Mon, 
      4 Feb 2002 
      Sparing Bonnie Hunt | 
   
   
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Finally, at long last, 
        I had a weird dream. It was bizarre. It was strange. It followed no timeline 
        nor plot. It was, as I love my dreams to be, just a random bombardment 
        of colorful images and half-assed attempts at the most random of activities. 
      So, here we go.
       Noah, a friend of 
        mine that I work with, was the leader of the rest of the people I work 
        with, myself included, in an assault on Hollywood. There was this one, 
        central boulevard, upon which there were dozens upon dozens of clubs. 
        These clubs are regularly visited by Hollywood's elite, and for whatever 
        reason, Noah had had enough of it.
       At the time our little 
        troop took position at the far end of the boulevard it was late, and the 
        clubs' patrons were spilling out into the street, hailing cabs and getting 
        into waiting limosines.
       Noah raised his right 
        hand slowy, and as it reached the apex of its climb, Noah shouted aloud, 
        "SHOGUNS!"
       With that battle command 
        now cried, we stampeded down the street. Noah led the charge, straight 
        down the double yellow line that defined the middle of the road, with 
        Aaron no more than ten steps behind him. Chris scrubbed his way up the 
        length of the sidewalk on the right, and I the sidewalk on the left.
       By the time we reached 
        the little huddled mass of emptying clubs, each of us withdrew very long, 
        very white, and yet paper thin swords, and began taking down celebrities. 
        The slaughter was clean and swift, every cut fatal, and every cut swift.
       Just as a reached 
        Club Mecca, a club with a black front facade or cubist design, I stopped 
        dead in my tracks. Bonnie 
        Hunt, a woman that's spent her career mastering the sidekick and supporting 
        actress roles, exits the club into the midst of mass hysteria. As soon 
        as I recognized who she was, stepping over the freshly laid mounds of 
        the bleeding dead, I stopped, moved her up against the wall of the club, 
        and shielded her with my body from the flying aftermath of Aaron's bloody 
        fury.
       "Bonnie Hunt! 
        Wow! What a pleasure meeting you," I shouted at her. "I can't 
        believe it. Bonnie Hunt. As I live and breath. I'm such a huge fan."
       She was stunned, and 
        knew not what was reall happening, and just nervously smiled at a large 
        man with blooded striped across his face and a massive yet amazingly thin 
        sword dragged behind him.
       "Bonnie, can 
        I call you Bonnie? Bonnie, I'm going to let you go free." I walked 
        up to a cab that was pinned in between fallen celebrities and a van. Opening 
        the door, I leaned in and told the cabbie to drive over the bodies, and 
        to get Bonnie Hunt out of the area. I led Bonnine in by the hand, shut 
        the door caringly behind her, and waved as she was driven off.
       Then, as if a light 
        in my head suddenly switched on again, I reacquainted myself with the 
        purpose of the blade in my hand, and returned to my duties. 
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