Thursday, July 28, 2005

North-northwest of Reality

It was going to be a sunny day, the sky proclaimed though the sun was still not fully overhead yet... and I was at the beach with the Munsters and I was commenting on how much pollution had upset the lake this year, so much so that it had dried up some of the water and left other parts full of algae so that people couldn't swim very well... The Munsters hadn't really noticed because they were too busy picking dead fish off the shore line... they were going to be having the Addams family over later and they wanted to make sure they felt at home... Then Herman, the dad, found a large stretch of clay and decided to build a gazebo out of it right next to a public bathroom that was near the shore... It actually turned out to be quite gorgeous, full of latticed celtic knotwork and tiles of intricate medieval gothic design... but he never fired the clay, so that when he went to show us what he had created, his big franken-head knocked through the ornate ceiling he had made and then he got a bit frustrated and punched through a wall or two clumsily... the man who played Vizzini in the movie The Princess Bride (Wallace Shawn) was there when this happened and he starting berating the Munsters for everything that they had done since they set foot on the beach... I wandered away from them a bit because something in the dappled shadows of some shrubbery (junipers, ferns, and some Labrador tea plants) caught my eye... it was a card that looked like one from a Collectible Card Game like Magic: the Gathering or the one that's currently out for Marvel comics... but this was not a normal game card though... this one was a CCG of the gods, something that I knew instantly upon seeing it, as though I was on a mission and had to 'catch them all,' to borrow a term from Pokemon... this card had the picture of a divine brown cow who had recently declared to the realms that no other cow may be sent to market except for herself for she was a goddess now and would spring back to life after dying, thus solving all the issues that mankind had with diseased beef and world hunger... she offered the choicest cuts at the most divine prices and would offer discounts to poorer populations... the noble mortal cow should be sacred to all and milked by hand as needed... she further threatened that any farmer/butcher/whomever who disobeyed her decree (such as by slaying one of these "chosen moo" or by milking them with those terrible mass-milk harvesting machines) would face her wrath and promised it wouldn't be pretty... I picked up the card then and it radiated softly with magical power...

And that's when I woke up and thought I would share what I just saw... I'm good like that... ^_~