tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109031992024-03-13T21:23:45.240-07:00The Truth & The SignalKennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-85424663962769066732022-11-21T22:00:00.002-08:002022-11-21T22:00:10.290-08:00My Thoughts are Broken<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then we went to the theatre…</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ccfa6588-7fff-db55-0176-3771cc1ccb5e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(The ‘we’ here is my high-school friend Mathew and I, going to see theatre in question: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Shark is Broken</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Toronto. I had flown across the country to see it. Mathew drove in from Hamilton. AND… OUR mutual childhood friend Demetri was co-starring as Roy Scheider - he of Jaws fame… the play being about the behind the scenes personality clashes during the shooting of Jaws. The play was written by Rober Shaw’s son Ian… who stars as his father in the play. The third actor, Liam, plays a young Richard Dreyfuss. The show was transplanted from a successful run in London’s West End nine months prior. Now you are all caught up on ‘the story so far…’)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The play charitably opens with an extended scene between Dreyfuss and Scheider. I suppose this kind of builds anticipation for Shaw’s (the actor and character and son and father) entrance - though layers of this will be lost should there ever be a production without Ian Shaw. But it also allows the audience some time to experience two talented actors working in tandem with great intertwined chemistry before you are subjected to the spectacle to follow.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In those five or so minutes I went on a journey. It was not unexpected. I’d been anticipating it for months - years by some measure. In those years the moment had gained layers of significance that I could not have anticipated back when Demetri told me about getting cast, back when we were riding the train from Bloomsbury to Beckenham on the first outing of our musical odyssey to a quilt of London locations that represented significant points in the map of the history of the music that we grew up loving together (but that is a story for another time).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So many of the layers that had built up had been laid by the silty accumulation of all that has been lost in the Covid pandemic. It was as though nearly three years of confinement and distancing and chaos culminated in those few minutes on stage. It was undoubtedly more significance than the play itself could fairly bear, nor was it a depth of meaning that was present for anyone else in the theatre - even my seat-mate.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the bookend of being told about the show only barely pre-pandemic through to the closure represented by the freedom to frivolously go across the country to see a play in a room full of people; with the added baggage that the last time I saw a show with that many people, it was likely how I myself caught Covid; to the synchrony that Station Eleven - which hit me so firmly in the feels during the pandemic that I read it twice and watched the TV series - starts in a theatre in Toronto (not the same one, FWIW); and another connection I’m not at liberty to include.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I found myself on the precipice of tears in those opening moments. I didn’t cry. But I suspect I didn’t only because I’d already imagined that moment so many times that it would have required an entirely unexpected epiphany for me to be pushed to that level of emotion.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Ian Shaw came on stage. The play changed. It was here that it became very meta and simultaneously convoluted and it is the danger of the production that that IS the show. Ian Shaw’s performance is remarkable and complex. He is a human time machine, bringing his father back from the dead. We watch a man on stage, likely living the first line of his obituary. It's the show’s inarguable centre, and likely its greatest liability. I will likely never see the likes of it again, and that is its draw - at least so long as Shaw plays Shaw.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I find it hard to watch Demetri anywhere. I always see him - as opposed to the character. It’s the failing of a position of privilege and not in any way an indictment of his abilities as an actor. We have simply known each other, and performed with each other, for far far too long for it to be any other way.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes he reaches a state closer to the threshold of my willing disbelief. His performance in Snowden, for example. I don’t really know why.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With theatre in general I feel I have a programmed perception of all players as being less ‘real’ than in film. I suppose it is due to being in the same physical space as the actors without a window of reality dividing us. The ‘captured in amber’ medium of film, with its real and/or real-feeling sets assists me in feeling as though life was caught in situ as opposed to the collective experience of stage, where the fiction is a construct shared by all in attendance and on stage. I am willing to embrace that accepted artifice of stage as artifice than the implicit document of film.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">….and here The Shark is Broken uniquely breaks my rule.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert Shaw appears before us, transported from the summer of 1974 to 2022. He walks across the stage recreating the behind-the-scenes drama of his most iconic performance. And it is wondrous and unsettling and impossible.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The performance sets the two actors on stage with him to an insurmountable task - lacking the genetic advantage of their co-star. So long as he does his job, there is nothing they can do to match him. If they gave the performance of a lifetime and he phoned in his, perhaps the field wouldn’t be so slanted. (One has to hope that this futility is in fact, freeing to Demetri and Liam. Knowing Demetri as I do, I expect so. My brief experience of Liam suggests he has the humility to have embraced the same.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brain - the audience brain - can’t fully compute what is going on. The clash between the uncanny within the manufacture of theatre is a unique experience that the mind can’t quite make complete sense of. We know this is not Robert Shaw, more than 40 years dead, yet we also understand that this is more than a simple master class in acting.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On top lies the additional meta-layer as Ian Shaw, the playwright, has a relationship-conversation across time with his father, through his father, in his father’s voice - and his father talks of his father, the grand-father to Dreyfuss and Scheider. The snake gobbles down upon itself in a tangled love-letter to a man and a film that feels as unreachable in meaning as the paradox of the ouroboros.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its a mind fuck.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There must be a future production without Ian Shaw, at least to explore the possibility that there is more play than just spectacle here; to allow actors playing Dreyfuss and Scheider to act at par without baggage brought on stage for them alone to carry, whether they are willing or not, by the supernova that feels so inevitable and critically important to this theatrical experience that is Shaw as Shaw.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is not a lot of plot. This is a fine theatrical tradition of dialogue and ideas that has lasted for generations. Three men, stuck on a boat for weeks. They clash. They face demons. They come to terms. We laugh along the way. It is enough.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can’t help but wonder if it is enough with an entirely different cast. Clearly - I may have beaten that horse a bit much by now. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wonder if there is an alternate reality where the play embraces the absurdist natures of theatre that the script is already banging up against. There are shades of No Exit here. Hell is other people. Life is interminable - it’s Godot on a boat. The film is never done - at least not on stage, we of course know that the film changes Hollywood. We end with three actors still waiting for that bloody shark. But in our reality - Shaw’s reality - the film wraps. How I would end it hardly matters, because this version is glorious.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-19911377139180572882018-11-18T20:16:00.000-08:002018-11-18T20:16:05.035-08:00Minion of SantaIt saddens me to say it, but congratulations Padawan. You figured it out. You know the truth about the man in the red suit.<br /><br />I don't really know when you figured it out - I kind of had me suspicions last year and the year before that you were asking some pretty prying questions which were certainly leading you in the right direction - I figure that the 11 months of the year that aren't Christmas gave the truth some respite.<br /><br />But not this time. You know. I know you know. You probably don't know I know. I'm not even sure to what degree you know that you know. But you know.<br /><br />Today we were grocery shopping nad you asked me about Santa and Coca-cola, so I started to tell you the story of how while we all have an idea of what Santa looks like, no one has ever seen him to confirm (you have long since found out that the guys at the mall are 'helpers') and that the old versions of Father Christmas were not the red and white colours of Coca-cola, but that they had made up their own version and that it has become the popular one.<br />
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But before I could get up a good head of narrative steam, you stopped me.<div>
"Wait wait! Is this the heartbreaking story about the truth about Santa?"</div>
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"Uhm... No..." And I pressed on, but of course I couldn't help myself and had to ask what you had meant by that.<br />"Well some kids know there isn't any Santa and I just don't want to hear about it."<br />Wow. Okay. Deal. We will keep on pretending for as long as you like.<br />But I'm going to cry a bit tonight, okay?<br /><br />Love, Pop.</div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-63153643745947677152017-07-31T13:41:00.002-07:002017-07-31T13:41:16.117-07:00Notes from the Evacuation Zone....<div class="MsoNormal">
Thursday – I was on my way to from Prince George to a class
reunion and some work in the Prince George office. I was riding up with a
former classmate who I had not seen in 30 years. She picked me up from Scott
Road Station and we hit the highway.<br />
We had spent the past two weeks monitoring the forest fire situation in the
interior of the province, not knowing if we were going to be able to drive at
all, or if we were going to have to take the long way around over the
Coquihalla and the Yellowhead highway.
We spent most of that time assuming the latter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday night I checked the road reports again – Hwy 97
was closed, as It had been for weeks from Lac La Hache to Williams Lake and
Williams Lake to McLeese Lake. The evacuation order had only been reduced from
“Evacuation Order” to “Evacuation Alert” in the previous 24 hours… but the
Highways were still closed. The next
update would be early morning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On my way to SkyTrain I checked again – no change apart from
when the next update would be – around 12:30.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My ride made a pretty significant navigation error and ended
up picking me up about an hour late. We hit the highway and compared notes – we
both had the same information – Hwy 97 closed, so we were heading for the
Yellowhead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But when we made the almost obligatory stop in Chilliwack we
stopped in Tim Horton’s and while ordering a turkey BLT my phone sent me an
alert (I love living in the future. My phone, based on my past searches,
figured that I would like to know that the 12:30 update had been released.)
announcing that Hwy 97 was now open. So
we changed our plan and decided to take the short route. Ironically, if she had picked me up on time
we would now have been well on our way around the long way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we cleared the north end of the canyon we saw our first
signs of forest fire – four distant columns of smoke. Never a good sight, but
one that anyone who has grown up in the interior takes as a given, just one you
don’t want to see close up or often.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soon enough we were coming up on Cache Creek and we got our
first taste of the strange.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First some burn-scarred field. Then a LOT of burn-scarred field. Soon one
entire side of the highway was a moonscaped hillside – totally devoid of
life. The highway had deliberately or
accidentally served as a fire break and the East side of the highway was
relatively healthy… for a while. But
soon it too was blackened and we could see the telltale signs of what had once
been buildings and other unidentifiable slag.
But there were weird, creepy, yet thankful exceptions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were places where the burn line suddenly and
inexplicably stopped, possibly halted, mere meters from homes in a long line by
a shift in the wind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In one case a single lonely home lay in a shallow valley
surrounded on all sides by black – all the way up to the porch, yet entirely
untouched by actual fire. One imagines a
determined homeowner fighting fire on all sides… or perhaps the house itself
was simply inflammable compared to the intensity of fire that knocked upon its
door.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To the west, it was easy to imagine Brodie helmeted troops “going-over-the-top”
to charge their way to a trench 100 yards closer to Cache Creek. The land was
that barren.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Driving into Cache Creek proper revealed clear evidence of
desperate fire fighting techniques as everywhere one looked you could see
orangey-red fire retardant somewhere in front of you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While stopped for gas and to update the family by phone of
our progress I was approached by another motorist about what I knew about the
highway north. The content of the conversation was pretty pedestrian, but the
tone was sober. We both suspected that what we’d witnessed in the last few
dozen kilometers was just the tip of the iceberg. We were right. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just North of Cache Creek, looking eastward we could see
more smoke rising in columns, but this was closer than usual and it was ugly
looking smoke. The convection currents
it was creating were as strong as I have ever seen. Rather than the billows of smoke rising and
curling into the sky in an ominous, but almost gentle fashion that you had to
concentrate on to see changes, this was a violent brown coil, changing moment
to moment. Mother nature drunk and dirty and flipping the bird at an entire
valley.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soon the road was wet – signs of passing, but missed
rain. No doubt a welcome sight. And in minutes we caught up to it. Hard. A
rain where one is obliged to slow down because even at full speed, the wipers
cannot really improve visibility. A rain whose intensity cannot sustain. There is
simply no way the sky can hold that much water for long. A rain that while
certainly of use to the parched area we were driving through would be far more
welcome back and the sickly magical spire of hades we had just passed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then the signs started appearing. Hand-painted, spray-painted, hastily and
carelessly on sheets of water damaged warped plywood. Each one with the same simple, uninspired
verbiage with a heartfelt inspiring message – “Welcome home.” Now we were
impostors. By being on the road with our momentum cast into the heart of the province
we had a substantial head start on evacuees. Skipping ahead to today, it is
clear that with scattered exceptions most of the earliest ones to return will
actually be on their way this morning. But yesterday, we were among the first
few hundred people other than those on the front lines to be headed to the
evacuation zone. And while we were in a sense headed home, the message was
absolutely not for us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just south of Lac la Hache, at the edge of the evacuation
zone we were stopped at a check-point. We were met by a mix of a few dozen police,
members of the military and ununiformed workers – whether they were fire-support,
actual fire fighters or highways or a combination of was unclear. The road was blocked
off. We had been expecting this. We
waved and thanked people for their work – again feeling a bit like we were
masquerading as the displaced. A young man in fatigues approached the car and
informed us that we could not proceed without police escort and that we would
have to wait for the next one to arrive, bringing a convoy southwards to this
edge of the zone. The wait would be about fifteen minutes he figured.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He had overestimated by about fifty percent, which was a
pleasant surprise when we were on our way sooner than expected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then things really started to get surreal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The black scored fields south of Cache Creek were now
replaced with charcoal spectres of trees burned down to their cores. Just as
many miracle homes scattered the haunting landscape… and weirdest of all was
the complete lack of life. Many building had lights left on, but no one was
home. Anywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was like a scene out of an apocalyptic film or TV show.
One expected zombies to stagger around the corners of a corner store, but even
that would have been more activity than we saw for mile after mile – occasionally
interrupted by a large military vehicle lumbering along in the opposite
direction – just to highlight the air of being where a battle had recently been
waged. If you’ve seen the Gareth Edwards’ film “Monsters” and recall the end of
the film on the American side of the exclusion zone, that was how it felt…
minus the giant luminescent squid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Apart from the occasional roadside encampment of the
previously mentioned mix of workers, police and military there was no sign of
humanity for kilometer after kilometer – occasionally front porch lights were
on, but no indication anyone was truly at home, punctuated by places where a
single house had lost the wildfire lottery, tucked among surviving structures
which had mysteriously been spared. In one case one end of what appeared to be
a motel was charred and collapsed where the other end still had lights on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Arriving in Williams’ Lake a few businesses were open along
the highway, yet still the overall activity level hovered only just above the
background noise of loneliness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Approaching McLeese Lake we once again were hit by rain that
was remarkable in its’ hammering intent. I imagine that if we were outside that
the rain would have smelled similar to yet another downpour that would hit two
days later in Prince George where the pre-storm ozone would give over to an
odour like wet charcoal… who knew the air could be that infused with
particulate? And yet, of course it was, why hadn’t that occurred to me sooner?<o:p></o:p></div>
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That marked the worst of it. Though walking about six blocks
through downtown Prince George the next day I overheard three separate
conversations that revealed the participants to be evacuees. Which was startling, but should not have been
surprising considering the temporary population of the city was now about 1/8<sup>th</sup>
evacuee. Later that afternoon I would
witness one of the very evacuees I’d previously identified casing a friend’s
vehicle. I expect if we had not come out
of the bookstore we were in almost as quickly as we had entered that there
would have been a break-in instead of an awkward attempt to pretend nothing
untoward had been going on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I expect that most evacuees are less desperate, more
grateful and better inclined to carry civic-pride up the road from their proper
home to their temporary one, but no doubt this was not an isolated incident.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our trip home was considerably less remarkable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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William’s Lake has much more life – having had three days’
worth of time for evacuees to return. That was an effort that was still very
much continuing with signs directing returnees where to go as they came home. I
don’t really know if returnees were expected to check in before going home, or
the other way around. Do they check in and get the good or bad news before they
have to see it first hand? Or do they go home and then come to register for any
resource support they now need?<br />
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But still a substantial portion of the evacuation zone was once again closed,
requiring us to detour from 100 Mile House through to the Coquihalla –
including through some previously evacuated areas like Little Fort, but nowhere
was the ambiance of disaster so prevalent, except arguable in Barriere which
had its own fire only a few summers ago which is still very evident and at the
same time it is encouraging to see the black wizards of old trees surrounded by
the verdant green of Mother Nature bringing back life to that corner of the
world.<o:p></o:p></div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-18234105266775956842017-05-17T19:42:00.002-07:002017-05-17T19:42:54.005-07:00The Joshua Tree - 30 Year Anniversary Tour - Opening Night - Vancouver<div style="text-align: left;">
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Okay... after five days, my in depth review of the opening night of U2's 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree Tour...</div>
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As I've said elsewhere the worst U2 concert I've ever seen, is STILL a pretty great show. And yes, this was the worst.</div>
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Let's place that in context a bit by reviewing quickly what it was up against:</div>
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November '87 at BC Place - the original Joshua Tree Tour. Not only was U2 arriving to the position of being the biggest band on earth, but the concert itself occurred right after the Enniskillen bombing. They had already done the San Francisco show that is featured in Rattle and Ho-Hum but Vancouver was the next day after San Fran and they were still very fired up. I've said it a thousand times before, that show was like going to church. I've never been in a crowd that was SO with the band. Though the show was relatively simple - no enormous screens yet - it was the single best concert experience I've ever had.</div>
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April '92 at Pacific Coliseum. I still have the concert shirt. December wore it this past week to the latest concert. It was the last show of the Achtung Baby tour - which was the first leg of what was to turn into the ZooTV Tour. It was in effect the practise tour for ZooTV - they came back to Vancouver again for ZooTV. The Pixies opened for then (and were terrible... but they played the Commodore Ballroom the next night and promptly broke up... so I guess they were "good" for a band who hated each other.) Meanwhile the practise run was in full-bloom and it was a technical marvel the likes of which had never been seen. It was amazing. The overload of ideas and technology directly influenced the next Juanabees tour. Absolutely in the top 5 concerts I've ever seen.</div>
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May '15 (Only 3 days short of two years before this past concert.) The second night of The Innocence + Experience Tour. The technical aspects of this show were the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Totally amazing. The band were beginning to show the effect of being in their 50s and that stuck out to me more than I wish it did. They were STILL great, but let's just say that Bono was long past his days of hanging off the balcony rail. As much as I enjoyed the show I did ask myself if I would ever see them again, as I'm not keen of watching them age past being the consummate rock stars of my youth. Also one of the top 5 concerts ever.</div>
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When the Joshua Tree 30 year Anniversary tour was announced and Mumford & Sons were announced as the opener, I knew what my last U2 show had to be. Mumford is a favourite of my daughter, and Joshua Tree is my all time desert island disc. It had to be her first concert and my last (U2) concert. The symmetry was too good.</div>
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As much as I want to try to put aside the venue issues (which did not directly effect me) it is hard to ignore the effect it has on a crowd as a whole. Certainly if I am going to credit the energy that the emotional perfect storm stirred in the crowd in 1987, I can't simply discredit the effect of having a third of your crowd angry before they got to their places in the stadium. I also have to acknowledge that there is an effect of 30 years upon the audience. We've long since past the point where there the energy level of the audience is divided by those who stand for the whole show and those who stand only for the great songs. We are now at the point where the divisor is those who stand for the great songs and those who sit for the whole show. For the record - I stood for almost the whole thing - including absolutely all of the pre-encore set.</div>
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There is a mixed bag of good and less good to follow, and I am going to do the band and show a disservice by focusing mostly on the good first, while ending largely with my criticisms, but I want to start by saying something I've already said: This was a really good concert. U2 suffers by being measured against their own success. All three of my previous U2 shows rank in my top five all time concerts - they have made themselves a hard act to follow as I inevitably grade them on a different scale from almost anyone else. By being quite possibly the best arena/stadium act of all time (and definitely in the conversation about the subject) its almost inevitable that they would disappoint... and you could even argue that they always have after that first show took my number one all time spot and held onto it for (presumably) the rest of my life. But this show definitely makes my top ten concerts of all time and I have a bag filled with literally hundreds of event tickets I've saved up since the mid 80s.</div>
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The opening was great. Simple, but great. Building the presence of the band up one piece at a time - making me think of Stop Making Sense (John Demme, only having just passed away, reinforcing the idea for me) but accelerated over the opening of a single song. My kid's favourite U2 song is Sunday Bloody Sunday, so both of the night's acts blew their wad for her in their second and first songs respectively, but it was great to be able to sing along with her from the outset of the show.</div>
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I appreciated the structure of the show as a whole (but will get into quibbles in the second half of this), putting the songs from before the Joshua Tree first - a quick primer on "how we got to the Tree" - then the main attraction - then encoring with songs that followed their most significant album.</div>
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One more thing that elevated this experience. The night before the concert I met a British music journalist in a bar and had a great conversation about music, football (soccer), art and of course U2. It seemed to be a mutually enjoyable conversation and that was cemented by him texting me between acts about the show and then the next day wanting to meet for coffee for more debriefing of my post-show perspective as well as the reaction of my kid. He mentioned that he rarely considered the dramaturgical aspects of concerts with the depth that I got into (pretty much everything I said above) and that that was good value for him as well as getting a view from a local who had attended the '87 concert in the same venue. There was the vague promise on the Thursday that he would pass on a "thank" from me to The Edge in an interview he was scheduled for the afternoon of the show, but as it didn't come up on the day after and reading in some subtext around how his day went (including but not limited to: he too had some troubles entering even with a press pass) I suspect the interview did not happen... but I'm going to tell myself that I did have a very short one way discussion with The Edge by proxy.</div>
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Now with it all in the rearview, the eleven songs of The Joshua Tree was a magical tribute to the most important album of my life and their career, I will always cherish sharing it all with Jodie and December, I can't get A Sort of Homecoming out of my head, and briefly, I had a new friend who gave me two excellent conversations. It was a great show.</div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-85333325466370046472017-01-21T09:25:00.001-08:002017-01-21T09:25:36.657-08:00Enough of "Pence is worse."<p dir="ltr">There is a regular refrain which springs up from one person or another anytime that any variation of sentiment surrounding Trump's longevity in office, whether that longevity is tied to his own longevity or his will and/or ability to stay in office, and that is that "Pence is worse."<br>
I used to think that might be true. But I am just not buying it anymore.<br>
Mike Pence is hard right conservative and a fundie. Neither of these appeals to my worldview. I cannot imagine I would be a fan of a Pence presidency. But he would have been worse than an imaginary Trump, a Trump we hoped might emerge. The Trump who people on the left who urged on November 9th "to give him a chance" had their fingers crossed would rise from the ashes of a dysfunctional election to show true colors which included turning his back on vast portions of his rhetoric,  and who, being the obviously  inconsistent bag of shit he is, would return to supporting all manner of progressive policies he years prior spoke in favour of.  We got the tiniest sliver of that Trump. He cavalierly ditched his plans to throw Hillary in jail, and then appointed Bannon to his staff and things spiraled into bat-shit from there.<br>
With Mike Pence, there would be a civil human being in the Oval Office. With Mike Pence there would be someone with an understanding and appreciation of the political process. With Mike Pence there would be someone who has read the Constitution in the highest office. With Mike Pence there would be someone who has actually considered the realities of foreign policy and national security and the intelligence community. With Mike Pence there would be someone who considers what he says before he tweets. With Mike Pence, the state of complete assholerry would not be actively normalized and empowered and all over the news demonstrating to our kids that being a childishly self-involved liar is a viable course to ascension.<br>
I see nothing - no policy, no appointment, no process, no dictate - that Pence would clearly make worse choices on.<br>
Fuck WYSIWYG. We saw and we got it. I no longer accept that putting up with the abject incivility of it all is the least of evils.<br>
Mike Pence is still crap. But at least not one is pissing on the crap before they have us eat shit.</p>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-22292052985250304042016-12-22T00:49:00.003-08:002016-12-22T00:50:14.294-08:00Stream of Thought for the Eastside Troopers<div class="MsoNormal">
Its been a tough month for the troopers. I’m not talking
about the police, but the street-level denizens of the DTES. I did a play
around the turn of the century (which has since been turned into a Leacock
award winning novel) called “City Boy in a Cowboy Town” by Mark
Leiren-Young. In it the impoverished
down-and-out inhabitants of the eponymous Cowboy Town are referred to as
troopers. It kinda stuck for me, though
no one ever understands what I am talking about. Not the police. The homeless.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m supposed to be writing something else at this very
moment, but the sirens are far too regular outside right now. That’s a reality
of this neighbourhood. The sirens at any time of night every night. Ditto
chemically induced screaming, but that is often a different thing entirely. These
past few weeks though have been rough. <o:p></o:p></div>
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First off it has been cold. Yeah, I know “rest-of-Canada”
our notion of cold is laughable to you. But I grew up in the interior of BC. I
know what sub forty weather is like. It has genuinely been cold here. Not sub
forty. Not even sub fifteen. But as soon as it is sub zero people are
freezing. You can be hypothermic in
temperatures ten degrees above zero. And that is where our warm climate really
gets the homeless when we get an extended cold snap. We have the homeless population
we have in Vancouver in part because of the warm weather. The homeless
gravitate here because it is easier to survive when you don’t have the
temperature extremes of the prairie provinces.
