— Bob-a-job-alog-a-roonie

Every being, from rock to soil to iguana to human, has a similar model. It might take a million years, but get the same result.

But with two key differences: speed and drugs.

Some beings move faster, live faster, have more going on – like insects live fast and die young.

Some are faster, and get a genetic mutation that makes for smart. Like us. That mutation might have arrived via drugs / mushrooms.

This is the first time in 20 years I have felt inspired to write a book. The journey will involve thoughts and ideas at SpeedsOfLife.com

Randomly decided, each year, by whichever social media service or church or whatever you belong to.

You get told the day before – tomorrow is the day you celebrate being alive.

Use it how ever you want. Unlike all the other “days”, you don’t have people singing Happy Birthday, don’t have kids giving you breakfast in bed, don’t have husbands buying you flowers.

Free form, whatever you want, appreciation of being alive. An excuse to live that little bit more than usual. Tell others or just do your own private thing.

But know that the Universe created you, and you deserve to appreciate it anyway you choose.

The idea is that a business will take a full fee from you, and when you decide to push the button and exit your current reality…

• Fake passport delivered
• Next flight to your safe place is booked
• Cash waiting for you there
• Existing commitments (like rent, credit card) sorted and explained
• Friends and family informed of your year-long Antarctica trek

All you need do is push that button on your smartphone Escape Hatch app…

Most male sports have their fair share of bad sorts. They cheat, beat their wives, get drunk, take drugs and so on.

They get kicked off one team, another team sees a bargain, and they free themselves of him as well.

I figure in any league there are enough of these misfits to form a team. That’s right, a whole team of baddies.

But wait, it is a good thing. It’s like a rehab centre, with dedicated expert staff. And a sense of belonging. And typically they are also madly talented. And the misfits of society will root for them.

It is a beautiful story waiting to happen 🙂

Oh, if you get kicked out of the rehab team for ill-discipline, you can’t be in the sport again in any capacity.

I like the name, that’s why it is there…

Concept: a comic book where every panel is the exact same, except there are different words in every speech bubble.

Concept: Dr Katz or some other funny disembodied dialogue.

Concept: we fear things we shouldn’t, as a substitute for the things we really fear, yet cannot easily avoid.

Fear substitution is real.

Because it is often thought that ignorant people lead more content lives…

Trudi just alerted me – this “Choose Your Own Adventure” type interactive story that we created way, way back in 1998 is still online:

The Trans-Morbid Adventure

I never thought that anyone found it, but amazingly someone liked it enough to make YouTube videos of them playing it!

Here’s an example death scene – from memory death scenes took up half the adventure 😉

As you enter the Tabac, you trip on a cat and break the monsieur’s chocolate biscuit glass display. He is not happy with you and drags you out the back, ties you down and sticks all the glass fragments from the cabinet into your chest while humming. He then puts a large tray on the glass with a large dish of cat food in the middle. One by one neighbourhood cats jump on the tray and each time they do the glass fragments drive further towards your vital organs. .

You can guess the rest.

Bad Luck. Try Again.

A sheikh has carved his name into the landscape, and it is a kilometre high!

Story.