|| -------- -- -----  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 10--"DOC POURRI" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Carne's Moisture Detection Friend  ||  -------> (Cup SRcm010, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -Y- CARNE: Powerful. Yeah, with real power you aren't burdened. My Moisture Detection Friend always tells me... PACER: There you go again. You always start every conversation mentioning your Moisture Detection Friend. CARNE: Um... uh, what... uh what's the matter with that? I mean, I know I talk about him a lot, but he's about the most interesting person I know--besides you, of course. And I don't start every conversation talking about him. I mean... I mean I don't think I do... I mean... PACER: Just cool off, man. I didn't mean anything by it. I'd like to be hang gliding right now. Hang gliding through a thunderstorm! Or no--ABOVE a thunderstorm, yeah man, that's it. CARNE: Kind of a non-sequitor there, eh? PACER: Yeah, okay. I criticize a type of statement you make and now you have to criticize what I have to say? CARNE: Why are we fighting? I don't see any need to fight. It's just... there's a certain tension in the air... like a big change is looming.. Why is that? Why? PACER: 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? CARNE: What? Godhead? What the hell's that supposed to mean? PACER: It's just an expression man. Oh, I played this shitty Playstation game, called "Doc Pourri", about a pot pourri 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. CARNE: Uh-huh... PACER: 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! CARNE: 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... PACER: ...I don't care... CARNE: 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. PACER: Yeah, I know what you mean. CARNE: 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. PACER: What is it? CARNE: "Pacer and Carne's Darkider". 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. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----