So there are more people out there to freeze, and they aren’t as
prepared because they don’t usually have to be as prepared. They aren’t as
prepared. The city isn’t as prepared. Its hard for either party to justify
being prepared for something that happens so infrequently.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I ended up shin deep in a puddle of icy water this past week. It was awful. Fortunately I
was going to be in a warm place for most of the day and would be home to dry
socks in a few hours. I can barely imagine not having had that in my immediate
future. The degree to which I can imagine it is uncomfortable, to say the
least.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then there is the fentanyl.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I figure its been about a year since I first heard of a
fentanyl death – maybe eighteen months. A young couple in North Vancouver –
both dead, child left behind. Last week there were nine fatal overdoses in one
night. Not all overdoses are fentanyl, but it is very clear that fentanyl is a
serious culprit. That really was a night where the sirens never really stopped.
We hear stories in the news about the
PTSD that emergency workers are experiencing right now – that they can
literally save one person three times in a night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I somewhat guiltily share this neighbourhood with these
people. To some we are an evil – the gentrify-ers living in the buildings above
their heads. To others we are a source. To some we are neighbours. I favour the
last outlook, but I admit its complicated. Its not what I want to write about
it tonight while a war for survival is fought in ear shot of where I sit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know these people. Not really well. But I know them. Some
of them I know by name. Some I really like. A few really annoy me. Just like in
any other social grouping. Except in this case its hard to judge my own
motivations cleanly. The troopers who I like are easy to live with. They are
also those who I am most likely to help when I can. The ones who annoy me are
the ones who probably need help more, but in most cases I can least trust them to
use my help productively. (That is code for “I can’t give them money because I
am reasonably certain it will be used for drugs, not the food or shelter they
claim it is for.”) I see a good number of them at least once a week and it
makes me uncomfortable knowing that it inevitably that will end and more than
likely it will end in some nearly anonymous tragedy that is already well into
its middle act.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One day I will see each of them for the last time. It has
happened before. The Push-up Guy. I gave him socks once when his feet were bare
and mine were going to be warm at home soon enough. I don’t have much hope that
he made it out alive. But he’s been gone for years now. Ditto the Bad-hair-cut. The homeless aren’t
really known for style, but this one… holy smokes – <i>bad</i> hair-cut. But I can’t do it justice and I don’t have a picture
and I never will, because she is gone. Odds aren’t good there is a happy ending
there either. Abdul. There may be a good ending to that tale. He may really
have been a kid from Somalia who just got in a tight spot and was having some
trouble getting out. I never saw any sign that he was anything but hungry. I
hope he made it somewhere where he can get on with life. But I’ll probably
never know.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do know in a few cases. Troopers whose lives got better. One
was a woman who we occasionally took a hot meal to when we had extra. One day
she disappeared. She was old enough that it didn’t have to be particularly
tragic to have meant she had died. But it turned out it wasn’t. It took about
two years. Then one day there she was calling to our daughter from across the
street – happy to see her and say ‘hi’ and looking considerably healthier. I
wasn’t there, but I’ve been told she had gained some well needed weight and was
almost unrecognizable for all the right reasons. Another was the case of
someone from back home whose life took a bad turn. Every time I saw them they
were a little worse, a little further gone. Then came the day that they walked
right past me, not only not aware that the person they were brushing past was
someone from “back when” but not aware that there was another soul in arms
reach at all. I assumed that was the last time I would see them. Then, a few years later, on Thanksgiving of
all days, they were getting on the train I was getting off of, and a bit of
hard living aside they looked as normal as anyone. I did not realize who it
was. I was on the platform and the train was pulling away before I realized
that my prediction that I would never seem them again was wrong and they had
found a way free. These are the good stories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But there will be lots of bad stories from this past month.
It could take me months more before I realize that there are regulars who I don’t
see any more and that the last time was before this brutal month. I can’t even catalogue all the troopers I
keep an informal mental tally of. Off the top of my head I can’t even think if
there is currently anyone out there whose actual name I know. There’s the
Tatted Wheelchair guy. The Friendly 7-11 Lady. The Dignified Spinster. The
Disarmingly Honest Schizophrenic. Caucasian Crazy-Eyes. Slick. Hammond (Not his
real name… unless by fluke.) Siberia. The One Armed Painter. Piano Man. Throaty
Francophone… come to think of it, I haven’t seen her in ages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There. Right there.
Throaty Francophone. Very annoying, that one. I’m relieved she is gone. But I
want her to have got out in a good way. I have my doubts though. She didn’t
seem to be trying to get out – like Abdul was. And she seemed too healthy to be
catapulted out by hitting rock bottom. But rock bottom is different for
everyone, right? And maybe she survived a bad overdose and that was all the
wake-up call she needed. Or maybe she thought she was invincible and went too
far, or was hooking and things went really really bad. I think we forget that
that can still happen here in Vancouver. We got “the guy” so now no prostitutes
are ever in any danger. Bull. Shit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And any awareness we had for sex-workers in danger has been
entirely overshadowed by the fentanyl crisis. I don’t even understand this. I
admit it. What is the business model that includes selling a product that kills
your customers at an alarming rate? Yes, heroin, crack, meth all do the same
thing. But WAY less frequently. I really don’t follow how this is beneficial to
the dealers cutting it into the supply. Unless I’m getting the metaphor
completely wrong. There isn’t a war going on out in the streets of the DTES,
the DTES is Birkenau and someone’s got it in their sick mind that fentanyl is
the final solution. I feel a little dirty having even suggested it, but at
least there is a logic there that makes some grotesque sense. If someone really
wanted to clean up the “worst of the worst” of the Eastside, this would from a
certain perspective help.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s the sirens again. Another trooper in trouble. Which of my neighbours this time?
How long before I notice? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Take care out there. Good luck. May you find a good way out
soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-79758035114852569012016-11-05T14:41:00.001-07:002016-11-06T11:02:44.429-08:00VOTE Dammit!I know that my own audience who can actually act upon this is small. The majority of people who read what I post do not have votes in the US election. But I suppose I know a lot of people who know people who can vote in the US election, so... I'll make this one final plea.<br />
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Barring any huge changes in the state of things, this is going to be the last thing of any substance I'm going to post beyond some possible snark and observation on Election Day. It's NaNoWroMo and I am 6000+ words in and don't have time to be writing this - except I couldn't live with myself if I didn't say it all one last time in as clear terms as I could muster.<br />
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I'm also aware that the majority of people I can reach with this already agree with me, so for the most part I'm shouting into the echo-chamber - but if there is any chance that my words influence anyone, I want to have put my words out there.</div>
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1) VOTE! If you can vote on Tuesday, VOTE ON TUESDAY (or before, if you haven't already). Not voting is totally fucking childish. You have a vote. You have a stake in the result. Cynical "my vote doesn't count" is complete bullshit. I live in an area that ALWAYS votes the same way. ALWAYS. My vote counts. Because things change, and one day this area will vote a different way, and my vote now can support that change by showing it is possible - or it can reinforce the status quo if things are as contentious as they were in the last Canadian election (pretty much exactly a year ago) and safeguard against an unwanted result. So vote. Children below the age of majority don't have a vote. Don't be childish. Fucking vote. You don't get to live in a world where this goes the wrong way (however you define that) and you haven't voted and you get to righteously decry how it all went wrong - because YOU DIDN'T DO A GOD DAMNED THING ABOUT IT, even if you think it was just a token. In theory one electoral district could sway the whole thing and if it was yours and the difference was a (for example) just a few hundred votes (ahem, Florida, Nov, 2000) YOUR non-vote coupled with a bunch of lazy like-minded people just like you, made a difference, and there are ZERO bragging rights attached to inaction. VOTE!</div>
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2) DON'T VOTE THIRD PARTY. I get it. The two party political duopoly is broken. You are absolutely right. And your moral high ground is noted. But your moral high ground is built upon a hill of wax and when the wrong side wins because you voted third party, and the whole country bursts into flames of ire, fear and hatred (assuming you don't believe that has already happened) your moral high-ground is going to melt into a sticky mess. Pick a real side, for Pete's sake! Only Hillary or Donald will be President on January 20th. Not Gary. Not Jill. Not Bernie by write in. Evan McMullin has a theoretical chance, but it's just theoretical. Non-zero. But really the possibility that he could win is just a gedanken-experiment that political analysts play for fun, ' cause "headlines."<br />
I know you are disaffected and you think both the other candidates are as bad as one another. (They aren't - see #3 below.) I know you are tired of the status quo. I got it. I heard it. I am even with you for the most part... except one critical thing... NONE of the options other than the nominees of the two major parties are actually going to win, so don't waste your vote. Its practically as bad as not voting. No. I take that back. It's worse, 'cause you actually got to the polls and then wilfully did something asinine.<br />
"But how will the third parties (the fact that that is plural is hilarious and just goes to show how ineffectual the alternate options are) ever get enough traction to compete, if we don't vote for them for realz in a Federal election?" Well for starters - this simply isn't the year. It's not. And not because this election is "<i>soooo"</i> historic - I'd have said that for each of the last four elections too, and at this point imagine I will in 2020. But because the foundation has not been set. The third parties need to work from the small up. You get traction locally. Then Statewide. THEN Federally. Here's the bad news - it takes a long time. I am pretty confident that I will never see a real third party in a US election. It took the NDP from before I was born until 2011 to get so far as being the official opposition in Canada. Our "fourth" party in Canada has been at it since I was 13 and has won ONE SEAT in the House of Commons in Ottawa. It grew from 11 independent candidates in Atlantic Canada with common ideals to the fledgling Federal actor it is today. If you want a third party to bloom, it takes time, and it has to build up to relevance from small winnable contests before it can legitimately challenge for the title. Sorry. It would be great if reality was different. But this isn't the year. Go out and run locally under the third party banner of your choice in 2018 if you want to see that change. But vote Democrat (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">or Republican</span>) on November 8th 2016, 'cause when you get right down to it, you DO care which of the real options prevail.<br />
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3) Vote for Clinton. You probably are voting for Clinton if you can vote and are reading this. SO, feel free to stop here. If you are voting for Trump... please work through the following... (but you won't because, I just might say something that clashes with your dearly held position and makes you uncomfortable.)<br />
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<li>Are you rich and have your ability to get richer at the top of your "must haves" list when picking a candidate? Well, go fucking vote Trump then. I still think you are making a mistake. I imagine that you are making a mistake if you game-out the long-haul, but who am I kidding, you aren't listening to me anyway.</li>
<li>Are you any one or more of: homophobic, racist, misogynist, war-mongering, or sociopathic? No? Then you have no reason to vote for Trump. Just stop it.</li>
<li>"Second amendment, YAR!" Your guns are safe... or rather... your guns aren't going to be taken away from you, no matter who you vote for. Really. <i>REALLY.</i> But let's talk about the second amendment in more detail next week, okay? Go vote for Hillary.</li>
<li>You think Clinton is worse than Trump, no matter what he is. Okay... I know it is really late in the game to be working this angle, because none of us have much time, do we? And there is SO much to unpack here. But seriously. Take your pet argument and its reasonable counter argument and go and look at the facts. Don't take the word of either candidate as gospel. Identify any element of the argument where the two sides disagree and do some hard Googling. Google keywords about the argument. Add "pro" and "con" and "debunk" and "fact" and "explained" and "Republican" and "Democrat" to the key word searches (separately) and read more than one article on BOTH sides of the debate. If you see an article that opposes your view - definitely read that one. If articles don't provide specific references to verifiable facts, then give them less weight than those that do. (Way less, honestly.) Sleep on it all. If you still think Hillary is worse than Trump, I'm going to want to rescind point number one above about voting... but I have integrity. If you are thinking maybe there is something to the alternate viewpoint - take your second favourite argument and see how the facts stack up.</li>
<li>You aren't racist. You aren't a misogynist. You aren't a homophobe. But the US is going to hell in a hand-basket and Donald is the first candidate who is really saying it like it is. Look. This is going to be hard to hear, but he is taking advantage of you. He is. He is saying exactly what you want to hear. He is playing upon your fears (and other emotions) without any regard for reality. He is inciting you to look at everything in your life that you aren't happy with and he is blaming it on other people and promising he can fix it without saying how. "He has plans. Big plans." But what are they? You can't tell me that. "He's going to deport all the illegal immigrants." Well, that is what he says... but how does he plan to do that? You don't have to go far along his intended course of action before things become vague and unformed and unactionable. He has no interest in you. He only has interest in his own empire and the next step in building it even bigger is to be President, so he can tweak the laws further in favor of him and his kind - who have been preying on you for generations. He is turning you against people who have been preyed upon even harder than you, making you think they are the problem, when they are being victimised by him and his sort just like you. He wants you to blame someone other than him, so he shouts that he can fix the problem and points at people not too different from yourself and claims they are at fault. AND then whenever he can get away with it, he tells them similar things. He has claimed that things will be better in the United States for various minorities under his Presidency and then told other groups of people how those minorities are the ones to blame for how shitty things are. For starters, things aren't half as shitty as you imagine they are - I know that's hard to believe, but just watch a few YouTube videos about life in Guatemala or Mogadishu or Mosul or Bangladesh or really, most of the places on the planet that aren't North America, Western Europe, Japan or a handful of highly functioning metropolises scattered elsewhere on the globe. America is totally great. Still and already. And yeah, it could be better, but not by making it worse for the people below you. That is only going to make America a contemptuous place inside and out.</li>
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Donald Trump, is probably the vilest human being who has ever been this close to being your President, and that bar is so low to the ground that its almost impossible to fit under it, yet he does. It's too easy to invoke the names of some of the objectively worst leaders in the history of mankind and go Godwin on Trump, but the reality is that it is hard to exaggerate how awful he is without doing so.<br />
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FOR FUCK SAKE. DON'T DO THIS. DO NOT LET THIS MAN BE YOUR PRESIDENT.<br />
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I assure you that if you do, we - the REST OF THE PLANET - are finished with America as the accepted beacon of hope and light and the global leader of what human civilization can aspire towards. Honestly, you may not easily be able to undo the damage you have done in that direction already. The world may well have passed "Peak 'Merica," it is certainly worth debate, but if Trump is in the White House, the debate is over, you will have, with irony, made a mockery of everything that was ever truly great about the United States.<br />
So vote for imperfect, not-a-criminal, well-prepared-with-a-staggering-amount-of-relevant-experience, first-female-to-hold-the-position, Hillary. And if that is not "good-enough," then get to work on Bernie 2.0 or Paul Ryan back-to-the-GOP-log-house or Jill Stein for Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District 2020, or whatever your version "better future" is.</div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-25599940271578358682016-08-19T14:37:00.001-07:002016-08-20T09:17:18.718-07:00HIP. HERE. NOW.<div class="MsoNormal">
It is upon us. No dress rehearsal - this is our life. One more show to go. Just over 24 hours away. The band united a nation. First, slowly over the course of years of
faithful commitment to the True North, and then again underlining it these past
few months since we first heard the news, in one long concert event that has reached across the country and by the end of Saturday night will have gone around the globe. The band has reached an end that took thirty
years to arrive at.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It may be true that not every Canadian is a fan of the Hip,
but that fact that so very many of us are and that so many of those are
snarling mad for them more than make up for those who yawn. So many of us won over throughout the years (I can walk you to the place in my hometown where I heard Small Town Bringdown when it first came out. Yea, I've been here all along.) All our home towns were cryptically being sung of then, and again over and over through the years. They shot a movie once, in my hometown, it's where I saw the Constellations pushing around a weathervane Jesus while stranded at the Unique Motel. Gord Downie managed to speak specifically to and of all of us.<br />
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This goodbye has been so unusual – unique even. Bands have
broken up before. Musicians have died. Great things have come to an end because
of tragedy and illness. But how many times have an artist’s fans been gifted
with a farewell like this? How many times have the artists been gifted with it?
Bowie – he knew what was coming and he made it art, but none of us knew what it
was all about until he was gone. And we never got a chance to say goodbye.
Prince – just gone. Even Spirit of the
West… while close in essence… they didn’t fill arenas and there was no last
great work – the magnitude was not there, and though I did not get to see any
of those last shows, it sounds as though off-stage John Mann had already lost
much of himself (which is heart-breaking). But in this case, Gord (and the rest of the fellows too, but let’s face
it, their tragedy is that after thirty years of being the ‘other guys’ in Gord
Downie’s band, they end has really – understandably - been ALL about him facing
his final bow) has also been given this gift.
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I was fortunate to get to see them on the second night of
the tour – the first of the two Vancouver shows. It wasn’t the best concert
I’ve ever seen, nor the best Hip concert I’d ever seen (Tie: Canada Day 1992,
Thunderbird Stadium or November(ish) 1993 Royal Theatre, Victoria – too hard to
call.) but I have no doubt it is the one that I will remember the most. There is a moment – a very long moment – that will probably be the
single most memorable concert moment of my life (and hey, I saw U2 right after
the Enniskillen bombing). Grace, Too was
the last song of the main set and there was a point where Gord stopped and looked
out at the crowd where a look came over his face…. It went on for probably half a minute. I think we can safely say that Gord Downie
was not known for his emotional honesty. Which is not to say that he was a
disingenuous performer exactly, but that his style was (and for one more night,
IS) a weird fantasy world of mime performed to dense, sung poetry and surreal
monologues. Whether he had entered the persona of a doomed sailor, or an
ill-fated pool-cleaner or half of a Canadian Bonnie & Clyde, or any of the
thousand other characters from tales he vaguely told in a thousand different concerts,
he was rarely showing us what Gord Downie himself felt. But not in this moment. He took in the crowd. Appreciative of them and appreciative of the moment. Appreciative of the place in our country’s
history he has been given. A place he
built out of a thousand pieces of the obscure Canadiana he appreciated. He
wasn’t saying “thank you.” He was just being with us for a moment, knowing that
all the tiny pieces like this one – that each we had taken for granted as they
past had added up to something bigger and this moment embodied it. His part in
our collective history, mirroring the impact of his career. Obviously, I don’t know what he was thinking
in that moment – but that’s what I took away. Then the moment passed and the
mime returned, hitting balls and throwing javelins into the crowd – shining a
microphone-shaped flashlight out into the dark….<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The moment in question occurs shortly after 2:45 - but you're going to watch the whole thing, right?</span></div>
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I’m trying hard not to put expectations upon tomorrow’s
show. I'll watch the CBC broadcast from Kingston in the Woodward's Atrium - practically home. I’m going because it’s the last. I’m going because it is something that
Canadians across the world will be sharing.
