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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[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.