[Wonderful Labs] SOLO WONDERS
Wonderful Labs
misterw@mindspring.com
Tue, 04 Mar 2003 03:06:30 -0800
Dear Mister Wonderful,
What does it say about me that I'm sitting here at 4am, listening to
Barry Manilow on my iPod, and I love it?
Signed,
Somewhere in the Night
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Dear His Name Was Rico,
Listen: Here at Wonderful Labs it's 2 AM. I'm currently listening to
Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" through a stethoscope while wearing
only a Superman cape and pink-lensed raver goggles. Furthermore, I
assure you that all about me cunning insects are hopping in and out of
this dimension with brilliant blue flashes of light and little orange
pool flotation devices strapped to their femurs - befouling the copious
amounts of cold coffee I pour into my talking Jack Skellington mug.
Now, you say you want me to pass judgment on *your* lifestyle?
Okay. Let's give it a whirl, sport.
I think it definitely says you have an iPod. *And* that you have a
clock. It's tough for me to deduce anything further. The insects are
starting to communicate via synchronized swimming routines. They want
my assistance in building a force field that will repel woodchucks but
attract ocelots. The madmen. Don't they know what they're playing at?
Wait. I sense that someone's rambling here. Don't look now, but it's
either you or me.
Anyway. Point is. Here's what your Manilow-induced insomniac
happy-happy really says about you: you're in Love.
Not just with the show tunes and the late nights and the lifestyle, my
friend. No, no. You clearly got a *ro-mance* going on. Don't deny it,
or I shall be forced to drink more nanocoffee. Nothing but pure-D
Luuuuuv can provide that kind of immunity to crap.
You don't even have to be with the person. Like a two-inch-thick
wetsuit of bliss, this Eros juice. Sleep, food, objectivity,
self-preservation - all these are things of the past when you zip into
the sleeping bag of Love. It's a lot like being drunk, except they let
you do it in nuclear reactors and libraries.
Why, it was only being in Love that kept Mister Wonderful from hurling
himself out the window when he first watched Barry Bostwick kiss his own
thumb in "MegaForce." In fact, I think I actually smiled, laughed, and
asked for a rewind, whereas a sane man would have boiled his brain in
sulfuric acid.
That's Love, and it's all over your face.
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