Wednesday, May 17, 2006

fastened by old leather bindings

i think that every one of my dreams is somehow related to technology -- it's an obsession, you see. here's one that i had the other night. i don't know if it's as funny as the one i had the night before about para-sailing behind a helicopter that was crashing into the ocean (piloted by my boss), but i think it's more applicable.

it's a pathetic and comical scene: a pair of iguana-like lizards trapped in a pen, with electrodes all over their bodies, fastened by old leather bindings. there is a single scientist observing the pair. his goal is apparently to perform dinosaur behavior studies vicariously through these lizards. he has on his right hand some kind of tyrannosaurus puppet which casts a shadow on the lizards and is meant to elicit a terrified reaction from them, but which is completely ineffectual: the lizards continue to shuffle about, completely unaware of their captor. the scientist looks on and sighs, baffled at the failure of what he considers a flawless experiment.

Chad Dombrova

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