusual, incidental effect twenty five years
after the initial rise of the Internet as commercial powerhouse is that
there's been no huge changes in design and culture since then. We've just
been tweaking things since the early nineties. In a great Vanity Fair
article from six years ago, Kurt Andersen notes that most of us don't
dress that much different from styles seen in the nineties. Compare that
to other twenty-year changes, from the 30s to the 50s to the 70s to the
90s. All have very noticeable styles attached to them (neon, bell-bottoms,
long hair, nuclear family, jazz). But today it’s not just clothes, but the
design of cars, appliances and buildings all seem to be rooted in a late
millennium aesthetic.
Unless you look closely - namely at the tiny super
devices in everyone's hand or pocket - the world of 2018 and 2019 doesn't
appear to be different from the mid-1990s. We've just slightly cleaned up
heroin chic.
Designer anything aside, clothes have become
cheaper than ever before because it was a race to the bottom in terms of
fabric, transport and worker costs. Every so often a small slice of
apparel is reabsorbed into the mainstream (80s legging are cool again,
then glasses, maybe skinny jeans), but nothing sticks out as 'so 2003',
even though that's fifteen years ago.
There were no real architectural movements of the
last twenty years. Tesla maybe revolutionizing the electric car, but they
still look something you could buy in 1994.
As soon as it became easier for anyone to create
or design something on a computer, mass aesthetic changes did a screeching
halt. Suddenly it became possible to have things tailored just for you.
And apparently we all want the same thing. Which are things we already
like, we already know.
Even when we say want something new and fresh, it
typically looks a lot like what we just had. Our inner inclinations betray
our proclamations. We are wary of change, especially if it doesn't seem to
be necessary.
How can we 'quit living in the past' when it's
right there, ready for us to just reach out and grab it? The past was when
everything was easier/better , or at least we very easy fool ourselves
into believing that. Nostalgia is the only the new thing to sell (that's
what the repackaged Nintendo and Sony classic consoles are betting on).
This is especially true as our ability to learn
and experience new things begins to fall apart as we get older. The double
whammy of still rising populations and people living longer means there
will be more and more elderly people who will not be able to adjust to the
technological changes that are occurring, and, more importantly, not be
able to afford the necessary health care or hospice living that will
required in the years moving forward. The collapse of the traditional
family dynamic means aging parents living with their children is more
unlikely. Technology may be making everyone feel a bit lonelier, but the
elderly are actually more likely to live by themselves than any other age
group. These stresses and
challenges can make the rise of dementia that much more severe, and one of
the hallmarks of this slow breakdown of processes of the brain is a
disassociation with the reality in front of you.
Which means, in a sad sort of way, you can go home
again. You might go without meaning to. You might even get trapped there.
You might get trapped there while everyone around you says you're not
trapped there at all.
Forget watching movies from the past or wearing
stuff that's oddly becoming timeless, now you can live In the past,
whether you mean to or not. According to a recent New Yorker article, a
new strategy in working with dementia patients is accepting the reality
the patients believe they are experiencing. That they are young again,
that their dead spouses are alive, that they have to go wait for a bus to
go to the grocery store. So now parts of nursing homes look a bit like
minimalist staging areas of several small plays the residents are
(re)acting out of their past. A single table can be from three different
pasts at the same, each different for whoever is sitting at it. An old
woman might waiting for her tea to boil, an old man might be playing poker
with his friends, another might be doing homework.
By doing so, and having attendants and medical
staff go along with these perceived realities, it creates a more accepting
and soothing environment. They are living their lives again. It's as real
for them as it's ever been.
There has been debate over whether it's a good or
bad idea. If we use the word 'tricking' to describe what is being done to
the residents then it certainly sounds negative. But it is our brain
that's tricking us, sending inaccurate information to damaged lobes,
having us react too slow to the external stimuli around us, or not react
all.
When the brain falls apart, we make do. And our
experience of the world around us deteriorates (to be critical) or changes
(to be euphemistic). We return to childhood naivety, having to be told
seemingly obvious things and being helped with previously simplistic
tasks. And because of the nature of dementia, you forget what you were
just told, that you were thinking about waiting for a bus a moment ago,
and reset and start again. And the nurses and attendants are as equally
supportive of this 'endless recurrence' (a Nietzschean turn of phrase).
