said that she had received an e-mail from him in which the physician indicated he was contemplating suicide. Because of this, 66-year-old Nicholas Bartha was being forced to sell the building.

Wow, I knew NY had some strange real estate laws, but come on.

Hi all. This is a weird day because my long distance boss is in, but he really isn't my boss anymore (because he has spun off into his own company.) He is collecting his products and teaching a class this week. He is still asking me to do things, though, including, strangely enough, put the "Press 1 for customer service, Press 2 for classes, etc" message on his phone because I can sound just like the "real" computerized lady!

My real boss is not here, although she was briefly, because her father was taken to the emergency room on Saturday because he lost the ability to control his bladder and bowels and is STILL IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM!. She and her husband are both nurses (her husband works in the ED) and are advocating hard for him to be admitted, but no one can figure out what is wrong with him (nothing has shown up on any of the cultures.). She is a bit in shock and is talking about the meetings she has tomorrow and the next day that she must attend, but she also has a feeling that things are just not good.

At least we are about 30 steps from the emergency room here.

This weekend we went to Iowa for a wedding. Mid-wedding Leif pointed to the front and said in a loud whisper, "I think they are getting married!"

Yesterday in the grocery store he started yelling "100 pennies!" to everybody. Apparently he decided that this was how much he would cost to buy and was letting everyone know.

Has this been posted? Godfather-inspired horse-head pillows

These plush horse-head pillows -- complete with bloody neck-stump -- recall the best scene in The Godfather, and would make a great addition ot any bedroom's decor.

Has this been posted yet?

Adam Carolla hangs up on Anne Coulter.

Best Ann Coulter interview ever.

Cool! I get "thank you points" for appearing in the work video. I could make a second (or fourth) career out of this.

I need an agent.

Oops.

I went to McDonalds for lunch - got some stuff to go. I've just discovered that I have the wrong bag of food - I got two burgers instead of one.

I wonder if McDonalds will come after me? I suppose I better go into hiding under an assumed name....

Weird dream last night. On waking the plot sounded like it might actually make a decent novel - but I'll see how it looks typed.

Distant AU future - 1984 was real, big brother conquered the earth, and and all earth is rule by Orwells nightmare. Big brother has not negelected the posibilties of chemicals for mind control - so massive uses of drugs, phermomes and such. Also while sattelites were too good an opportunity to be overlooked, other than that there was no actual space program. On the other hand the propaganda value of a space program was too good to omit, so there was a faked moon landing, faked mars landing. and faked intergalatic travel, and faked interstellar enemies to protect against. There is a television series called "Star Trek"in this alternate future. It claims to be an ongoing documentary.

A member of some galactic super-race suspciously like Ian Banks "The People" has infiltrated this society. Not on any kind of official mission. "Keep Off" signs were put around earth, and he has infiltrated in defiance of this policy, curiousity to see an exceptionally tyranical stable society, and as a challenge - because everyone tells him earth's basis in extreme paranoia makes them uninfiltratrable.

The story begins when (after passing unoticed ) as he believes for five years, he is arrested as a Romulan infiltrator. (Again everyone in the "Big Brother Earth" believes Romulansa re real) The giveaway; he has a habit of slightly over-paying by "accident" when dealing with the exceptionally poor; he did it twice to the same person - who promptly turned him in. After all, it is up to Big Brother to decide all rewards and punishments; by giving more than Big Brother alots he is questioning Big Brothers judgement.

The infiltrator insists that he is innocent, he is simply bad with money and overpaid by accident. He asks to be given the "lie dectector" that is always mentioned as part of Big Brothers security PSAs - confident that his superior technology will let him fool any biochemical or electronic lie dectors this primitive society can produce. In response he is offered a porridge with a combination of sedatives AmYGala suppressants. He eats it and continues to maintain his innocence. In response he is thrown in a cell and told that he has flunked the lie dector.

The key of course is his maintaining of innocence. The proper response to an accusation by Big Brothers security forces is not denial but a full confessions. In point of fact everybody is sooner or later secretly arrested, confesses, and is given a death sentence which they are told will eventually be carried out. In the meantime Big Brother will mercifully allow them to go about their normal business and even spare them the shame of having anyone else know about it. So sooner or later, every adult in Big Brothers society goes about grateful for every breath and every day alive to Big Brother's mercy and of course thinks they are the only one. The infiltratrors real slip was not in the overpayment, but the claiming of innocence. The "lie dector" was simply a medical cocktail to surpress fear. Sometime members of earth's society are truly loyal to Big Brother, but behave abnormally due to extreme fear of interrogation. The fear surpressing cocktail was a last chance for him to behave normally.

As he is thrown into the cell a guard tells him, "you are about to face hell, and hell will be green".

The infiltratror is left alone in a cell with a flimsy lock. He breaks the lock, and runs outside along a back road - and soon turns into a wood. It is obvious to the reader that he has panicked - is continuing to act unlike a member of a soceity where nobody would break out of a cell big brother put him in. And running into the deep woods right besides a security is obviously running into a place where "hell will be green". Then I woke up, so it would have to be plotted from there. Dunno if it has potential or not. Also don't really have time to do much with it. But thought I'd share for what it (continued...)

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