Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Creative Control in the Window Display of a Comic Shop

I had this dream last night. Now I am going to tell you about it.

I was in charge of designing and setting up the window display at the local comic store. (I'm not sure how I ended up in this position, there's nothing on my resume that makes me particularly qualified- in the dream, in real life I'm quite qualified...) Even curiouser, not only was I hired to do this, but I was apparently given absolute creative control to do whatever I like. My idea for this week (apparently I do this weekly) was to make the window display look as if the store was completely empty. No racks of new comics, no boxes of back issues, no action figures, nothing. If you walked by and looked in the window it would appear as if the store had gone out of business and moved out over night. The owner of the store was upset about this, for obvious reasons, which were then only compounded by the fact that I was using his staff to set up the elaborate series of mirrors, projectors, and holograms necessary to pull off this incredible, business-ruining display. But it didn't bother me that he was mad, not for a second, because I was working for his boss, who apparently thought I was brilliant.

Whatever...

Dan

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