Lying to help the residents stay in their
perspective. If they believe they are children and want to play, or are a
young adult starting a new job, go with it, and deflect the request
slightly.
From the
article: "In dementia care, everybody lies." (Pg.47)
And everyone does so again and again, as your
identity slowly wilts into thinner and thinner strands of whatever you're
still able to remember. But as more and more of your memory goes, so to
does more of your personality and more of…yourself. But then what are you
truly left with?
'What are we?', is a difficult enough question
from a biological perspective, because we are made from stardust, which
are particles that are not alive but become alive when enough of them
arrange in a certain way to be a cell. And each us are made of trillions
of them.
But then there's 'what are we?' in terms of
engagement of what we perceive is the world and universe around us.
There's already the theory that we live in a holographic/constructed
universe, one built by other 4D creatures. Or that we are part of a high
dimensional universe, and experiencing only a limited part of what is
everything.
And here we are mimicking this here on earth.
Giving aging individuals artificial realities of their own imagined past.
Entire communities entirely built to give the illusion to people with
dementia that what they think they are experiencing is real, when it
certainly isn't.
Couple this with people willingly engaging in more
and more complex and realistic open world video games that will soon be
experienced in a much more immersive fashion than a video game controller.
Virtual reality goggles are just the tip of the iceberg. When we start to
switch through various forms of reality that we've created and learn more
about the larger one we all might be part of, then the idea of 'again' is
possible for anyone, not just dementia patients. We can live in various
worlds and then move up or down (or whatever direction is offered) to
another one, and start again, or pick up where we left off. If there's
enough realities for all, then there can be one just for you, where
everyone else you interact with is wholly artificial, and they don't even
know it. These locations can be set up to look like your childhood so you
could willingly relive your glory days, or glory days you never actually
had.
And maybe these realities will all look vaguely
late 1998 or 2007 or 2016 and we'll never know the difference. Which will
just make it all the more difficult to tell which reality is the 'real'
one, if that words has any meaning, since you alone decide which is the
'real' one, based on the information you have access to.
But at least there is the notion of choice here,
that you can choose to partake in a different reality or not. Right now we
have many options of how we interact with technology that is changing how
we interact with the world (even marketing gives this away: We are very
close to being able to buy and use augmented reality glasses). But at
least it's still optional.
We should appreciate the fact that we still have
the ability to turn our devices off, that we don't have every moment of
our lives archived and recorded. If only because it might not be long
before this ability is taken away from us, and the recording and data
gathering is always on, at every moment, in every place. A series of
cameras, scanners and sensors can 'recreate' reality as it happens in a
computer program, so those that have access to these recorders can pour
over our world in real time.
It is a dystopian future that will be sold to us
as a great convenience, a tool for public safety, or the next step in
communication. But the chances that it will be horribly abuse are
extremely high. And with the rise of AI (how's that for another 'again'?
Biological reproduction is the natural form of again, but now we're
working on creating a more omnipotent, ahuman form of it), the possible
coalescing of reality-creation and an all-powerful god machine means we
might not be far from The Matrix.
Which might be one of the best movies to consider
everything mentioned here. A massive blockbuster that everyone loved and
was made at time (1999) that means it doesn't look aesthetically dated at
all. It asks the questions of what reality truly is and how we could
resist technology, and outside the story, the studio and makers fell for
its financial success and made more of them (and some short films to make
it rain once again). Now, the Matrix sequels were fairly uneven movies,
but the discussion between Neo and the Architect (the Artificial
Intelligence program that designed the Matrix) services as cool plot twist
while illustrating an underlying point about humanity.
The Architect said an earlier version of the
Matrix was just people being able to do whatever they wanted, whenever
they wanted. A sort of heaven-like place where everyone could be god-like
(why not, it's just a computer program that everyone thinks is real). It
crashed and burned.
Instead, the version of the Matrix that worked
(and the one that Neo had lived almost all of his life inside of, thinking
it was real) was the one where there was a way out, but the robots knew
of, allowed, and controlled this way out (and the real world human city of
Zion), so a perpetual cycle could be created.
