Wednesday, September 07, 2005
(8:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
My Ever-Weirder Dreams
I was in a live-action version of Super Mario Bros., in a final confrontation with Bowser, the King of Koopa. I found that I could squash him flat, then keep him that way if I periodically rolled around on him (otherwise, he would inflate back up to normal size). So I decided that the way to finally defeat him would be to push him off of an airplane. I rolled him up, put him in my bag, and hopped on the Blue Line to go to O'Hare. It was an overhead view of the CTA map, and the line colored in as I progressed. When I got to the airport, I laid him on the floor like a bearskin rug. He was furry, rather than reptilian. I was trying to make arrangements for the flight, but he had somehow convinced himself I was his friend. As I rolled on him to make sure he would stay flat while I got the tickets, he thought it was some kind of sign of affection, and he asked me to hold his hand. I said I was very busy with making arrangements for our flight and didn't have any more time -- it occurred to me to suspect that there was some kind of trickery involved, that he would somehow instantly inflate back up to full size if I touched his hand, but I think I was more creeped out by the feeling that he was sincere.Then I was awakened by a phone call.
