hello, ben franklin
i have a secret, redgage...i went back in time last night. i've been back now a whole day and have yet to share my time-traveling experience with you. i know you'll have lots of questions, but trust me, i did not go to my first choice of time periods. this time-travel was not exactly a choice. i just happened to wake up in this time period. i just happened to wake up right before ben franklin tried out his kite experiment. but now i'm back. i really don't have much to tell. i would like to say that ben franklin did not have a lot of friends; this is not the case, however. ben franklin was pretty much the talk of the town. i just figured someone with an intense intellect, like ben franklin, would not have many close friends. i mean, from what i've heard, he was all by himself the night of the kite experiment. of course my stories of the kite and the lightning were told from wayward history teachers. nevertheless, i woke up at the front door of ben franklin's house. i knock on the door...no answer. i knock again...still no answer. i turn the knob of the door and walk into what is commonly called, "the ben franklin gotcha prank." apparently ben franklin is a trickster. he likes to jump out from behind couches and scare people who walk into his home. i'm guessing there wasn't that much to do for him some of the nights. but i did have a few questions for ben and he answered them in some pretty surprising ways. the following is a brief interview i had with mr. franklin:me: so, ben, tell me about being an inventor?
ben: lets talk about you, mark. of course i was surprised that he knew my name or the fact that he wanted to talk about me. i agreed, and i decided to talk a bit about what i would blog about to redgage tonight. he was interested in what redgage was, of course. i told him to think of different names for red and gage and he came up with "rose indicator." i thought, what an interesting way to say redgage without saying redgage. and of course that got me thinking, what other ways could you write out redgage. then ben said, "what about love odometer or blood limits?" ben was really getting into the whole redgage community. i'm not going to lie, i think you all would have liked him.then i started talking about bodysnatchers and dinosaurs. i've been sick this pat week and been drinking my fair share of nyquil. i don't need to go to a nyquil meeting or anything, but nyquil always gives me such a deep sleep. however, because of nyquil, i've been coming up with these weird ideas. one of them being this bodysnatcher idea i explained to ben. i thought, what if i was a bodysnatcher who was breaking the rules of being a bodysnatcher. i can definitely go into further detail about this idea but ben told me i shouldn't have even told anyone that i thought i could be a bodysnatcher. maybe he was afraid the other bodysnatchers would come and punish me. who knows, rose indicator...who knows?!my next order of business was dinosaurs. i was thinking that we didn't even get a chance with the dinosaurs. there wasn't even a chance for us to screw up that species and ruin little foots land before time. i guess i was going with this, look at the chances we have now, type of idea. we have some pretty big potentials. we have our own dinosaurs. i wonder what archeologists will call treasure from this time period. i doubt it will be gold or oil. i bet it will be our writing. all of our writing. any kind of writing that provides some insight into the type of lives we're leading now. some kind of writing that explains what it was like before computers ran our entire society. some kind of writing that explains why we killed each other so quick. some kind of writing that explained how racism could live so long in a world that forgot they were connected. they will wonder what kind of world we wrote. there is a world out there for us to leave behind. this is our chance to be dinosaurs that leave something behind. just when i think i'm not cut out for tasting words, or just when i think i shouldn't write at all, i come across someone who says something like, "please, don't stop writing." as simple of a request that may seem like, i find myself enjoying those words. i enjoy hearing that my words might mean something in the big world that will be open after we're gone. i only hope that the world you are writing is a world full of wonder. a world full of writers; oh the world we would live in.i bring up ben franklin because sometimes i want to be an inventor. but ben franklin wasn't necessarily an inventor. ben franklin was a manipulator of invention. ben franklin didn't invent the bifocals. no, ben franklin manipulated vision. ben franklin was an inventor only insomuch that he was proud to show us the power of imagination and desire. i know this is true...because i showed up at ben franklin's door last night.nice to meet ya, ben franklin. maybe next time we'll talk a bit more. maybe next time i'll be the one to scare you at my front door.but i won't go without leaving you something to use in your daily lives. although this website may not help you write more, i think you will find this website to have many things to offer you (that is if you like making or watching videos) the website is www.vimeo.com and i just tried to post one of my videos on there that they now made "HD" if it works then you'll see the video here at the bottom of my post. if not, then just go to vimeo and search for "PiMu" video. have a great night, redgage. as soon as school lets out i'll try and come back to blog more.