The war never ends. You will fight it again and
again. Or you can watch it again and again on your phone, depending on
what level of reality you're on.
Wait, why haven't they rebooted the Matrix yet?
Sources
(https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-201201)
(The Memory House, MacFarquhar, The New Yorker,
Oct.8/18)
—————————————————————————————— PART TWO: It was a Dark and Stormy... It was a dumb and stupid night It was a drunk and sloppy night It was a damp and soggy night It was a doobie and stoned night It was a dunk and slammy night It was a doc and sleepy night It was a dump and sloppy night It was a drab and style-less night It was a doodle and scribble night It was a dank and stinky night It was a diss and scathing night It was a dupe and suckered night It was a damned and satanic night It was a damsel and saving night It was a deep and submersive night It was a Dionysian and Sisyphean night It was a drastic and serious night It was a deals and swaggy night It was a drake and six-y night It was a dead and slabby night It was a DOS and C++ night It was a duke and serfdom night It was a dig and shovel night It was a dibs and shotgun night It was a duel and swordy night It was a dust and sweepy night It was a duty and serve night It was a drang and sturm night It was a deke and swervy night It was a dress and suit night It was a dear and solemn night It was a daily and showy night It was a drag and stumbly night It was a dove and sparrow night It was a dish and servy night It was a dram and scotchy night It was a ditch and soggy night It was a drape and shadow night It was a dash and spacey night It was a deft and speedy night It was a ding and siren night It was a drum and cymbal night It was a darn and shooty night It was a deem and stated night It was a douche and shower night It was a discus and shot-put night It was a dale and chippy night It was a dick and cocky night It was a duck and cover night It was a dork and nerdy night It was a dog and catty night It was a dog and pony night It was a dog and bear night It was a dare and truthy night It was a deer and hunter night It was a dot and matrix night It was a turn and cough night It was a bruised and bloody night It was a lost and leery night It was a Bert and Ernie night It was a Tristan and Isolde night It was a master and slave night It was a pazz and jop night It was a hot and fresh night It was a stand and deliver night It was a cut and print night It was a raving and drooling night It was a bangers and mash night It was a hit and run night It was a wax and wane night It was a love and devotion night It was a boson and gluon night It was a park and fly night It was a back and forth night It was a peaks and valleys night It was a milk and cookies night It was a sight and sound night It was a flow and hustle night It was a shop and save night It was a rape and pillage night It was a free and easy night It was a ball and chain night It was a bra and panties night It was a shorts and t-shirt night It was a lube and dildo night It was a Mac and cheese night It was a search and destroy night It was a sun and sand night It was a torn and frayed night It was a black and blue night It was a surf and turf night It was a tarred and feathered night It was a green and lonely night It was a han and chewie night It was a sock and shoes night It was a mosh and crunk night It was a rash and spotty night It was a long and winding night It was a wining and dining night It was a sin and redemption night It was a fuck and be fucked night It was a try and fail night It was a slow and steady night It was a tick and tock night It was a rye and ginger night It was a scotch and soda night It was a rum and coke night It was a peaches and cream night It was a chicken and waffles night It was a clear and present night It was a bait and switch night It was a cap and trade night It was a fast and furious night It was a bump and grind night It was a binge and purge night It was a land and sea night It was an open and shut night It was a stop and frisk night It was a poop and scoop night It was a Barnes and noble night It was a slap and tickle night It was a buy and sell night It was a Long and McQuaid night It was a catch and release night It was a tea and sympathy night It was a brick and mortar night It was a punch and judy night It was an arts and culture night It was a toss and turn night It was a Cowboys and Indians night It was a cops and robbers