[Wonderful Labs] The Correction of Error and Wonder

[Wonderful Labs]

Dearest Readers,

	GREETINGS FROM PERIPATETIC POTRZEBIE!

	
MISTER WONDERFUL TELLS THE TRUTH:
	Sometimes it's tough to know just where to start.

MISTER WONDERFUL TELLS THE OTHER TRUTH:
	No one really cares, just so long as you get it done.

MEDITATION OF THE WEEK:
	The book you loved, you read it again and again, the one you lost in
your dream, back in your parents' house, the fingerprints you put on it,
a tattoo in oil, the rainbow identity you left behind, where is that
book?  What page has your secret name?  What is the color of the cover
of the book you love and have lost before the author has written the
first word?

POTRZEBIAN BUSINESS WE LOVE:
	When you're in downtown, visit ISHMAEL'S VOLCANO: your top gourmet shop
for Hot Sauce and Sexual Lubricants.  

10-CENT IDEA INSPIRED BY THE ABOVE:
	Potrzebian Roulette: You get five bottles of "Astro-glide" and one
bottle of "Tabasco."  Blindfold the players.  I don't know who would
ever do this, but I think we should start a rumour that someone already
has, and that the results are just phenomenally orgasmind-blowing.



QUERY OF THE DAY:
Dear Mister W,

	I do freelance art from time to time, and recently a client has
requested that a certain project be done digitally rather than with
traditional media. I have a hard time believing that this new-fangled
approach to art can ever look as good as your old-fashioned watercolor
work. Well, that's not fair--I've seen a few glorious examples of
digital art, but most of the work (including my few attempts) looks
downright crappy. Should I steer my client away from these pixilated
realms, or comply with her wishes and suffer in front of the monitor for
hours, knowing that my end product will only be passable at best?

Quandrified,
Modigitalani
_______________
Dear Man RAM,

	Listen, I'm often in front of the monitors here for *days* just to make
a pun that would embarrass Rip Taylor.  Did you read my last column? 
It'd be lucky to get a chuckle out of a drunk titmouse.

	But Mister Wonderful perseveres.  Why?  Because like Rip Taylor, I have
my own bucket of confetti.  That may not mean much to the kids today,
but boy does it set me a-giggling.  And it gives Mister Malice something
to stare at when he's finished injecting psychotropic toad venom under
his tongue.  What's my point?  Sometimes you just have to do the things
that make *you* happy.

	Anyway... just because my efforts with this new-fangled "language"
technology yield dubious results, that's no reason to dismiss it.  Some
things are worth doing *because* we're not very good at them, and it's
scary, and we screw up.  In fact, that's quite possibly the most
sensible thing I've said since accidentally drinking Mister Dark's mug
of "Aztec Surprise" Hot Chocolate.
	
	It's when we don't know what's going to happen that Life and Luck
clutch our hands and snuggle into our shoulders.  So we might fuck up -
it's the chance-taking that puts money in the creativity bank.  Embrace
the slippery growth curve!  Smile with sharp white teeth into the
face-burning wind of change!

	And pay some 12-year-old from down the block to do all the computer
stuff.  Who do they think you are, Ada Lovelace?


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WONDERFUL LABS - Wisdom Wears Boxer Shorts
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Mister Wonderful Recommends: My three favorite men with chins.  Sorry,
*chins*.  They write books! They think thoughts! They show up on the USA
Network a lot!  And one day they shall make my movie, O Yes.

http://hackenbush.org/LHLS/Interviews/JoeBobBriggs200306.html
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-038072152x-4
http://www.bruce-campbell.com/bctv/index.htm

-- 
All your life you have wanted Goo Goo Muck, and now you know.

	"I got something to say, you know?  What do 
	you think this is all about?  You think 
	this is a fuckin' costume?  This is a 
	way of life!"

		- Suicide,
		"Return of the Living Dead"

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