[Wonderful Labs] The Myth of Darkness and Wonder

[Wonderful Labs]

Dearest Readers,

	GREETINGS FROM UNTRAMMELED POTRZEBIE!

	Here, dig:  the most annoying thing about traveling to this remote
island nation and discovering new cultures, seeking out new night life
and new dramatizations, encountering thousands of interesting new people?

	Mister Dark will *not* shut up with his "Please allow me to introduce
myself; I'm a man of wealth and taste," bullshit.

	Everyone.  Everyone we run into.  He just won't stop.  "Won't you guess
my name?"... and they look over at me like I'm the one who didn't tell
him he was wearing a convention center name badge.  I mean, it was
clever for about half an hour in 1971, sure.  Now it's just embarrassing.

	Anyway, I would have to say that the *second* most annoying thing about
this chain of idyllic islands is that they don't seem to gather the
strategic importance of showing first-run movies.  "But Mister
Wonderful," you say with your mouth full of marshmallow pies, "Surely
you are not complaining of the opportunity to view "Jaws 3-D" the way it
was meant to be seen?"  Of course not.  The annoyance arises when all
psychic wavelengths are jammed with you lot telling me how you got free
ice cream and blowjobs just from watching "X-2: X-Men United."

	Yes, I understand it's a good movie.  But I still haven't seen it,
okay?  It's like the film transmits an advertising virus or something. 
If people can't talk about it, their jaws lock up and they just smugly
vibrate for twenty minutes.  Folks are *desperate* to let me know how
much I should see this film.  I get it, all right?  I keep expecting to
see X-2 reviews appearing on the surface of the moon.  

	As it is, the neon blimps do somewhat mar the romantic Potrzebian nights.

	I don't mean to pick nits, however.  We are doing well here.  Mister
Malice discovered an hallucinogenic pineapple that should improve the
profits at his franchised Icee Stand.  The monkey I recently befriended
has enlisted in the Dream Police to be closer to his girlfriend. 
Potrzebie, sweet Potrzebie.  If only the world could accept you.

	I hear from Miss Yakamoto that we hope to have the STROKERACEX computer
back on-line in two weeks.  She's never let me down before.  I was
hoping to fit some more innuendo into that phrase but the hour is late,
and hotel detectives are starting to wonder about the power drains.  I
will dispatch more, anon.

yours with a bamf,

Mister Wonderful


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Mister Wonderful Recommends:  Remembering that I love you.  You already
know this.  There is no division between you, me, the past, the future,
these letters in front of me, the tree outside that window, none of you.
 I love you, but you already know.  We use the enemy.  We shimmer, and
here's the part of you that wrote about it in San Francisco:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/05/02/notes050203.DTL&nl=fix
 

-- 
Land of the Free, Home of the Goo Goo Muck.  Pass it on.

	"These are writers for whom the 'fantastic'
	is not ethereal and wispy but tough and real, 
	where 'magic' operates like science or 
	science magic, and where the sense of 
	subversion, of alienation, of sheer strangeness
	that saturates their work defies easy 
	categorisation as SF or fantasy."

		- China Mieville,
http://www.panmacmillan.com/Features/China/debate.htm

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