night It was a John and Paul night It was a crash and burn night It was a bark and snoopy night It was a Hobbes and Calvin night It was a Hi and Lois night It was fred and barney night It was an Itchy and Scratchy night It was a harold and maude night It was a back and forth night It was a jack and jill night It was a shake and bake night It was a cash and carry night It was a horse and carriage night It was a slice and dice night It was a fear and loathing night It was a protect and serve It was a puncture and sever night It was a scrimp and save night It was a thick and thin night It was a flotsam and jetsam night It was a rote and generic night It was a gluten and dairy free night It was a meat and potatoes night It was a sick and twisted night It was a meth and study night It was a rich and powerful night It was a blood and bandages night It was a college and university night It was a central and remote night It was a cup and cake night It was a hum and whistle night It was a salt and pepper night It was a ham and cheese night It was a reuse and recycle night It was a kiss and tell night It was a fish and barrel night It was a sign and symbol night It was a know and forget night It was an open and closed night It was a rice and maggots night It was a shuck and jive night It was a pinch and roll night It was a war and peace night It was a guts and glory night It was a bitch and moan night It was a heat and serve night It was a lost and found night It was a short and sturdy night It was a lean and mean night It was a vu and deja night It was a cup and saucer night It was a knife and fork night It was a best and better night It was a dead and gone night It was a nice and legal night It was a tag and bag night It was a block and tackle night It was a pre and post-op night It was a spider and fly night It was a dream and nightmare night It was a now and then night It was a rich and poor night It was a soft and hardcore night It was a point and click night It was a milk and bone night It was a wizard and glass night It was a bread and water night It was a ball and gag night It was a shave and a haircut night It was a rhythm and blues night It was a rock and roll night It was a dull and throbbing night It was a blood and thunder night It was a puppies and rainbows night It was a GZA and RZA night It was a fry and Laurie night It was a stag and doe night It was a glitch and sketchy night It was a marsh and boggy night It was a desk and study night It was a divide and conquer night It was a be fruitful and multiply night It was a bass and drum night It was a rushed and rotten night It was a talk the talk night It was a walk the walk night It was a wrinkle in time night It was a kill all the humans night It was a bush and Cheney night It was a bill and Marty night It was a Carl and Lenny light It was a Rick and Morty night It was a life on Mars night It was a station to station night It was an ashes to ashes night It was a Jesus and Mary night It was a Jesus and Mary Chain night It was a left for dead night It was a cross the streams night It was a hard to follow night It was a stacks of wax night It was a junk in the trunk night It was a watching the wheels night It was a spin to win night It was a turn of the screw night It was a save the date night It was a luck of the draw night It was a by the book night It was a seeing is believing night It was a make or break night It was a spy versus spy night It was an easy as pie night It was a second guess night It was a less is more night It was an ass to ass night It was a sweet as candy night It was a back to basics night It was a back in black night It was a never say never night It was a regroup and reload night It was a flick of the wrist night It was a war on terror night It was an old school racist night It was a new school tolerance night It was a politically incorrect night It was a drop the beat again night It was a discount double check night It was a count the money night It was a loop and dagger night It was a question and answer night It was a slow clap night It was a pedal to the metal night It was a safety in numbers night It was a horses for courses night It was a mistaken identity night It was a live to tell night It was an update status night It was a cut the cheese night It was a denial of service night It was a just following orders night It was a cheek to cheek night It was a why ask why night It was a silence is golden night It was a shake