What was interesting about my Monday rant was how people reacted to it. It turned into a sort of Rorschach test, in that it was a neutral shape onto which people projected themselves through their perceptions-- or words to that effect. Don't blame me of this rant is unintelligible, I got home at sunrise today and am running on very little sleep.

About two-thirds of the e-mail I got thought that I was a little frightened, while the other third thought I was speechless more along the lines of the old Coffee Talk "I'm verklempt... talk amongst yourselves, here's a topic: FLCL (ƒtƒŠƒNƒŠ to those of you who have Japanese enabled) is neither furry nor curry."

Meanwhile, and this is the most interesting thing, all but two people stayed along gender lines. As in everybody, except a couple of people who know me really well, thought that the sender of the e-mail was their own gender. Which makes things really fascinating, and kind of made me wonder what made people project these qualities onto a nebulous e-mailer.

But that's a topic for another time. When I was thinking about Rorschach, I thought about Watchmen, since that's the last place I saw a Rorschach test--my tenth viewing of the Batman movie doesn't count. From there I could've gone somewhere cool, deconstructive and anti-empiricist, but, alas, no.

Instead, brainwashed geek that I am, I thought about Freedom Force, and by extension, City of Heroes. And I thought "Hmm. About now would be a good time to start organizing a group of MegaTokyo Mystery Men to assist me in my goal of defending the city and getting maximum face time on billboards." So of course I decided to whore it out in this space, after the success of the Million Maximo March.

And randomly segueing to the MMM, I'd like to say that it's still on, and most likely to be scheduled for Saturday afternoon, just after lunch (but more than 30 minutes after you eat, since the last thing I want is a lot of annoyed mothers snapping at me). This applies to both Otakon and Anime Expo, and the gathering will occur at an as-yet-undetermined location. Mostly because I don't know where the closest pool to the convention center is. Maybe at AX we can get away with heading toward the aquarium in our skivvies.

On second thought, no.

And, a random bonus question before I go to sleep and stop writing deliriously: if you were playing Pictionary with people in various degrees of inebriation, how would you draw a rock so that they would get it? How the hell do you represent a rock and make it recognizable?