(For two hours or so, we will collectively quit paying attention to the
Olympics. This band means a<i> lot </i>to Canada.) I’m going because I can share it
with Jodie and December. (The former isn’t a Hip fan, but understands the
importance. The latter doesn’t really even know the Hip yet, but someday I hope
she will look back and recognize that the event was significant to me and that
she was glad to have shared that.) I do
expect they will do the same thing they’ve done across the country where they
spend the first half hour playing to each other, all but ignoring the audience
– which is a tremendously powerful statement of brotherhood. I expect the crowd will sing along to even
the most obscure of tracks. I expect I’ll cry before its over – hell, I’ve been
crying intermittently about it being over since May.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And yes, Gord, you were always right. We will miss you. None of this “wait and
you’ll see” bullshit. We will. Fully. And Completely.</div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-72319515807430487892016-07-27T10:05:00.000-07:002016-07-27T10:06:49.034-07:00The Highest OfficeGood morning Padawan.<br />
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By the time you read this, it will be old news. In fact it was practically old news by the time it happened. Yesterday something pretty amazing happened. Something that was a foregone conclusion by the time it happened. But something that had taken far longer to happen than it rightfully should have.* For the first time in history a woman was nominated to run for the President of the United States.**<br />
It didn't happen here. Canada has already had a woman as Prime Minister, but we have yet to have a woman lead a party to victory, so we ourselves have some ground to cover. But the US is not only our (get ready for a few cliches) the big dog in the yard and our closest ally, but also totally fascinating - and fascinated with itself, so its hard to ignore. For all its myriad failures, it does get a lot of things right... or it least it has been - we shall see what happens in November.<br />
Come November we will be witness to one of two things - either a woman will be President of the US for the first time, and that is pretty exciting; or the most objectionable candidate ever*** will be in office and while I don't want to be one of the historical cycle of sirens of the end-times who think the Golden Years are behind us, if Donald Trump becomes President, things are sure going to get interesting and while its likely to be entertaining, it isn't likely to be the sort of entertainment the world wants.<br />
I really want to believe in this moment in our better angels. I want a world for you where you can reflect back on the day your Dad told you that this amazing moment in history had just happened and how it meant nothing to you at the time, and that though you hardly recall what it was like before you are so blessed to live in a true Golden Era where the bounds of equality are more inclusive than any generation before, where you, as a woman know no limits to what you may achieve. Where the men at your elbows are friends and colleagues and equals and no-one bears a false imprimatur of value based upon birthright of any measure.<br />
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Anyway... when you read this in whatever future manifests, the day I just spoke of - that was yesterday for me.<br />
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Love Dada.<br />
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*Note that Hillary Clinton losing the Democratic nomination in '08 should not be considered a social failure. Everything that was lost in women's causes was gained and more by people of colour.<br />
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**I acknowledge that other women have been in contention in the past as Vice-Presidential candidates, running for nomination without achieving it and running as nominees of parties that are politically irrelevant in terms of their ability to launch a campaign with any (let alone realistic) chance of success. Being didactic about this diminishes the impact of the actual achievement, I don't want to delve any further into it at this point.<br />
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***Yup, even more so than Nixon - his pinnacle of vilification came after he was elected.Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-64075020156861391092016-05-24T14:24:00.001-07:002016-05-25T12:50:17.857-07:00Gord Full Stop<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i>“It makes no sense how it makes no sense.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
Blow at High Dough – from Up to Here</div>
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You pretty much have to be Canadian to know that 2016 has
struck again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This morning the news hit my generation of Canadians like
the Rogers Pass avalanche. (The only way to do this right has to include a few
obscure pieces of Canadiana.) Gord Downie
has terminal brain cancer - a glioblastoma.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He isn’t gone yet. But I have to process this now. Forgive
me for eulogizing him prematurely. I can’t do this twice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You may have to have hit adulthood in the late 80s or early
90s above the 49<sup>th</sup> parallel for this to be true, but for those of us
who did, this is Prince. This is Bowie. This is one assholebastardmutherfucker
of a year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“There’s more worms than earth in the afterlife.”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve lost track of how I ended up being the harbinger, but
it has become a bit of a sick joke among friends that this is all my fault. I
suspect that I wake up early enough that I am the first one tapped into the
news cycle… although Jodie has actually been the one breaking the news to me on
most of these things. Lemmy (three days
short of 2016), Bowie, Prince, very nearly Sinead O’Connor (and don’t begin to
think that drama is over yet) as well as a long list of diminishingly relevant
supporting cast from Glenn Frey (who touched our generation, but was really a
luminary of an earlier time) to John Berry – the Beastie Boys’ Pete Best, to
Phife Dawg… the depth of my rap and hip hop cred is admittedly shallow. It has escaped
few people that 2016 has it out for our music idols. In Canada we’ve already faced the farewell
tour of Spirit of the West, as John Mann cannot carry on due to early on-set
Alzheimers, and now we are awaiting dates for the final Tragically Hip tour. I
will try to be there. But I’m going to be a complete mess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Both Bowie and Prince hit me. Bowie comes a hair short of
making my list of artists I think can do no wrong, and is responsible for one
of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. Prince, I never loved, but I always
appreciated and I respect his impact on the music world. I didn’t cry for either of them. But this morning I wasn’t surprised when a
few minutes after getting the news I felt the tears well up in my eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As 2016 cut swathes through pop-culture I was holding my
breath and crossing my fingers that at least my top three would get through
unscathed. But that hope is gone now. (U2 & Pearl Jam, to answer the
associated question.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“Get Ry Cooder to sing
my eulogy.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> </i>At the 100<sup>th</sup>
Meridian – from Fully Completely<o:p></o:p></div>
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I could take you to within yards of where I was when I heard
my first Tragically Hip song. I was listening to the radio on my way to a
friend’s house. The DJ had some blah
blah about a new Canadian band out of Kingston and then <i>Small Town Bringdown</i> was unleashed upon my future. A few years
later, playing in a band myself, our bassist suggested that we should play <i>Blow at High Dough</i> from “this new band”
he’d heard of. I was delighted that The Hip weren’t yet another of the long list
of bands that hit my radar once and then disappeared.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I was touring in the early 90s with the Juanabees, The Hip were
always in high rotation and we did our best to convert non-Canadians to the
church of Gord – his bizarre mid-song sermons of fractured thought. “I’m wearin’ my red shirt!” he told us on
Canada Day in 1992, as he went on to muse about whether he should burn it there
on the stage or save it for the next 25 year benchmark of Confederation. It
looks like he should have burned it. That concert – their third in that day as
they played coast to coast – still stands as one of the greatest I’ve ever
seen. We had been in the sun all day and The Hip were probably the 10<sup>th</sup>
or 12<sup>th</sup> act of the day, but everyone in that stadium found the
reserves to give every joule of energy put out by the band right back to them
ten-fold. It was a revival.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“God has left the
museum for good.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Scared –
from Day for Night<o:p></o:p></div>
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The band behind him was – is – a highly functioning rock and
roll unit, and it is unfair as it is inevitable to diminish their contributions.
Despite the fact that they were all better raw musicians than Gord, The Hip
were nothing without him. It wasn’t just
his riveting stage antics that did it.
While he wasn’t the greatest vocalist, indeed some of his cliché embellishments
were kind of mock-worthy (E.g. By 1994, his penchant for hopping up an octave
on the last syllable of a line was boringly predictable… fortunately he out
grew that one.), his lyrics made him an unofficial poet-laureate of Canada.
Each song was a perfectly crafted puzzle – always with enough clear intent to
invite you to glean more, but every one with enough depth and obscure
reference as to be tantalizingly out of reach.
And every now and then he would succinctly encapsule a universal feeling
with hideous economy that could strike me to the core. Never was this more the case for me
personally than with the last line of “Ahead By a Century.” By now I’ve forgotten what exactly was going
on in my life that made it so pertinent, but on the very first listen that line –
“Disappointing you is getting me down” – tore into my present with the violence
of the Lac Megantic explosion. I was in tears before the final chord faded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“Did I read it all
wrong? Or have I just not gotten it yet?”</i><br />
Bring it All Back – from Road
Apples<o:p></o:p></div>
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More than that though, over the
course of his thirty years in the spotlight, Gord focussed his own eye repeatedly on
a number of subjects that recurred throughout his poetry that seemed to tie
together his work into some kind of tangled unity. Numerous Hip songs make
reference to any number of nautical mishaps either in process (Nautical
Disaster) or in the narrator’s past (Fiddler’s Green), with varying levels of
direct (The Dire Wolf) and oblique (Locked in the Trunk of a Car) reference. The same goes with crime – usually lurid,
often Canadian; Hockey – Gord was a
goalie of accomplishment… at least at the Juno Cup; and of course more
diabolically dysfunctional relationships than any lifetime has time for. But
throughout it all it was unabashedly Canadian. Canadian in a manner that not only defined his style, but also in a
manner that could mark something as Canadian by right of having fallen under
his gaze. He loved Canada and he became a singular part of Canadian culture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“Heaven is a better place today because of this. But the world is just
not the same.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Heaven
is a better place today – from In Between Evolution<o:p></o:p></div>
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I saw them 5 or maybe 6 times. It would have been more if not that by some frustrating bit of fate The Juanabees tour was always travelling West when the Another Roadside Attraction Tour was travelling East. Without fail we would play Winnipeg while they were in Saskatoon and two days later we would have switched places. I'm not sure I'll handle it well if I go to this last tour, and maybe it would be best if I don't. But if the opportunity presents itself, I don't think I can afford to not see them one last time.</div>
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<i>"Those melodies come back to me. Time beyond our heartbeat."</i></div>
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Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man – from Phantom Power</div>
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We have one last album. <i>Man. Machine. Poem.</i> Its due in a few weeks. Even the title scares me, like once again he has said more in three words about one idea than I can express in several pages of rambling. Of course he is much closer to whatever thought processes face the terminally ill. I feel like there are emotional hand-grenades destined to be hidden in there - little windows into his mind as he faces the event horizon of life. And we all know he is capable of expressing those ideas in ways that will fascinate, confuse and devastate. I eagerly want to tear into it, but I've avoided the pre-release single. I didn't have a reason before now. I don't want to face the reality that it is the end.</div>
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<i>"When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts doing some final accounting."</i></div>
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Poets - From Phantom Power</div>
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Fuck.</div>
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Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-57272008115245936762015-11-08T16:55:00.004-08:002015-11-08T18:42:04.332-08:00Remembrance Day Musings on Lieutenant-Colonel Harjit Sajjan, Minster of National Defence - Guest Post by C. Scott John<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">(Note I realize this is almost impossible to read on mobile - I'm working on that, though Blogger is NOT behaving.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">A good friend of mine posted a really fantastic reflection about his experiences in the military reflected in the light of Harjit Sajjan being named Minister of National Defence. Scott entered the military at the same time as Sajjan (as is outlined below) and had some experience with Sajjan over their years of service. I'll let Scott fill in the details.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Scott posted this on Facebook and it immediately had a response from people that they would like to share it - I heartily agree, and thus I am doing my part here with permission of the author.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Over to Scott... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">My semi-regular Remembrance Day musings ( I know I am early, but I have toddlers so have to take advantage of any free time I have).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I am thinking of current affairs this year. I am sure everyone has heard of Harjit Sajjan being appointed as Minister of National Defence. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">While I certainly can't claim to really know him on a personal level, I met and had conversations with him on a professional basis quite a number of times.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I joined the military at the same time and place he did,1989 in Vancouver and was able to bear some witness to his experiences firsthand. The community of soldiers in Vancouver was and is quite small and most of us knew each other to some extent.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">It might be shocking to think that at that time turbans were not allowed in the RCMP and were effectively unheard of in the military. Even years later, Sikhs were not even allowed to enter Canadian Legions because of a rule insisting that they had to remove their headdress. He would have been allowed to march in the Remembrance Day parade and attend festivities which almost certainly terminated at a Legion, but not come and sit with his colleagues for the many hours of stories and celebrations afterwards (even if he didn't drink alcohol). I wish I could sit down and ask him about how it felt for him on that most important of days for a soldier to feel unwelcome and excluded from the camaraderie of those who had donned a uniform.. Was there a place for him where he was welcomed in those early days? I hope so.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">The Forces at the time were not exactly bastions of individual liberty that embraced uniqueness. Heck, it took a decade to convince them that my desire to have a left handed holster for my pistol (which as a Military Police officer could have been the difference between life and death) wasn't just me wanting to disrupt good order and discipline. Even then I had to go buy it myself as it would have been unseemly to actually issue me one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Minister Sajjan was one of the first to test those rules and the institutional intolerance and racism. I have heard that he was refused from one army regiment before he was "allowed" to join another.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">His being allowed to wear a turban with his uniform was big news in every mess around the area, and universally decried as offensive. Comments ranged from mere condemnation of him not wanting to be "like us"... all the way to threats of violence.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I wish I could say I was a bigger defender of his rights, I largely ignored it as just talk. The only time I remember calling someone on their crap was when someone was making the comments that it was unsafe to allow him to serve because he couldn't wear a gas mask and helmet... I recall shrugging my shoulders and saying that they have somehow managed in the Indian and British armies for the last couple hundred years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">My first impression of him as a young officer (I don't recall having spoken with him before he was commissioned) was that he was cold and unfriendly... as an MP that wasn't too odd of a reaction to my presence so it never really occurred to me that it could have been a result of battling daily against near universal disdain for his turban from low level soldiers, all the way up the chain of command to the most senior officers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">As time passed, it seemed like everyone just got used to seeing him, though in my own experience I didn't see a lot of overt acceptance... I wasn't a part of his regiment and left the military in 2005, so I only have an observer's perspective. I can only assume that within his own unit, he more quickly just became another soldier to be judged on his merits.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Fast forward to a few days ago. He was appointed as the Minister responsible for the entire Canadian Military (what the hell did I do with my life if we both started at the same time and he managed that).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I have many friends who served in the military and belong to a number of veteran related groups. The response to his appointment has been effectively universally hailed as a major victory by soldiers of all political persuasions. One of "us" (an actual soldier) was now in charge. ONE OF US... let that resonate a little.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">In my own experience, I can tie a thread from my first days in the military where he was considered an unwelcome anomaly... all the way to him being lauded as a standard bearer for all soldiers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I feel like I was a witness to history, something that will or should be in textbooks for students to learn in every high school social studies class.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3628368/images/o-HARJIT-SINGH-SAJJAN-facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3628368/images/o-HARJIT-SINGH-SAJJAN-facebook.jpg" height="160" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I think it is important to remember that some of these battles are recent, some yet to even be fought. At the same time I amazed at how far we have come in my own time. While it may seem to be glacially-paced to those living it, in the perspective of history it will be considered to have happened at lightning speed... within the arc of a single man's career. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">This Remembrance Day I will be scanning the faces of the soldiers walking by on parade and will be paying special attention to the various colours of skin, diversity, and whether there are a few more turbans on the heads of young Sikh warriors. I will see it as a trail blazoned by pioneers such as Minister Sajjan and others. I will stand a little straighter in my own uniform because of it.</span></span>Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-32681961710343450852015-09-02T09:48:00.002-07:002015-11-08T17:03:47.676-08:00Brought to you by the number 'X.'<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What were we thinking?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monsters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They self-identified as “monsters” and we just let them lull us into a state of complacency over fifty years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yeah, its all clear in hindsight, but now we are totally ‘F’-ed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the “furry, blue and cute too” was all an act and we just fell for the inclusivity gambit hook, line and sinker. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The roommate bought in on that hilarious cookie-diet (didn’t we all?) and ended up paying the price for his blind faith in the benign nature of baked goods. Flesh. THAT is what they truly wanted, and that is what they got.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have to wonder if maybe they hadn’t culled the herd a bit in the past. Just given themselves a preview of the sweet meat to come. After all, where did those first two grocers go? Or the land lady’s first husband? Or that deaf chick.I can just see it - a garbage can sneaking up behind her one mid-summer night. Nice quiet midnight snack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When they finally decided that the word of the day was “feeding-frenzy,” (A beautiful day for them.), you would have thought that the sheer amount of meat on that bird or the damned mammoth would have slowed them down, but no.... Too damned many of them living amongst us. Too many of us making the final mistake of trusting a friendly invite to tickle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So few of us left.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holed up in the castle for now. Our host keeping a careful tally of who is still alive and encouraging us to get one good night’s sleep so we have strength to co-operate for the siege to follow. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I should sleep too. He swears he won’t rest until we are all asleep. He promises he won’t even stop for a drink until we are all at rest.</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-389fb5e5-8ef4-9a39-03f5-7100fe8f161d"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m so thankful there is still someone you can count on.</span></span>Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-84235804562848025102014-12-16T11:25:00.002-08:002014-12-16T11:28:03.108-08:00The Princess Arc - Another post from the tablet of a writer…<div class="MsoNormal">
On the way to daycare today December and I got in an
excellent discussion about character arc in movies.</div>
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She is four.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She loves princesses – Disney Princesses, of course.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So really we were analysing the princessinessitudeship of
the canon Disney princesses and comparing them to their peers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What follows is a summary of our conclusions:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Snow White: Born a Princess. Has Princesshood stripped from
her. Regains it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cinderella: Not a Princess. Becomes a Princess through marriage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aurora (Sleeping Beauty to those of you not immersed in the Cult
of Princess.): Born a Princess. Not told she is a Princess. Returned to
Princesshood. (Though from her perspective she is like Cinderella in
Princess-arc, she is in fact more like Snow White.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ariel (“The Little Mermaid.”): Born a Princess. Sacrifices/Risks
Princesshood (depending on interpretation). Marries into an entirely different
Princesshood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Belle: (That would be ‘Beauty’ as in “Beauty and the Beast.”)
Not a Princess. Becomes a Princess through marriage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jasmine (A rare non-titular Princess – from “Aladdin.”):
Born a Princess. Briefly pretends not to be a Princess. Stays a Princess – in fact
the Prince becomes a Prince because of her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pocahontas: Born a Princess. Stays a Princess. (Though it
bears mentioning that her title is never Princess – it is a cultural equivalent
of Chieftain’s Daughter. This is accepted in the canon without much question.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mulan: Technically never a Princess! Not even culturally
equivalent. But if we accept the general tropes of the Princesses and that she
is included as one of the Princesses in the canon by most measures and
subsequently re-align her arc with the parallel components then she progresses
as follows… Princess. Pretends to not be a Princess. Becomes a more Princessy
Princess than before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tiana (The Princess and the Frog): Not a Princess. Hooks up
with a Prince who has forsaken his Princehood… so really never becomes a Princess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rapunzel (You’ve probably heard of her though her film is
named the entirely unobvious “Tangled.”): Born a Princess. Taken away and not
told she is a Princess. Returned to Princesshood. (Basically the same as
Aurora, although in a much more progressive and watchable film.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Princess Merida (From “Brave” – to the point where lots of
people mistakenly call her ‘Brave.’): The<o:p></o:p><br />
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first Disney/Pixar Princess,
incidentally. Born a Princess. Stays a Princess. Tells the Princes to sit and
spin.</div>
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Princess Anna (Perhaps you’ve heard of the indie-darling art-house
film “Frozen” – which actually gave us two Princesses.): Born a Princess. Stays
a Princess. Has an older sister and (SPOILER) hooks up with a commoner, so is
destined to remain a Princess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Princess Elsa (also from “Frozen.”): Born a Princess.
Becomes a Queen (Basically a Princess who has levelled-up, so same thing but…
more.) Eschews Princess/Queenhood in favour of Ice-Queen/Princesshood (AKA
Being a Hermit.) Returns to regular Queen/Princesshood but is ‘out’ as an
Ice-Queen/Princess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not really any great insights there, but it was a lot of fun
to break it down with my kid.<o:p></o:p></div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-1907731677591257322014-08-13T21:42:00.001-07:002014-08-14T20:41:26.308-07:00Shazbot...When I heard the news about Robin Williams' suicide, my first thought was <i>"of course."</i> That was mixed with a very instant and heart rending sadness.<br />
I'm not going to try to gloss over the fact that he made a metric fuck ton of shit in his career - perhaps even more shit than good - but the good, the great was game changing. I say this as someone who was unmoved by <i>Garp,</i> <i>Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Vietnam </i>or<i> Dead Poets' Society. </i>Take those four off the board and there is still <i>Jumanji, Aladdin, Good Will Hunting, Awakenings </i>and that time he broke how situation comedies worked... <i>Mork and Mindy. </i>With that kind of resume, who cares that he also did <i>Toys, Jack, </i><i>Death to Smootchy </i>and, yes, <i>The Crazy Ones? </i>He had plenty to take pride in. And yet... Fame, fortune, awards and accolades, respect and love meant jack shit in the end.<br />
It wasn't exactly a secret that he was troubled, yet most of us managed to ignore it. But looking back... Mork's smile seems pretty forced, and most of his most brilliant (and even joyous) roles (even those I felt unmoved by) were all deeply steeped in melancholy. He was the Charlie Chaplin of the turn of the 20th/21st Centuries. A genius comic, whose comic insight was born in an immortal sadness that also made him a great dramatic actor.<br />
All of a sudden it seems a miracle we had him around as long as we did.<br />
This is going to sound bad at first, but perhaps his death by his own hand was the right way for him to go - his last blessing upon the world. Perhaps the spotlight that his death is putting upon depression is what the illness needs. A bit perhaps like Rock Hudson did for the AIDS crisis. It's not quite the right comparison, but its about as close as we are likely to find.<br />
I never met Robin Williams, but I do have an odd and ironic connection to him. Ask me about it some day - this isn't the place. But none the less, when I got the news, I quit thinking of Robins Williams in terms of <i>Hook, Club Paradise, RV </i>and the other detritus that fills up his body of work - 'cause that stuff doesn't matter. Those are the performances that happen when someone is willing to take a risk - and his entire career was built upon taking those kinds of leaps. Every now and then his leaps would lead to something like <i>The Fisher King - </i>a performance of divine beauty... and that (to be selfish for a moment) is what we are really being robbed of. And for that I cried. In public. It was small, but I couldn't hide it. A cashier at the toy store I was in brought me a tissue (I credit her for being really observant) and I coaxed my daughter outside, where she asked me "Daddy, why are you talking funny?" I don't think I could possibly explain to her the loss I felt - so many of us felt these past two days. I urged her to go play in the waterpark, while hundreds of other people also ran about gleefully too - clearly none of them had received the news....<br />
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....Na-nu. Na-nu.Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-12704286099660623782014-05-26T13:36:00.001-07:002015-07-20T15:32:16.564-07:00The Glass Princess<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Glass
Princess</span></b></span><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"> Or</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA"><i>“A
Fairytale you can’t read to your kid, but if you paraphrased it and took out all
of the inappropriate digressions and language, they would probably enjoy.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Once upon…
whatever, you know the format…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">There was a
Princess named <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Of course
her name is <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place>.
It totally <i>had</i> to be <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place>. Which is SO on
the fucking nose, if you didn’t already realize it. This IS after all a
fairytale called “The <i>Glass</i>
Princess,” that level of obviousness is just derigeur. Think about it – Cinderella?
Puh-leeze! Maleficent? Fractionally better. Prince Charming? Honestly? My birth
certificate might as well read “Snarky Writer.” So yeah, her frikkin’ name is <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">And her
parents, the King and Queen died. Deal with it.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">So Crystal,
who is still too young to take the throne – is taken care of by her aunt, the
evil witch Sathar.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Sathar
had been second in line to her brother to take the throne until Crystal was
born, but blah blah blah… line of succession dee blah… the kid screwed it up
for her. Hell, Sathar was probably responsible for the King and Queen’s death,
but that’s not really important – all it serves in the narrative is to make her
more evil, but that ought not be necessary because her name is frikkin’ <i>Sathar</i> and names don’t come more wicked
than that… except maybe Maleficent – gotta give Mauswitz that one. Either way, Sathar could only have grown up
to be a witch or to lead a death metal band. Given that this happened in the early 19<sup>th</sup>
Century at the most recent, there wouldn’t have been a lot of amplification
around, so the latter was extremely unlikely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Soooo…
parents die, evil witch becomes the Regent and one day not too
much later <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place>
is mysteriously turned into glass… Gee, I wonder how <i>that</i> happened?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA">But for
some reason, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city>,
despite being having been turned into an amorphous solid is still mobile and
sentient. And for some other reason that subscribes to the fairytale logic of
“maybe if we ignore it, no one will question it” – rather than just kill
Crystal outright when nobody is paying attention (it worked for Richard the
III), Sathar decided that it was best to turn the only person between her and
the throne into something really fragile and just hope that she would do
herself in by random chance while descending stairs in an over-tired state. Just
go with it – I could probably make sense of it if I really cared.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Fortunately
someone really close to Crystal – possibly sentient piece of furniture, or a
talking animal, or maybe just a strict but fun-loving nanny with a really
amusing song </span>with lots of nonsense words at the beginning of the second act –
had the good sense (and for some reason the authority) to confine Crystal to
her bedroom for… well, ever. And then the whole place was covered in wall to
wall carpets and tapestries and every chair was upholstered in thickly padded
chenille, or something similarly unthreatening.</div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-CA">Crystal</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-CA"> spends the next few years locked up
in a padded room for her own good… and it is boring, so I’m only taking up this
one mention of it. It sucks for her and it would suck for us if we were
burdened with the details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">But, lucky
Crystal, her aunt Sathar is cool – or pretends to be. Sathar <i>feels</i> her pain. Being a proto-Goth, Sathar understands the
tedium and goes out of her way to bring some fun into the little glass girl’s
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">After years
of waiting in vain for the kid to trip and shatter, Sathar starts sneaking up
to her room in the middle of the night and bringing her down to the Great Hall
to play on its hard marble floors. And
somehow <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place>
always seems to barely avoid disaster ‘cause she is plucky, lucky and dextrous.
