Tell me about it ... if I could get a halfway decent publisher, I wouldn't be a common freelancer.

This is going to turn into a José Saramago book, isn't it?

Well I was just talking with Zarkon, head mystic of The Hill People, and *he's* still backing the whole goat thing, so, what'a'ya'gonna do?

Vaccines hell, they'll start blaming bad entrails from sacrificed goats soon.

I thought he drove a Merc G Class?

Oh I know what the system is there for, and why they did it in the first place.

It's still stupid.

He sold it (the body & interior was in great shape) and bought something like a Chevelle SS or something.

[in David Attenborough voice] Here we see the Diablo in the wild, it's it's natural state: On the back of a flatbed towtruck. The road to recovery will be long and expensive, arduous and painful.

A guy I was in jazz band with had a blue & white coupe Fairlane. It had 3 on the tree and he forgot there was no 4th, went from 3rd back into 2nd and shattered the engine. I mean literally blew the block into big, disassociated chunks.