Life is really a series of adaptations and re-inventions. The kid who plays with crayons becomes the graphic artist. But there's that cool time in between where you still believe the outrageous is possible. I grew up watching Hanna Barbera cartoons so as a kid I always figured someday I'd hang out with a group of friends and solve mysteries. We'd also have some kind of talking dog, car or white blob with us.
Of course, I realize now that in order for that to happen there would have to be a lot of crime - and I don't mean your run of the mill crime either. Really off the wall crimes where people try to scare other people off their land so they can build condos or something. In real life no one scares people off their land - they just use something called "eminent domain." Although that does sound kind of scarry if you say it the right way: "emmminnent dooomaaaaiiinn." Go ahead and try it for yourself. I'll wait...
Scared yourself a little, didn't you? Anyway, there don't seem to be many crimes committed by some guy named Mr. Spivey who's the curator at the old abandoned amusement park. That's probably because there just aren't many abandoned amusement parks. That's the problem with fictional cities like Gotham: they just leave that kind of stuff around. Abandoned amusement parks, closed chemical plants, rundown carnivals are all just breeding grounds for supervillians. And strange guys named Mr. Spivey.
Even though I didn't grow up to solve crazy mysteries, I still try to hold onto that cool unreality as long as I can and just re-invent when reality comes knocking. For example, a couple of weeks ago I learned that in order for a nail gun to work you actually have to hold it against a flat, level surface. That means that if you're ever squaring off against the bad guys (probably from the rundown carnival) at a construction site, you can't just grab a nail gun and shoot them with a cool line like "nailed 'em both." (Danny Glover did that one in Lethal Weapon 2. It was one of those movies before Mel Gibson went insane.)
So I've tried a lot different things and I'll probably try a lot more. And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that medling reality...
Of course, I realize now that in order for that to happen there would have to be a lot of crime - and I don't mean your run of the mill crime either. Really off the wall crimes where people try to scare other people off their land so they can build condos or something. In real life no one scares people off their land - they just use something called "eminent domain." Although that does sound kind of scarry if you say it the right way: "emmminnent dooomaaaaiiinn." Go ahead and try it for yourself. I'll wait...
Scared yourself a little, didn't you? Anyway, there don't seem to be many crimes committed by some guy named Mr. Spivey who's the curator at the old abandoned amusement park. That's probably because there just aren't many abandoned amusement parks. That's the problem with fictional cities like Gotham: they just leave that kind of stuff around. Abandoned amusement parks, closed chemical plants, rundown carnivals are all just breeding grounds for supervillians. And strange guys named Mr. Spivey.
Even though I didn't grow up to solve crazy mysteries, I still try to hold onto that cool unreality as long as I can and just re-invent when reality comes knocking. For example, a couple of weeks ago I learned that in order for a nail gun to work you actually have to hold it against a flat, level surface. That means that if you're ever squaring off against the bad guys (probably from the rundown carnival) at a construction site, you can't just grab a nail gun and shoot them with a cool line like "nailed 'em both." (Danny Glover did that one in Lethal Weapon 2. It was one of those movies before Mel Gibson went insane.)
So I've tried a lot different things and I'll probably try a lot more. And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that medling reality...
Ow, and on the apprentice part; I mightbe her teacher, but its not in any kind of official school