Sathar encourages her to let her spirit free, to be bold and adventurous… but
when that fails to get results night after night Sathar really starts to lose
her shit.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sometime
around here the Kingdom is visited by the Prince of Somewherelseistan who is on
tour with his band or looking for eligible princesses<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
or conducting important trade talks (‘cause that is exactly what every
children’s story needs is a good section about commerce – just ask George
Lucas.) One night, struck by a bout of sleeplessness<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
the wandering Prince heard noise from the Great Hall and he came to watch from
a loge.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
He became immediately entranced by the transparent Princess<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
as she chased a rubber ball across the floor of the hall. So he watched her from above night after night – which in modern times would be
creepy and borderline illegal, but in antiquity was romantic.<o:p></o:p></span><a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></span></span></a> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA">Then one
night Sathar had had enough and got fed up. She waited until <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place> was standing in front of the window
and ran at her with her arms outstretched – apparently she had no magic in her
repertoire that would provide a solid nudge.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
The Prince watching from above saw what was happening and gasped. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city> heard him and
looked up, distracting herself from the rubber ball which she stepped on and
fell over, cracking her cheek on the marble. Sathar, arriving at the empty
space where <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place>
had been moments before, tripped on her niece and went tumbling out the window…
again conveniently lacking appropriate magic to prevent herself from toppling
to her grizzly death a hundred feet below on the rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA">The Prince
rushed to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city></st1:place>’s
side.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
She took one look at him and the improbable meeting of hearts (AKA “lust”)
occurred again, just in time to neatly wrap up the narrative in a convenient
little bow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA">The Prince
kissed her see-through lips and…. Okay now that I’ve used those words –
“see-through” – I realize I never addressed how <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city> dressed. Its not specifically germane, and thus I
didn’t really think of it. But if she was practically invisible one would have
to wonder how much she cared about what she wore.<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
And <i>that</i> would become immediately
relevant when the Prince kissed her because, as always happens, that disrupts
the magic and <i>poof</i> Crystal is suddenly
transformed back into a normal girl… but with a cute little dimple where her
cheek got cracked. No details after this matter whatsoever until we get to…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Happily
Ever After.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">Yeah, it’s the oldest cliché in the
fairytale universe, but here’s the thing – reality check – it has to be that
way. In most cases at least. If the parents were in the picture, either they
would solve the issue or there never would have been an issue in the first
place. Snow White. Mom lives? No evil queen marries into the family. Ditto with
Cinderella. Frozen? If Mom and Dad are around to solve the dispute then the
film doesn’t happen… or they are the worst parents ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn2">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">Chances are you didn’t “get” that.
But assuming you did… Yay Star Frontiers! I miss that game. I went looking for
an appropriate evil name for the villain and an unanticipated detour landed me
on a website about Star Frontiers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Okay,
okay! <span lang="EN-CA">Something like:
“Everyone in the kingdom would know that Sathar was the number one suspect, and
once she had been exposed as a murderer she would be forced to abdicate the
throne (to the number three person in the line of succession who otherwise has
SFA to do with this story.)” Of course that does leave the question open of why
<st1:city w:st="on">Crystal</st1:city>’s aunt, the witch went entirely without
suspicion when <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city>
mysteriously was turned into a block of glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn4">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">In private, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">I totally want to pluralize
“princesses” as “princessii” even though there is absolutely no grammatical
sense to it. It could just as erroneously be “princessa” or “princessae” or
“princessatae” or “princesseax” or “princeves” or “princessieus” or
“princessera” or “princesseries” or “princesseren” or STOP! Just stop it. Stop.
…Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div id="ftn6">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">Not unlike the insomnia that is
spawning this tale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span lang="EN-CA"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span lang="EN-CA"> Loge - /lōZH/ - noun: a private box
or balcony enclosure in a theater. Origin – mid 18th C. French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn8">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">No clumsy metaphor intended. It simply isn’t there to be had… but if
someone doing a screen adaptation can make it work; Hey, more power to ya!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">This may be somewhat
deconstructionist, but Frozen already let the air out of the “love at first
sight” trope. So I’m stuck with either blantantly retreading that single
example, or acquiescing to the demands of the genre… which is also by
definition retreading – and in so doing actually copying far more works than
the single outlier. Funny, that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">This would not have been an issue
for a Jedi. However, on the other side
of the coin, there is no Jedi Mind Trick that will turn anyone into glass, so
circumstances would have never got to this point. Force-choking on the other
hand….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/JediSchoolDropOut/Desktop/The%20Glass%20Princess.doc#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-CA">Which if you think about it,
probably took an agonizingly long time due to the architectural vagries of
classical castle construction, but only takes a moment on the page or courtesy
of non-linear editing software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opportunity. The Mouse House wouldn’t have made that error. Every single one of their princesses has a
TM’ed look that withdraws cash or credit directly from the pockets of the
parents of four year old girls everywhere.
Of course <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:city>
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Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-19579611993094210892014-02-27T21:46:00.002-08:002014-03-13T22:25:28.713-07:00Tim's Vermeer - Movie Review<div dir="ltr">
The essential measure of any documentary film is whether its core subject is interesting - or, if broken down a stage further, is it both informative and entertaining?</div>
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Tim's Vermeer</i> broadly speaking meets with success on both parameters.<br />
Of course you can't please everyone, and not everyone will be interested in inventor Tim Jenison's obsessive quest to duplicate a work of Johannes Vermeer by mechanical means using only the materials available to the Dutch Master himself. The description of the film falls short of piquing my interest, despite having personally experienced a moment of profound artistic reverie seeing one of Vermeer's works (the uncharacteristic exterior <i>The Little Street</i>)at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. However, put the film in the hands of Penn & Teller (the latter directs while the former acts as narrator), and now I'm curious.</div>
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Is it informative? Certainly. I learned about Vermeer of course, but really what <i>Tim's Vermeer</i> offers is a fairly geeky (the good brand of geeky) deconstruction of the science and the obsession behind Jenison's quest.<br />
Entertaining? Usually. However this is ultimately where the film fails when placed against the "is it interesting?" yardstick. For the majority of its run time the film finds ways to amuse, but relatively late in the game it fails in what strikes me as a rather obvious and one would think thusly-avoidable manner. From early on it is demonstrated that Jenison's technique - which is convincingly proposed as being a likely variation on that which Vermeer used - is slow and laborious. When it finally comes time for Jension to put brush to canvas and paint "Tim's Vermeer" (he selects <i>The Music Lesson</i>) in the last third of the film, the entirely wrong choice is made. Teller plays too much upon the tedium. Far too many a book, play and film has foundered on the rocks of trying to portray boredom effectively in an engaging manner, and<i>Tim's Vermeer</i> sadly sails with them. Fortunately the rest of the film has much to intrigue, and a day later I am looking past its other faults to the questions it raises about the boundaries between art and science, inspiration and invention.</div>
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The film was apparently considered for an Oscar nomination and it can be easily seen both how it was in contention for nomination - it is thought provoking - and how it dropped the ball and came up short.<br />
The failures ultimately revolve around Tim Jenison, although it wouldn't be fair to say they are his fault. Tim is clearly a brilliant guy - any dispute of this is laid to rest with his introductory biography. And he isn't ASD-alienating, Sheldon-Cooper-like brilliant.... at least not much. He is socially grounded, makes witty and accessible quips, and for the most part is relatable as a person. But that isn't quite the same as being an ideal central figure for a documentary. The catch of course is that without him - it is after all his brilliant insight that drives the entire film. Without him the film would be at least a tad fraudulent, and more likely, non-existent.<br />
Jenison's brilliance manifests in the depth and detail his speech and as a result he needs editing, and no foresight was put into this fact when shooting his interview segments, resulting in a distracting number of jump cuts.<br />
Also though Jenison is clearly moved by the completion of his goal - and rightfully so, it is an amazing feat and a commendable proof of concept - I felt nothing myself. Nothing about him evoked a feeling of empathy from me to him (and Jodie mocks me regularly about how easily moved I am) ...which seems like a pretty critical flaw for the end of the film.<br />
But put my criticism aside, <i>Tim's Vermeer</i> has more to be said in its favour than against it. It gets my recommendation for anyone with an interest in either art, science or Penn & Teller.... or even those relatively few folk who know already how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewTek#Tim_Jenison">Tim Jenison</a> changed the world before he ever picked up a paint brush. </div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-37230142662486256582014-01-22T15:21:00.001-08:002014-01-22T21:31:15.285-08:00Sitcom - AKA Three Young Hitlers in a Baggie by The JuanabeesThis came up on Facebook recently, and I'm posting it here mostly to fill in some blanks in some people's awareness.<br />
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Many people who know me know that I spent a big chunk of my 20s touring Canada in a comedy troupe called "The Juanabees." Those were some cool times. At one point we were called "Canada's best comedy troupe without a TV show" - which at that point put us third to CodCo and Kids in the Hall. But in the same year we were also mocked heavily by haters, so let's not forget that here I am 20 years later and no one outside of my circle of friends remembers the Juanabees.<br />
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What follows is the full script of our fourth show. It was variously called "Sitcom" (as it had been conceived as a 90 minute sitcom put on stage) and at other times (at Canadian Fringe Festivals) "Three Young Hitlers in a Baggie" which was a promotional riff on the names of some of the more popular shows from previous shows on the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit.<br />
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This show was the artistic high-water mark for the Juanabees, though the main tour was one of our roughest - but that is a story for another time.<br />
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The play was outlined over the course of a dozen meetings with myself, Rob Fredrickson and my main collaborator through my years with the Juanabees, Norm McConnell. I fleshed out the script before it was workshopped by Rob, Norm, myself as well as our director and stage manager, Matthew Bissett and Mike Rinaldi, who joined the team on short notice and only made the show better.<br />
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This version of the script is a representation of the show in its final version - about three years after its original run and three separate mountings with various cast configurations. This does represent the "best" version of the show, though there were definitely gags which worked better the first time around than the last. "X-Files!" in the first scene was originally "'Trek's on!" and I am not convinced that the (then) update of cultural reference was worth the change. Also many of the visual gags, are at best only implied here and just don't have the impact they did live.<br />
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After this show's last tour I left the company to pursue other things. Norm carried on for a while with the Juanabees, notably creating a serialized sequel to this which I was never able to see, but did get to read some scripts of which were very funny. As to this script, it still makes me laugh, even though it is getting dated and there are bits that I am proud to have contributed to the history of Canadian comedy.<br />
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Enjoy.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel DeMentia - A bottom rung executive & latent serial
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak Phlegming - A bicycle courier from dimension x. But the
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Everyone Else - With some strategic cheating from actors one
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The living room at #13 Cecelia Blvd: With TV, couch, table and
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The various settings should be easily changed in only a few
moments of blackout. Maintaining the speed of the action is more important than
the accuracy or detail of the set, so either a large stage with separate areas
for each set piece or on a smaller stage the set should be as universal as
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: It's Blair Faire on the air on WFUZ
flash in the pan radio. It's the drive at five on this sunny afternoon and I
can't believe the heat in the bowl. We're all going to be sleeping without our
sheets tonight. Here's one of my favourite one hit wonders. It's Pseudo Echo
with Funky Town....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak is sitting alone in the living room. He
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">And again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Maybe they'll think I'm psychic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark sighs and leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hello? Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: (Offstage.) Teak!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hello? Is anybody there?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh for God's sake. Teak!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel snatches the phone from Teak and hangs it up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Phone rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Oh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Ahhk!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Dale! Phone!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dale: (Offstage.) Got it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel hangs up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: We've got to talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No we don't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes we do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No we don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes we do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Eat and breathe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Eat and breathe. If we don't eat and
breathe we will die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What does that have to do with...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You said we have to talk. We don't. We
have to eat and breathe. If we don't eat and breathe, we die. We don't have to
talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: That's not what I mean....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Monks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Monks?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Monks don't
talk, they don't die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes, alright! Look, <i>you </i>have to
do the dishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No I don't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes <i>you </i>do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No I don't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes <i>you </i>do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Bushmen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Bushmen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Bushmen
don't even have dishes, they don't die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes, but it's your turn to do the
dishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: So?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: We all agreed we'd do the dishes when
it's our turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak:
What about you and Mark?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Mark and I do the dishes when it’s our
turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I never see Dale doing the dishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Nobody ever sees Dale at all. He never
leaves his room! How can he even make dishes if he never leaves his room?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I don't make dishes either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes <i>you </i>do!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I buy them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ahh! You're being difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You're getting mad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: You're damned right I'm getting mad! I
get mad when <i>you </i>get difficult!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You're not making any sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Is there any getting through to <i>you
</i>at all?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Huh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: It's eight o'clock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel & Teak: X-Files!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel and Teak sit and watch TV,
turning off the rest of the world. Mark begins writing in his diary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark's Voice: Dear Diary, June 6th 1996. All told today has been a fairly average day.
I got up, went to school, came home and listened to Teak and Nigel argue. Not
that I'm complaining. If they weren't arguing, something would be askew...
askew? A-S-C-U... No. A-S-K-O... Hmmrn....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark addresses the audience directly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: To hell with this. There are easier
ways to deal with the exposition. Now where was I...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak, the point is moot. Darth Vader exists in an
entirely different cinematic reality. Even if Mulder could withstand The Force,
they'd never meet each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You under-estimate the power of the
dimensional vortex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Dimensional vortex? No such thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: There is so. I learned it from the
Wisdom Troll.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh for God's sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 12pt; text-indent: 6pt;">Mark: Ah yes, Teak and Nigel's arguments.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 12pt; text-indent: 6pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 12pt; text-indent: 6pt;">They aren’t really arguments in the classic
sense of the word.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 12pt; text-indent: 6pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 12pt; text-indent: 6pt;">For two people to
argue effectively, they both have to connect with what the other is saying. I
don't think Teak connects with anything anyone says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Commercial!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak gets up and leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Imagine a man conversing passionately
with a chimpanzee, and you've pretty much got the idea. Don't get me wrong.
Chimpanzees may be fairly intelligent, but they just don't have the same
priorities we do. Neither does Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak returns from the kitchen. He is carrying
a bag of small dried fish like you would find in Chinatown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Fish?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak returns to TV-land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: He doesn't eat like normal people, he doesn't
dress like normal people, and he
certainly doesn't act like normal people....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You know how Mulder and Scully are
trying to prevent the earth from being invaded by an evil dimension?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yeah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It's not true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: This is the evil dimension.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel hits him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: And then there's Nigel. Y'know those
advertisements above your head on the bus? That's Nigel. He sells those spaces
for a living. Nigel and I go way back. I remember the first time I met him. It
was the first day of kindergarten. We were all supposed to be drawing pictures
of our homes and families. Nigel had been sent to the corner for drawing an
anatomically correct picture of his adoptive fathers. I hit him
in the head with the class hamster, and he just kind of opened up to me. He's
been my best friend ever since. It's a bit of chore sometimes though....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Mark, do you think you and your
friends can keep it down? I'm trying to watch X-Files.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Sorry Nige.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Fish?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel's honest, dependable, he's got
good fashion sense...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Mark,
you are interrupting the show television was made for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: But, he's a little obsessive....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: MARK!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: They're crunchy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: PISS OFF!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark lowers his voice to a whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: And a little pushy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark beckons the audience away from the
television and Nigel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel is the centre of his world.
Anyone or anything which doesn't revolve around him suffers his wrath. He's
passionate about every detail of his life. Every year at Christmas his fathers
send him a case of Maalox. He's tried therapy, but every psychiatrist he goes
to inevitably ends up taking a long sabbatical just as Nigel begins to feel
he's getting something out of it....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ahhh... Dana Scully, I'd do anything for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Fish?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I have a
third roommate as well. Dale. You don't see him here, and you wouldn't even if
you sat there an entire week. Dale is endowed with the ability to not leave his
room. Actually, that's not true. I've seen evidence of him leaving his room.
His groceries get eaten, visitors come and go, I've heard him in the bathroom.
But I've never actually seen him. In fact if the police asked me for a
composite sketch of Dale it would probably end up looking like Mr.
Potato-Head... or maybe Ernest Borgnine. But as long as he pays the rent, I'm
happy, and my Mother is happy. She owns this house. She lives uptown. I manage
this place and freeload off of her while I work on my third bachelor's degree
at the University, and lie to the student loan people about my living expenses.
All in all, the situation suits me fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Good episode. I liked the part where
Cancer Man got his face sucked off by the flying vampire pancakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yeah, but space crabs don't really do
that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: How do you know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It happened to my uncle once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak picks up the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Hello?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Nigel grabs the phone from Teak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Teak!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel and Teak scowl at each other. Teak
leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Mark, I've got a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: It's Teak isn't it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No, it's the dishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Maybe you should talk to them about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Look, Teak never does his dishes, and
no matter how I appeal to him he still never does them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well, here's an idea Nige. Who's dishes
are they?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: They're mine, I bought them when we moved in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Why don't you tell him that he can't
use your dishes anymore. That way he'll have to wash them for fear of being
caught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: That's a good idea. That's a great idea! Teak! Hey, Teak!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel, I wasn't serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel:
Mark. Teak…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Look…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: LOOK…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Dale!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dale: (Offstage.) Yeah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nothing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Phone rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Mark?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark answers phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah?
Dale!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dale: (Offstage.) Got it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: STOP IT!! Alright. Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nige...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ah! Look. If you aren't going to wash
your dishes, you aren't allowed to use them anymore. Got it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Okay… Nigel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well, that was easy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel's been having some trouble at
work lately. I think now would be an appropriate time to talk to him about it. Say
Nigel, did you get that promotion you were after?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Don't get me started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel's immediate superior was found
dead in an alleyway last week. The
police suspect foul play. What's the matter Nige?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I said don't get me started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: So you didn't get the job?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I don't want to talk about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You sound upset.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No I'm fine. I just don't want to talk about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: So someone else got the job? Someone
less deserving than you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I didn't say that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Are you feeling a little useless and
down on yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Shut-up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak enters the room wearing boots covered in
duct tape – sticky-side out. He is sticking to the floor with every step.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What are you doing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Vacuum is broken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Ah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh for God's sake....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">An old man bursts through the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. B.: What is this? What's going on here?
Who are you people? What are you doing in my house?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Mr. Bludfluke, this isn't your
apartment. You don't live here anymore!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: This is Mr. Bludfluke. He used to own
this house twenty years ago. Sometimes he forgets what year it is and escapes
from the seniors centre and shows up here, thinking it's home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Teak
has continued walking about the living room. Nigel and Mr. Bludfluke are
arguing. Mr. Bludfluke shoves past Nigel as Mark quits talking. Mark turns to
observe the chaos behind him. Teak begins to sing loudly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I love to go a wandering along the
mountain path… (Etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel
has wrestled Mr. Bludfluke to the floor. Mr. Bludfluke is hollering obscenities
and preaching against disrespect towards veterans like himself. Nigel picks him
up and out the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Val-der-ahhh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak exits into the bedroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. B.: (Offstage.) You're going to break my colostomy bag!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: (Offstage.) My knap sack on my back!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Something bursts off stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh shit !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. B.: I told you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Sometimes around here entire days go on
like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT TWO:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: Hello caller. Who is this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Randi: This is Randi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: Good evening Randi. Where are you calling from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Randi: I am calling from my place of
employment. Please do not tell my boss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: Oh, I'm afraid I'm going to have to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Randi:
Oh my goodness! (Sound of receiver dropping. Randi's voice recedes to
background.) Oh! I am dropping the phone! (Returning to receiver.) Please do
not do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: Hey, don't get too worked up. I'm just kidding Randi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Randi: Oh thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: What would you like to hear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Randi: I would like to dedicate this to my
special friend at HappyMart. Please
play "Let's Go All the Way?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: Got a little 'Sly Fox' you'd like to get tropical with
eh, Randi?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Randi: Oh, you could be saying that twice!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"Let's Go All the Way" by Sly Fox fades in, then out
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE TWO: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The
Smudgy Pigeon - Evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat is wiping the bar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Ah! The Smudgy Pigeon; home of low life
beggars boozers and bar rats. You won't ever find a more wretched hive of scum
and villainy. We must be cautious. I only come here because it's the closest
bar to my house... and all my friends come here... and everybody knows my name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Norm!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Oh, right. What suits your fancy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Draft, Pat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Pat:
Sorry. The taps are down. The God - nyah! - blessed pumps are broken and of
course everybody wants draft. It's a real pain in the gynh! - flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Make it a bottle of Canterbury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: You got it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark:
That's Pat the barkeep here. Good guy really, but he's got a slight disorder.
He's got an inverted form of Tourette's Syndrome. It seems that whenever he's
upset about something he feels compelled to say nice things about it. It's
rather crippling at times, which only makes him more stressed. It can be really
disconcerting to see him throw a temper tantrum. Imagine Marilyn Manson using
Shakespeare's Sonnets as epithets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hi Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Guess what.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No, no guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't know. You won a hundred bucks
on the 6-49?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nope. Well, guess again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't know
Teak. It could be any one of millions of things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It starts with the letter 'T'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I DON'T KNOW. What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I quit my job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: That doesn't start with a 'T'. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Sure it does. 'Teak' - Me - I quit my
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't know whether to be sorry or
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Oh, don't be sorry. It's a good thing.
And you know what the best part is?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak waits for a response from Mark. Mark
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I fixed it so I can't ever go back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: How did you do that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I put my bike lock on the outer door of
the dispatch office, and then I ate the keys. Now I can't get back in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Teak! What about the people inside?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Don't worry. They've got a vending machine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Teak, why would you even want to fix it so you can't go
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Temptation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Excuse me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Temptation. If I ever get the whim to
go back to a lousy job like that, I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: But don't you need the money?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yeah, but I've got a new job licking
stamps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Licking stamps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yeah, twenty-five dollars an hour, and it's Union.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Twenty-five dollars an hour for licking
stamps?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat enters with order pad and Mark's beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Plus benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Can I get you anything Teak?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Um... yeah. Do you make substitutions
on your menu?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: We can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Great. I'll take the bacon and tomato
sandwich.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Bacon and tomato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hold the tomato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: No tomato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Add watermelon instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Watermelon instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: And no bacon either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: No bacon either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Frosted flakes and mustard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Frosted flakes and mustard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: These aren't the droids you're looking
for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: These aren't the droids we're looking
for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Move along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Move... Hey! You quit your fu - nyrk! -
Family Circus hi-jinx. Anything to drink?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Scotch on the rocks. Hold the ice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 12.2pt;">Pat: Right. Oh yeah, if you see that roommate
of yours, I've got a bone to pick with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: How so?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: That son of a - nygh! - foufou bunny
never tips. He comes in here, makes demanding orders, wants the pre-stuffed
burger with no green peppers. I have to cut the thing open and pick out every
last gnyk! - beautifully chunky pepper. He's a high maintenance patron. Fifty,
sixty dollar tabs and do I ever see a penny? No! He pays the bill and that's
it. I don't want to see him in here anymore if he isn't going to tip. I swear,
if he doesn't smarten up, I'm gonna wind up and give him a good - gnyh! - hug!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I'll have a word with him Pat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Quick a pen! A pen! I need a pen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Why what's going on?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I just got an idea for a perpetual motion device.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Uh, Teak...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I just have to figure out what I'll use for fuel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel:
Pat! Vodka! Straight up.
Make it a double.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: We don’t serve doubles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Then make it a triple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: You know I can't do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well, give me two singles in the same glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Alright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat leaves. Nigel joins Mark and Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hey Nige, what's eating you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What do you mean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You never order a double.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Sure I do. Pat just never gives them to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat enters with drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Ahh! Go soak your - kgnn! - porcelain caste cheeks,
Sunshine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Poke me pansy. (Downs his shot.) I'll
see you guys at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Why, he
didn't pay at all! Why that - yneg! -
golden god of heavenly wonder! I oughta - gkak! -
wine and dine him like a lady should! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What's with him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Someone sure shoved his belly weasel on
the wrong side of the snow muffin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You know... shoved his... y'know...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Didn't your family ever say that when you were a kid?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Well we sure did where I came from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well, maybe I should have grown up
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Oh no. They wouldn't like you there.