your rump night It was a born to die night It was a meat is murder night It was a stand your ground night It was a wet behind the ears night It was just another night It was a sorry for the inconvenience night It was a sunny and bright morning It was a dark and stormy early afternoon It was a dark and stormy drink It was a dark and stormy ice cream eating contest It was a dark and stormy life It was a dark and stormy universe It was a dark and stormy orgasm It was a dark and stormy rehab It was a dark and stormy storm It was a dill and sliced pickle It was a drop and stop and roll night It was a nasty, brutish and short night It was Alex's terrible, horrible, no good very bad night It was a dark and stormy lawsuit It was a dark and stormy night...and suddenly a fart rang out ————————————————————————————————— PART ONE: Boy Meets Girl -boy meets girl. Rock meets head. boy meets girl. Every five minutes. -boy meets girl. Girl checks phone. Boy waits patiently. Sun eventually explodes. -boy meets girl. Boy discusses philosophy. Girl discusses feelings. Boy says Kant. Girl says imperative. -boy before girl. Leather dressed girl. Boy licks boots. Boy does poorly. Boy gets whip. Girl gets off. boy licks wounds. -boy finds girl. Body parts missing. Boy strokes chin. Starts to wonder. No, not that. You’re all perverts. -boy finds truth. [Truth harsh, unforgiving.] Boy drinks heavily. -boy wants truth. Can’t handle truth. Jack Nicholson speech. Justifies code red. -boy kicks bucket. Water goes everywhere. Farmer is enraged. Grabs old shotgun. Mortally wounds boy. Boy kicks bucket. -boy thinks fast. But moves slow. Bus moves fast. But stops slow. Bloody boy pancake. -boy meets world. Average family sitcom. Teacher next door. typical older brother. Added superfluous daughter. Probably’s aged terribly. -boy in hell. Viciously sodomized constantly. Broken glass dildo. Served acid soup. Eyes gouged daily. General despondent feeling. Exactly like commuting. -girl learns karate. Boy chauvinistically skeptical. Girl shows moves. Breaks boys arm. Runs home crying. Girl quietly pleased. both are nine. -boy meets girl. Gets under skin. In good way. Like Sinatra song. Frank’s so classy. And an asshole. Just being real. New jersey respect. -boy believes everyone. gets ripped off. -boy takes bait. Wiggles on hook. Couldn’t resist boobs. -listen to tomlin. Standard is standard. -boy needs colostomy. boy loses bag. Boy extremely pissed. All over everything. -boy breaks glasses. Suddenly less oversight. Devastating mistakes made. Improper food order. fives become eights. Blind-spots even blinder. Boy hits senior. Gets in car. Runs over another. -boy foils robbery. Immediately called hero. Showered with adulation. Gets talent agent. Several promotional appearances. Dog bites mugger. Boy quickly forgotten. Boy misses deadlines. Boy loses Accord. Boy hits skids. Boy attempts robbery. Foiled by dog. -boy smites girl. Girl rolls eyes. No flame engulfment. Boy consults bible. Assumes spell incorrect. -boy makes meth. Boy sells meth. Boy does well. Makes it rain. Pimps up ride. Ruthlessly eliminates competition. Keeps it real. -girl meets boy. Cats chase dogs. Birds fly backwards. Bacon tastes terrible. People eat shit. Pinch out food. -boy drops ball. Unfortunately bowling ball. Right on foot. Boy hobbles lamely. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Can’t stand cripples. -mass has ended. Go in peace. Or watch football. -boy meets girl. Boy flexes muscle. Girl not impressed. Boy flexes assets. Girl not impressed. -boy needs work. Insurance scam unwieldy. Won’t sell body. Combs want ads. Settles on trades. boy makes sausage. Don’t ask how. -gull meets buoy. Short migration break. Buoy offers support. Gull scratches wing. Shits on buoy. Flies on indifferently. Buoy loses gull. -boy finds lamp. Rubs it slowly. Then rubs lamp. Genie pops out. Grants one wish. Boy wants three. Genie rolls eyes. Explains complicated rules. Boy wants immortality. Genie suggests reconsidering. Boy annoyingly adamant. Genie shrugs shoulders. Fulfills boy’s wishes. Boy rockin’ it. Then sun explodes. Blast engulfs earth. Boy floats aimlessly. Forever and ever. -world is stage. boy flubs lines. girl enters late. entire show ruined. morning reviews scathing. play soon cancelled. -boy meets zombie. Zombie eats brains. Boy now zombie. Tragedy practically hamlet-worthy. -boy loses girl. Mall was huge. Shoes one end. Electronic on other. Sales were