[fellowtraveler]

So entertaining, like a movie with all the great characters. Bogie and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn...now ALG and JF in their own Danse Macabre.

The Luciano guy in the bad suit, black shirt and white tie pops in halfway through with his tommy-gun and starts shootin' up the joint - he'll ask questions later, thanks. Lucky sweeps the room twice, but stops and looks at his weapon in puzzlement when ALG remainds standing, just staring with a cold, knowing smile at Lucky: he simply isn't a believer in hot lead.

Meanwhile, JF thinks Lucky's come to save him, but alas...Lucky's not true. JF had felt safe, as though he finally had an ally, when LL burst into the room...but it was not to be. LL turned out to be like all the others. Oh why, why could JF never make any of them see the error of their ways? Why could he not save them from a life of wanton self-delusion!!??? To JF, it almost seemed as though they all, all those he'd tried to help in the past, almost...had their own minds! Sometimes it nearly brought him to despair, to think that he might never be allowed to save even one poor soul. But deep inside he knew that what he was doing was enough for him...simply to prove himself right would make it all worthwhile.

The film editor must have still been hung over from the studio's New Year's party, because in the middle of the scene, Glenda the Good Witch (who everybody just loves, rest assured) wafts down from the ceiling, her flowing locks and radiant smile flooding the room with a glorious rainbow in technicolor. She waves her wand and glimmering fairy dust fills the air. Lucky just sneezes, but accidentally kills an extra with the gat, adding to the heaps of still-warm bodies littering the floor. Glenda winces at the gore, but shrugs - after all, it was their own fault for letting him push their buttons. Really.

What comes next? Will ALG forget to visualize this thread? Will JF ever find happiness by trying to deny it to others? Will LL run off with Daffy Duck and evade the copyright lawyers from Warner Brothers? Will Glenda campaign to become this forum's moderator for some dark purpose known only to herself? Come back next Saturday morning, kids, and find out! Popcorn half price, Milk Duds are fresh (mostly), and the Jujubes'll pull every filling. Ouch.