You're not... pointy enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Pointy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT THREE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Blair:
And now it's time for a WFUZ flash in the pan radio 23.5 second news update.
Brought to you by the Smudgy Pigeon. On the lighter side of the news, the staff
of a downtown courier company were mysteriously locked with a bike lock in
their dispatch office overnight. Nobody was injured in spite of the poor
circulation in the overnight heat. Also in the news this morning, a body was
found in the city streets when a dog pulled the carcass out of an alleyway in
front of Al's fruit market. Police are issuing a statement for the press later
this afternoon. And now, back to the music....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"The Freshman" by The Verve Pipe fades in and out
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE THREE: HAPPYMART - MORNING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">An entrance bell rings. Mark enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Good morning my friend. Welcome to
HappyMart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Good morning
Buddy. (To audience.) This is HappyMart, the neighbourhood convenience store,
video rental outlet and Lance and Willow's Rice-o-teria. (Buddy is confused and
can't figure out who Mark is talking to.) Lance and willow are latter-day hippies.
They own the franchise. Pretty much all they eat is rice. They import it from
around the globe, but only sell it to their closest friends. This is where we
come for all our personal grocery needs, in spite of the three hundred percent
mark up. But it's convenient, that's why they call it a convenience store.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Is there anything I can help you with?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No thanks
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Ah, breakfast. Can I suggest Eggos?
Aisle three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: McCainine Microwavable Minute Bacon?
It's in the freezer case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No, I think I'd rather have cereal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Cereal. Multi-grain Wheat-o-Bix?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Captain Sugar Mallows?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Choco-Frosted Margarine Balls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark:
Thanks, I'd rather have something healthier Ah!
Fruity Crunch Jell-O-Flakes! I love this stuff. It stays crunchy and when you
add milk, it turns into a rainbow of colours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Will that be all?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No. (Lowering
his voice conspiratorially.) Do Lance and
Willow have any good stuff in?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: We just got a shipment of Thai long
grain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Is it any good?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: It's hydroponic man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: How much?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Twenty bucks a gram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Mmmm. Too rich for my blood. Got any of
that basmati left?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: No, but we've got some Uncle Ben's in aisle two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Never mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Taking the day off again Mark?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah, Teak and Nigel are at work. I've
got the house all to myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Buddy:
Ah, house to yourself. You'll be wanting a magazine then. The new issue of
'Shaved Mound' just came in. It comes with a free, pull-out, twelve foot, glow
in the dark, scratch 'n' sniff ceiling poster. It's the magazine for guys with
acute Freudian problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No. Newspaper will be fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Newspaper comes with a complimentary coffee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No, no that's quite alright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: It's free. It comes with the newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No, I'm really not a fan of the coffee
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Here take it. Take it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: It's fresh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't care! I don't want any!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Lance and Willow watch the security
video tapes. If you don't take the coffee, I'm in big trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Please?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Alright. Anything else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah, give me a copy of 'Good Will
Hunting.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Alright. Can I see your video card?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: There you go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Buddy:
And your driver's license? And a major credit card. Medicare card, birth
certificate, citizenship card, bank card, Fitness World membership card,
business card, Rocket Richard rookie card...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hey! Is there a problem here?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Yes, your membership has expired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Expired? But it's a lifetime
membership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Yes I
guess I'll have to rectify that (He
pulls out a shot gun. Mark grabs his stuff and runs from the store.) Have a
nice day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT FOUR:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> I
Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats fades in as it is coming to an end.
Blair Faire sings the last few words, mocking the plaintiveness of Bob Geldof's
vocal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Blair: …the…whole…day…down. Yeah. This is
Blair Faire on the air and that was the Boomtown Rats with “I Don't Like
Mondays." Another one from the 'Who cares where they are now file.' This
is WFUZ Flash in the Pan Radio. Now let's go back to 1985 with this little
ditty from Boys Don't Cry, and believe you, me, “I Want to be a Cowboy…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"I Want to be a Cowboy" by Boys Don't Cry fades in and
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE FOUR:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">NO. 13 CECELIA BLVD. - MORNING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark comes home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: It's such a good feeling - to know
you're alive. It's such a happy feeling - when you're growing inside. And when
you wake up ready to say, 'I think I'll have a snappy new day.' (Mark has taken
off his shoes, and put on a cardigan and slippers.) Ahh... there's nothing like
a day to yourself. Kick back, relax and do absolutely nothing, with no fear of
interruption from keys scraping in the lock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Phone rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Hello, is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Uh, no. You must have a wrong number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark hangs up and sits back. There is a knock
on the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Who could that be? Come in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Ah! It's the Postman. Hello Postman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman:
Hello. Is this No. 13 Cecelia Blvd?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: It most certainly is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman: As in... Cecelia, you're breaking my
heart...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes, that's right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman: ...you're shaking my confidence
daily...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You can stop now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman: ...Oh Cecelia, I'm down on my knees,
I'm begging you please to come home...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I've heard the song before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman: Ho-ho-home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman & Mark: ...Making love in the afternoon with Cecelia
up in my bedroom. Making love. I get up to wash my face, when I come back to
bed someone's taken my place....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: (Sighs.) That's very clever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman: I've got
a parcel here for Teak... Tninen... Fdornen... uh... um, Grommen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Phlegming?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Postman:
Yeah. Just sign right here. (Mark does.) It's right outside the door.
(Leaving.) Lie-la lie. Lie-la lie lie lie la-lie. Lie-la lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: (Following.) Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Postman: Have a nice day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> They
leave and a mysterious box enters of it's own volition. Mark enters, a bit
confused. He looks at the box and tries to pick it up. It shrieks and leaps
away from him. It then growls and begins to chase Mark. The phone rings. Mark
answers it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Hello, is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The parcel lurches at Mark. Mark's attention
is more on the parcel than the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No. No this is not 49th avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Are you sure?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes I am sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The box continues lurching, much to Mark's dismay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: So this is a wrong number?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Lurch, lurch. The parcel starts stalking Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well, it's not a correct number is it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Uh... Do you know what is....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The box is advancing on Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Look I gotta go. (Hangs up.) Ole! </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">(Mark herds the box into Teak's room.)</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> Okay. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">(He sits.)</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> Milk... Juice... Cereal....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Knock at the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What now? Come in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">There is a strange small person at the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Luka: Hello. My name is Luka. I live on the
second floor. I live upstairs from you. I guess you never....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark kicks him out - literally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Go away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Phone rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hello!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No this is not 49 avenue!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Oh, Okay. One moment please.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Second Voice on Phone: Hello is this 49
avenue? I am looking for...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No this is not 49th aven...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Unseen by Mark, Mr. Bludfluke enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Second
Voice on Phone: No. You do not talk. You do not talk when I am talking. When I am talking, you do not
talk, you listen. Attend to me! Attend to me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Okay, I'm sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Second Voice on Phone: I'm not worrying. Just
one moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What? Do they travel in packs?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pause. Mr. Bludfluke has a swig of orange
juice, which he immediately regurgitates back into it's container.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Third Voice on Phone: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes, I'm still here. Same wrong number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Third voice on Phone: Is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. Bludfluke stuffs a handful of
Jell-O-Flakes into his mouth and starts masticating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No. No this isn't 49th avenue. This is Cecelia Blvd. Is
there a specific part of 49th avenue you wish to speak to? The crosswalk? A
manhole cover maybe? Or is there actually a specific house?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Third Voice on Phone: So this isn't 49
avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. Bludfluke tries to wash the Jell-O-Flakes
down with a mouthful of milk, but it too ends up getting returned to it's
container.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark:
No it isn't! What have I been telling you people? I mean what are you doing?
Randomly phoning numbers hoping that you will stumble upon somebody who lives
on 49th avenue? No! How foolish of me. (Mr. Bludfluke has found the remote
control. He is fascinated by it, continuously turning the TV on and off.)
You're phoning my number over and over, hoping that magically it will suddenly
change to 49th avenue. But would that help you? What if this was 49th avenue?
Okay, okay! This is 49th avenue. Now what do you want?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Third Voice on Phone: Oh, sorry wrong number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dial tone. Mark hangs up. Mr.
Bludfluke dives behind the couch. Mark returns to his breakfast. He picks up
the opened OJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What the hell?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mr.
Bludfluke's hand appears over the couch. He turns the TV on. Mark is confused.
Mr. Bludfluke turns the TV off. Mark is weirded out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Teak!? Nigel?
…Dale?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark
returns to his cereal and pours a bowl. Mr. Bludfluke turns the TV on again.
Mark gets up. He walks to the TV. Mr. Bludfluke watches him. Mark whacks the
TV. As he does, Mr. Bludfluke turns it off. The phone rings. Mr. Bludfluke
escapes out the door. Mark turns to the phone. He stops himself. He lets the
phone ring. The phone rings. Mark unfolds the paper and reads it as he pours
his milk. The phone continues to ring. Mark has some cereal. The phone keeps
ringing. Mark continues eating. The phone rings faster. Mark looks at the phone
confused. The phone rings some more. Mark looks for the remote control. The
phone rings more insistently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Alright! I give up. Where's the remote
control?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The phone rings more. Mark gives up. He
answers the phone with exaggerated calm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Click and dial tone. Mark approximately loses
his sanity. He hangs up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Why can't I just have some peace and
quiet?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Knock at the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: This had better be important. Come in!
(Enter Constable Chisholm.) What is it!? (As he realizes who he has just
hollered at, he switches from AC to DC.) Ah, Constable Chisholm, the local beat
cop who will play a crucial part in the play right at the climax. What can I do
for you today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Constable
Chisholm: Oh I just came by to get introduced to the plot before I'm actually
needed. So as to reduce the cheesy nature of my deus ex machina like insertion
later in the show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well, you must have some real excuse to
be here rather than simply this self-aware intrusion into the action of the
play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: As a matter of fact I do.
I'm looking for a person named Luka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Ah, he lives on the second floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: He lives upstairs from
you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: I think I've seen him
before. If you hear something late at night....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Some kind of trouble, some kind of
fight?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Just don't ask me what it
was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Just don't ask you what it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Thanks son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You are my father!? You son of a bitch!
You've got a lot of nerve coming back here after what you pulled! Seventeen
years and you think you can just walk right back into my life....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm shuts Mark up by
threatening him with his billy club.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: No no no - 'Son' in that
context is simply an affectionate nickname, not a declaration of relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Right. I'm sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Bye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Bye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm exits. The phone rings.
Mark answers in total despair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark:
Fuck! No, this isn't Fucking 49th FucKinG avenue. Don't FucKinG even FuCKinG
think of FuCKiNG phoning the FUCK back! I FUCKING SweaR, I'LL FUCKING KiLL You
WiTHiN A FUCKING InCH of YoUR FUCKING WORthLESS FUCKING LIFE YOU FUCKING FUCK!
FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! …Hello? (Dial
tone. He hangs up.) Alright, video. To hell with the remote control - I'm no
lazy ass couch potato. I'm not above a little physical activity! (Mark puts in
the video.) Alright. Robin Williams - Oscar winner, my hero. I've been wanting
to see this since it came out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">He sits as the video begins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Video: VideOpensore presents 'Adventures in Canadian Trout Fishing'
with your host Noddy Midriff. Hey there
Noddy. Hey. Sure is a nice day for
fishing out here on Lake Brackettybott.... (It continues spouting similarly
inane dialogue.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark:
What? Why that lousy little punk! I'm gonna take this right back right now and (He has gone to the VCR and is looking at it confused.)
What? Where's the eject button? What kind of stupid VCR doesn't have an eject
button? There's one on the remote control. I DON'T HAVE THE REMOTE CONTROL!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Phone rings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Look, if you're calling for 49th
avenue, you had better just hang up right now 'cause you don't want to hear
what I have to say to you<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Zeffie: Glm. Uh, is Gdh, Teak there? Gdrn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No, no. He's at work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Zeffie: Glm. will you let me know Glk, when he gets in?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dial tone. Mark hangs up. Teak walks in. Mark
hollers directly at the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: He's home! He's home!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Ah!
Zeffie called.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Why are you home so early?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I got fired. I've been diagnosed as
having Ethyl's Disorder. Apparently I lack the critical enzyme in my saliva
which activates stamp glue. So they fired me! So, I'm walking down the street
with Zeffie talking about it and suddenly he turns to me and says, "The
chickens are back, I can feel them." So I turned. And there they were. We
ran, and right outside The Smudgy Pigeon, they ran into the light of the neon
sign and Bang! - they melted! Zeffie says to me, "Do you remember what we
did last time this happened?" I shook my head. He said, "Neither do
I." (Teak seems to think this is pretty significant and deep.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Ah. A package came for you today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You didn't touch it did you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Excuse me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Teak
exits to his room hurriedly. Mark sits down with the newspaper. There are
screams and gunshots heard in Teak's room. Teak returns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Damn. Now I have to order another one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">He pulls out a form and begins to fill it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Was it dangerous?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Only to people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh. Good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark returns to his paper. Teak tries to lick his stamp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hey Teak, look at this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes, but look at this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Would you just read this!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Could<i> you</i> lick this for me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Do you remember how Nigel's boss was killed last week?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well listen to this. "In a strange
set of circumstances, an executive partner of Paul Behrir and Sons Advertising
has been found murdered. This is the second killing of a member of Behrir and
Sons staff this week. Police refuse to speculate if the crimes may be
related."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Whoa! Nigel had better watch out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah, he picked a dangerous place to
work. But wait, it continues.... Police have been unable to determine the cause
of death, but autopsies show that both victims had exceptionally high citric
acid content in their bloodstreams. The only evidence was a single sunglass
lens found at the scene."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Weird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel walks in wearing broken sunglasses. (One lens is missing.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel, we were just reading about... Beyahhh!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What's with you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Mark's had one of his days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: People sure are dropping off like flies at your office,
huh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yeah, just like flies,
baking in the sun. Hey, 'Canadian Trout Fishing…'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Teak… Teak… (He can hardly speak, he's
so scared.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Are you losing your voice? You
shouldn't yell at the phone so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Hey, were there any calls for me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I don't know. I was being chased by
chickens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ah. Mark? Any calls for me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: For - four - forty-ninth avenue....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel
puts down his glasses and picks up the paper. He's ambivalent about the
headline. Mark grabs the sunglasses and motions to Teak, pointing at the broken
lens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Those are Nigel's. (Mark shakes his
head and points again.) Yes they are. (Mark shakes his head again.) Yes they
are! (Mark continues to indicate 'no'.) YES THEY ARE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ahem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: We're just... going to play charades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Cool!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Alright. (Returns to paper.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark points at glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: 'My eyes are blind I cannot see?'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark shakes his head. He motions as if
hanging himself by a rope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: 'Hang 'em High!'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark refuses again. He slashes his throat with his finger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: 'I cut myself shaving?'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark shakes head and pretends to shoot
himself in the temple with his finger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: 'Bang bang, the British are coming!'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark is getting very frustrated. He begins to
strangle himself with his hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: 'MY BALACLAVA IS ON FIRE!'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Excuse me, I'm trying to read the paper!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark
looks at Nigel. He puts the glasses on Nigel. He looks from Nigel to Teak. Back
to Nigel, and again to Teak. He is desperately trying to telepathically tell
Teak what he is driving at.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: (Clues in.) AAAAAAH! I have to do the
dishes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I have to help Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The pair run into the kitchen. It takes them
all of about four seconds to do the dishes. (SFX) They run out of the kitchen
and run out the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Bye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Bye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Uh, bye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel is bewildered at his roommates
industriousness. He checks in the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Hey. Where'd that sink come from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT FIVE:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"Zombie" by The Cranberries fades in. It fades out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Blair:
A little Zombie going out to you on this steamy afternoon. Outside the WFUZ
studios there's an ugly yellow-grey smog cloud. So if you can, hop on your bike
and leave the 'Beamer' at home. Update on the body found this morning. Police
have connected it to the slaying last week of a 39 year old man. All names are
being withheld, but both victims were employed at the same office. And
autopsies on the bodies reveal that both had exceptionally high citric acid
content in their bloodstream. Police have nicknamed the culprit "The
Scurvy Slayer." Now back to WFUZ flash in the pan radio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"Criminal Mind" by Gowan fades in and out again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">THE SMUDGY PIGEON - AFTERNOON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark
and Teak are in the pigeon obviously drinking themselves silly as fast as they
can. Pat enters and picks up their empty beer bottles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark and Teak: Umm! (Pat replaces them with full bottles.) Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Holy holy, man!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah, shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel's... killing people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah… Well, wait! We don't know that
for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: But his glasses…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Maybe he dropped them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: While struggling with a victim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark:
OR getting on the bus, or running up a flight of stairs, or bending down to
pick up a dime. It could have happened a
thousand different ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: But all of the victims are from his office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Coincidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel wanted all their jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes, alright, but it's all
circumstantial. We don't KNOW that Nigel is killing people. I mean he was
always such a nice quiet boy who kept to himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No he wasn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh yeah. Shit. We better
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: We could ask him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Go right ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: It was your idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: He's your friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: He's your roommate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: He's your roommate too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: He eats your fish!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You hit him in the head with the
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Flip for it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Call it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Heads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak flips a coin. He catches it, looks at it
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Ooops! Call it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Heads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak tosses the coin into the air. It doesn't
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It didn't actually flip. (Mark sighs.)
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Heads!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak flips the coin. Catches it, looks at it
and over reacts to some unseen, bogus influence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Whoa! Did you feel that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Give me that! Okay. Now, no matter how
it flips, or how it lands, the loser has to confront Nigel. Call it…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Tails! Ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark flips coin and looks at it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Best two out of three?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No way! You said…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Citizens....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak and Mark: Hi Nige.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
You guys left the house in such a hurry, I didn't know where to find you. But
then I thought... Smudgy Pigeon. Oh hey, good job on the dishes. PAT! VODKA!
MAKE IT A DOUBLE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat enters, furious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Forget it Nigel. I've about had it with you. You haven't tipped
me once in the past three years you've been coming here, you - nkeg! - Teddy
bear!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Pat, give him the double.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Not a chance. I don't even want you in
here. If you aren't going to cough up, you can walk. I don't want to see you in
here again. Kapish - gnek! - Prince of
my heart!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Pat…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Forget it. He can put it up out front,
or he can leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Here, here's his tip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Hey! Don't tip him for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Pat give me the money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: No way, you tipped me. It's mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I tipped for him, not me. Him. It was
just my money. His tip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: It wasn't my tip. I don't tip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You see? It wasn't a tip. Give it back!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: You don't tip?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I don't believe in tipping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: You don't believe in tipping?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You know what these guys make? They
make shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Don't give me that. He don't make
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: You don't care about counting on your tips to live?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Jesus Christ. I mean you aren't starving to death. You make minimum wage. I
used to make minimum wage, and when I did I wasn't lucky enough to have a job
society deemed tip worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You don't have any idea what you are
talking about. These people bust their ass. This is a tough job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
So's working at McDonald's. But you don't feel the need to tip them. Why not?
They're serving you food. But no, society says don't tip these guys over here,
but tip these guy's here. That's bullshit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Pat please. Get him his drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Trust me, it's for your own good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Not until I see a tip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I already tipped you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Right. Right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat exits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Mark…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Alright! Alright! I'm all over it.
Nigel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yeah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What happened to your glasses?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Broke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yes, but how did they break?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: They fell off. Alright?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I see... um...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What? Is there some kind of problem here?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No... Yes... Well... I don't know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: You sound confused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I am. I just... well, we... we were...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You haven't done anything rash lately,
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Like what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Mark, just ask him if he did it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: DID WHAT!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well, there's been a lot of trouble
around your office lately...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ahhh... I see. Yes. I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark & Teak: You did!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Well, how can you be so blase about it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Blase? I'm not blase. As a
matter of fact I'm pretty damned happy with myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Happy with yourself!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Yes! I realized something. I realized that there are two kinds of people in
this world, those who go out and get what they want, and those who don't. Those
who go out and get things go places in life, those who don't... don't!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: So you started killing people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Not without reason. I wanted their jobs, they were standing on my path to
success, so I eliminated them. Up until last week, I was someone who waited for
life to come to him. I used to be just like you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: ME!? Hey, I'm in school. What about
Teak? He's unemployed and couldn't hold down a job if he tried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: But he DOES try!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I try.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: You, you hide behind the veil of
school...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Veil of school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Working on bachelor of fuck all number
what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Four?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Four?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Three!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I took charge of my life. I saw something I wanted and I
took it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Took it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Can you say the same? Aren't you proud
of me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I'm proud of you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Will you shut up?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Shutting up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Proud of you? How can I be proud of
you? You're a cold-blooded killer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I'm a new man!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: That's great. I really love the new
you. I'm really glad you searched your soul and found yourself. Tony Robbins
would be so proud. You just see something you want and you take it. Take, take,
take. That's all you ever do. Take, take, take. Do you see anything else you want?
Here, want Teak's beer? Take it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark passes Teak's beer to Nigel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak takes Mark's beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: That's the idea!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh for Christ's sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: How do you do it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ever get lemon juice in a cut?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Ouch, yeah, that happened to my uncle
once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Imagine getting it injected straight
into your veins. Then, when it gets to your heart…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: That's obscene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: It leaves no obvious trace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: It's sadistic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: (With a grand gesture.) I'd call it brilliant!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> They
all freeze like at the end of a television episode. After a moment, Pat enters.
He picks up Teak's empty beer. He suddenly realizes that nobody else is moving.
He is confused. He pokes Teak. No response. He goes to Nigel and tries to take
his beer. It is firmly set in Nigel's hand. He gives up and spits in the bottle
before turning to leave. He notices something in Nigel's breast pocket. He
reaches in and pulls out a twenty dollar bill. He smiles, pockets it and
leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT SIX:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Blair:
The 235th caller to correctly tell me: From what movie comes the quote, “What
do you want to do with your life?" will win tickets to next Saturday's
opening of the Twisted Sister Reunion Tour! So now let's listen to this…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister fades in
and out again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><b>SCENE SIX:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">NO. 13 CECELIA BLVD. - EVENING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark
is watching X-Files. Mr. Bludfluke enters with the remote control and changes
the channel. Mark looks at him. Mr. Bludfluke laughs and leaves. Mark sighs as
if this has happened a hundred times within the past day. Which it has.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: He's been so happy since he got the
remote control I just don't have the heart to take it away from him. I just
wish he'd change it to something other than the Shopping Network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak looks frantically out of his room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Mark! Mark!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What? What is it Teak?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You didn't just see me leave here, did
you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Mmmmm, no?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Good. Would you let me know if you do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Uh, yeah, sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak renters his room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hey! Spray on hair! I've heard about
this stuff. I wonder if Nige'd like some for his Birthday? And it sure would
improve my self-esteem at the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak, dressed in entirely different clothing enters from
outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Uh, Hi Teak????<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Teak
enters his room. There is a scream. His door opens. The new Teak comes out a
foot or so with a pair of arms wearing his original shirt strangling him. They
drag him back inside. Pause. Teak re-enters (from bedroom) and sits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What was all that about?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What was what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey Nige. Say, did you get that job you
killed for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark swats him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
No. I did not get the job. I go to all the trouble of eliminating someone who's
job I want and then someone else gets the promotion. That's fine for them, but
what about me? I get nothing, after all that work and trouble. Maybe if I had
someone else kill somebody for me, then I'd get the promotion. Hell, I'd even
pay somebody for the service, if it worked. Hey! That's a great idea! Why don't
I start killing people for other people who want their jobs? I could start my
own job placement agency. And furthermore, it's justice. An unfair number of
young adults are saddled with dead-end nowhere jobs. Why? Because all of the
good jobs have been taken by people only a few years older than them, who are
too young to die any time soon. And by the time they do, those jobs will be
better filled by younger, more vital applicants. So this is a service to
society, by forcing openings in the job market for people who need them now.
