Idea: Archeology

Archeologist at a dig. Unearths strata from about 300 million years ago. Finds remains of human civilization. The civilization seems to be as advanced and basically just like ours. Many of the artifacts are easily recognizable.

Alternating this story with the stroy of an everyday man in some day to day corporate job. It seems very prosaic. As we go through the day to day we discover certain things are just off. Certain names for things, expressions etc. The further into his story the more things become un recognizable to us.

That is the story of the civilization 300 million years ago.

I would imagine every Arceologist asks themseklves "what must a day in these peoples lives have been like?"

Maul of Flounders

Pretty In Pink - The Answer

It's taken me 20 years, and in all honesty most of the waking hours of my life to answer this question. Oh, and then there was that small stint at a Wat in Southern Laos for a year or two (Time, she did fly.), but I'd venture a guess that I only really spent half my time there actually pondering much of anything. You see, I was given the task of keeping the village's Water Buffalo "rice paddy ready" as they liked to call it. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the hell I had to keep up to thirty, usually very angry, Water Buffalo
coiffed and manicured all the time? Especially once I found out what a rice paddy actually was. As I look back I think those monks were just hazing the new guy and maybe after like six months or so they didn't have the heart to tell me. But I digress. To answer the question. Yes, she is pretty in pink.

Notes for the Starla and James book

1: Must research beer making for James. (James wants to start his own brewery)

2: Starla's parents make the overture to James on the wedding day to go to Madagascar and work at the family factory. Starla is a bit surprised because she never expected them to ask because he's not Chinese.

3: James is surprised she never told him about the family tradition. Neither of them are sure that they want to be apart for a year.

4: James thinks it might be interesting once he finds out that within that 1 year he'll make enough to start his brewery. Starla thinks it might be ok because her parents don't have much confidence in James. They asked him and if he turns it down it would only cement their beliefs that he's not a good fit for their daughter and not ready to be a member of the family.

5: How do they spend their last days/

6: She can't visit him while he's gone. The males think their wives distract them while working.

7: Research Madagascar

8: Come up with at least 4 different humorous diversions for James to get into when in Madagascar.

9: Need good email exchanges between him and Starla.

Kinda weird story idea.

It's about a man whose sperm are genetically coded for food not babies. The women he impregnates give birth to food. Ready to eat. Does he form a cottage industry?

Carb-omb

Carb-omb

I've never known a world where the sky was pink like cake and the clouds were brown like chocolate. So, I made that happen. I used spray paint to do it, brown and pink paint to be exact. That's way cheaper than hiring an astronomer to find such a planet, not to mention what spaceship gas costs these days to get there. On planets that have cake skies and chocolate clouds it tends to rain pastries in the morning and cookies at night. I'm not really a morning person, but I like pastries (a bunch) so I thought that if I were to visit this planet, I might not get see so many pastries because I'd probably be asleep when it would be raining pastries. So I went to Hong Kong, where they have pastries made of squishy stuff at super cheap prices and I bought a deluge worth. I applied them with glue and my best scientific guess as to how pastry-based rain would look falling from chocolate clouds in a pink cake sky. The doily is the only piece of artistic license involved, the rest being hard science of course. Raining doilies would be ridiculous. It just doesn't happen.

Matthew Na Sal

The Squid Broach (Etsy)

So you have an Octopus BRO-ch and you're saying to yourself "Damn, this is BRO-ch is super awesome! I'm getting so many ladies right now and that job interview, yeah I fucking nailed that shit!" That's pretty rad, you're living the dream. But, then this god damn squid BRO-ch comes up out of nowhere and you're like "Yo, squid!" and the squid pretty much disses you to your face. You're obviously not ready for a squid. Seriously, a squid gets more done in a day than you do in like two weeks. If you asked the squid what he did that day he'd say something like "Psssh, what time is it 3 pm? Oh I don't know I pretty much free dove down to like 30,000 feet and then bitch slapped some Sperm Whales cause I felt like it." Then you'd try to tell him about the boring ass day you had at your office and he'd be like "Naw bro! That's really super boring." Then he'd spit some ink all over your khakis and be out of there. Basically you're never going to be as rad or free spirited as a squid is because they're really rad and free spirited. But if you had this awesome BRO-ch it'd be like when you're hanging out with a dude who is cool. It's not like you're actually any cooler, but you're getting a lot of the cooler dudes leftover ladies. That's what it's like wearing the Squid BRO-ch. It's like you get to know what it's like to be awesome. Speaking of awesome, this squid has a totally "metal" clasp that will keep him on securely affixed to your shirt when you're getting into bar brawls. I've also added some bad ass pink spots that will hypnotize the ladies. After they are hypnotized, that's your business. Also, you'll notice that the quality of the photos are basically way shitty, but if you think that then you're way wrong because you're not "artsy". The proper phrasing that adequately describes the quality of the images is "lo-fi." That's because squid aren't mainstream sell outs to corporate photography. Squid are way hipster.