Conversely, maybe I should stay busy

[rinue]

Acevedo and I were riffing about politics, as we do, and it occurs to me that the one disadvantage of being so busy all the time is that while I make a lot of high art I don't leave myself much time for hijinks. To be fair, I've largely abandoned satire as a medium, because the people I'm after don't tend to have enough self awareness to understand I'm ridiculing them. (I also think audiences assume female comics aren't satirical and therefore can't see it even when it's happening, but that's a discussion for another time.)

In any case, my current grand not-to-be-realized hijink which could almost certainly get kickstarter funding is the "Make it Real" campaign, tagline "It's history if you make it happen." We would take major gaffes of public figures, or conspiracy theories they won't let go of, and make them technically true so that they would have plausible deniability. You want scientists to bury dinosaur bones? We will hire scientists and buy dinosaur bones. You won't have to lie or explain it was a metaphor ever again.

The easiest project in this series would be Paul Revere's ride as narrated by Sarah Palin, by virtue of the fact that I live in an "every Middlesex village and farm." We'd just need money for a name change to Paul Revere and back, horse rental, and maybe flying over some of my British friends. Who are not getting my guns. Partly because I have none.

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[tao_te_trick]

I recently went on a Paul Revere researching binge when I had an idea for a Revolutionary War era survival horror game. While I did laugh at Palin's revisionist history, I do recognize that it is about as far from truth as the Longfellow poem. (Mr. Revere, and everyone he spoke to that night, did consider themselves to be British. Sort of.)

I wanted to set him as the protagonist of a supernatural horror story for two reasons:
1.) He was a silver smith.
B.) He was an active member of the Masons.
III.) He largely stepped out of the way of history after the famous ride, aside from participating in a battle that went really terribly and got him accused of treason.

"It's history if you make it happen.": Record some illegal aliens having a BBQ in Arizona so that you can prove for Mr. McCain that they do, indeed, start fires there.

[rinue]

Revere was mostly a businessman, obviously, but he did finance quite a lot of stuff, including helping Old Ironsides get built, a ship dear to my heart even though it is always further to walk to it than I remember.

I would play the hell out of a Revolutionary werewolf battle. Sounds like a missing Gabriel Knight episode.