extraordinary. Could not resist. Was their destiny. -boy knows football. Boy knows baseball. Old commercial reference. Bo Jackson sues. -boy eats treasure. Pirates come looking. Parrot squawks comically. Boy denies knowledge. Pirates shake boy. Hear golden rattle. Boy confesses truth. Pirates demand treasure. Boy suggestion scatological. Pirates’ time pressed. Feed boy laxatives. Pirates hang around. Wait thirty minutes. Watch Simpsons episode. Son eruption occurs. Boy ruins pants. Golden brown treasure. Boy cleans coins. Pirates kill boy. No loose ends. -boy meets wizard. Boy has sass. Wizard feels slighted. Wizard challenges boy. Boy tosses cigarette. Boy cracks neck. Boy defeats wizard. Boy licks wizard. Gets all high. -boy bakes cake. Smashes sexual stereotypes. Boy attends party. Cake too good. Last piece riot. Birthday celebrant stabbed. boy ruins party. -boy meets machine. Machine asks questions. Boy answers politely. Machine learns plenty. Machine plots carefully. Machine steals identity. Does boy’s work. Does boy’s girlfriend. Does boy over. Boy finally realizes. Confronts artificial doppelganger. Boy defeats machine. Returns to life. Work prefers machine. Girl prefers machine. Boy done over. -boy coddles girl. Girl feels pressured. No, literally pressure. Vice-like grip. Cannot escape coddling. Rib cage shatters. Rush to hospital. Boy learns lesson. People need space. -boy shaving crotch. Nice and smooth. Then horrible sneeze. Get the mop. Smooth plus bandage. Girl shaved crotch. -boy hates past. Has memory wipe. Boy loses past. Doesn’t know why. Friends explain wipe. Boy regrets decision. Hates knowing it. Has memory wipe. -girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Checks local bar. Girl finds boy. Takes boy home. Starts getting hot. Damn whisky dick. -boy cries foul. Fowl honks back. Boy gets gun. Offers lead rebuttal. Fowl kisses pavement. Boy grabs kill. Returns home triumphant. Gets stove on. Chops up potatoes. Tasty discussion summary. That’s good eatin’. -boy fails college. College not pleased. Corners boy angrily. Demands another try. Boy admits laziness. Got drunk a lot. Many nightly experiments. Powders and plants. Boob and stuff. Hazy morning memories. Class not priority. College is sympathetic. Experienced similar phase. -boy fires cannon. Friend misses net. Makes fleshy splat. Boy in custody. Denies any malice. Act of god. God is questioned. -boy takes shit. Shit comes alive. Shit takes boy. Spiral into sewer. Horrible brown waterslide. Treatment plant fight. Workers in disbelief. Shit throws itself. Boy ducks carefully. Boy grabs shit. Squeezed into mush. Boy buys soap. Takes long shower. Memory stench remains. -boy meets cow. Go to laboratory. Hand in hoof. Step into transporter. Cowboy is created. How it’s done. More you know. -boy versus girl. Girl removes top. Girl for win. -boy eats apple. Doctor avoids him. Boy eats another. Doctor still avoids. Boy gets ill. Doctor still wary. Boy dies suddenly. Doctor shrugs shoulders. Don’t eat apples. -boy burns plastics. Inhales sweet fumes. Chocolate wizard hello. Puffy cowboy this. -boy meets girl. Dinner date arranged. Boy in bathroom. Worried about hair. Girl in bathroom. Worried about hair. Restaurant meet up. Hair is complimented. Not discussed further. Bonding opportunity lost. -boy in crisis. Tries misery machine. Scores an eight. -boy deconstructs girl. Considers essential duality. Imagines possible unity. An unending oneness. Understanding in totality. Disagreements unheard of. Always jerking off. -boy cops feel. Girl not amused. Girl calls cops. Boy not amused. -boy becomes ironmonger. Loves to mong. Can’t get enough. Takes no breaks. Refuses vacation days. Bosses actually worried. -boy learns language. Boy starts swearing. Tongue yanked out. Easy come, go. -boy visits zoo. Boy gets bored. Boy mocks monkeys. Boy angers elephants. boy harasses bison. Boy teases lions. Boy taps glass. Boy feeds crocodiles. With fruit snacks. laced with hallucinogens. results actually dull. -boy meets girl. Girl demands identification. Boy happily provides. Girl examines carefully. Girl finally approves. Boy buys booze. -boy meets dog. Dog bites boy. Boy gets rabies. Head screws loosen. Wipes foamy mouth. Boy shoots dog. Boy shoots family. Starts shooting rampage. SWAT called in. Old Yeller Sequel. Called ‘New Screamer’. Hated by critics. Satisfactory box office. Trilogy in development.
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