April 14, 2005

• In three hours or so, I plan to be on my way down the valley to
  Wasilla.  I’m not dressed yet, haven’t had breakfast, and I just
  yawned hugely.  I’m getting off to a slow start today.

  There’s no reason to hurry the trip, anyway.  I don’t need to be
  at the ranch until 6:30 this evening.  When I sat down here this
  morning, I found a note from Doug asking me to wake him around
  noon.  He had also left his three most recent posts in the
  tournament for me to read.  He is finally catching his stride
  there, I guess. 

  This tourney started just before the Mercury station, when it was still
  retrograde.  There wasn’t any discernible sparkle in anyone’s
  story lines early on, but it has taken off now.  I think Hilary’s
  return has helped Doug focus on his writing.  The host set early
  rounds in the Final Fantasy VII world, and in the Star Wars
  universe.  The current round is set in Disney World.

  The character that Doug has chosen to be this time is Eddie, a somewhat
  dark disembodied force that enlivens a series of bodies.  He has
  just moved from a very beat-up and dismembered character to a
  brain-dead Mickey Mouse (rendered into that condition by old Walt
  before he went, so that Mickey couldn’t reveal any secrets, and
  subsequently kept alive by machines) and is proceeding to wreak cartoon
  havoc that is perhaps more LoonyToonish than Disneyfied.

  Gotta go now — things to do and places to go. 
  

  • 1:26 pm
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