"Pete" was humming a song to himself as he walked towards the PG&E offices in San Francisco. It was an old song he wrote in the 1990's. It cheered him greatly that the prophesy had not come true. YET...
"The growth industry of the 90's...
will be subsistance farming...
when Reagan's rubber check bounces...
and global economic collapse...
rears its ugly head...
what will you do for food ?
CHORUS: LETS EAT RATS FOR LUNCH...
OOOh, The winter gets cold...
when the arabs turn off the oil...
Your BMW will make a lovely planter...
growing beets in bucket seats...
open the sun roof wide...
scrounging in the city dump...
I seem to have lost my pride...
CHORUS:LET'S EAT RATS FOR LUNCH...
His friend "Sally" and he entered the office building and pushed the elevator for the top floor. As they ascended the corporate monument he checked his weapons. Simple, yet effective. All he caried with him was a sandwich and two bottles of "soda pop". The first had an astonishlingly foul smelling but harmless chemical in it and the second was just water.
When his organization, PIFOG*, planned the hostage "situation" they assumed that there would be guards and metal detectors in the corporate offices. Since he carried no metal, Pete had encountered no resistance. The plan was to dump the first bottle inside the lobby and just tell everyone there that the second was poison. Really, really, really BAD poison... Like, WMD-STRENGTH disaster type poison... OOH, you KNOW that's nasty! The psychological effect of the stench would make the office workers believe that the second bottle would kill them and they would comply...
The eco-terrorists demands were simple...
All PG&E had to do was return the $10,000,000,000 that had been stolen from the State of California and the office workers could live.
Of course, it was not as simple as that. There had to be televised press conferences with Gov. Gray Davis and the CEO from PG&E. The payments had to be transmitted and verified by Pete's friends "Susan" and "Billy". They were invading the Bank of AmeriKKKa's office at the same time as Pete and Sally.
The four of them had met at a brainwashing sex-cult years before. They formed a band to get their message across to the public but years of total obscurity and preaching to the choir had brought them to this crossroad. Billy was the keyboard player and Susan quoted poetry. Pete played guitar and Sally was the drummer. Their song "television is a mirror" was a hit in the Avant=Garde scene but totally ignored by the rest of the planet...
Television is a mirror...
with a feedback loop... loop, loop...
Television is a mirror...
with a feedback loop... loop, loop...
Everyone watches and is programmed to be...
what they see... WHEE!
What is the strange attraction of Miss White?
The available caucasian...
Our gang of fools entered the office's lobbies and dumped their foul smelling liquids. They made their speeches and demanded action. The office workers were not easily fooled... "That second bottle is, like, totally fake" said LULU, the lady standing next to the receptionist. "I saw this entire scheme on a TV show, and I'm not fooled a bit... What, do you think we're chumps? We don't get CABLE? GET 'EM COWBOYS!" Within moments, they were surrounded by rent-a-cops and arrested. Their eco-terrorist action was a total failure. As they called their friends for help in raising bail, the police came over and informed them that no-one was pressing any charges because it was all too trivial...They were scolded by the police and had to pay to have the carpets cleaned. They left the police station and wandered downtown in a deep funk.
"We can't even use this experience for subject matter for a song" whined Billy.
It was at that moment that Susan started to make a inspirational speech...
(insert inspirational speech here-get one at inspirationalspeech dot com)... They selected to re-pete their crime with more dead-lee farce... ...to be continued...in another space+time continuuuuuuuuummmmmmm...
They slipped into a neighborhood time machine and set the dial for 1963 and the location of Palo Alto, California. The home of Stanford University and the infamous Menlo Park Veterans Hospital... 
They put a quarter into the coin slot and pushed go.
Then they experienced a disruption of the space=time continuum. as illustrated by these lovely pencil sketches "Pete" did... 
he felt a need to document his adventure... an obsession fuled by his delusions of grandeur... 
since he didn't have a digital video camera available (they had not been invented "yet") he used pencil and paper... 
When they left the machine it was a sunny spring day in the past... The plan was to find the corporate officers of PG&E back when the officers were college students and "have a little chat" about morals. A little psychedelic brainwashing was needed... If our Merry Band of Intrepid Travelers could "correct" the corporate greed philosophy shared by those college students, they would be protected from ENRONOMICS and not be fooled... (see project MKULTRA) They searched the campus until the found the office of Dr. Leo Hollister. the rest is the history... They brainwashed the corporate officers, who dropped out and were last seen traveling North in an old bus. "OOPS" said Pete "That plan didn't work out, they all became poets and moved to Humboldt County" "Plan B" stated Sally...
Pete and Sue and Billy and Sally got MBA's at Stanford and became the leaders of industry. With their clairvoyant advantage they were able to out-compete their classmates because the future was the past for them... They became the corporate leaders of PG&E and were not easily fooled by the criminal behavior of ENRON... Thereby avoiding the staged crisis that was orchestrated in order to elect Arnold - the governator...
The continuing saga of FUTUREWORLD2525...
After our intrepid travelers saved the great state of Kalifornia, they decided that it would be a good time to go on a vacation. See the sights of another time and place. They put another quarter in the time travel machine and set the controls for 1000 years before the birth of Christ... Location: Israel... They were going to find Ezekiel and watch the fire wheels for themselves... Experience HISTORY first hand... And back they went... the years slipped by... 1900, 1800, 1700, 1600...whoosh...zero...
-100, -200, -300...whoosh... -1000... DING ! DING ! DING !
When they stepped out of the machine the first person they met was Tom Baker. He was stepping out of an English telephone booth and mumbling to himself.
"My TARDIS seems to have been reprogrammed by my arch enemy Dr. WHY... 
I was supposed to have landed in England in the 1980s at the BBC studio but here we all are in ancient Israel..."
Susan approached him and said
"Dr. WHO, I presume"
"At your service, my dear"
"Have you seen the Prophet Ezekiel around here ?
"Well, not "recently", let's step inside and do a GOOGLE search for him...
After searching the inter and the outer net they found that they were very close to their goal. As a matter of fact, all they had to do was walk over the conveniently located bridge that spanned Troubled Water Creek. Unfortunetly, It was being guarded by English Actors in Alien costumes and they would not let them pass... "Thou shalt not pass" said the English Actors.
Suddenly, creepy synthesizer music filled the air...
"Dr.WHO, Dr. WHO, WHAT WILL WE DO?" said Susan
"go to a commercial break?" suggested Tom.
"We can't, you're on Public television"
"I've got it!... PLEDGE DRIVE !"
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They all stepped into the time machine and engaged the PLEDGE DRIVE
(similar to WARP DRIVE but with the additional guilt trip mechanism).
It moved them over Troubled Water Creek and set them down in the middle of a grassy meadow... And there he was... blind...
BLIND! I TELL YOU, TOTALLY BLIND!
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to be continued... to find out the answer to the mystery... HOW DOES HE SEE THE WHEELS OF FIRE IF HE'S BLIND ?
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PIFOG* (People In Favor Of Good) is a totally fake organization... There is evidence that PIFOEvil is alive and running the country... How else do you explain the EvilBush or the riDICKulous Chain-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
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