02/21/2007: "Chewy bloggy center"

music: No Doubt
mood: dreamy

I have been neglecting my blogging duties lately and cheating with inane quizzes. Now that I've got some time to kill (imaging laptops... wheeee) I guess I can do this up right for once.

I think mostly my brain has just simply been empty lately. I've been under a lot of stress lately and I'm just trying to keep my head above water on all fronts. I don't know what I need. Wait -- no, I do know. I need to win the lottery and get my pilot's license, then find a good sponsor and start racing vintage planes in Vegas. Ah, dreams.

I have this fantasy where I've got this beautifully restored F4U Corsair all painted up in Navy colors with some kind of sweet punk rock pinup chick noseart. I'm rolling by the crowd at some airshow, probably the big EAA one in Oshkosh. The cockpit is open and I'm waving at the crowd in a vintage bomber jacket, goggles, and one of those jaunty white scarves. I taxi to the end of the runway and close up the cockpit. The loudspeakers start playing "Beyond Electric Dreams" by Bad Religion and I take off, immediately do a couple of barrel rolls, and proceed with some badass aerobatic routine. The grand finale is me flying at the front of a slow V formation with two P-51s and two more F4Us. From the back of my plane unfurls a giant banner that says in bold letters, "FUCK WAR." At that point the fantasy just gets silly and involves half naked girls with cheeseburgers.

Anyway, that's my fantasy. Good talk, blog. Good talk.