All the powerful people wear sequins.
I’m pretty sure we’re into the fall semester of the school year here. Again, I’m just sharing some of the highlights. Most of my dreams from this period focus on my anger at Karrie for her “boyfriend” damaging my car by throwing tennis balls, basketballs, etc. at “Dyke” (my white Chrysler Le Baron Turbo) and doing $1800 worth of damage.
Asterisks separate dreams from different nights.
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I was on the set of the John Tesh Teeth Whitening System infomercial along with Sharon Stone and John Ritter. They were there testing a new BBQ sauce. Sharon called out to me, “Hey skinny. get over here and have a hot dog.” There, arranged in a lovely display, were Vienna sausages wrapped in a thin sheet of Velveeta and BBQ sauce.
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Mother, Amy (siamese cat), and I were touring a national park. Amy needed to be locked up, but our car doors wouldn’t lock. We stuck her in someone else’s trunk, but didn’t think the owners would understand. We stapled her in a grocery bag (paper) and wrote, “My cat is sick.” Mom said, “No one will steal her now.”
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There was a restaurant named “Welcome Home.” A woman with long black hair was there. A short-haired woman was preparing to jump out of the window (a fall of 5 stories or more). “Billie” tied a rock around her waist and plunged to her death.
A woman’s conscience or intuition (IC for short) took different forms. She was in a bathroom with her “man” whom I think was a womanizer. Her IC started barking like a mad dog (glimpse of barking Great Dane). The woman ducked into a stall. Her IC became a woman, talking to her, whispering about the evils of this man. The real woman refused to believe her IC. IC went and seduced the man just to prove he was a good-for-nothing asshole.
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I was living in a negative utopia Seaquest-type society. All the powerful people wore sequins and lived under water. The two most powerful individuals were God and Johnny Carson. Dad was meeting with both of them. Someone told me that God was in town. I cheered and asked if I could talk to him. “He’s underwater.” So I followed my dad and I got to meet Johnny Carson. He wore a fur-lined purple crown and black tuxedo with sequined suspenders. I asked if I could have one of his sequins and he said absolutely not. Then dad and Johnny climbed down the ladder into the pool. I was walking through water, my head held high. Two rival hotels both had flashing neon signs. One was a pig-like face in a hat that turned around and winked. I thought about how it would make individual frames for cartoons. I went swimming.
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I took two girls with me to Japanese class. There were crows on the computer screen. I looked for John, but Jon walked in instead. He asked for Grands Biscuits, but I plopped down a bran muffin for him on his desk.
Loyal and I were in the WSU library. Mom came to pick me up and over the intercom we heard, “He’s bloated and he needs tacos.” A delivery truck pulled up.
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Zach asked me to marry him.
Doug discussed manly dogs.
I threw my coat on the stairs.
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February 1994–
I held the turnstile for Anthony Hopkins.
I was in a hotel room with a strange guy. Moths clung to my legs. The man asked me if I had killed all the hunter moths yet. I called the front desk to complain about the blinking orange “no vacancy” sign.
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February 1994–
Ginger Grant (Tina Louise from “Gilligan’s Island”) was Eve and Cary Grant was Adam in a very wrong Garden of Eden.