Instead of allowing it to remain two walls of opportunity, one too soon and one
too late - evening out the imbalance. Giving us an opportunity to find a
worthwhile niche in society rather than being crushed between the gears of an
over-employed bourgeois. This employment agency is more than a job, it is a
duty, a mission, a campaign, a CRUSADE!!!! AAAAh ha ha hah ha !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel exits. Teak and Mark look at each other
stunned. Teak's attention is caught by the TV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey look! Pewter
Elvis statues!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Cool!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> NOTE:
If the need is felt to divide the play into two acts, this would be the place
to do it. I personally feel that it works best as a long one act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACK OUT SEVEN:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Blair:
WFUZ Flash in the Pan Radio! Where all the artists who only had one crack at
fame, still get air time. Going into five in a row, from the class of '86, who
remembers this Flash in the Pan?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“Spirit in the Sky” by Dr. and the Medics fades in and out
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE SEVEN:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">THE STREET - NIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> There
is the sound of a struggle. A day-planner flies through the air, landing in a
pool of light under a street lamp. A man in a business suit stumbles out of the
darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Who are you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel steps into the pool of light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I'm your worst nightmare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: What do you want from me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Shut-up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Please don't hurt me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: (Using a syringe to suck the juice out
of a lemon.) Don't worry, this isn't going to hurt…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Thank God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: …For long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim:
Oh God! Look, I've got money… Keys to my Audi, My… (Looks at day-planner.) Uh!
(Looks away desperately trying to draw Nigel's attention away from the book.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Ah! Day-planner. Daily tool of yuppie oppressors everywhere. Let's see what we
have here. Hmmm. Tuesday. Take Cyril to Ace Dentura - Pet Dentist to fit him
for 'Kitty Caps.' (Tears out page. Victim is clearly distressed.) Wednesday.
Take the Audi to the brake specialist. Hmp. (Tears out page.) Today, Thursday!
Oh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> It appears you missed something here Career planning with the Scurvy Slayer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Don't you write in there!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Shut-up. You might get this back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: I'll do anything you say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Roll up your pant leg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: (Tries.) I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Pull them down then. (Victim looks confused. Nigel
threatens to pull out another page.) Pull 'em down! Good. Now rollover. Roll over!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Victim:
(Rolling over.) I haven't done this since college. (Nigel swabs his calf.) Hey
that doesn't feel as bad as' I... (Nigel slams the needle into his leg.)
ARRRRG!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Hold still! Hold still!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: What is that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Lemon juice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Lemon? Egads! You're the Scurvy Slayer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Didn't I just say that? You ought to
read your day-planner. Check Thursday!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Please don't kill me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Too late, you're already dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: <i>Oh </i>God. Everything you say… is
a cliche! I can't take it! (The victim tries to run.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
The pain ought to hit right about... Now! Followed by a ticklish feeling in
your thigh. Then you lose all control of your leg. As the spasms subside, the
lemon juice reaches your groin causing at first a feeling of pleasure, then
impotence and agony. Luckily, the lemon juice then makes you lose all feeling
in your lower body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Dear Jesus, I can't feel my legs! (Nigel
nudges him.) Oh shit! (He Falls.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Then the lemon juice enters your stomach causing at first acute hiccoughs. Then
nausea and convulsions. It all stops for one brief moment, just long enough to
ask one final question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well, most of my victims have one last
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: No, I mean why are you doing this to
me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh. Sorry to waste your last moments
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: ARRRKGH!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: The calm before the storm has ended.
The lemon juice has entered your heart. It will all be over in just a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Victim: ...rosebud...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">(Dies. )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
What the hell did he mean by that? Hmp. Ah well let's get you out of here. (He
lifts the body but slips and falls in an obscene position.) AAAAAAH! Shit.
Okay, get off. (He pushes the body away. It falls back on him. This continues.)
Get off. Get off! GET OFF!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Someone enters just short of the light. Nigel hears him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Oh, God! Uh... why of course I love you dear! Heh, heh, uh here give me a kiss.
(He pulls the corpse's lips to his just as Teak steps into the light.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak! Oh thank God it's you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Oh Nigel! Oh man, I'm really sorry....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No, no Teak this isn't what it looks
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Look Nige…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: If you're in the closet, that's cool
and everything. But hey, (Pulls out a condom.) be safe man!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak, I'm not gay. This man is dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Dead?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: That's really sick!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No! Teak, look. Listen. He's the
manager at 'The Warhol Boutique. I just got a client in commercial art school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Oh! You're working!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: YES! (Sighs.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Sorry, didn't mean to disturb you. See
you at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak. Teak! TEAK!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hm?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel: Will you help me get him off of me? I've got a lot of work to do tonight. I
have to kill Blair Faire from WFUZ before the morning show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Cool, I love his stuff!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">They struggle with the body, ultimately
ending up with Nigel in yet another obscene (but this time mobile) position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Are you sure you aren't gay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Just go before his bowels loosen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">They exit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT EIGHT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Welcome to the brand-new morning show. I'm your host Sky Faltzburg. Here's the Crew.
Hey guys!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Crew: Woo woo! Yeah! Woo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Ahh,
it's a wonderful Saturday morning. How's the weather? Let's ask Captain Cumulo
Nimbus, the Weather Pirate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Weather Pirate: Arrr!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Polly: Caw! Whew-hoo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Weather Pirate: Arr, shut-up Polly. It's
going to be a hot day today Sky. Arrr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: A hot day again! Well, what are we gonna
do guys?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Paddy: We could go to the baseball game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Oooh, it's Paddy the Sports Leprechaun. What if it's too hot out to play?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Paddy: We could still have hot dogs and beer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Crew: Woo-hoo!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: How right you are paddy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. Sneed: Uh, Sky could you read this please?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Oh my! It's Mr. Sneed the station manager. Now what
have we here? Oh, I see. Um, WFUZ Radio
would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the family of Blair Faire. He was
a good co-worker, loving husband, and great DJ for Flash in the Pan Radio. In
his honour, we would like to break format for a moment and play one of Blair's
favourite songs. And so, going out to the man who died so I could have his
job...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Crew: Woo-hoo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Thanks guys. Here's some VanHalen,
'cause Blair would have wanted it that way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE EIGHT: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">NO.
13 CECELIA BLVD. - MORNING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> "Jump"
by VanHalen is plays. Mark is eating a banana. He begins to tap his toe to the
music. He then begins to sing, using the banana as a microphone. When the
chorus comes, Teak bursts in from his bedroom using a broom as a guitar. They
sing and dance and airband together until the next chorus. Nigel walks in. The guitar
solo starts. They don't notice Nigel as they play air guitar. He watches them
act like idiots. He shakes his head and turns off the radio. Mark leaps to his
feet. Teak continues, oblivious to the lack of music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Citizens. (He kicks Teak, who jumps to his feet.) What’s
up?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: We were just... jumping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Aren't we all. You wouldn't believe the night I just had.
I must have filled a dozen contracts by this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Work is good?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Too good. I'm completely bogged down.
And then I get jobs like the last one this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Do we have to hear this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What happened?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
I got a client who was a fry cook at McDonald's so I had to dispose of his manager.
Now you wouldn't have believed this guy if you saw him. He must have been
scarfing down all of the reject burgers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: He must have weighed like 380 pounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: 380 pounds. Let's see, that's... 170
kilograms... or... 18 and one-half shmagmargers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Shmagmargers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Look! Do you want to hear this or don't you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: (Simultaneously.) Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well I couldn't move him let alone
lift him. So, I had to find a way to break the body into carryable pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: How did you do that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Spare me the details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I ran him over about sixty times in my new car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Wait a second. When did you get a new
car?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I got a new Audi last week. I told you
business was going good. As a matter of fact, I'm going to have to expand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: How are you going to do that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: I put an advertisement in the
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: An Ad in the paper? What does it say?
Kill for cash? Death for dollars? Murder for money? You'll make a killing when
you toss your basic human morals to the wind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No. (Pulls out classifieds.) Here
Teak, why don't you read it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: (Nigel mouths the words proudly.) “Are
you between the ages of 19 and 30 and not earning at least 300 dollars a day? Realize
your full potential. Call me now!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Great huh? I just can't figure out why I haven't got any
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Sounds like telemarketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Give me that! I… Wait! It doesn't
matter. I just realized something. I've got all the manpower I need right here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh no. No. No!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What about you Teak? You're out of a job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I don't know Nige. You mean killing
people?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well, no. Not killing people. Liberating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Liberating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Come on, it's for a good cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Teak don't do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Competitive wages. Tax free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hmmm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Teak, think about it. Think about what
you're getting yourself into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: No.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: No!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You're doing the right thing Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I won't do it. I can't get involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak, you already are involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Last week when you helped me move that
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You helped him!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Just a little.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: You're already in too deep Teak. You
might as well make a little profit while you can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I can't believe I'm listening to this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
Once more Nigel and Teak are dear friends, once more. To close the wall up with
those yuppie dead. In truth there's nothing so becomes a man as a modest job
and gainful utility. And when the cries of the unemployed blow in our ears,
then we shall imitate the action of the tiger. Thinning the herd and replacing
unfair nature with hard favoured occasion. Strike the iron while it's hot.
Seize your chance and make hay while the sun doth shine. You are without job
and I in need of aide. What could more nobly suit a man than to fight along
side his brethren 'gainst a common foe. So, band with me upon the usurpers and
I shall line your pockets with wealth to spare. At my arm you shall have the
knowledge in your soul that you have served a purpose higher than any seraph army.
So what say you? I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon
the start. So follow your instinct and upon this charge cry "God for
Scurvy, Nigel and his war!!!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I'm in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel and Teak rush out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Kill!
Kill! Kill!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: From Hell's heart I stab at thee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Help?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE NINE: EVERYWHERE - ALL OF THE TIME<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> As
"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor plays, we watch Nigel and Teak kill
several generic professionals. (Possibly The Village People.) In between each
killing we see a newspaper headline spinning towards us like in cheesy movie
sequences. These headlines in order read: "Scurvy Strikes City!",
"Fourth Week of Terror!" and "Qh the humanity! 'Scurvy' slays
50th." At the end, Nigel and Teak dance together as money rains from the
sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE TEN: No. 13 CECELIA BLVD. - MORNING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark enters the apartment. Nigel and Teak are
dancing together among piles of
money on the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What the hell is going on here? What's
all this money doing on the floor? It's a bloody mess!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Too busy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: We haven't had time to clean up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Is it just
me, or is that just a little ironic? Look, mid-terms are coming up, both my roommates
are homicidal maniacs…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: That's an exaggeration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel's a homicidal maniac, I'm just
hired help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: We're businessmen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: (Grabbing
broom. Threatening with it.) Look! Point
is I'm too stressed out without having to clean up after the two of you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Be careful with that broom Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What? Are you afraid of a little broom
Teak?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Well, sort of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: My uncle got hit with a broom once. It
made him impotent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No way?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: That's bunk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It's true. But he countered the effect.
(Teak grabs Nigel and holds him between Mark and himself.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: How?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: He went to the Wisdom Troll. Wisdom Troll told him to go to the person
who hit him with the broom and hit him back seven times. This reverses the
effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: So if I hit you with this broom, you'd hit me back seven
times?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Knock at the door. Nigel breaks away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Come in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Elder Stan enters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Stan:
Hello there, I'm Elder Stan. God has made room for you in his kingdom, and you
can read why in my new set of twelve books about infidelity, masturbation...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Excuse me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel gets the broom from Mark and beats
Elder Stan soundly with it. Elder Stan
flees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Stan: Jesus Christ!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Thanks! (Returns the broom and exits
to the kitchen.) Ah ha ha hah ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Wisdom Troll also says that it's lucky
to live in the same house as a mad man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I don't feel very lucky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: He also invites good fortune into his
home by spreading dung through all his living areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Don't even think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: (Re-entering.) Hey
citizens, look at this! It's in this morning's newspaper. “An unprecedented
phenomenon is sweeping the city. Death toll rises to a confirmed fifty four,
only one dozen shy of making the Scurvy Slayer the most prolific serial killer
in history. Perhaps more astounding than the sheer industriousness of the six
week rampage, is the public response. Young urban professionals who seem to be
the primary victims are outraged, and in most cases scared. However, younger
age brackets, adults in their twenties, are fascinated. They seem to look to
the Scurvy Slayer as some kind of hero - a Robin Hood for the Turn of the Century."
Isn't that great? A Robin Hood for the Turn of the Century?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Wait a second. If you're Robin Hood then who am I?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Um, Tonto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Cool. Tonto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel, you're kidding yourself. You
can't cover it up with heroic phrases. I don't care if you're the Braveheart -
William Wallace of serial killers. Self-made man or not, you're still sick.
Look, I think it's about time you step back and look at things from a fresh,
objective viewpoint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh my God! You're absolutely right. How could I be so
blind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Good, so you're going to turn yourself
in?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What? No. I'm going to expand to other
cities. Come on Teak, we're off to HappyMart. We're going to look into
franchising.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">They exit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: In my own defense, I would like to
point out that I did not create the monster. I inadvertently fed it steroids,
but my hands are clean. I've been opposed right from the start. (He singles out
one audience member.) You, you saw it, you witnessed the whole thing. I'm
innocent. You can't blame a guy for turning a blind eye where friends are
involved. Can you? Can you? (Mark swats the person with the broom and runs
away, off stage.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT NINE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Hello caller welcome to request line… Hello?
Okay… line two. (Feedback.) Jesus! Turn down your radio! Christ caller! Fuck, what
are you - stupid? Jesus. Oh. Fuck… shit. Damn - I mean shit. I uh, er, hello?
Your name please?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Luka: My name is Luka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: And what would you like to hear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Luka: Something by Suzanne Vega.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Sorry caller, she's got more than one
hit, I can't play that. Anything else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Luka: Chumbawumba?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Now THAT I can do!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“Tubthumping” by Chumbawumba fades in and out again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE ELEVEN:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">HAPPYMART - MORNING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy is standing at the counter. He has a MondoMug (Big Gulp-esque drink
- a mocked up KFC container.) which he sips. Pause. He occupies himself. A
longer pause. He waits. Nothing happens. He smiles and nods at the security
camera. Pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: I've got a BA in anthropology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Buddy:
That must be how I got this job over all the other applicants. Now I get to put
my over qualifications to work nightly. Making coffee, maintenancing the
HappySlush machine when it makes the wrong consistency of HappySlush. I sit up
over night drinking far too much Coke, selling cigarettes to customers coming
out of the Smudgy Pigeon. Then, once the Pigeon closes, anyone who still wants
a drink comes over for a nice bottle of Listerine. Mouthwash? Aisle two. Aisle
Two? Farther! Past the tampons. It's really kind of depressing having to face
this side of humanity. Especially when you get shit on as hard as you do in my
position. No one respects the plight of the night shift convenience worker. I
work minimum wage and people expect me to pick up the difference of the few
pennies they're short for their M & M's. If I did that for everyone who
comes in here. I'd be working here for free. That MondoMug has gone right
through me. Excuse me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Just as Buddy moves to go, the entrance bell
rings. Nigel and Teak barge in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
See Teak? This is where it's at. National franchising. HappyMart has stores right
across the country. I bet that the guy who came up with this convenience empire
has houses on both coasts, and every exciting city in between. Montreal,
Toronto, Vancouver...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Calgary!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
I said exciting cities. See, what it's all about is standardizing and mass
production. Every MondoMug is the same, every HappySlush is the same.
unfortunately, so is every coffee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Igh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
What we have to do is find some way to standardize our service. We'll have to
work on that. MMM! And while we're here we should pick up some more lemons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Hey Buddy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Hey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You alright?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Fine thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You're looking a little pale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak will you help me with these?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak tries to help. Chaotic physical comedy ensues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Lemons end up all over the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak, pick those up! Buddy, lemons.
Ring 'em up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: That will be $19.50.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: $19.50 for three lemons?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: There's been a strange glut in the
lemon market lately. Supply and demand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You sure you're alright Buddy? You look
a little tense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: I uh... gnnn! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: You are looking a little stressed
Buddy. Job getting you down?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: MMMM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well, you're in luck. Bet you didn't
know I've gone into business for myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: MMn?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Got my own job placement
agency. You thinking of maybe working your way
up the HappyMart ladder?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: MMNH!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Well, just sign right here and you'll
be manager in just ten days! (Pokes
Buddy who's bladder fails him.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You sound relieved Buddy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: You could say that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: You ought to be. Soon you'll be Numero
Uno.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: I know what the first thing I'll do
will be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What's that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: I'm going to fix the
coffee so that the night shift employees don't have to drink so much damned
Coke to stay awake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You can fix the coffee?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: I find your lack of faith disturbing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Buddy, if you can fix the coffee here,
you deserve a real reward. Tell you
what, we'll discount the service. One hundred dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Oh, money's no object.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Alright. Five hundred it is. Come on
Teak, let's get a taco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak and Nigel exit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: I've still got two hours left in my
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT TEN:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Hello caller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Hello?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Who am I talking to?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Am on?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Yes you're on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: You mean I'm on the actual radio?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Yep, you're live. What's your name?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: Buddy at HappyMart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Hey Buddy, welcome to the show. So, what
do you think about today's topic: "The Scurvy Slayer?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Buddy:
He's cool. "The Scurvy Slayer" is giving new life and excitement to
this city. You don't know who's gonna die next. It could be me. It could be
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Sky:
I see. Well, I don't think it will be me Buddy. Tell me, how do you respond to
the suggestion that "The Scurvy Slayer" is only attacking established
professionals?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Buddy: More power to him. We need room.
They've got it coming. Those bourgeois
bastards can cram it up their…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Thank you
caller! (Aside.) Jesus Mike, where do you get these people?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE TWELVE:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">THE STREET - NIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak is struggling home with the HappyMart manager's body in a
bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: (Entering.) Excuse me
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: O<i>h. </i>Hello officer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Constable Chisholm: You dropped this bloodied
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Uh, thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: That's quite the stain.
You might try putting some soda water
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Say, I just finished this
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Yeah, sure. No! No I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: What do you mean you
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Uh… the bag is all full. Isn't that
right bag? That's right! Say 'Hello' to the nice officer. Hello Mr. Pig, hello!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: It doesn't look that full
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It's really very full. It just doesn't
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Now how can that be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It's very special garbage. It's extra
dimensional garbage. It takes up way more room than it looks like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Let me get this straight.
Extra dimensional garbage?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: I gotta see this!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Negative. Negative. I have a reactor
leak in here now. Uh… large leak - very dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Look Son, all I want is
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You can't handle the truth!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: <i>Oh </i>yeah tough guy?
We'll just have to see about that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Whoa! Whoa Son! There's a
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: (Turning his back on Chisholm.) Right.
You're absolutely right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chisholm: (Pistol whipping Teak from behind.) And that time is now! Now you
wait right there and leave your little parcel just right where it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Chisholm here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Walkie Talkie: Gohda tou loh solo?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm:
Tinderhousedogfacecabbagepatch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Walkie Talkie: Soam peetah lay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Over and out.
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Constable
Chisholm: There's a limit on the size of receptacle you can leave for the civic
garbage crews to take away. You can't leave that on the street for pick up.
You'll have to take it down to the transfer station yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Excuse me a moment.
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: "The Scurvy
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Prescription sunglasses. Where is he?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Walkie Talkie: Nistafot fostalotovard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: #13 Cecelia Boulevard. As
in "Cecelia, you're breaking my heart. You're shaking...?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Walkie Talkie: Yeahyeahyeahyeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Alright. Send SWAT team,
K-9 patrol, forensics unit, bomb squad and back up. I'll be there right away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak rushes away with the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Walkie Talkie: Rawcha ohvenowp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Over and out. Son, I have
to... Son?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Chisholm turns to leave. He stops, he runs
the other way. He stops and runs back.
He pulls out Walkie Talkie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable
Chisholm: Chisholm here. Where am I?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT ELEVEN:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: (Fading in.) …heard by five men named
Tony. At last report the priest was in stable condition, but the goats had to
be put down. (Music begins.) That's the
news. This is WFUZ Flash in the Pan Radio. All the world's great one hit
wonders on one station. And now a 23.5 minute Non-stop-flash-back-rock-block!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Music rises. "The Future's So Bright I
Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk 3. It fades out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><b>SCENE THIRTEEN:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">No. 13 CECELIA BLVD. - NIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel is watching X-Files. Teak enters, body
on shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Nigel! Nigel!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Ho! Calm down. Christ almighty! What
is this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: HappyMart manager.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: HappyMart manager! Teak, how many
times have I told you not to bring your work home with you? It's bad form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I was in a big rush, man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Teak you're never in too big of a rush to dispose of a
body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: The cops are coming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: It only takes five minutes to weigh a
body down and throw it in the river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: The cops are coming!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: A little care and attention to detail is the key to
success!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: THE COPS ARE COMING!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: There's never time to do it right…
(Sirens wail outside.) but there's always... time... to... do it... again...? Did
you just say the cops are coming?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Squeal of brakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: They're here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Great. Just great! Now what are we
supposed to do with this thing? If you had just got rid of it in the first
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: But I had to come tell you that the
cops were coming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Nevermind. We just have to find some way to get rid of
this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel & Teak: Garbeurator!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">They exit with body to kitchen. We hear them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Just stick his feet in there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Garbeurator noises. Blood squirts out of kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Dammit, this isn't going fast enough!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: What should we do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Look through the drawer to find something to cut it up
with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Like what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Anything. Anything we can use to speed this up a bit.
Anything that will slice, dice or otherwise dismember this corpse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: How about this. It slices, it dices.
Look it will go right through this tin can, and it still cuts right through
this tomato!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: That's
not a tomato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: It kind of looks like a tomato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Just give me that. Here you use this
knife. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Just use it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I can't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Just take it - cut pieces...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: But... but I can't!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Why the hell not?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: You said I can't use your dishes. (Bong!
