This is my all-time favorite video of the B-52s in concert. NO COCAINE HAPPENING HERE, lmao.
Seriously, it looks like Kate’s first time on drugs, while Cindy knows to roll with it.
Reckless drivin’, like a sports car
God I want you, like a fuel engine!
Energized line, like a road
You ride me like a road
You ride me
Foot on the pedal
Feet in the air
Sand in my hair
Oh, don’t look back
Don’t look behind you
Reckless driving on
Dirty Back Road
Reckless Driving was the first scene I wrote with The Sorceress. I didn’t want to write the scene where Vernon comes in with a new attitude because I wrote the scene very early on and was struggling with writing dialogue (it’s hard!), and initially the scene was me telling Felix or Claire what happened, because I told each of them as well (the line “human resources will do that to a person” was actually said by Felix, but I hadn’t decided at that time if Felix would be a character).
I’m not sure how or why it happened, but I was looking at my terrible, boring dialogue, then started writing a scene that would never see the light of day, just for fun and my own amusement. The origin of The Sorceress come from, of all places, broadcasting legend Larry Munson, former play-by-play announcer for the Georgia Bulldog football radio network. When the Bulldogs won a game they had no business winning, or had a play where the ball bounced their way, Larry would give the credit to a spiritual being named Old Lady Luck.
Munson’s Old Lady Luck, combined with the creativity and sense of humor of my good friend Cal Batchelor (who warned me about playing golf with the Sorceress and should’ve been included in the acknowledgments, frankly), was the seed that grew into the Sorceress.
Annual Review sets up the second part of The Strange Remain, updating the reader on the non-Bizzarro happenings of my job and team, then IMMEDIATELY is that similar turning point to the end of Chapter 16 (Tomorrow Never Knows, the end of the beginning), wherein the world, again, blows up.
I still have a copy of the screenshot of the Team Superbad recruiting spreadsheet with all of the candidates and notes in my personal files from those glorious days. I never told anybody that story prior to publishing the book.
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