Friday, July 30, 2010

While walking to a flea market...

Me: (Looking at a billboard for a local candidate) "He's got a kind of Andy Griffith thing going on, don't you think?"

Claire" "Yeah, and apparently a boatload of money. Heard he's paying for his campaign out of his own deep pockets."

Me: "I don't mind that so much, as long as they empty his pockets before they feed him into the spinning blades."

Claire: (After a rather long silence) "Um...spinning blades?"

Me: "Yeah. I mean, I can get along with a traditionalist. Ropes and lamp posts have their charms. But spinning blades have a twenty-first century thing I find very attractive. Elections should definitely involve spinning blades. At a minimum they should be fought with guns."

Claire: (More silence) "Oh. Yeah, okay."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

No way man. Spinning blades is definitley more Edgar Allen Poe. 21st century would be robot drones and nano-mite spies nipping at your cerebral cortex.

Personally the spinning blades is a much
more compelling visual.

Joel said...

Well, that's a valid point. Maybe we could consider it a steampunk thing? Lots of jagged iron gingerbread that doesn't really do anything - kind of 19th century retro, like in that Will Smith movie with the big mechanical spider.

Or we could just pitch them into a tank filled with sharks. Sharks with lasers. Y'know, I've never been excited about elections, even when I voted. But this could definitely raise my interest level.

Anonymous said...

Sharks are endangered, you'll have to go with sea bass with lasers.

Plug Nickel Outfit said...

"One, two! One, two! And through and through - the vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"
:)

I'm reminded of the sparring machine in the movie "Dune". It's kinda' like a jumbo-sized Cuisinart with a random and chaotic mechanism.

That'd raise my interest level! (still wouldn't vote...)