Mood:

Now Playing: "Time and Time Again", Papa Roach
NOTHING happened this weekend. It was a payday weekend, which meant a frantic shopping spree at the social hub of the city (read, Wal-Mart), followed by grocery procuring and house cleaning. SO boring. I did my usual scan of the WWW to keep up on the torrid affairs of the rich and inane, and came up with only a few tidbits:
Michael Jackson denies having quadruplets with an unidentified woman via artificial insemination. BLEAH.
The new movie "The Grudge", starring the buffylicious Sarah Michelle Gellar, seems to be a rip off of the ring, all the way down to the creepy little girl with black hair crawling around with her hair in her face. We need more original ideas Here's one (Hollywood, feel free to rip me off):
In the farther future (cliche), we have once again slipped into a hard-core patriarchal society. Women can't have jobs, they can vote only in things that concern them, i.e. higher taxes on foods that are imported, etc. The government is working smoothly with no chicks (Condi Rice, sorry), but there is a slight faction of women who had resorted to rebellion. I'm talking rock-hard bitches that spit in the face of male authority, that live on a decommissioned group of aircraft carriers off the coast of California, dubbed Themiscryia...
Being an almost self-sufficient society, the US government has left them alone, only intervening when the women pirate around the coast in search of their own...only doing what they need to survive away from the craziness of the world around them...until now.
And NO, they're not lesbians, you dirty birds.
So something happens (slightly vague on the area, any suggestions?), and the US maleness needs the help of the autonomous society of Themiscyria, who until now have been the bane of the country. I'm thinking about some great clandestine meetings in the darkness of a hangar bay... a leader more like a mob boss than a queen...some ridiculous threat that men can't handle because they're dopes.
I don't know. It's a work in progress, I haven't worked all the kinks out yet. I just have this...image.
Sometimes, I hate being a writer. Things just sit in my head, half-baked and crumbling, until the right moment.
But when, at my ridiculous age, is the right moment?
I have two books finished, sitting on my shelf, that the hub-unit was gracious enough to have special printed and bound for me like an actual novel. Maybe I'll do something about it after I'm dead.