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Today I had an idea.  It is either one of those ideas that will grow musty in the attic of my head, undone but undead or it might be one of those ideas that earns me millions of dollars.  It might just waste time and be fun too.  I think I should really do it and as soon as possible.

False start... no more about the idea for now. 

The fires burning in the hills off the two-ten last night and this morning made for a smoky trek to work this morning.  Smoke and the smell of burning desert brush and palm trees filled the car.  The night before the fire on the mountainside appeared as an enormous fiery  inner labia, consuming more and more the longer she burned.  The men came and could not control the blaze that still smoldered the next morning.  Hoses spent and loads blown, man and mountain acquiesced to the razing by flame.

False second start... It wasn't that big of a fire or deal.

I finished watching an older Simpson's episode tonight that had Homer doing the voice of Poochie the dog on "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show." Poochie was created to be hip and in the audiences face.  To quote one of the producers of the show, "I think he needs to be a little bit more Rastafied." Shortly thereafter, the character of Poochie receives sacks full of hate mail and death threats from angered 'Itchy and Scratchy' fans leading the shows producers to decide to kill him off.  Only Homer stands up for Poochie, since he is after all, Poochie's voice, but his pleading is of no import as the producers do what the fans demand.  They kill Poochie off in the name of good taste and integrity to the original 'Itchy and Scratchy' vision.  With a freeze frame they have Poochie say that he must return to his home planet and he immediately floats off towards space.  A crude insert written in red crayon announces: "P.S. Poochie was killed on the way back to his home planet."  If this episode had come out at anytime between June and now the show would appear a direct condemnation of the Jar Jar character in "Star Wars 1."  Too bad Lucas is both creator of the hideous thing and producer.  If George was at all decent, Jar-Jar would float back to his home and die enroute.

False start again... I think the internet has seen quite enough bitching about Jar-Jar.

"Do you often feel life has an unreal or dream like quality to it?" asked the Scientology quiz I took online today.  I answered "yes."  That is what the song says, after all, "merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ... life is but a dream."  A lot of people fell like that.  The quiz wanted to know about my motivation levels:  if I'd rather let other people get the ball rolling rather than myself and if I procrastinated or just had plain hard time getting projects started.

Final false start... Scientologists don't really care about my motivation levels, they care about my wallet.
They also say I find it difficult to finish things.

 Bullshit.

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