Folded Thought of the Day: It's a sudden realization of a virtual feeling. A metaphoric contemplation...signified at certain moments by a realized foray into this little understood realm of simple desire. Ha! Come see for yourself. The door is open and the super highway is open for business. Paving this brave new world from here to eternity. Burrowing tunnels through mountain ranges and casting metal expressions of all our hopes from shore to shore. Aren't you in luck? They've recently begun experimenting with new forms of alternative energy. Harnessing all our hidden fears and nervous energy and untapped potential. Going to roll it up in a big ball of stoic fusion. Fueling all our escapes. Packing it all in, the philosopher runs down to the corner market for a pack of smokes and the classified ads. Letting the rats out of their mazes. Who can afford the cheese? After having tried to save the world all these years, might as well start an epidemic. Not that anybody would notice. With this ever expanding lack of awareness taking all of us by the throats. Faster and faster we spin. But sooner or later, things are going to start falling down. Start? Gotta take matters into our hands. Turn this paradigm on its ringing ear. Yeah, well what's in it for me? I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. You there, wipe that smirk off your face and sit up straight. Now open your textbooks to page 803,959. Ballistic Mythology, Ghetto Warriors and the Fine Art of Turning Mockery into a Mockery of Itself: The Urban Assault of Cool and the Constraints of Freedom. Anybody here been reading ahead? Any thoughts before we continue? Yeah, I know, it's just a dimestore novel. But you'd be surprised just how far the author might have gone. Given the opportunity. ------------------------