|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- CARNE'S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND--CUP 8--"BANJO" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Carne's Moisture Detection Friend  ||  -------> (Cup SRcm008, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -W- CARNE: Can you believe it? We're finally down South, on this back porch right next to a swamp, banjo music playing, all that good stuff. And it's hot, really hot! My Moisture Detection Friend would be so jealous. He loves cliches. PACER: Yeah, man. So when are we going to the mall? I gotta get a new pair of Oakley sunglasses, and I wanna see if they have that new videogame at the arcade. CARNE: I am not at all distressed by your statement. Though we are in a semi-legit location, I think that these themes and cliches go hand in hand with the milieu of the mall. In fact, we should come up with a new kind of place at a mall, with these kind of themed locations and the like. PACER: They already have it to some degree. Rainforest Cafe, for example. And a lot of stores of theming themselves more and more these days. They got all this competition from the online stores--they gotta come up with ways to lure people in. CARNE: I know what you mean, but... but I can't help but think that people would pay to be in a PURE location like this--no shopping, no restauants, no drinks--just unadulterated LOCATION. PACER: Well, Disney-style dark rides have been doing that for decades, haven't they? CARNE: They have, but it's all a bit tainted with stories and characters and most of all the darn time limit. If I could, I'd like to spend hours and hours in the Pirates of the Caribbean universe! You know? PACER: Well, in California they do have that restaurant that's kinda in the Pirates world... but I guess you're talking about more like just BEING there... CARNE: Yes! I'd like to pay a small fee, and just BE there. No time limit, no structure, no sequence--just the BEING. Kind of like that dark ride building kind of idea... where you just wander and BE in cool themed places. THAT is what I'm talking about. PACER: Shit! Another friggin' mosquito bite! This reality shit is bullshit. Give me a fake version any day--without bugs and heat and shit! CARNE: I quite agree. Just like looking at a painting of a thing is a far different, and perhaps better, experience than looking at the real thing, so too with this whole idea of themed locations. And maybe we're just the ones to make an idea like the one I've been describing a reality. "Carne & Pacer's Themed Something or Other". That's a goal, my friend--something we've been sorely lacking! Y'know? -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----