<meta name="LineWrap" content="true"><TITLE>SR_Bk1 0103</TITLE><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0104.txt">Next (Page 104)</A><BR> there's a certain tension in the air... like a big change is looming.. Why is that? Why?"<P><P>"The Talking Heads. Now there's a band. They kinda sucked, but they had some really good stuff too. But they took themselves too seriously. So they had their fifteen hours of fame, what do they want, their own godhead?"<P><P>"What? Godhead? What the hell's that supposed to mean?"<P><P>"It's just an expression man. Oh, I played this shitty Playstation game, called 'Doc Pourri', about a potpourri superhero or something. It looked cool on the cover, like some hippie dude, but it really sucked. There was an opening FMV with a CGI Washington Square Park that was pretty cool, but it was like this 2-D side-scrolling platformer with 3-D elements, and... and... and I don't know. It really sucked."<P><P>"Uh-huh..."<P><P>"Look man! We're cracking up! We gotta get some direction! We gotta build our dark ride thing! Come on, you know you wanna do it!"<P><P>"I know, but we don't have a pot to piss in, and this thing could cost maybe a billion dollars to build! I mean... we could try and find investors, venture capitalists, and... I mean, I don't give a shit if we make any money off it, I mean, I don't know if you care..."<P><P>"I don't care."<P><P>"Y'know? I mean, just like my Moisutre Detection Friend, with that strip mall and the underground entertainment complex? He didn't give a shit about the money, he was just thrilled that they actually built it."<P><P>"Yeah, I know what you mean."<P><P>"And I know, y'know, I know I have no life, but I've been trying to come up with a name for this thing, and I've been spending a lot of time on it, and I came up with a pretty cool idea for a name."<P><P>"What is it?"<P><P>"'Pacer and Carne's Darkider," Carne said. "I took the term 'dark ride' and got rid of the space, and then I moved the 'r' three spaces over. I don't know, but I think it's a pretty good name."<P><P>* * *<P><P>"Pacer," Carne said. "Why are we at this yacht dock, and what is this secret you keep talking about? We have to go and talk to my Moisture Detection Friend about the Darkider later, y'know?"<P><P>"Okay man," Pacer said. "You see that yacht coming in to dock? I got us a meeting with Jay Pime, the billionaire! One of my sister's friends knows him or something. This may be the break we've been looking for to fund the Darkider."<P><P>"Well, alright. I guess there's no harm in it, though I'm not too hopeful anything will come of this. Is that him up there?"<P><P>"No, man. That's the driver. The boat driver. Jay should be coming soon. Um... oh, there he is now."<P><P>"Um, okay."<P><P>"Hey! Jay Pime! What's up!"<P><P>"How how," Jay Pime said, "now's I meeting, Meadowlark Lemon and Peter Lemongello. How how, look just like Meadowlark Lemon and Peter Lemongello."<P><P>"Um... no, um, I'm Carne and this is..."<P><P>"Cool it, man! This dude's insane. Just go along with it!"<P><P>"Okay, okay."<P><P>"Okay, how, got my hair cut at The Lemon Tree," Jay Pime said.<P><P>"Hey man. Let me shake your hand, dude. Cool. Carne, shake the man's hand, man."<P><P>"Uh, pleased to meet you."<P><P>"Ahvell said you boys, Meadowlark Lemon and Peter Lemongello, how, said you had a business propo, propo, propo lemon!"<P><P>"Uh, yes..." Carne said. "Ah, it deals with the essential nature of the dark ride, a kind of Twentieth Century..."<P><P>"Look dude, we got this great idea and we need money from you to build it," Pacer said.<P><P>"Yeah, how, how, got off like Bob Ray Lemon. Got off like Bob Ray Lemon. Got his hair cut at The Lemon Tree."<P><P>"Well. Uh..." Carne said.<P><P>"Look Jay, we got this great idea. It's called 'Carne and Pacer's The Lemon Darkider'!"<P><P>"Parm and Pacer The Lemon Darkider! Parm and Pacer, Lemon Darkider!"<P><P>"Um, it's Carne actually..."<P><P>"Okay," Pacer said. "Yeah, so like, lemon, we need, um, lemon, we need like a billion to do The Lemon Darkider.<BR><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0104.txt">Next (Page 104)</A>