Today I sat in the waiting room at my doctor's office, reading a story by a well known son-of-a-bitch author. The story was called "GREAT POETS DIE IN STEAMING POTS OF SHIT", written like that in CAPS. All the dialogue was LIKE THAT, ALL IN CAPS. too. I read the first page and then I was stopped by an idea. The idea was to call a character in the next story I write LEGION, for whatever reason to be explained within the story (or not). I mulled it over for a minute and then read the next page, and at the bottom of the page one of the two characters in the story was revealed to be LEGION, which was not explain. It was one of those odd little coincidences. You know the ones. It was like the time I was at my friend's apartment. He had some music playing on his bedroom TV, because everything does everything nowadays, and without reason I started singing the chorus to that Smash Mouth song "Might As Well Be Walkin On The Sun". You know, one of the only three Smash Mouth songs anyone has ever heard. And about three hours later, after we'd gotten pretty stoned and started in on our game of poker, "Might As Well Be Walkin On The Sun" started playing in the other room and we had to marvel at the weirdness of it.
I had another longer strange tale like this to tell, one that really made my weekend, but I'm not going to tell it.
Monday, November 2, 2009
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