May 20th, 2005

I find myself a contestant on a combination game show and reality show. The show consists of a high school class reunion where everyone wears the world's worst swimsuits. We stand in a swimming pool center ready to dive into the water. The host tells us we will dive into the water, swim to the rack at the bottom of the pool, grab a swimsuit, then put it on. While everyone else is picking a swimsuit, I am in the water holding the rack in place. I get to pick my swimsuit last. Only two are left, both being short jean shorts.
"Fuck," I think, "my penis will stick out."
I start to leave the contest, then change my mind.
"Fuck it. They see my junk, they see my junk."
Having so mush skin exposed, I know I will need sunblock. I leave the pool to find some sunscream lotion. I climb to the top of the nearby hill where the show placed all our stuff. I walk past a metal shack. I my presence startles the scientist inside.
"What are you doing here," he shouts at me.
"I need sunblock," I say.
I then notice the scientist has a black crystal embedded into his palm. Odd, I think. I slide down the hill to get to my stuff. I grab a bottle that was laying out. The scientist has followed me.
"How did you do that," he asks me.
"That is just me. You'll never know what I'll do next."
He walks off disappointed. I look at the sunblock and see it is SPF 8. That will not do. I look around for more sunblock but only find black crystals. Crystals like the one in the scientist's palm.
...I remember every contestant on the show had a crystal in his or her palm...
...I also remember that the scientist was also the producer of the show...
One of the crystals starts to vibrate. I watch trying to figure out what was happening. Then the crystal splits open. A black onyx like beetle crawls out.
"They are eggs," I scream.
...the crystals will hatch and eat the person it is implanted into. They grow when the person uses his or her implanted hand. Soon they will take control...
I look over my shoulder and see the scientist. Shit he knows I know I think. I run. I run across sand dunes eventually entering Chicago. I climb onto the elevated train platform. I encounter John Goodman while waiting for the train.
...John Goodman is my father...
We sit down on the train next to Lou Reed. John tells me his plan for my escape from the scientist. The plan involves going to a hotel in the Jewish part of town. The hotel doors are special in that part of town, for they only open one way. All other hotel doors open doth ways. This will slow down the scientist. The crystal in my palm starts to hurt as he talks. I look and see the scientist is on the train. He sees me. Uh-oh I think. The scientist holds out his palm with the crystal in it. The crystal shimmers and chages, becoming a very long green snake. We run for it. The scientist follows. We run into the hotel and go through the doors.
...my awareness detatches from my character. I see myself run off through the doors. I turn to look around the lobby of the hotel...
A dumpy midddle-aged man is fascinated by a flyer. It is triangular and promotes the hotel he is in. The scientist enters and can not see anyone. Anyone but the man looking at the flyer. The man sees the scientist and cowers in fear. The scientist approaches and raises the snake. It is about to bite the man when Lou Reed appears. Lou Reed prevents the scientist from implanting something in the middle-aged man's crystal. Lou touches the green snake and it glows golden yellow. Like electrical gold. The scientist is rendered powerless.
...Lou reed is an from a race of aliens that watch and supervise the black crystal aliens...
...my awareness shifts and I am watching an episode of Amazing Stories...
The golden snake then goes on to defeat the dog who's voice would end the world, a nuclear missle, and the bunny who shed blood.
"Man, this would make a good idea for a superpowered animal comic book," I think.
Then I remember that Amazing Stories already did an episode about a superpowered dog.