Friends and Acquaintances
22 December 2001: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
It began late one night, in Chicago I believe, or an imaginary city much like it, with Errthum and I,... I was down in the Ped Mall, heading west along it from Linn Street, on a springish day, with crowds... On a film set resembling the bridge behind the Iowa Memorial Union, looking northwest at it. Heavenly light pours in... A big disaster is impending. We must flee! Fortunately, Lehmer had a plan to save us. He leads us to... I was in San Francisco with Graham of London, en route somewhere else...I'd never been there, and was being guided... Sitting in a classroom or hall in a high school, lined with long tables, working on something. Before me I... Jackson Doran and two others were convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment by the Theatre Department. Scary Italian Film... Tom was with me, in a quasi-futuroid city, very Ming the Merciless. An air-bus is loading just then, boxy as... Errthum was hoping to buy some marijuana...Fortunately, I just happened to have some on hand, a knot of green Twizzlers... I was the warlord-king of a barbarian horde, out to conquer a mighty empire like the Mongols of old. I... There was a house, with Grace and Bonnie running 'round it, and outside there was a stage, some seven feet... Kev, some stranger, and I had to chase Len after Dr Happy Pants had made a speech in the cafeteria... The famous Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were out on the Visto driving westwards, and had paused to spend... I had discovered a marvellous bathroom, all tiled in while, which could, on the opening and closing of certain specific... 06 February 2001: Three Billion Light-Years Billy was an alien creature, devouring the crew of a human explorer ship, thousands of millennia and billions of light-years... I was taken in and adopted by a large, poverty-stricken family of inventors some two centuries ago. They had been... Mr Graham Sleight and I were both dressed as proper late-Victorian gentlemen, out for a stroll through Iowa City in... I was out to dinner at a fancy restaurant in Omaha with a group of smart-looking men in well-tailored suits... I was visiting Len and Kev in Canada again. We were in their bedroom, a big, bright, light-coloured wood chamber... I was in charge of a station in a distant star system, a small but burgeoning outpost. However, things I... An entire week of a completely normal life passed. No Woody Allen, no neoclassical architecture, just myself living out a... 30 July 2000: In London 08 June 2000: Paint My evil relatives were holed up in a nuclear weapons storage facility, and a little black witch woman told me... I've had vivid dreams before, but nothing that even approached this. It was lucid dreaming with every sense, it felt... 14 April 2000: Slatkin I kept being dragged via train from Iowa City to Chicago to attend these incrediby ritzy dinner parties at a... I was walking through a park, along a path through some woods, with of all people Richard. Some of the... 25 January 2000: Top Secret Adam Free and I were secret agents, on a covert mission to penetrate the Old Capitol Mall, in the hands... This dream appeared to consist of four distinct parts, all run together... I. Eric Errthum, a physics and math double-major... I was showering with Mr S___, in a shower of incredible length and height, but normal depth. It stretched out... 'Twas another body-swapping dream. I seem prone to those. This time, I'd possessed the body of my acquaintance English Major... My Theatre&Society TA from Fall '98 was pursuing me with romantic intent. Rather than a Brooklyn Jew with wild hair,... This involved the fair Billy, an English major of my acquaintance, whom I was with in a room panelled in... The Society was looking for a home. There were many of us, mostly men ranging from the fresh-faced and young... I was swapping bodies with people, apparently at random. My mind took their body, and I think theirs must've taken... My Internet chum Stephen had finally persuaded me to try out a process he'd been raving about, to swap two... |