Tommy Bolt Quotes

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you think you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? Genre conventions.

The Long and Winding Silk Road We are cut of one cloth, so many feet to the bolt of silk that stands on a factory floor in Shenzhen to fashion Hawaiian shirts for Tommy Bahama and wedding Kimonos for Takashimaya in my dream. The factory goes bankrupt and the surplus silk sold, some ending up in the hands of a community theater for its production of the King and I. A swathe of white silk undulates across the high school auditorium stage, representing the frozen Ohio River in the play within a play. Silken strands of our DNA coil around each other to form a double helix and we are oblivious actors on a cosmic Silk Road, trading cultural memes in this human network, in a play within a play within a dream.

I made him a miner with a pick, overalls, the hard hat with the light on the front. I gave him a red bandana like the old badass strikers that had their war. No cape, he doesn't fly. Just super strong and fast. Runnin' over the mountaintops and leaps and bounds. ...First panel: my guy's spots an old lady cryin; in her little home up in the woods because he can't pay her bill, and the electric's gone off. Dark stormy night. Second panel: The hero grabs a lightning bolt in the sky and shoves it into the wires. You see it runnin' all the way to her trailer home. The lights and stove all comin' back on. In the last panel, I made music notes comin' out of her radio. And lights shining out the windows into the night. The lady and her little old man are dancing outside on their porch. ...I'd started with a different version where he swaps out lines at the pole. So instead of lightning he's stealing the power of a mansion house up on a hill. You see it all fizzle out up there, satellite TV, outdoor security lights, while the little trailer goes bright. But Tommy said that might get him in trouble with [his boss].