Inspiration Comes From the Most Unusual Places

......LIKE TACO CABANA for example. I'll get to that here in a minute. Well happy belated blow **** up/Independence day to my friendlies, hope yours was a lot better than mine XD. It wasn't too eventful since Otter (a.k.a Andrew) had a catering shift that night and everyone else was pretty much off doing their own thing ; _ ; . However we (Andrew and I) did have a little early afternoon celebration which was nice. We went to The Flying Saucer in Addison (I feel like a little kid in a candy store when I go there because of the extensive beer selection *lol*) and had a couple of drinks, watched some extreme spots channel, and played darts. Other than that just hung around the apartment, piddled around, and watched some fire works from the balcony.....by my lonesome.

Sunday was a bit better. It was Andrew's moms b-day and so we met up with her that evening to go see Ice Age 3 in 3D and afterward met up at her house for cake. Not trying to ruin the movie for anyone,but the 3D actually wasn't all that great and the movie pretty much sucked big hairy monkey balls up until they reach some underground tropical wonderland where they meet the most kick ass character EVA.....Buck ^^ <3 So ya.....don't waste your money on the 3D and I would recommend waiting and watching it when it reaches the dollar theaters if you're really itching to see it.

After we headed out from his moms house we went and hit up......*guess where*........TACO CABANA! It was late and pretty much the only place open around there ......still gives me gas thinking about that place ......XD just kidding. Anywho, while we were dining on our bountiful feast of bean burritos,chips,salsa,and queso I was kinda subconsciously listening in on the workers conversation. I kid you not (and Andrew can vouch for me on this too) it sounded like one of the guys said "Look out for the quasar!"or "Don't fly next to the quasar!" and thus spawned what seemed like a lengthy creative brain storming session. I'm not quite sure if I would want to do this as a stand alone project or some how tie it into another series of mine that I've been working on for sometime entitled "Patman" (title and series inspired by my dad),will explain the plot / premise and other stuff in another post. Haven't come up with a working title for it yet let alone any of the characters,but here is what I do have so far:

• Pretty much it's about this teenage guy (16/17 yrs old),stereotypical nerd obsessed with sci-fi with a over waaaaaaaaaaaay overactive imagination (which leads to all kinds of comedic mischief and misadventures). With him so absorbed by his "fantasies" or daydreams others often think he's a bit delusional (he perceives himself to be destined to become a famous space captain). He has just recently been put in the place of assistant manager at a local taco joint and too often takes too much advantage of the power that has been bestowed upon his acne riddled head.
• The manager of the restaurant is a bit of a recluse and chooses to have very little interaction with the other staff members which leaves them in the very incapable hands of the main character and leads to all sorts of utterly asinine mayhem. Overall the manager has a bad case of "Don't give a ****" syndrome and could care less what happens to the restaurant.
• As stated above the main character believes himself to be the captain of the Taco Cabana (or whatever I end up naming the restaurant) ship and has establish a rank structure for the other crew members in accordance with the positions they have been assigned. I.E. a person who does housekeeping/maintenance would be considered a grunt/private,shift lead a lieutenant,etc.
• The main character is very controlling and due to his poor interpersonal skills often comes off as an arrogant ass and has a difficult time communicating in a polite and constructive manner with others. I.E one day one of the Hispanic (and no I'm not trying to be racist by that) maintenance people is taking the trash and he gets up in their face for not getting permission from the captains bridge.
• One incident that occurs in the restaurant is that the main character tries to poison a couple of patrons that glance over the counter and look at the cooks. He accuses them of being spies and that they were trying to steal some of the ships "secrets".
• Our beloved captain drives an old beat up Suzuki Sidekick that he claims to be his escape pod/transport shuttle to his home base and to the "ship".
• Whenever the main character tells his fellow crew mates that the "ship" is going into warp speed techno music begins to play over the speakers and glow in the dark planets and strobe lights drop down from the ceiling.
• Whenever the captain gives the crew the order to fire lasers/missiles at incoming enemies (unsuspecting patrons) they chunk glow sticks/taquitos at them.

So ya that's about where I'm at with that. Please feel free to leave some feedback or ideas. *lol* I know that whole idea may seem a little "out there", but bear in mind that I have a pretty off-color sense of humor (much like the stuff you see on [Adult Swim] ).

Another idea that came to me today occurred while Otter and I were out on our daily run. We happened to see a UPS guy delivering a package to the apartment and Andrew commented on how remarkably short his shorts were (like flamer short). At that moment a skit from Chappelle's Show popped into both of our heads (take note of the black dude dancing with the lawnmower).



I imagined creating a gay UPS character named Scooter (for my "Patman" show since Patman is a huge homophobe) who dances similarly to that guy in the video when he delivers packages to people,wears short shorts, an has one hell of a lisp.

I'll share some more ideas I've come up with recently later. Btw if there's any of you out there that play WoW, Otter, myself, and some of our other friends are putting together a guild and who ever is interested in joining is welcome to do so. We play on the server Mannoroth, look for a night elf druid named Shodan (like from System Shock *te he*) to inquire about joining.