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You made my dog bite you!

It’s dark outside, and Todd and Paul are talking.

Paul …and so will you read this book with me? Because if I try to read it at night I get scared of the pictures.

Todd Sure, sweetie. Want to know why the pictures are scarier at night?

Paul Why?

Todd Well, a long time ago when we lived in the woods and had no electricity – I mean, not when WE were in the yurt and lived in the woods and had no electricity, but human beings in general –

Sage Tee hee.

Sage and Todd are watching After Hours, which was made in the eighties (where they still used rotary phones and there were no ATMs and and the main character changed channels on his cable tv by pressing tiny piano keys; Todd said that when Paul’s a teenager and he sees the movie with us we’ll have to pause the movie every five minutes to explain the antiquities). It’s a quirky movie, intelligent and fascinating, and an excellent example of the sort of movie that never gets made anymore.

Todd Did you know that Martin Scorsese made this movie in order to fund The Last Temptation of Christ?

Sage That is the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard. Because if they wanted to make this movie in scary, fear and fundamentalist-driven 2004, they’d have to make The Last Temptation of Christ to FUND AFTER HOURS. Sigh.

I’ve found an excellent way to save money for a new camera. Whenever I take money out of the ATM, I just put a couple of twenties into an envelope. So far, I’ve saved over four hundred dollars. Todd calls it embezzling. Hee.

The next door neighbours have been completely unresponsive to our overtures of friendliness. They have, apparently, been unresponsive to everyone who lives on this floor, going so far as to accuse this very nice elderly man of “inciting” their insane dog to bite him. So we gave up trying to be nice, and about a week later Todd was doing idle searches on the web and found out that this professional, yuppie, maybe-retired couple are in fact spammers of the most annoying kind.

Todd I’d really love to get a bike, so I could ride around the parks in town.

Sage Well, you should start saving money like I have. I mean, you can see that it works.

Todd I think I’ll sell the neighbours a thousand fake email addresses.

Sage Ooo, good idea!

Todd Or maybe I’ll just embezzle from your camera savings.