- The hollow sound of someone being hit with a pot.) Okay. I'll use it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark has entered and looked around the living
room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Holy cow! What are all those police
cars doing out there? Somebody must be in trouble. SWAT team, K-9 patrol. This
is going to be better than TV. Bad boys bad boys whacha gonna dooo....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark enters kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: For crying out loud you guys, I told
you when <i>you </i>use my good knife to put it back in it's sheath… Oh my god!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark stumbles back into the living room
followed by more blood. He pukes behind the sofa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: (On megaphone.) We've got
you surrounded. Come out with your hands up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak comes out of kitchen, arms raised. Nigel
pulls him back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: There's no way out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: There's no way out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: We only have one minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: You only have one minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nobody told me there'd be days like
these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Nobody told you there'd be days like these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Strange days indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Most peculiar Mama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: For God's sake lock the door!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I'm locking the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Amateurs!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">As Mark approaches the door, Mr. Bludfluke
barrels through it, knocking Mark down and out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. B: Who are you? What are you
doing here? Wake up! All you punks ever do is sleep. You loaf! I'm talking to
you. Get out of my house!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. Bludfluke uses the remote to turn on the
TV. The opening theme of X-Files is
heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. B: Where the goddamn piss are my pickles!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel & Teak: X-Files!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">They each enter with a bloody limb in hand.
The fight Mr. Bludfluke off with the body parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: We fire in 5... 4... 3...
2... 1...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Just as Nigel and Teak sit down, there is a
round of gunfire. The TV blows up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Jesus!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: They shot the TV!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark regains consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What the hell is going on?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: The police are here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh wonderful. I'm in the
middle of mid-terms and my night of studying is ruined by a siege of my
apartment. Thanks Nige.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Hey, don't look at me. Teak's
the one who led them here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: I didn't lead them here, they
were already on their way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Already on their way? How'd
they find out then?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: They traced your prescription
sunglasses Nigel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Oh shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Way to go Nige!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Give it a rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You and your stupid crusade!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Let it alone already.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You arrogant, scruffy looking
nerf-herder!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Who's scruffy looking. (Phone rings.)
Jesus Christ! (He answers it.) What!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Voice on Phone: Is this 49 avenue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: What? No this is not 49th...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Gunfire. Slow motion. Nigel is shot several
times. He falls to the ground. Mark pulls
him into his arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Noooo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Aaaaaaaaaaaa...!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nnniiigggeeellllllll!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: The grassy knoll!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Slow motion ends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Nigel! Nigel are <i>you </i>okay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Nigel:
What does it look like? I'm fucking dying here. All this blood is scaring the
shit out of me Oh God, I can't believe
they killed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Hey - HEY - Listen to me. Nobody's
dying here. Are <i>you </i>a doctor?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: RRRRRRGhh....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Tell me are you a doctor?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Nnnn –
no Hurk!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Oh God, Nigel... Nigel! Stay with me.
Please don't die!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: (Sings.) Don't you fret M'sieur Markus I don't feel any
pain...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: (Slaps
Nigel.) Stop it! You're hallucinating! Hang on, hang on Nige... Listen, I
didn't mean to call you a nerf-herder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: 'Sokay....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: I didn't mean to call your crusade
stupid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: It's okay... You don't understand... I
did it all for you....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nigel: Yes you know it's true. Everything I do - I do it for
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">(Dies.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: What? You what? What are you talking
about? Nigel! What does that mean? Nigel? Oh Nigel....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pounding on door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: We're coming in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak stands up ramrod straight and pulls
Nigel's coat over his head. Constable Chisholm rushes in and slips in the
vomit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Shit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Watch out for the vomit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Get away from the body.
(Mark does. Constable Chisholm checks Nigel's pulse.) He's dead. Move away from
the coat rack. (Mark steps away from Teak. Chisholm puts hand cuffs on Mark.)
Let's go. (Slips in vomit.) SHIT!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Watch out for the vomit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Got anything to say for
yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Sometimes around here, entire days go
on like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Constable Chisholm: Yeah whatever. Move it. (They
leave.) You have the right to remain silent...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak pulls the coat off his head and looks
around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Noxious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Unholy Disembodied Voice: Teak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Who? Me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Unholy Disembodied Voice: No, the corpse. Of
course you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Well, you do have strange and
mysterious powers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Unholy Disembodied Voice: Shut-up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Unholy Disembodied Voice: Your mission here
is complete. It's time to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Oh, great! Can I take my...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Unholy Disembodied Voice: No!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak:... How about my?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak: Man. Extra-dimensional parents are such
a drag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Teak exits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dale: (Offstage.) Guys? Guys, can you keep it
down out here? I'm trying to sleep. (Entering.) Guys? Guys? Hey Nige... (Phone
rings. He goes to the phone. Slips in vomit.) Shit. Who left this casserole on
the floor? (He picks up the phone.) Hello, Dale speaking, President of 49th
Avenue Consulting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACKOUT TWELVE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"Right Here Right Now" by Jesus
Jones fades in and out again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: And now a WFUZ 23.5 second news update. Brought to you by HappyMart. Well folks,
it's over. Last night after a brief stand off, the police gunned down "The
Scurvy Slayer." Dead is Nigel DeMentia, confirmed to be responsible for at
least 55 deaths in this city over the past two months. Missing is Teak
Phlegming, one of "The Scurvy Slayer's" roommates. The other two,
Mark Bloe and Dale Vickery were questioned by the authorities and subsequently
released.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SCENE FOURTEEN - </span></b><b style="line-height: 14.85pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">EPILOGUE:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">THE </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">SMUDGY
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat and Mark are in The Pigeon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Drink?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: It's on the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Canterbury. (Pat brings it to him.)
Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Pff... 'S nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: No, thanks for bailing me out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Oh. That. You owe me 8OO bucks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Don't worry. The police
told me I'm not supposed to leave town. Besides, my student loan is coming in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: You okay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Liar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah. I guess I'm still in
shock. I'll get upset once everything hits me. Nigel was my best friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: I know you and Nigel were
close. I hated his guts. I don't know what to say....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: You don't have to say anything. It's
just his last words. I wonder what he meant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: What did he say?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: He said, "Everything I do - I do
it for you."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: He was probably trying to give you a
complex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Yeah, Nigel sure had an odd sense of
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Pat:
Yeah, he sure shook this town up and turned it on it's ass. Jesus what a
bastard. ???? Bastard. Holy Shit! I'm
cured! Quick ask me for a double.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Can I have a double?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Can I have a double?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: No! You can't have a double. What kind
of twisted fuck are you? We don't serve doubles. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Thanks,
you're beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Wait. Are you sure you're cured?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Yeah, I really meant that last part. I'll
get you that double now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat exits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mark: Mind if I turn on the radio?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Pat: Go right the fuck ahead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Mark
turns on the radio. It begins to play "Murder by Numbers" by The
Police. He switches stations. It plays "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables"
from Les Miserables. He quickly changes again. "I Just Died in Your Arms
Tonight" by Cutting Crew plays. Mark begins to sob and changes the station
again. He finds WFUZ....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sky: Good news folks! Heat wave is over. We
can expect rain tonight to wash our streets clean of blood and lemon juice.
Here's a little EMF going out to Nigel, where ever he is. Hey Nigel, it's been
unbelievable!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"Unbelieveable" by EMF begins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-46949752909755384762013-10-05T08:49:00.000-07:002015-07-20T14:47:57.657-07:00A note on editing dialogue:This really just dawned on me. It is something I have been doing for some time as a writer, but I only really just identified how I was using it. Hopefully it will be of some use to some one out there.<br />
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I tend to put as much as I can on the page in a first draft - often its not enough in some places, but mostly it is overwriting and I wouldn't have it any other way. From there I scale back. It happens in stages, but there is no point at which the stages are mutually exclusive. If something needs doing and I recognize it, I almost always do it in the moment (unless it is a distraction from a bigger task.) First I look for wording that is unclear and or unnecessarily complex. Sometimes there is a purpose for convoluted wording, but usually I was wrong in the first pass. Next I strip away most of the conversational dross. I write SO many sentences that start with "well", "but", "yeah" or "okay" almost none of which adds to the core ideas or character voice, and almost every single one of those sentences work better simply by clipping that opening verbal detritus. Repetition also gets a good scrubbing at this point too.<br />
Doing these surface-level changes first means that I read the script a few extra times (Usually I read it at least once without making a change before any of this.) to re-familiarize myself with the details as much as possible.<br />
Once these first changes are done things get more complicated and much more tailored to the specifics of the writing - the theme, the plot, the characters. An element of this is what I had a realization about.<br />
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I'm going to use my actual dialogue to demonstrate:<br />
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A: I refuse to be seen as someone who would condemn millions of people to death.<br />
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B: If it came to that, your self-image would be moot.<br />
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(That first line is actually the last sentence of a longer passage, but it is all that is immediately relevant.)<br />
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My first pass - the really surface stuff - resulted in the first line being scaled down to:<br />
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A: I refuse to be seen as someone who would condemn millions to death.<br />
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B: If it came to that, your self-image would be moot.<br />
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The "people" is pretty clearly implied - especially with the context of the preceding dialogue (you can take my word on that.)<br />
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My next pass...<br />
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A: I refuse for that to be seen as my legacy.<br />
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B: If it came to that, your self-image would be moot.<br />
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Much shorter, and again we know from context what 'A' means.<br />
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The next version is where I really had my epiphany.<br />
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A: That will not be my legacy.<br />
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B: If it came to that, your self-image would be moot.<br />
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Half the length of the original sentence, and 'A' doesn't hint at it being a matter of how they will be seen by the world. Because 'B' says it all. This changes 'B' in big ways. Instead of simply reacting and cutting 'A' for being worried about how 'A' will be perceived, 'B' actually does some mental work and reads right through to the sub-text of what 'A' says and in the end accomplishes all that was intellectually there before and more.<br />
In the final tally this: 1) makes it more entertaining dialogue, 2) is more concise, 3) does more interesting things with both characters, 4) Doesn't pander to the audience!<br />
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As is so often the case, less is more.<br />
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Like I said, I've been doing this kind of edit for quite some time, I just hadn't quantified it and thereby realized what I was doing.<br />
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Good luck!Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-21738716541822036762013-09-16T11:38:00.000-07:002013-09-16T16:09:37.135-07:00How We Broke Bad With Walter White<div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I'm betting that there are viewers out there who are feeling betrayed, and that is an easy to understand knee jerk. If, after last night's episode, you still think Walt is a hero, or even an admirable anti-hero, then keep the hell away from my family. But if you are an emotionally and morally grounded individual, there was no escaping the reality that Walter White's descent has become irredeemable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And here is where the real brilliance of Breaking Bad and Vince Gilligan comes to surface... We, the audience, were seduced into breaking bad right along with him. It was easy to go along on that ride down with him. Walt was a sympathetic (and initially simply pathetic) everyman in a very difficult position. Expecting to die soon from cancer, he had to find a way to do right for his nearly destitute family - including pregnant wife and handicapped son. How could we NOT be on his side? Sure he went down a questionable road - cooking meth - but <i>it was for his family</i>!</span><br />
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And on it went. Walt's choices were always for the <i>right</i> reasons and he solved his problems with ingenuity - it was always easy to look the other way. Looking the other way was of course how Walt's descent really started to take control of him. All Walt did when Jane was overdosing was (not quite literally) look the other way. It was something that was happening anyway, Walt simply didn't intercede. And he was doing it for Jesse's best interest. Partnering with Gus Fring allowed Walt to work in his sweet-spot (as a chemist) and avoid the dirty-work while still making a metric fuck-tonne of money for his family. Convincing Jesse to kill Gale was simply understandable self-preservation, right? And it's not like Walt pulled the trigger.</span></div>
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By this point the slippery slope is getting quite apparent from our position of privileged hind-sight. But back then, it all made sense - dark sense, that was apparent, but I know I went along for the ride and I am pretty certain I wasn't the only one. If I had been the only one, the show would have been cancelled way back then.</span></div>
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I am of course skipping over all kinds of details and focusing on a handful of major events along the way. Walt engineers the demise of Fring at the hands of Salamanca in one of the more brilliant machinations of the entire series. How could we not admire Walt for that? After all it was, at that point, kill or be killed and Walt avoided being any more than the proximate cause of Fring's death. Poisoning Brock in order to get Jesse back in line...? Well <i>of course</i> Walt had to do something, right? And its not like Brock died - as Walt has pointed out himself, he knew exactly the right dose to administer in order to walk the line.</span></div>
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The killing of an innocent boy... that was never on Walt. Right? It was Todd. That was all Todd. Todd did it. Walt had nothing to do with it.</span></div>
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Are you calling bullshit? Yes. So am I. But how easy was it to turn a blind eye six months ago? That was an amazing episode and Todd's actions represented the darkest moment of the series at that point, yet Walt was our hero and the heist had been cleverly executed (who can resist a good train robbery?) so it was easier to look past the collateral in service of the larger narrative. But what wasn't quite so apparent was that being inured to that violence - the dead of a complete innocent <i>was</i> the larger narrative.</span></div>
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I don't know about you, but last week when the action of the fire-fight cut to the credits, I found myself thinking that our man Walt was going to come up with some way out of his predicament. He always had before. And the only other way out was that Hank would be killed and that would just lead to disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We have been berated for going along with it - or was that Skyler? No, actually it was us. Skyler was merely the vehicle for Marie and Jr./Flynn to deliver the severely deserved chastisement through.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I don't know when it happened for you - one friend identifies Walt's spite filled admission about Jane as her point of no return - but for me, it was the confrontation with his family and ultimately the kidnapping of Holly that did it for me. (For others I know it was the phone call, which for me was merely proof of what I had already determined.) I even spoke out loud to the screen as the camera fell upon Holly and we knew Walt was taking her with him. "No Walt. No." I knew that <i>if </i>(I was momentarily undecided) I could get past the knife fight with Skyler (she <i>did</i> pull it on him) that taking the baby would definitely be a step too far. And <i>even</i> that as a father I can understand the instinct of... and hey... he did return Holly of his own free will, and he did it cleverly in a way that avoided capture. But no... even with those justifications I can't do it. Walter White is a bad man. He may not have begin as a bad man. He may have become a bad man by trying to do the right thing and even by making good choices on the way to the dark side. But there was no turning back - Walt is Heisenberg - a bad man and has been for a lot longer than I was willing to admit.</span></div>
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I am unsure how I will be redeemed for going along with Walt so far. We have two episodes to do it in. I feel pretty confident that Walt cannot be, nor should be. We, the audience will get our reward by having seen the error of our ways experiencing the catharsis of seeing Walt get his just desserts.</span></div>
Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-41481979960179976552013-07-02T14:25:00.000-07:002013-07-03T12:38:41.301-07:00Sports Fandom is a Breeding Ground for Irrational ThoughtI've been meaning to write about hockey in general, and the Canucks specifically for about two months now. Obviously it hasn't happened yet until today.<br />
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It has been a crazy few years to be a Canucks fan and its kind of hard at the moment to not think that this past weekend had to be the turning point one way or the other - and its kind of hard to imagine the good version, but I'm going to try.<br />
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I'll be the first to admit that my view of my team is perpetually rosy, and that by many measures it is hard to see an argument that justifies that position. But I also try to be level headed and rational - which is something that if you read much fan commentary is a very spare commodity.<br />
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Pulling just a few comments that I've read <i>just this morning</i>:<br />
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- "Luongo is a terrible goalie and has nothing to show for it."<br />
Dubious grammar aside. This one is just flat out wrong. Hockey-reference.com as of this writing has <a href="http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/ratings.cgi#goalies::none">Luongo ranked as #25 of all-time</a>. His GAA is in the top third of active goalies. He is #2 of all active goaltenders in shut-outs (of course Brodeur is #1 and has nearly twice the number of SOs.) which isn't so much a measure of current quality, but you don't reach that point without a heap of talent. He is also second in wins (again Brodeur - arguably the greatest goaltender to ever live - is first.) His save percentage - third.<br />
I'm sorry - no, I take that back... "Luongo is a terrible goalie" is such an asinine statement that I have nothing to be sorry for when I say that anyone who says that is egregiously wrong.<br />
As to the second half - "has nothing to show for it." Again, this is wrong. If the commenter wants to amend that to "has no Stanley Cup to show for it" - which does seem to be the subtext of most comments along this line - then they are correct. But that is <i>not</i> what they wrote. Luongo has a Jennings trophy. The Canucks won two President's Trophies with him in the pipes as well as winning the Western Conference finals once and topping their division every year since 2009.<br />
And of course at the 2010 Oly...<br />
The commenter continues: "You can't count the gold medal."<br />
Uh.... why not? Because it is the biggest single piece of evidence disproving your claim that he has nothing to show for it? I suspect that yes, that is the reason for the commenter's cherry-picking of facts. But the reasons they present are that 1) "its not the NHL"; and 2) "he let in a clunky goal at the end of the third requiring the Canadian team to win in OT." My short hand argument to both assertions is "so fucking what?" But in the interest of rational discourse I shall elaborate. 1) The discussion is whether Luongo is a terrible goalie or not. Under which umbrella he is a good (or great) goal-tender has nothing to do with the overall question. Eliminating the data of the olympics is like ignoring the results of one scientific study over another - simply because you don't agree with the results of the one you are discounting. 2) I don't recall anywhere in any hockey rule-book there being a rule about how almost losing is the same as losing. I've said it a million times it seems, but the goalie's job is to stop one more puck than his competitor at the opposite end of the rink. If he does better than that, great. Other than that it doesn't matter when, where or how. <br />
As to "clunky?" There is a heap of traffic in front of that net, including two US players behind the Canadian defense.<br />
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The entire argument also wilfully ignores the game-saving stops Luongo did make in the contest - including a doozy in the extra period.<br />
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None of this means that I don't think Luongo has his issues. He <i>has</i> shown a propensity for emotional fragility. He has blown more high-pressure games than he has won (but the reality is that in any given year 29 of the teams in the league do so). He did stink up one too many games in the 2011 Stanley Cup final. But he was also brilliant in that series too. Only two goaltenders have ever posted two shutouts in a Cup final series. Luongo and Tim Thomas - both in the same series. Overall, he did fail the "stop one more goal than your rival" test in the final. But he got us to that final, and the other side of the coin, in order to "stop one more goal than your rival" your team has to score - and that was something that the skaters largely failed at in the games the Canucks lost in that series (game six is the only game that really could have been saved by better goal-tending if you really want to be honest about it.) For that matter, if you look at the four games of the 2013 first round sweep of the Canucks by the Sharks, Luongo was the better goalie in the playoffs, and in the games he played was actually the best player on the ice for the Canucks. Yes, it was a sweep. But most of those games were a lot closer than the series outcome implies. I'm not going to break it down, but no less than two of those games were lost to either a bad play by Canucks skaters or unbelievably bad calls by the officials. No reason to make the goalies the scapegoats - or worse yet, make one goalie a scapegoat for circumstances outside of their control, but not do the same for the other.<br />
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- "The Canucks will never win the Cup because they've never won the Cup."<br />
Where do you start with this one? There is no causal relationship here. Yet, this statement and similar sentiments are remarkably common. "The Canucks suck because they have never won the Cup." Uh... what? I would love for the Canucks to win the Stanley Cup - and I have total faith that they will some day - but "they suck because they have never won the Cup" can only be one of two things. Trolling, or a pretty astounding lack of appreciation for the actual game. A lot of great teams have failed to win the cup in any given year. There is ALWAYS more than one worthy team in the playoffs, but only one ever hoists the hardware. The Canucks have been a pretty great team for most of the last dozen years, and it really sucks that they haven't managed to go all the way in that time (or ever), but that doesn't <i>actually</i> make them a bad team. (Not to beat a dead-horse, but if it DID mean they were a bad team, then conversely there would only ever be one good team int he league in any given season.) Statistically speaking they <i>are</i> behind the curve. 42 years in a league with 14-30 teams, they ought to have won the Cup by now. But you can say the same for Buffalo who entered the league the same year and have only made it to the final once. Worse yet, you can say the same of St. Louis who had an extra three years, made it to the Cup finals each of their first three years (due to the NHL equivalent of affirmative action - where the playoffs set the expansion teams against the O6 teams, so one expansion team was destined to play in the final) and have not come closer than the conference finals (twice) in the 42 years since.<br />
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- "The Devils become an instant contender with Schneider."<br />
Wow. This HAS to be a poe. HAS TO BE.<br />
You almost have to know absolutely nothing about hockey to say something this dumb. In fact, if you've bothered to read this far, I probably don't even have to explain how barking this is. But in a sentence... Martin Brodeur (arguably the best goalie of all-time - see above) has been between the pipes for NJ forever, winning two Cups and taking the team to the final two other times - INCLUDING LAST YEAR.<br />
Schneider <i>will</i> be good for the Devils' future, 'cause Marty is going to wake up one day in the next 24 months and very suddenly have become a mortal being. Quality tends to turn over fast for goalies. Schneider will be there to catch the team when Brodeur hangs up his jersey, but he isn't making them a contender.<br />
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And so it seems I have inadvertently transitioned into the Schneider trade...<br />
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I was as shocked as anyone.<br />
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Disappointed even.<br />
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But upon sober reflection, I don't think there was another way.<br />
I (obviously) am a Luongo proponent, but when Cory took over in the 2012 LA/Van series I "knew" it was over, and thought that for the good of all, that it should be. Luongo would be better off being moved, the team would have a change that could be mentally circled around for a morale boost, and the PR nightmare would be done once and for all.<br />
Fast forward to the 2013 entry draft.... oh, boy....<br />
