Jams must have been the brand name.
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Were they like shorter versions of "parachute pants"?
Actually, I know what you mean. I'm just trying not to picture them.
Not like the stupidly baggy pants some of the boys wear now are much better.
Jams must have been the brand name.
Dunno....I thought you were talking about pajamas.
Not exactly. They "both" work for think tanks in DC. One is a starched white shirt conservative, the other is a granola munching liberal. He travels back and forth between both realities via the file folder.* "Both" are working on a huge national issue. Everything is fine until both are invited to appear together on Larry King live. He panics and (thinks he) has no choice but to kill off one of the personalities. Then he's arrested for the murder, but there's no body.
He's not completely in this alone and there is a way he can communicate with "them" (I don't know who "them" is yet, or how he communicates), but he doesn't hear from them and panics, taking matters into his own hands. Then they cut him off...or so he thinks.
I'm thinking the final chapter is him in the jail cell waiting for trial. His lawyer shows up (actually a "new" lawyer he doesn't recognize). The lawyer says "you need to review this file,"...then we get to "Episode II." It's sort of a Quantum Leap type thing, but with a few different twists...
* Working title: One Flew Over the Conservatives' Nest: Episode I of The Tessaract Files
So he's beside himself.
Sorry....I couldn't resist.:)
Hey, I just got some of that at the grocery store!!Sir SuziQ and I are going away to Newport for the night and tomorrow, but Sunday morning we're gonna have strawberry pancakes and JIMMY DEAN sausage! Yum Yum!
I'm tired of writing already, I hate my story, and I hate my characters. Only 29 days to go! Maybe I'll feel better about them by then. Maybe I can force 'em into submission, for one.
Well, it may not end up being Larry King, but a national "news" show of some sort. I don't see the host actually playing into the action. The crisis is that "both" are invited to appear at the same time.
Yeah, I know...just thought it was funny!
It is NASTY out there! Sleeting and cold. Yuck.
Guess it's really November!
Strange how that happens sometimes! Good for you for standing up for the missus!
OK, gotcha.
I still have to think of something for my Boromir guy to want to do. Needs to be something that he thinks will help himself and his family, but that would affect a greater number of people for bad. So he's not doing it out of malice but out of...well...kinda hard headed stupidity. My little brother suggested having him put some small research company out of business in the process of not going out of business himself, but that research company was about to come up with a cure for something or some other swell scientific breakthrough. Guess that might work. As long as it's good for a couple thousand words, who cares, right?
Sometimes laughter is the only defense mechanism idjits have. 'Specially when they don't understand what's going on.
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