I've gotten a lot of emails wanting to know where the fictional character Unchained Melody and her gang live. The answer, of course, is in a fictional world. And the conversations are from a fictional "cafe". Here's the background.
Years into the future mankind has finally found a way to colonize on other planets. Among them, Venus. On Venus is a scattered community of people whose only communication is through a "cyber cafe" except for the occasional get to gether on Earth to remind them of what they escaped. The "settlers" have various careers on Venus just as they had on Earth but the isolation has gotten to a few and they have become very self-centered and mean-spirited and have attempted to "take over" the cyber cafe. The gang attempts to thoroughly "beat" any newcomers into submission to their wishes or run the newcomers out of the cyber cafe.
Even in this fictional land, UM and the gang represent but a small group of the people who use the cyber cafe but they are the most vocal and the most resentful. Their bickering, bashing, berating, harassing, slandering, and generally negative behavior has made them legendary in this fictional cyber cafe.
Yet, there is still a group who resist the demands of UM and the gang. These voices of reason are often subjected to the extreme offensive overtures of UM and the gang but the rational stay in hopes of letting newcomers know that people of all sorts are welcomed in the fictional cyber cafe.
Evne in the gang there is one voice of reason - MALE BKWDS. MB is not really a member of the gang but many newcomers mistake MB for a gang member because MB spends so much time trying to be the moral compass, the steadying hand, and the voice of calm and distraction when the gang starts getting out of control. MB has been heard to say things like "Look, you've wasted 2 hours bashinig this person and they aren't going to leave. Give it up!" or "Can we talk about something else besides how you hate this person? Maybe politics, religion, the weather, or sex? YEAH! Sex. That's it! Let's talk about sex." or "You know, my salamander has better sense than to sit in here all day and yell and scream a bout something out of its control. Stop already!' or "You spending all this time bashing this person gives them the attention they want. Stop talking about them and maybe we can have some fun. Did I hear some one say SEX TALK??"
MB is very aware that when MB is not in the fictional cyber cafe, that the rest of the gang says really mean and rude things about MB like "That MB, There ain't no salamander alive that would live with MB." or "Remember when MB went to CA for vacation and said someone asked MB to move with them... bull ... ain't no one wants MB that close to them." or "MB is one whacko. Always with the one liners or trying to look better than us."
From the emails, you are sayiing you want to hear more conversations from the cyber cafe on Venus so I will include more of those in the next posting. For now, enjoy and keep the emails coming. I appreciate the inspiration.
