the paparazzi swarmed all over Einstein after he said make sure where the rope is tied before you kick over the chair he wrote his own scripts now Further Adventures in Archaeo-Astronomy tonight the constellation Vertigo a place of no equilibrium a hell of uterine contractions even though his head was elfin a little bone crushing ceremony and bingo you are out on bail I didn't mean to hurt anyone went the 911 call they finally brought him down with magnets the dilemma meters were going purple only minutes away from a fatal lap dance that could blacken the portals of infinity hauled before the cosmic court of opinion sentenced to prompt and urgent expungement they failed to contend with the absurdity of Al's relativistic social barometer smuggled in by a derelict ex-stockbroker his obsidian blade plunged like a fang into the bailiff's waiting eyes and the jury of inflatable *** dolls made obnoxious leaking air sounds until all that was left was a talking skull divulging Al's General Theory of Anathema flip the law of averages on its back and your troops are in the citadel paradise being a system of payoffs on the origin side of the lens yes the light is tricky in there images fall feebly on the big screen Al's life was now a gravitational anomaly no plot no narrative no story he was ready to sack a city his Igor hissed let's asteroid the planet but the mouse pad Ouija opened a channel to the vortex of utter charm and he stamped and splashed singing through the seven sewers of humiliation wearing his we're going to hell pants with only a mother's love for protection and managed to lose all his pencils somewhere between hand and ledger being that his hands were missing fingers almost all of them actually lost in a departmental budget cut allegorically left him all thumbs unleashing a pandemonium of vague redemption it was a close shave but Earth was saved