After a year of not being able to move Luongo, and all the kudos that went to both net-minders for handling the situation well, who gets moved? Schneider. And though there are folks like me who still love Luongo for being the best goaltender the Canucks have ever had (go ahead, make an argument against that - the statistics say you are wrong) I knew that if I felt, at best, mixed, that the majority of Canucks fans - who are largely Canucks fans, not hockey fans, if you get the distinction - would be anywhere from alienated to outraged. I find it agonizing that in this market that public opinion has as much sway on hockey decisions as it does. It has to. I understand that. I'm also relieved that Canucks brass has the cajones to stand against it as much as they do - but it is a balancing act. And this Jenga tower has tumbled.<br />
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But here's the thing... there was no other way. That sucks. But that's the way it is.<br />
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It comes down to Luongo's contract. That record-breaking, rule-bending, precedent-setting contract. There was some genius in it when it was signed. The way it creatively accounted its way around salary-cap issues... fucking brilliant. And that is why it was the template for a schwack of contracts around the league that followed it. But it bit back. It made Luongo un-tradeable. That is self-evident now. If Luongo could have been traded, he would have been traded by the deadline last year, and if there was any doubt about that then, it is abundantly clear now.<br />
So what options did we have with goalie-gate?<br />
Not many.<br />
1) Compliance buy-out on Luongo and send him on his way for nothing. Less than nothing. It would cost them 13.5 million dollars just to say goodbye.<br />
2) Keep both. Ha ha. Right.One short season of that worked better than it should have, but the cap-hit alone simply won't stand.<br />
3) Renegotiate Luongo's contract downwards. Not actually an option. The NHLPA would set fire to Rogers Arena.<br />
4) Trade Schneider.<br />
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Realistically there are only two options there. #1 and #4. Both were going to be PR nightmares.<br />
Of course we ALL know better than Mike Gillis - just read the comments online, its apparent that anyone who has been watching 2 games a week plus playoffs for 25 years knows more about hockey than a guy who has spent his life in the business and lives and breathes the behind the scenes details of his team that we will never see. Just ask any of them. They all think Gillis is an idiot.<br />
I do think Gillis is on shaky ground. He has one season, I figure, to do something to change the state of the team - and more power to him, he is giving it all he's got.<br />
I'm not confident that trading the younger, still improving, cheaper goalie was the better choice, but I don't think the other option was clearly a better option. At least this way the team got something back. A lot of the grumbling seems to stem from a fiction that there was another option - trading Luongo. And that, as I've already pointed out, was clearly not in the cards.<br />
The next tier of dissent among fans is that assuming Schneider had to go, that we didn't get enough in return. On the surface it certainly feels that way, doesn't it? Schneider is exactly what New Jersey needs for their future and they got him for a first round draft-pick who may never wear an NHL jersey. But the question is not "what is Schneider worth in trade?" The question is "what could we get for him when the moment Gillis mentions him in a trade discussion it confirms what every GM in the league ought to already know - that they have Gillis over a barrel?" He was doomed to get screwed. It would have been nice to get a roster player in the trade, and I think that in most other circumstances that would have been warranted.<br />
Bo Horvat, the player we got with our pick looks promising. Hes an OHL MVP and as close to a lock for the NHL as the average first rounder gets. The beauty of being 9th is that you aren't first. There is all kinds of room for disappointment in those first picks. The focus on the top three or so picks is usually unrealistically high, setting up a failure to meet expectations. Drop down a few rungs and there is room to exceed. The jury is out and will be for at least the season or two it takes for Horvat to get into the league, but he has the all the boxes ticked for a player who could be the future of a team. With all the talk about how our present is slipping away, this isn't a hollow move for the organization.<br />
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Speaking of the future...<br />
What is Luongo's future?<br />
He has few options right now. He can take the path of least resistance (at least professionally, I'm of the understanding that his wife has never supported Vancouver, and for all practical purposes has never lived here... gee thanks, Honey. Perhaps we shouldn't be vilifying Roberto for his emotional fragility and looking at his support network.) and commit to Vancouver with all that he's got. That is what management expects. Or he could retire. Heh. Or he could refuse to report to training camp. Its not out of the realm of possibility. At this point if he feels fucked over, that is his deserved right. But at the same time, he did make this bed himself by agreeing to the contract that has caused the issue. If Luongo doesn't play in Vancouver - either by retiring (simply not going to happen yet) or by refusing to report - then we are hooped. That is a reality that the fans need to embrace and accept. And that means getting behind Luongo, making him feel welcome and appreciated. We need to encourage him to be the goalie of his resume, not the goalie of his reputation.<br />
At 34 he is getting close, if not past, the point where goal-tenders start to decline, but the good news is that it is very common for the tail of an elite goalie's career to be quite long. Take Brodeur as an example for the umpteenth time in this post. Luongo could easily have another 5 or 6 years as one of the best goal-tenders in the league, and it is not out of the question that he could still make an argument for being the best active goalie in the next few seasons. His contract was built with exactly that possibility in mind. He will still be being paid more than his actual cap-hit for another five years - that is a plus of sorts, albeit one that wouldn't be relevant with a different contract. Luongo could still be the player he is expected to be. Many a player has been less than their perceived legend until they've won a Cup (Yzerman springs to mind.) and many many great and beloved players have never won cups at all. We have no choice now but to hope he is the former, not the latter. Accept it and get with the program, 'cause he will be a better player with our support than without it.<br />
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I can hardly believe I've made it this far without mentioning the name John Tortorella.<br />
Two days ago it was a subject that would have been the bulk of this post.<br />
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My short-form opinion is that I am not pleased with the match. I just don't think that he's the right guy for this team. I will be very happy to be proven wrong. I will be curious to see how his feisty presence works here, both with the team and with the media, but the guy was fired from Madison Square Gardens because his team didn't score enough. Is that really what we need here? Granted that may be exactly the kind of style that Luongo flourishes under, but I'm not so eager to watch that kind of hockey.<br />
Vigneault had to go. I liked him, but it was clear that a change had to be made, and I'm sure that if AV hadn't been shown the door that Gillis would have been (and as I indicated earlier I don't think Gillis has much room left to work with without results.) With that in mind I had hoped that we might bring Patrick Roy back to the NHL behind our bench. But the Canucks were a day late firing Vigneault for that to even be a possibility. And as the job was available in Colorado, I don't think it ever really had been an option for us.<br />
So I guess I hope that Tortorella coaches the team he has and makes all the pieces function at their peak and doesn't try to shoe-horn it all into a system that isn't in the DNA of the team. I hope the players recognize that, whatever the changes are from AV to Fonzie, that the status quo wasn't working and that a reasonable shift in the system could be fruitful if everyone buys in. (Oh gawd... usually when a team "buys in" to a system, isn't the unspoken part of that; "to an un-entertaining, if effective system"?)<br />
There is a temptation to compare Tortorella to Keenan, but I don't think that can fairly be done beyond the temper. Tortorella was not brought in as the buddy of a hired-gun superstar, like Kennan was with Messier. (Who I loved, but his Canucks years were the among the worst for him and the team.) The team is not actually skidding the way the Canucks were in 1997 and though the teams' system needs an upgrade, there is no indication that the country-club atmosphere of the late 90s is an issue now. Lastly, Keenan had trading power. Tortorella doesn't, and I don't think there is any chance that that kind of mistake will ever be made again on Abbott St.<br />
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Hopefully the team can pick up an interesting UFA (Lecavalier* has experience in the Tortorella system - doubt that we can fit him into our payroll though.) and give the fans something to think positively about before the first puck drops. After that, all bets are off. Things are extremely in question right now - volatile, even - but once the heat of this past weekend (literal and figurative) has passed there is actually plenty of reason to continue to expect the Canucks to be a contender.<br />
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A bit of a tangent as I wrap up...<br />
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Regarding the notion that there is a conspiracy to keep the Canucks from ever winning a Cup:<br />
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First off.... Why? What purpose does that serve?<br />
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I will grant there does seem to be some favouritism in the league. In the past 20 Cups (21 years, due to the lock-out season) an O6 team has won 9 times. (Montreal - 1993, Rangers - 1994, Detroit - 98, 98, 02 & 08, Chicago 10 & 13, Boston 11). So perhaps - maybe even probably - there is some favouritism that creeps in via the officiating and trickling down through the media. Its hard to come up with an argument other than "an unlikely confluence of events" that explains how those specific teams should have a disproportionate number of wins amongst them. But there is a LONG way between "subtle refereeing bias" and "conspiracy." Furthermore it doesn't explain why only five of the O6 teams are represented in that list - in fact the team with the biggest market in the entire league, the Maple Leafs isn't on that list at all (and haven't won since before the Canucks were in the league (against St. Louis in those affirmative action years of early expansion.)<br />
That said, there have been rules, circumstances and traditions in the past that favoured the O6 teams. Note that for those first three years of expansion mentioned above that the Blues did not win a single game. Also did you know (obscure fact time) that the Canadiens have the right to veto the pick of any team selecting a French Canadian player in the entry draft in order to select that player as their next pick. (This rule was only exercised once and has since been changed so that all other GMs in the league must agree to said veto - which isn't going to happen - but the rule technically still stands.)<br />
There is also a similar conspiracy theory - that the league doesn't want Canadian teams to win (and it has been since 1993 when the Habs last won). The basic standard explanation being that they need to keep the interest up in the States by continuing to bring the Cup there. Really? If it was a question of keeping interest high in struggling markets Wayne Gretzky would have his name on the Cup as the coach of the Coyotes.<br />
On top of that, all standard arguments about how logistically difficult it is to maintain a conspiracy apply (in a nutshell, the number of people necessarily involved in this case would be too big for there not to be a leak) not to mention the un-equal danger of negative fall-out should such a conspiracy ever come to light. The NHL would have its own Erik Snowden by now, if there was such a conspiracy.<br />
So, conspiracy - no, bias - possibly.<br />
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This has been long. I've said most of what I can imagine to say.<br />
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Go Canucks!<br />
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*EDIT: I wrote this several hours ago. About 1 minute ago I got an alert that the Flyers have signed Lecavalier. So nix that.Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-36906880799621785942013-06-19T23:48:00.002-07:002013-06-19T23:48:18.801-07:00What the end of The Sopranos means, now that the other option is no longer possible...<spoiler alert=""> If by any chance you plan to watch The Sopranos through to the end and haven't yet done it, just be warned - this post is predominantly about the very end of the series. If by any chance you've avoided knowing how it ends, do yourself a favour and don't blow it by reading this. Go and watch the rest of the series, come back here once you are done.<br /><br /><br />Okay, now that that is done...<br /><br />It is six years ago now that The Sopranos aired the final episode and it was brilliant.<br />There was an immediate out-pouring of confusion and anger at the ambiguous ending, but it was that ambiguity that was part of the brilliance.<br />David Chase gave the audience an ending that, if the demand for more Sopranos - an additional season, a movie, you name it - was great enough that it could be taken out of mothballs and the cast's demands could be met (all of which was unlikely, but was discussed publicly) the story could be taken up, with the interpretation of the end being something to the effect of <i>the tension & paranoia of that final scene is a reflection of how Tony will have to live the rest of his life.</i> (Yawn... wasn't that paranoia why Tony was having panic attacks in the pilot episode? Chase is a better story teller than that.) However, if you were paying attention to the show - both that scene as well as the previous few seasons - it was fairly easy to deconstruct the true ending. And now that James Gandolfini is dead, that IS the real ending forever and ever amen.<br />Like Mr. Gandolfini, Tony has left us.<br />It is actually quite simple.<br />For seasons (without going back to re-watch and check, I'm going to say "three seasons") we were told several times some variation on "You never hear the bullet that gets you." And really, it doesn't take much more than that to parse the ending. However, if you must... break down the scene in the diner - we keep getting shots of the door from Tony's point of view, the ten seconds of black... that is Tony's POV too.<br />I expect that someone somewhere has detailed far more completely than I have - some people were really fanatic about that show, and would have taken that end apart like a forensic investigator. They could probably tell you which customer at the diner pulled the trigger. I don't know that that even matters.<br /><br />One last point - this interpretation has been attacked (to my face) by the argument that "The show is called The Sopranos. It is about Tony Soprano. If he died, they would show it. They would HAVE to show it!" Uh... no. The show is called The Sopranos. It is about Tony Soprano. He is the main character. It is HIS story. When he is dead, the story ends - abruptly and with far more art than showing it would have had. If they had shown it, obviously we wouldn't still be having this debate. If they had shown it, it wouldn't have been an ending worth discussing.<div>
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Rest in Peace James. </div>
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Your greatest work will remain secure as it was intended to be.<br /></div>
</spoiler>Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-17533312091776820922013-04-07T23:58:00.001-07:002014-01-04T00:10:24.375-08:00A bit of a ramble on NirvanaIt was the 19th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide this past week. Jodie asked me whether Nirvana or Pearl Jam has been more important to me. <br />
It isn't really a linearly equal question. She did know this. <br />
Obviously Pearl Jam has had an opportunity that Nirvana never had - that of longevity. But beyond that, my discovery of the two bands was, naturally, unequal.<br />
In April of 1992 at a party my friend Ian mentioned that he has been listening to a band called Pearl Jam. I saw the Evenflow video soon thereafter and bought the album. I enjoyed it, but it did not immediately change my life. In two months time I would be on tour myself with the Juanabees and <i>Ten</i> would get left behind - only to be championed later that summer by fans (of both Pearl Jam and the Juanabees) in my home town. It was then that PJ would take permanent hold in my aural aesthetic. <br />
Meanwhile on a transcendental plane...<br />
Nirvana on the other hand came to my attention quite spectacularly a month or more after Pearl Jam, and it was <a href="http://thetruthandthesignal.blogspot.ca/2005/04/true-believers.html">a moment I have previously chronicled where "everything changed."</a><br />
The Juanabees paid comical tribute to <i>Smells Like Teen Spirit</i> on that tour and <i>Nevermind</i> was in high rotation in the tour van. <br />
But as huge a comparative impact Nirvana had on me that summer, by mid-autumn Pearl Jam had out paced them in my heart and, without diminishing my enduring appreciation for Nirvana, we've never looked back. <br />
The question arises, of course; what would have become of Nirvana had its trajectory not been abbreviated?<br />
Well, who knows?<br />
Obviously, at the time we were unaware that there was a visionary lurking in the ranks of Nirvana whose talent may have out shone Cobain. We don't have a lot to go on, but the growth from <i>Bleach</i> to <i>In Utero</i> was comparatively nominal. The best of tracks on the bookends would not have raised the high water mark of <i>Nevermind</i> by much. Which does speak to consistency, but not necessarily favourably. <br />
Meanwhile, while <i>Ten</i> was a spectacular album, <i>Vs</i> managed to be even better and <i>Vitalogy</i> it's equal while for the first time truly showcasing the band's need to serve their own artistic needs, not merely the expectations of their audience. Beyond that point it becomes hard to compare. Would the raw soul-baring post-punk aesthetic of Cobain mature, or would it prove to be his one gift? Could Dave Grohl have blossomed in that circumstance and brought new depth to Nirvana, or was it necessary for him to find his own place, as in reality he did fronting the Foo Fighters? Could Krist Novoselic, surrounded by that much talent have become more than a lucky dabbler? Or was he always destined for political life, perhaps some one else might have filled his shoes. Hey, Pearl Jam got Matt Cameron behind the kit after a run of drummers that rivalled Spinal Tap. Almost any band could benefit from his presence. Imagine a universe where Les Claypool joined Nirvana. Geez... There is a combination of these factors where Kurt Cobain is the least talented member of the alternate reality Nirvana. <br />
Okay, now lets get silly and add Trent Reznor and Mike Doughty to the line up... Fuck... Now THAT is a supergroup I'd pay to see. Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-61246271179767046682012-12-20T21:25:00.000-08:002012-12-20T21:31:20.178-08:00Witnessing Christmas in Your EyesMerry Christmas, Padawan.<br />
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This is Christmas number three for you.<br />
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The first time you were three months old, and generally speaking I don't think you even noticed. Sure there were sparkly lights and about a week straight of lots of extra people and yummy smells around, but you hardly had any context whatsoever and you did a lot of sleeping. It was a joy to have you around for Christmas, but you weren't really experiencing the joy.<br />
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Last year you were definitely interested in the stuff around you. You liked the tree. You hated going to see Santa Claus (so much so, that this year I made your Mum take her turn to take you for Santa pictures). You definitely got into the spirit of opening presents - including a few that weren't yours, of course. But still, I don't really think you had a sense of Christmas.<br />
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All that has changed this year though. You are still pretty unclear as to what Christmas is, but you sure are enjoying it. You love wrapping presents. I don't know if you've quite figured out that there is a consequent opening of them - it seems to me that once kids have that figured out, its all you can do to stop them from either exploding with anticipation or just giving in and opening them prematurely. (I guess that is <i>next</i> year.) You adore the tree. Both of them. You have your own little one up out of reach on your dresser in your room. You've also enjoyed helping decorate Grandma Van's tree, and Karen and Mollie's tree. You do a little bit of redecoration of our tree EVERY day.<br />
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You love the Christmas Market at Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Mostly you like the carousel, but I think even if there were no carousel you'd still want to go in every time we pass it. You and I have been there an average of twice a weeks since it opened. I think we had our last trip there today - I don't know where we'll find the time in the next four days.<br />
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Yesterday it snowed and we went out into it to go and see the old Woodward's window displays set up around town. There were a lot of Christmas trees too - you loved that. The weather was pretty unpleasant, truth be told. It was not a fun show. It was a cold, wet snow. Pretty much rain with an attitude. It looked pretty in the air, but as soon as it touched the ground it was a yucky slush. Yesterday was the day hot chocolate was made for. (You love hot chocolate.) But despite the weather you loved it. You were totally game and even when we had to double back twice to see displays we'd missed the first time, you didn't care.<br />
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You love wrapping presents. You enjoy putting tape on things. Never where it will be useful, but what's the need for that? You also like drawing on tags and cards. Note I didn't say "signing" - though I'm pretty sure that no one who gets a gift from you will have any doubt who they are receiving the present from.<br />
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You love "The <i>Ginch</i>" (sic) and also Rudolf - whose last name it seems is "Withyournosesobright," if one is to ask you. You haven't asked to watch Shrek all month!<br />
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You have figured out that when Christmas comes you are going to get a whole day of "Nana, and Papa, and Grandma Van, and Karen and Mollie, and Tara, and K.C., and Mum, and Pop and December," and you are very excited by it. <br />
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You look forward to your Jacquie Lawson advent calendar (and your Lindt advent calendar, for that matter) every night.<br />
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Oh Padawan. You have only scratched the surface. You haven't even had turkey dinner yet or a New Year's Eve party. And of course, the <i>real</i> discovery of the true spirit of Christmas, the gift of <strike>giving</strike> GETTING STUFF!<br />
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It wasn't really why we called you December, but you appear to be embracing this season with all you've got. That's a good thing, 'cause inevitably you are going to be associated with it for your entire life.Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-82430908124763377592012-12-16T21:56:00.002-08:002014-01-04T00:15:06.528-08:00It Has Been a Strange Week to Be a ParentAnyone old enough to read this already has a rough picture of what happened this week in Conneticut. So, as with most posts lately this is not for you, this is for December, my daughter.<br />
I was looking forward to writing tonight. I was planning to write and tell you about how you, December, are reacting to Christmas. (It's pretty fun to watch.) Perhaps I will do it later this week.<br />
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Your Mum has been sick this week. Friday we sent you off to daycare so that she could get a full day of rest. You are at an age where you are an inevitable handful. Most of the time that is delightful, but you have no off-switch. What two-year old does?<br />
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For my day I headed out the door early for work, looking forward to a day of news filled with reviews I expected to support my expectations of <em>The Hobbit</em> - beautifully designed, but why the hell is this slim book going to be 9 hours or so of cinema? And for the most part, that is what the reviews have been... but by lunch I had noticed my first warning. A single Facebook post that read "Turn it off. Go outside." It first I interpreted it as a run-of-the-mill, "don't spend too much time in front of the TV" manifesto. By the time I began eating, scrolling through my feed, it was clear - something terrible had happened somewhere. The specifics were then still forming, but the basics were clear - a young man had taken a gun into an elementary school and started shooting... children, adults, he didn't seem to care, but mostly it was children. Young children.<br />
It turned into a dark day pretty quickly. I actually avoided anymore news. I just wasn't ready. I put out some angry words about the NRA, 'cause it was as close as I could allow myself to get, and forged on through my day.<br />
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Before I was a parent, I used to get so angry at the oft heard sentiment "unless you are a parent, you just can't understand." It is a pretty condescending thought. "WTF? Are you saying I can't possibly have the depth it takes to reach that level of compassion or empathy? Well, fuck you." Well here I am, a parent. What I am going to say is this; "Before I was a parent, I didn't have that capacity. It didn't turn on the moment of birth. It developed over these past two years - and has noticeably kicked in harder in the past nine months or so. I'm sure it has more developing to do. But yes, after I became a parent, everything changed."<br />
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When I picked you up from daycare on Friday, I gave you the biggest hug I've ever given you. It wasn't the longest or the squeeziest, but it came from a place I previously did not know. A place of immense gratitude that you were coming home with me. That you would be safe in bed that night. That you were going to have Christmas. And, if you'll forgive me for being so willfully maudlin, that I can't imagine how I would manage to carry on if anything were to ever happen to you.<br />
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(NOTE from a year later - just for context, this post was written in response to the Sandy Hook shootings.)Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903199.post-53825426476864085412012-09-11T13:57:00.001-07:002012-12-20T21:25:23.534-08:00730 Days Hath DecemberHello Padawan,<br />
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I just put you down for your last nap of being one. The next time you lay down for a mid-afternoon snooze, you will be two.<br />
So now its time for me to fail at being profound in a birthday(ish) address.<br />
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A year and one week ago your Mum went back to work and my life changed in a way that was nearly as profound as when you were born. All of a sudden I became your primary care-giver (though only by a small margin). I stay home with you three days out of most weeks. Your Mum takes you on weekends, while Mondays and Fridays you go to day care while I do various wage earning things. Mostly due to your own demands and requirements your Mum still does more hands on care than I do when we are both home, but you will quit breast feeding relatively soon, and that should make a big difference.<br />
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Now, while I have been game for this fatherhood thing from the get-go, I willingly admit that there are things I've been more actively looking forward to than others. I knew that diaper changing was something I was just going to have to grudgingly live with and that was that. (But you are potty-training now, so while I have yet to see the light at the end of that tunnel, we can no longer look back and see where we came in.) I don't relish the thought of having to counsel you through the rough parts of interacting with other kids. (That has begun. Just last week you had a run in with a young lady in the building who simply doesn't know how to play nice with other kids. It made me so fucking angry. (Please don't speak like that until at least high-school, okay? And even then, choose your moments based on a combination of respect and effect - we'll discuss the intricacies of that in years to come, a series of conversations I actually am very curious about, if not outright looking forward to.) Boys... yeah - that may be rough on me, but we shall see. (Hey, remind me when you are old enough, we should watch <em>Castle</em> - the father daughter relationship there is about as good as a man can dream of, we can both probably gain something from it together.)<br />
I've enjoyed so many of the stages you've already gone through, but in many cases the greatest delight was fleeting and quickly left to memory. I know you are going to spend the rest of your life being reminded of how you said your name for the first time along Riva dei Sette Martiri in Venice, for example. But you've recently reached a stage that I've been actively looking forward to from the beginning, and it is a stage that is going to gradually morph into another stage I've been looking forward to. You've begun voicing your own ideas - somewhat mis-shapen ideas, often due to your grasp of the building blocks of language - but delightful because of that.<br />
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The other day we were talking about going camping and when I asked you how long you were going camping for, you declared "two minutes and one time." A week or two back you were asked who your friends were. The first time, your answer was "Mummy and Daddy and Karen and Mollie," but when asked again (in hopes of a repeat performance) we were in formed that your friends were "Frogs.... and bunnies." Often on weekends when I come home from work you tell me about some part of your day. I rarely pick up more than the obliquest of details, but I can usually identify some major aspect of what happened (more often than not, that you went to a "big park.") From here you will gradually develop the ability to tell me more and in more precise detail, we'll fly through the glory and embarassment of "the mouths of babes" stage, and before too long we will be having conversations and debates on an equal footing. I look forward to all of this and more.<br />
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We've also reached a stage where when we play I can pick you up and roll around with you without my primary job being to protect you (though there is still a lot of that going on). You are a much more active participant in our rough-housing and it is always one of my favourite part of my days. It is still growing, but at the same time I see how it will slip-away. You get bigger every day, and while I have gotten stonger to accomodate that, the tale of the boy who became the strongest man in the world by lifting a baby bull every day of it's life is a myth. You get bigger and I get older (and though it rankles me to admit it, I am past my physical prime) and as you become more work to play hard with, my stamina will gradually slip away, and bit by bit without even noticing it happening we will lose those playful delights. But I swear to you that I will always do everything in my ability to play those games we create for as long as you will have me as your playmate.<br />
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Tomorrow we start year three, and though today doesn't look very different at this end, I look forward to looking back in a year and seeing how much your world has grown.<br />
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Love your Pop.<br />
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P.S. I just checked, and as of this afternoon, "Three Minutes of December" is over half a day of continuous viewing!Kennedy Goodkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10308801339937940368noreply@blogger.com1